Antonio Balena

894 total citations
34 papers, 586 citations indexed

About

Antonio Balena is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Antonio Balena has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 586 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 11 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 8 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Antonio Balena's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (15 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (11 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (7 papers). Antonio Balena is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (15 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (11 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (7 papers). Antonio Balena collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Spain. Antonio Balena's co-authors include Massimo De Vittorio, Ferruccio Pisanello, Marco Pisanello, Filippo Pisano, Marco Bianco, Bernardo L. Sabatini, Barbara Spagnolo, Emanuela Maglie, Minsuk Hyun and Leonardo Sileo and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Materials and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Antonio Balena

30 papers receiving 569 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Antonio Balena Italy 13 240 200 163 116 103 34 586
Filippo Pisano Italy 13 308 1.3× 306 1.5× 105 0.6× 44 0.4× 156 1.5× 44 648
Jong‐ryul Choi South Korea 16 525 2.2× 82 0.4× 189 1.2× 91 0.8× 48 0.5× 51 782
Niall McAlinden United Kingdom 12 212 0.9× 349 1.7× 120 0.7× 44 0.4× 133 1.3× 25 571
Marco Pisanello Italy 16 402 1.7× 609 3.0× 112 0.7× 62 0.5× 255 2.5× 46 980
Jee Woong Lee South Korea 11 226 0.9× 122 0.6× 168 1.0× 128 1.1× 22 0.2× 13 585
Leonardo Sileo Italy 14 409 1.7× 604 3.0× 144 0.9× 51 0.4× 243 2.4× 37 907
Makito Haruta Japan 16 225 0.9× 302 1.5× 279 1.7× 31 0.3× 74 0.7× 98 660
Hironari Takehara Japan 11 130 0.5× 134 0.7× 237 1.5× 17 0.1× 36 0.3× 79 425
Christian Bergaud France 16 441 1.8× 588 2.9× 392 2.4× 76 0.7× 236 2.3× 34 1.0k
Marco Bianco Italy 8 137 0.6× 134 0.7× 54 0.3× 32 0.3× 76 0.7× 21 309

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Antonio Balena

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Balena, Antonio, et al.. (2025). Deterministic Fabrication of Plasmonic Nanostructures on Optical Nanofibers via Blurred Electron Beam Deposition. Advanced Science. 12(38). e07004–e07004. 1 indexed citations
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Balena, Antonio, Marco Bianco, Barbara Spagnolo, et al.. (2025). Fabrication of nonplanar tapered fibers to integrate optical and electrical signals for neural interfaces in vivo. Nature Protocols. 20(7). 1768–1809. 2 indexed citations
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Pisano, Filippo, et al.. (2024). Potential of plasmonics and nanoscale light–matter interactions for the next generation of optical neural interfaces. Neurophotonics. 11(S1). S11513–S11513. 1 indexed citations
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Pisano, Filippo, et al.. (2024). Advantages of internal reference in holographic shaping ps supercontinuum pulses through multimode optical fibers. Optics Express. 32(14). 24144–24144. 2 indexed citations
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Bianco, Marco, Antonio Balena, Marco Pisanello, et al.. (2024). Low-NA two-photon lithography patterning of metal/dielectric tapered optical fibers for depth-selective, volumetric optical neural interfaces. Optics Express. 32(27). 48772–48772.
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Balena, Antonio, Marco Bianco, Ferruccio Pisanello, & Massimo De Vittorio. (2023). Recent Advances on High‐Speed and Holographic Two‐Photon Direct Laser Writing. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(39). 74 indexed citations
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Spagnolo, Barbara, Antonio Balena, Rui T. Peixoto, et al.. (2022). Tapered fibertrodes for optoelectrical neural interfacing in small brain volumes with reduced artefacts. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 3 indexed citations
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Bianco, Marco, Marco Pisanello, Antonio Balena, et al.. (2022). Orthogonalization of far-field detection in tapered optical fibers for depth-selective fiber photometry in brain tissue. APL Photonics. 7(2). 26106–26106. 7 indexed citations
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Pisanello, Marco, Di Zheng, Antonio Balena, et al.. (2022). An open source three-mirror laser scanning holographic two-photon lithography system. PLoS ONE. 17(4). e0265678–e0265678. 12 indexed citations
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Pisano, Filippo, Di Zheng, Antonio Balena, et al.. (2022). Holographic Manipulation of Nanostructured Fiber Optics Enables Spatially‐Resolved, Reconfigurable Optical Control of Plasmonic Local Field Enhancement and SERS. Small. 18(23). e2200975–e2200975. 25 indexed citations
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Zheng, Di, Filippo Pisano, Antonio Balena, et al.. (2022). Toward Plasmonic Neural Probes: SERS Detection of Neurotransmitters through Gold‐Nanoislands‐Decorated Tapered Optical Fibers with Sub‐10 nm Gaps. Advanced Materials. 35(11). e2200902–e2200902. 53 indexed citations
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Pisano, Filippo, Antonio Balena, Marco Pisanello, et al.. (2021). Plasmonics on a Neural Implant: Engineering Light–Matter Interactions on the Nonplanar Surface of Tapered Optical Fibers. Advanced Optical Materials. 10(2). 16 indexed citations
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Pisano, Filippo, et al.. (2021). Wavefront engineering for controlled structuring of far-field intensity and phase patterns from multimodal optical fibers. Research Padua Archive (University of Padua). 12 indexed citations
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Pisanello, Marco, Marco Bianco, Barbara Spagnolo, et al.. (2021). Influence of the anatomical features of different brain regions on the spatial localization of fiber photometry signals. Biomedical Optics Express. 12(10). 6081–6081. 6 indexed citations
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Bianco, Marco, Antonio Balena, Marco Pisanello, et al.. (2020). Comparative study of autofluorescence in flat and tapered optical fibers towards application in depth-resolved fluorescence lifetime photometry in brain tissue. Biomedical Optics Express. 12(2). 993–993. 15 indexed citations
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Maglie, Emanuela, Marco Pisanello, Filippo Pisano, et al.. (2020). Ray tracing models for estimating light collection properties of microstructured tapered optical fibers for optical neural interfaces. Optics Letters. 45(14). 3856–3856. 6 indexed citations
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Pisano, Filippo, Antonio Balena, Marco Pisanello, et al.. (2020). High transmission from 2D periodic plasmonic finite arrays with sub-20 nm gaps realized with Ga focused ion beam milling. Nanotechnology. 31(43). 435301–435301. 9 indexed citations
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Pisano, Filippo, Marco Pisanello, Suk Joon Lee, et al.. (2019). Depth-resolved fiber photometry with a single tapered optical fiber implant. Nature Methods. 16(11). 1185–1192. 103 indexed citations
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Balena, Antonio, M. Fernández, Georgian Nedelcu, et al.. (2018). Full-color tuning in binary polymer:perovskite nanocrystals organic-inorganic hybrid blends. Applied Physics Letters. 112(17). 13 indexed citations

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