Francesca Arcudi

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Francesca Arcudi is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesca Arcudi has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Materials Chemistry, 8 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Francesca Arcudi's work include Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications (30 papers), Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (16 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (12 papers). Francesca Arcudi is often cited by papers focused on Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications (30 papers), Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (16 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (12 papers). Francesca Arcudi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and United States. Francesca Arcudi's co-authors include Maurizio Prato, Luka Đorđević∞, Michele Cacioppo, Luisa De Cola, Serena Carrara, Francesco Rigodanza, Emily A. Weiss, Samuel I. Stupp, I. Jénnifer Gómez and Blanca Arnáiz and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Francesca Arcudi

43 papers receiving 3.3k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A multifunctional chemical toolbox to engineer carbon dots for biomedical and energy applications

2022 732 citations Luka Đorđević∞, Francesca Arcudi et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesca Arcudi Italy	25	2.7k	687	639	499	454	43	3.3k
Luka Đorđević∞ Italy	30	3.0k 1.1×	651 0.9×	490 0.8×	563 1.1×	631 1.4×	69	3.8k
Susanta Kumar Bhunia India	24	1.8k 0.7×	572 0.8×	493 0.8×	362 0.7×	286 0.6×	44	2.4k
Wen Cai China	26	1.5k 0.5×	1.0k 1.5×	411 0.6×	684 1.4×	378 0.8×	61	2.9k
Tianran Lin China	26	2.3k 0.8×	751 1.1×	1.5k 2.3×	1.0k 2.0×	387 0.9×	61	3.0k
Songyuan Tao China	27	3.9k 1.4×	511 0.7×	379 0.6×	769 1.5×	605 1.3×	44	4.3k
Arindam Saha India	25	2.3k 0.8×	795 1.2×	740 1.2×	404 0.8×	214 0.5×	44	3.1k
Parambath Anilkumar United States	25	1.8k 0.7×	712 1.0×	350 0.5×	419 0.8×	262 0.6×	35	2.6k
Manhong Liu China	33	1.7k 0.6×	891 1.3×	534 0.8×	649 1.3×	477 1.1×	77	2.8k
Na Xu China	28	1.2k 0.4×	359 0.5×	376 0.6×	429 0.9×	579 1.3×	94	2.0k
Xiaohuan Zhao China	20	5.1k 1.9×	899 1.3×	825 1.3×	652 1.3×	397 0.9×	34	5.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesca Arcudi

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Fortunati, Ilaria, et al.. (2025). Controlled Aggregation of Pyrene‐Based Supramolecular Nanostructures for Light‐Driven Switchable H ₂ or H ₂ O ₂ Production. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(21). 4 indexed citations

Perilli, Daniele, Verónica Celorrio, Goran Dražić, et al.. (2025). Selective Semi‐Hydrogenation of Acetylene using a Single‐Atom Cobalt on Carbon Nitride Photocatalyst with Water as a Proton Source. Small Methods. 10(2). e2500527–e2500527. 3 indexed citations

Stone, A., Xijun Wang, Randall Q. Snurr, et al.. (2024). Photocatalytic Semi‐Hydrogenation of Acetylene to Polymer‐Grade Ethylene with Molecular and Metal–Organic Framework Cobaloximes. Advanced Materials. 37(1). e2408658–e2408658. 13 indexed citations

Đorđević∞, Luka, et al.. (2023). Selective Photocatalytic Reduction of Acetylene to Ethylene Powered by a Cobalt-Porphyrin Metal–Organic Framework. ACS Energy Letters. 8(11). 4684–4693. 21 indexed citations

Arcudi, Francesca, Andrea Sartorel, Tomas Marangoni, et al.. (2023). Efficient Synthesis and Microwave‐Assisted Sonogashira Reactions of Triflate‐Substituted Porphyrin. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 26(43). 1 indexed citations

Arcudi, Francesca, Luka Đorđević∞, Neil M. Schweitzer, Samuel I. Stupp, & Emily A. Weiss. (2022). Selective visible-light photocatalysis of acetylene to ethylene using a cobalt molecular catalyst and water as a proton source. Nature Chemistry. 14(9). 1007–1012. 78 indexed citations

Đorđević∞, Luka, Francesca Arcudi, Michele Cacioppo, & Maurizio Prato. (2022). A multifunctional chemical toolbox to engineer carbon dots for biomedical and energy applications. Nature Nanotechnology. 17(2). 112–130. 732 indexed citations breakdown →

Mattinzoli, Deborah, Michele Cacioppo, Masami Ikehata, et al.. (2022). Carbon dots conjugated to SN38 for improved colorectal anticancer therapy. Materials Today Bio. 16. 100286–100286. 17 indexed citations

Arcudi, Francesca, et al.. (2021). Quantum Dot-Sensitized Photoreduction of CO₂ in Water with Turnover Number > 80,000. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(43). 18131–18138. 125 indexed citations

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Yan, Huijie, Michele Cacioppo, Francesca Arcudi, et al.. (2021). Influence of the chirality of carbon nanodots on their interaction with proteins and cells. Nature Communications. 12(1). 7208–7208. 44 indexed citations

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Rigodanza, Francesco, Max Burian, Francesca Arcudi, et al.. (2021). Snapshots into carbon dots formation through a combined spectroscopic approach. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2640–2640. 144 indexed citations

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Đorđević∞, Luka, Lorenzo Casimiro, Nicola Demitri, et al.. (2020). Light‐Controlled Regioselective Synthesis of Fullerene Bis‐Adducts. Angewandte Chemie. 133(1). 317–324. 3 indexed citations

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Arcudi, Francesca, et al.. (2019). Colloidally Stable CdS Quantum Dots in Water with Electrostatically Stabilized Weak‐Binding, Sulfur‐Free Ligands. Chemistry - A European Journal. 25(63). 14469–14474. 8 indexed citations

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Nap, Rikkert J., et al.. (2019). pH-Dependent structure of water-exposed surfaces of CdSe quantum dots. Chemical Communications. 55(38). 5435–5438. 12 indexed citations

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Amato, Francesco, Michele Cacioppo, Francesca Arcudi, et al.. (2019). Nitrogen-doped carbon nanodots/PMMA nanocomposites for solar cells applications. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 74. 1105–1110. 6 indexed citations

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Đorđević∞, Luka, Francesca Arcudi, & Maurizio Prato. (2019). Preparation, functionalization and characterization of engineered carbon nanodots. Nature Protocols. 14(10). 2931–2953. 116 indexed citations

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Arcudi, Francesca, Luka Đorđević∞, & Maurizio Prato. (2019). Design, Synthesis, and Functionalization Strategies of Tailored Carbon Nanodots. Accounts of Chemical Research. 52(8). 2070–2079. 210 indexed citations

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Đorđević∞, Luka, Francesca Arcudi, Alessandro D’Urso, et al.. (2018). Design principles of chiral carbon nanodots help convey chirality from molecular to nanoscale level. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3442–3442. 204 indexed citations

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Rigodanza, Francesco, Luka Đorđević∞, Francesca Arcudi, & Maurizio Prato. (2018). Customizing the Electrochemical Properties of Carbon Nanodots by Using Quinones in Bottom‐Up Synthesis. Angewandte Chemie. 130(18). 5156–5161. 24 indexed citations

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Arcudi, Francesca, Volker Strauß, Luka Đorđević∞, et al.. (2017). Porphyrin Antennas on Carbon Nanodots: Excited State Energy and Electron Transduction. Angewandte Chemie. 129(40). 12265–12269. 17 indexed citations

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