Irène Villa

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Irène Villa is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, Irène Villa has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Materials Chemistry, 11 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 9 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in Irène Villa's work include Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials (19 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (10 papers) and Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies (8 papers). Irène Villa is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials (19 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (10 papers) and Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies (8 papers). Irène Villa collaborates with scholars based in Italy, France and Switzerland. Irène Villa's co-authors include A. Vedda, Mauro Fasoli, Salaheddine Mécheri, Roger Péronet, Daniel Jaque, Sophie Le Panse, Abdelkader Namane, Jean-Claude Rousselle, Francisco Sanz‐Rodríguez and Bernard David and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Irène Villa

50 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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Efficient, fast and reabsorption-free perovskite nanocrystal-based sensitized plastic scintillators

2020 319 citations Marina Gandini, Irène Villa et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →

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Rana Bazzi France

Matti M. van Schooneveld Netherlands

Shunsuke Nozawa Japan

Andreas Schreiber Germany

Young‐June Kim United States

Nicole Y. Morgan United States

Alicia Zamarrón Spain

Hiroshi Uchiyama Japan

Yugang Wang China

Henry Zijlmans Netherlands

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20 of 20 papers shown

Varela, Luis, Miguel Abal, Clotilde Costa, et al.. (2025). Impact of oil phase composition on the efficacy of nanoemulsions for verteporfin-mediated photodynamic therapy in ovarian cancer. Nanoscale Advances. 7(21). 6972–6986. 1 indexed citations

Villa, Irène, Roberta Crapanzano, Silvia Mostoni, et al.. (2025). The role of energy deposition on the luminescence sensitization in porphyrin-functionalized SiO₂/ZnO nanoparticles under X-ray excitation. Nanoscale Advances. 7(5). 1464–1474. 3 indexed citations

Rigamonti, D., Irène Villa, Michele Mauri, et al.. (2024). Sensitized Triplet–Triplet Annihilation in Nanostructured Polymeric Scintillators Allows for Pulse Shape Discrimination. Advanced Materials. 36(28). e2400443–e2400443. 4 indexed citations

Parrino, Francesco, Irène Villa, Francesca Cova, et al.. (2024). Singlet Oxygen Photocatalytic Generation by Silanized TiO₂ Nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(2). e202414445–e202414445. 5 indexed citations

Parrino, Francesco, Irène Villa, Francesca Cova, et al.. (2024). Singlet Oxygen Photocatalytic Generation by Silanized TiO₂ Nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie. 137(2). 4 indexed citations

Villa, Irène, Angelo Monguzzi, Roberto Lorenzi, et al.. (2024). On the Origin of the Light Yield Enhancement in Polymeric Composite Scintillators Loaded with Dense Nanoparticles. Nano Letters. 24(27). 8248–8256. 9 indexed citations

Secchi, Valeria, I. Mattei, Nicolò Pianta, et al.. (2024). Highly Luminous Scintillating Nanocomposites Enable Ultrafast Time Coincidence Resolution for γ‐rays Detection with Heterostructured Multilayer Scintillators. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(17). 3 indexed citations

Perego, Jacopo, Charl X. Bezuidenhout, Irène Villa, et al.. (2024). Reabsorption‐Free Scintillating Hetero‐Ligand MOF Crystals Activated by Ultrafast Energy Transfer. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(44). 22 indexed citations

Villa, Irène, Lenka Procházková, E. Mihóková, et al.. (2023). First investigation of the morphological and luminescence properties of HfO₂ nanoparticles synthesized by photochemical synthesis. CrystEngComm. 25(30). 4345–4354. 5 indexed citations

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Secchi, Valeria, Francesca Cova, Irène Villa, et al.. (2023). Energy Partitioning in Multicomponent Nanoscintillators for Enhanced Localized Radiotherapy. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(20). 24693–24700. 13 indexed citations

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Senapati, Sudipta, Valeria Secchi, Francesca Cova, et al.. (2023). Noninvasive Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease with Scintillating Nanotubes. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 12(32). e2301527–e2301527. 6 indexed citations

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Perego, Jacopo, Charl X. Bezuidenhout, Irène Villa, et al.. (2022). Highly luminescent scintillating hetero-ligand MOF nanocrystals with engineered Stokes shift for photonic applications. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3504–3504. 93 indexed citations

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Villa, Irène, Beatriz Santiago González, Francesca Cova, et al.. (2021). The Sensitization of Scintillation in Polymeric Composites Based on Fluorescent Nanocomplexes. Nanomaterials. 11(12). 3387–3387. 7 indexed citations

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Gandini, Marina, Irène Villa, M. Beretta, et al.. (2020). Efficient, fast and reabsorption-free perovskite nanocrystal-based sensitized plastic scintillators. Nature Nanotechnology. 15(6). 462–468. 319 indexed citations breakdown →

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Buryi, M., Robert Král, Vladimír Babin, et al.. (2019). Trapping and Recombination Centers in Cesium Hafnium Chloride Single Crystals: EPR and TSL Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(32). 19402–19411. 18 indexed citations

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Daudigeos‐Dubus, Estelle, Ludivine Le Dret, Claudia Lanvers‐Kaminsky, et al.. (2015). Regorafenib: Antitumor Activity upon Mono and Combination Therapy in Preclinical Pediatric Malignancy Models. PLoS ONE. 10(11). e0142612–e0142612. 37 indexed citations

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Gallì, Anna, M. Martini, Emanuela Sibilia, & Irène Villa. (2010). Towards Luminescence Dating Of Mosaic Glass. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 10(4). 77–84. 2 indexed citations

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Panse, Sophie Le, Irène Villa, Jean-Claude Rousselle, et al.. (2001). Mast Cell-Dependent B and T Lymphocyte Activation Is Mediated by the Secretion of Immunologically Active Exosomes. The Journal of Immunology. 166(2). 868–876. 284 indexed citations

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Skokos, Dimitris, Sophie Le Panse, Irène Villa, et al.. (2001). Nonspecific B and T Cell-Stimulatory Activity Mediated by Mast CellsIs Associated with Exosomes. International Archives of Allergy and Immunology. 124(1-3). 133–136. 53 indexed citations

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Beck, D, M Favrot, Christiane Bailly, et al.. (1988). Immunocytochemical detection of neuroblastoma cells infiltrating clinical bone marrow samples. European Journal of Pediatrics. 147(6). 609–612. 26 indexed citations

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