Papers

plasmonX (and its development versions) has been used in the following papers:

  1. T. Giovannini*, P. Lafiosca, P. Grobas Illobre, L. Nicoli, L. Bonatti, S. Corni, C. Cappelli. “plasmonX: an Open-Source Code for Nanoplasmonics” Comput. Phys. Commun. 2026, 322, 110035. DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2026.110035

  1. T. Tapani, J. M. Pettersson, N. Henriksson, C. M. Brunner, A. C. Zimmermann, E. Zäll, N. V. Hauff, L. Das, A. Sapunova, G. Balestra, M. Cuscunà, A. De Andres, T. Giovannini, D. Garoli, N. Maccaferri. “Morphology-modified contributions of electronic transitions to the optical response of plasmonic nanoporous gold metamaterial” Nat. Commun. 2026, 17, 829. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-68506-0

  1. S. Sodomaco, P. Lafiosca, T. Giovannini*, C. Cappelli. “Atomistic QM/Classical Modeling of Surface-Enhanced IR Absorption” J. Phys. Chem. C 2026, 130, 1919–1930 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c07549

  1. T. Giovannini, L. Nicoli, S. Corni, C. Cappelli. “The Electric Field Morphology of Plasmonic Picocavities” Nano Lett. 2025, 25, 10802–10808 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c01999

  1. P. Grobas Illobre, L. Bonatti, P. Lafiosca, T. Giovannini, C. Cappelli. “Mixed atomistic–implicit quantum/classical approach to molecular nanoplasmonics” J. Chem. Phys. 2025, 162, 044103. DOI: 10.1063/5.0245629

  1. P. Lafiosca, L. Nicoli, S. Pipolo, S. Corni, T. Giovannini, C. Cappelli. “Real-Time Formulation of Atomistic Electromagnetic Models for Plasmonics” J. Phys. Chem. C 2024, 128, 17513–17525. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c04002

  1. L. Nicoli, S. Sodomaco, P. Lafiosca, T. Giovannini, C. Cappelli. “Atomistic Multiscale Modeling of Colloidal Plasmonic Nanoparticles” ACS Phys. Chem. Au 2024, 4, 669–678. DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00052

  1. L. Nicoli, P. Lafiosca, P. Grobas Illobre, L. Bonatti, T. Giovannini, C. Cappelli. “Fully Atomistic Modeling of Plasmonic Bimetallic Nanoparticles: Nanoalloys and Core-Shell Systems” Front. Photonics 2023, 4, 1199598. DOI: 10.3389/fphot.2023.1199598

  1. S. Zanotto, L. Bonatti, M. F. Pantano, V. Miseikis, G. Speranza, T. Giovannini, C. Coletti, C. Cappelli, A. Tredicucci, A. Toncelli. “Strain-induced plasmon confinement in polycrystalline graphene” ACS Photonics 2023, 10, 394–400. DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01157

  1. T. Giovannini, L. Bonatti, P. Lafiosca, L. Nicoli, M. Castagnola, P. Grobas Illobre, S. Corni, C. Cappelli. “Do We Really Need Quantum Mechanics to Describe Plasmonic Properties of Metal Nanostructures?” ACS Photonics 2022, 9, 3025–3034. DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c00761

  1. L. Bonatti, L. Nicoli, T. Giovannini, C. Cappelli. “In-silico design of graphene plasmonic hot-spots” Nanoscale Adv. 2022, 4, 2294–2302. DOI: 10.1039/D2NA00088A

  1. P. Lafiosca, T. Giovannini, M. Benzi, C. Cappelli. “Going Beyond the Limits of Classical Atomistic Modeling of Plasmonic Nanostructures” J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 23848–23863. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c04716 (Errata: J. Phys. Chem. C 2023, 127, 6115–6115. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c01565)

  1. T. Giovannini, L. Bonatti, M. Polini, C. Cappelli. “Graphene Plasmonics: Fully Atomistic Approach for Realistic Structures” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 7595–7602. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02051

  1. L. Bonatti, G. Gil, T. Giovannini, S. Corni, C. Cappelli. “Plasmonic Resonances of Metal Nanoparticles: Atomistic vs. Continuum Approaches” Front. Chem. 2020, 8, 340. DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2020.00340

  1. T. Giovannini, M. Rosa, S. Corni, C. Cappelli. “A Classical Picture of Subnanometer Junctions: an Atomistic Drude Approach to Nanoplasmonics” Nanoscale 2019, 11, 6004–6015. DOI: 10.1039/C8NR09134J