10-Fold Quantum Yield Improvement of Ag2S Nanoparticles by Fine Compositional Tuning - Ortega-Rodríguez A.; Shen Y.; Zabala Gutierrez I.; Santos H.D.A.; Torres Vera V.; Ximendes E.; Villaverde G.; Lifante J.; Gerke C.; Fernández N.; Calderón O.G.; Melle S.; et al. (ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2020)

Au@p4VP core@shell pH-sensitive nanocomposites suitable for drug entrapment - Clara-Rahola J.; Moscoso A.; Belén Ruiz-Muelle A.; Laurenti M.; Formanek P.; Lopez-Romero J.; Fernández I.; Diaz J.; Rubio-Retama J.; Fery A.; Contreras-Cáceres R. (JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE, 2018)

Au@pNIPAM colloids as molecular traps for surface-enhanced, spectroscopic, ultra-sensitive analysis - Alvarez-Puebla, Ramon A.; Contreras-Caceres, Rafael; Pastoriza-Santos, Isabel; Perez-Juste, Jorge; Liz-Marzan, Luis M. (ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 2009)

Au@pNIPAM thermosensitive nanostructures: Control over shell cross-linking, overall dimensions, and core growth - Contreras-Caceres, Rafael; Pacifico, Jessica; Pastoriza-Santos, Isabel; Perez-Juste, Jorge; Fernandez-Barbero, Antonio; Liz-Marzan, Luis M. (ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 2009)

Carbon dots as fluorescent sensor for detection of explosive nitrocompounds - Campos B.; Contreras-Cáceres R.; Bandosz T.; Jiménez-Jiménez J.; Rodríguez-Castellón E.; Esteves da Silva J.; Algarra M. (Carbon, 2016)

Carbon dots coated with vitamin B-12 as selective ratiometric nanosensor for phenolic carbofuran - Campos B.; Contreras-Cáceres R.; Bandosz T.; Jiménez-Jiménez J.; Rodríguez-Castellón E.; da Silva J.; Algarra M. (SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL, 2017)

Carbon dots on based folic acid coated with PAMAM dendrimer as platform for Pt(IV) detection - Campos, Bruno B.; Moreno Oliva, Maria; Contreras-Caceres, Rafael; Rodriguez-Castellon, Enrique; Jimenez-Jimenez, Jose; Esteves da Silva, Joaquim C. G.; Algarra, Manuel (JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE, 2016)

Scaling Laws in the Diffusive Release of Neutral Cargo from Hollow Hydrogel Nanoparticles: Paclitaxel-Loaded Poly(4-vinylpyridine) - Arturo Moncho-Jordá; Ana B. Jódar-Reyes; Matej Kandu?; Alicia Germán-Bellod; Juan M. López-Romero; Rafael Contreras-Cáceres; Francisco Sarabia; Miguel García-Castro; Héctor A. Pérez-Ramírez; Gerardo Odriozola (ACS Nano, 2020)

Characterization and stability of a bioactivated alumina nanomembrane for application in flow devices - Vazquez, M. I.; Romero, V.; Benavente, J.; Romero, R.; Hierrezuelo, J.; Lopez-Romero, J. M.; Contreras-Caceres, R. (Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2016)

Controlled growth of Ag nanoparticles decorated onto the surface of SiO2 spheres: a nanohybrid system with combined SERS and catalytic properties - Tzounis L.; Contreras-Caceres R.; Schellkopf L.; Jehnichen D.; Fischer D.; Cai C.; Uhlmann P.; Stamm M. (RSC Advances, 2014)

Covalent immobilization of dysprosium-based metal?organic chains on silicon-based polymer brush surfaces - Ruiz-Muelle A.; Rodríguez-Diéguez A.; Contreras-Cáceres R.; Fernández I. (New Journal of Chemistry, 2017)

DMABI tripod structures with sensing capabilities: synthesis, characterization and fluorescence analysis - Contreras-Caceres, Rafael; Dona, Manuel; Rosa Lopez-Ramirez, Maria; Algarra, Manuel; Hierrezuelo, Jesus; Angel Casado-Rodriguez, Miguel; Sanchez-Molina, Maria; Diaz, Amelia; Campos, Bruno B.; Esteves da Silva, Joaquim C. G.; Manuel Lopez-Romero, Juan (New Journal of Chemistry, 2016)

Effect of the cross-linking density on the gold core oxidation in hybrid core@shell Au@pNIPAM and Janus Au@p4VP systems - Doña M.; Ortega-Rodriguez A.; Alarcón-Fernández C.; López-Romero J.; Contreras-Cáceres R. (Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2020)

Effect of the cross-linking density on the thermoresponsive behavior of hollow PNIPAM microgels - Contreras-Caceres, Rafael; Schellkopf, Leonard; Fernandez-Lopez, Cristina; Pastoriza-Santos, Isabel; Perez-Juste, Jorge; Stamm, Manfred (LANGMUIR, 2015)

Electrospun nanofibers: Recent applications in drug delivery and cancer therapy - Contreras-Cáceres R.; Cabeza L.; Perazzoli G.; Díaz A.; López-Romero J.; Melguizo C.; Prados J. (Nanomaterials, 2019)

Encapsulation and growth of gold nanoparticles in thermoresponsive microgels - Contreras-Cáceres R.; Sánchez-Iglesias A.; Karg M.; Pastoriza-Santos I.; Pérez-Juste J.; Pacifico J.; Hellweg T.; Fernández-Barbero A.; Liz-Marzán L. (Advanced Materials, 2008)

Gold Nanorod-pNIPAM Hybrids with Reversible Plasmon Coupling: Synthesis, Modeling, and SERS Properties - Fernandez-Lopez, Cristina; Polavarapu, Lakshminarayana; Solis, Diego M.; Taboada, Jose M.; Obelleiro, Fernando; Contreras-Caceres, Rafael; Pastoriza-Santos, Isabel; Perez-Juste, Jorge (ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2015)

Growing Au/Ag nanoparticles within microgel colloids for improved surface-enhanced Raman scattering detection - Contreras-Caceres, Rafael; Pastoriza-Santos, Isabel; Alvarez-Puebla, Ramon A.; Perez-Juste, Jorge; Fernandez-Barbero, Antonio; Liz-Marzan, Luis M. (CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, 2010)

Hybrid surfaces active in catalysis based on gold nanoparticles modified with redox-active pendants and polymer brushes - Ruiz-Muelle A.; Kuttner C.; Alarcón-Fernández C.; López-Romero J.; Uhlmann P.; Contreras-Cáceres R.; Fernández I. (Applied Surface Science, 2019)

Immobilization of antimicrobial peptide IG-25 onto fluoropolymers via fluorous interactions and click chemistry - Santos, Catherine M.; Kumar, Amit; Kolar, Satya S.; Contreras-Caceres, Rafael; McDermott, Alison; Cai, Chengzhi (ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2013)

Inclusion of silver nanoparticles for improving regenerated cellulose membrane performance and reduction of biofouling - Benavente, J.; Garcia, M. E.; Urbano, N.; Lopez-Romero, J. M.; Contreras-Caceres, R. C.; Casado-Rodriguez, M. A.; Moscoso, A.; Hierrezuelo, J. (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES, 2017)

Modification of fluorous substrates with oligo(ethylene glycol) via "click" chemistry for long-term resistance of cell adhesion - Contreras-Caceres, Rafael; Santos, Catherine M.; Li, Siheng; Kumar, Amit; Zhu, Zhiling; Kolar, Satya S.; Casado-Rodriguez, Miguel A.; Huang, Yongkai; McDermott, Alison; Manuel Lopez-Romero, Juan; Cai, Chengzhi (JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE, 2015)

Multifunctional microgel magnetic/optical traps for SERS ultradetection - Contreras-Cáceres R.; Abalde-Cela S.; Guardia-Girós P.; Fernández-Barbero A.; Pérez-Juste J.; Alvarez-Puebla R.; Liz-Marzán L. (LANGMUIR, 2011)

New Synthesis of Isoindolo[2,1?b]isoquinolines. Preparation and Aqueous Bioavailability of its Silica Nanoparticles Hybrid System - Diaz, Amelia; Lopez-Romero, J. Manuel; Contreras-Caceres, Rafael; Algarra, Manuel; Rico, Rodrigo; Valpuesta, Maria (Current Organic Chemistry, 2015)

Paclitaxel-loaded hollow-poly(4-vinylpyridine) nanoparticles enhance drug chemotherapeutic efficacy in lung and breast cancer cell lines - Contreras-Caceres, Rafael; Leiva, Maria C.; Ortiz, Raul; Diaz, Amelia; Perazzoli, Gloria; Casado-Rodriguez, Miguel A.; Melguizo, Consolacion; Baeyens, Jose M.; Lopez-Romero, Juan M.; Prados, Jose (Nano Research, 2017)

Unraveling the Active Biomolecules Responsible for the Sustainable Synthesis of Nanoscale Silver Particles through Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Metabolomics - David Asmat-Campos; Ana C. Abreu; Manuel S. Romero-Cano; Josué Urquiaga-Zavaleta; Rafael Contreras-Cáceres; Daniel Delfín-Narciso; Luisa Juárez-Cortijo; Renny Nazario-Naveda; Roger Rengifo-Penadillos; Ignacio Fernández (ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 2020)

Polyacrylic acid polymer brushes as substrates for the incorporation of anthraquinone derivatives. Unprecedented application of decorated polymer brushes on organocatalysis - Ruiz-Muelle A.; Contreras-Cáceres R.; Oña-Burgos P.; Rodríguez-Dieguez A.; López-Romero J.; Fernández I. (APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE, 2018)

Polymers as templates for au and Au@Ag bimetallic nanorods: Uv-vis and surface enhanced raman spectroscopy - Contreras-Caceres, Rafael; Dawson, Claudine; Formanek, Petr; Fischer, Dieter; Simon, Frank; Janke, Andreas; Uhlmann, Petra; Stamm, Manfred (CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 2013)

Preparation, characterization, and protein-resistance of films derived from a series of ?-oligo(ethylene glycol)-?-alkenes on H-Si(111) surfaces - Qin, Guoting; Yam, Chi Ming; Kumar, Amit; Manuel Lopez-Romero, J.; Li, Sha; Huynh, Toan; Li, Yan; Yang, Bin; Contreras-Caceres, Rafael; Cai, Chengzhi (RSC Advances, 2017)

Seeded Growth Synthesis of Gold Nanotriangles: Size Control, SAXS Analysis, and SERS Performance - Fery A.; Pérez-Juste J.; Contreras-Cáceres R. (ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2018)

Silicon surface biofunctionalization with dopaminergic tetrahydroisoquinoline derivatives - Lucena-Serrano, A.; Lucena-Serrano, C.; Contreras-Caceres, R.; Diaz, A.; Valpuesta, M.; Cai, C.; Lopez-Romero, J. M. (Applied Surface Science, 2016)

Structure and plasmon coupling of gold-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) core?shell microgel arrays with thermally controlled interparticle gap - Clara-Rahola J.; Contreras-Caceres R.; Sierra-Martin B.; Maldonado-Valdivia A.; Hund M.; Fery A.; Hellweg T.; Fernandez-Barbero A. (Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2014)

Synthesis and Covalent Grafting of Tripod?Shaped Oligo( p ?phenylene)s End?Capped with Azide Groups - Sanchez-Molina, Maria; Lopez-Romero, Juan M.; Hierrezuelo-Leon, Jesus; Martin-Rufian, Mercedes; Diaz, Amelia; Valpuesta, Maria; Contreras-Caceres, Rafael (Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2016)

Synthesis of catalytically active gold clusters on the surface of Fe3O4@SiO2 nanoparticles - Alonso-Cristobal P.; Lopez-Quintela M.; Contreras-Caceres R.; Lopez-Cabarcos E.; Rubio-Retama J.; Laurenti M. (RSC Advances, 2016)

Synthesis of Thermosensitive Microgels with a Tunable Magnetic Core - Laurenti M.; Guardia P.; Contreras-Cáceres R.; Pérez-Juste J.; Fernandez-Barbero A.; Lopez-Cabarcos E.; Rubio-Retama J. (Langmuir, 2011)

Synthesis of vinyl-terminated Au nanoprisms and nanooctahedra mediated by 3-butenoic acid: direct Au@pNIPAM fabrication with improved SERS capabilities - Casado-Rodriguez, M. A.; Sanchez-Molina, M.; Lucena-Serrano, A.; Lucena-Serrano, C.; Rodriguez-Gonzalez, B.; Algarra, M.; Diaz, A.; Valpuesta, M.; Lopez-Romero, J. M.; Perez-Juste, J.; Contreras-Caceres, R. (Nanoscale, 2016)

Temperature Controlled Fluorescence on Au@Ag@PNIPAM-PTEBS Microgels: Effect of the Metal Core Size on the MEF Extension - Contreras-Caceres, Rafael; Alonso-Cristobal, Paulino; Mendez-Gonzalez, Diego; Laurenti, Marco; Maldonado-Valdivia, Ana; Garcia-Blanco, Francisco; Lopez Cabarcos, Enrique; Fernandez-Barbero, Antonio; Manuel Lopez-Romero, Jose; Rubio-Retama, Jorge (Langmuir, 2014)

Thermo-responsive microgels based on encapsulated carbon quantum dots - Campos, Bruno B.; Mutavdzic, Dragosav; Stankovic, Mira; Radotic, Ksenija; Lazaro-Martinez, Juan M.; Esteves da Silva, Joaquim C. G.; Contreras-Caceres, Rafael; Soledad Pino-Gonzalez, M.; Rodriguez-Castellon, Enrique; Algarra, Manuel (New Journal of Chemistry, 2017)

Tripalmitin nanoparticle formulations significantly enhance paclitaxel antitumor activity against breast and lung cancer cells in vitro - Leiva M.; Ortiz R.; Contreras-Cáceres R.; Perazzoli G.; Mayevych I.; López-Romero J.; Sarabia F.; Baeyens J.; Melguizo C.; Prados J. (Scientific Reports, 2017)

Tripodal penta( p -phenylene) for the biofunctionalization of alkynyl-modified silicon surfaces - Sánchez-Molina M.; Díaz A.; Valpuesta M.; Contreras-Cáceres R.; López-Romero J.; López-Ramírez M. (Applied Surface Science, 2018)

Temperature-Controlled Catalysis by Core-Shell-Satellite AuAg@pNIPAM@Ag Hybrid Microgels: A Highly Efficient Catalytic Thermoresponsive Nanoreactor - Tzounis, Lazaros; Dona, Manuel; Manuel Lopez-Romero, Juan; Fery, Andreas; Contreras-Caceres, Rafael (ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2019)

Magnetic-core microgels - Contreras-Caceres R.; Laurenti M.; Perez-Juste J.; Rubio-Retama J.; Lopez-Cabarcos E.; Fernandez-Barbero A. (Colloid and Interface Chemistry for Nanotechnology, 2016)

Nanocomposites based on a gold core and pNIPAM shell: Nanoreactors and molecular traps for SERS - Contreras-Caceres, Rafael; Carregal-Romero, Susana; Alvarez-Puebla, Ramon; Pastoriza-Santos, Isabel; Perez-Juste, Jorge; Liz-Marzan, Luis M. (ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2009)

Colloidal Superstructures with Triangular Cores: Size Effects on SERS Efficiency - Roland P. M. Höller; Christian Kuttner; Martin Mayer; Ruosong Wang; Martin Dulle; Rafael Contreras-Cáceres; Andreas Fery; Luis M. Liz-Marzán (ACS Photonics, 2020)

Nuevas partículas híbridas con respuesta óptica y magnética regulable para detección de moléculas mediante espectroscopia Raman intensificada por superficie - Rafael Jesús Contreras Cáceres; Antonio Fernández Barbero; Jorge Pérez Juste (2011)

Magnetically active pNIPAM nanosystems as temperature-sensitive biocompatible structures for controlled drug delivery - Garcia-Pinel B.; Ortega-Rodríguez A.; Porras-Alcalá C.; Cabeza L.; Contreras-Cáceres R.; Ortiz R.; Díaz A.; Moscoso A.; Sarabia F.; Prados J.; López-Romero J.M.; Melguizo C. (Artificial Cells Nanomedicine and Biotechnology, 2020)

Controlling Size and Morphology in Hybrid Core@Shell and Core@Shell@Satellite Nanostructures for Sensing by Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering - Carlos Alarcón-Fernández; Manuel Doña; Antonio Tapia-Fernández; Gonzalo Villaverde; Maria Rosa Lopez-Ramirez; Juan Manuel López-Romero; Rafael Contreras-Caceres (ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2020)

CHAPTER 1: Reducing Agents in Colloidal Nanoparticle Synthesis - An Introduction - Villaverde-Cantizano G.; Laurenti M.; Rubio-Retama J.; Contreras-Cáceres R. (RSC Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2021)

The effects of dopant concentration and excitation intensity on the upconversion and downconversion emission processes of ?-NaYF4:Yb3+,Er3+nanoparticles - Torres Vera V.; Mendez-Gonzalez D.; Ramos-Ramos D.J.; Igalla A.; Laurenti M.; Contreras-Caceres R.; Lopez-Cabarcos E.; Díaz E.; Rubio-Retama J.; Melle S.; G. Calderón O. (Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2021)

Ionotropic Gelation-Based Synthesis of Chitosan-Metal Hybrid Nanoparticles Showing Combined Antimicrobial and Tissue Regenerative Activities - Laura Lozano Chamizo; Yurena Luengo Morato; Karina Ovejero Paredes; Rafael Contreras-Caceres; Marco Filice; Marzia Marciello (Polymers, 2021)

Study of the self-assembly process of an oligo(ethylene glycol)-thioacetyl substituted theophylline (THEO) on gold substrates - Sanchez-Obrero, Guadalupe; Chavez, Miriam; Madueno, Rafael; Blazquez, Manuel; Pineda, Teresa; Manuel Lopez-Romero, Juan; Sarabia, Francisco; Hierrezuelo, Jesus; Contreras-Caceres, Rafael (Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2018)

Use of capillary electrophoresis for characterisation of vinyl-terminated Au nanoprisms and nanooctahedra - Adelantado, Carlos; Algarra, Manuel; Zougagh, Mohammed; Rios, Angel (ELECTROPHORESIS, 2018)

Preparation and Application of Non-spherical Metal Nanoparticles: Reality and Perspective - Lucena-Serrano, Cristina; Contreras-Caceres, Rafael; Sanchez-Molina, Maria; Angel Casado-Rodriguez, Miguel; Cloarec, Jean Manuel; Mainetti, Emily; Lopez-Romero, Manuel (CURRENT ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, 2017)

Electrospraying as a Technique for the Controlled Synthesis of Biocompatible PLGA@Ag2S and PLGA@Ag2S@SPION Nanocarriers with Drug Release Capability - Alexis Alvear-Jiménez; Irene Zabala Gutierrez; Yingli Shen; Gonzalo Villaverde; Laura Lozano-Chamizo; Pablo Guardia; Miguel Tinoco; Beatriz Garcia-Pinel; Jose Prados; Consolación Melguizo Alonso; JUAN MANUEL LOPEZ-ROMERO; Daniel Jaque; et al. (Pharmaceutics, 2022)

Nanoscale Biocompatible Structures Generated from Fluorinated Tripodal Phenylenes on Gold Nanoprisms - García-Castro M.; Moscoso A.; Sarabia F.; López-Romero J.M.; Contreras-Cáceres R.; Díaz A. (ChemistryOpen, 2022)

SPION nanoparticles for delivery of dopaminergic isoquinoline and benzazepine derivatives - Lucena-Serrano C.; Lucena-Serrano A.; Díaz A.; Valpuesta M.; Villaverde G.; Manuel López-Romero J.; Sarabia F.; Laurenti M.; Rubio-Retama J.; Contreras-Cáceres R. (BIOORGANIC and MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, 2022)

Implantable Electrospun Nanofibers with Wound-Healing Capabilities in the Reduction of Pressure Ulcers - Bouhajeb, Rim; Cristina Abreu, Ana; Selmi, Salima; Gerke, Christoph; Bellalah, Ahlem; Alvear-Jimenez, Alexis; Lozano Chamizo, Laura; Marciello, Marzia; Villaverde, Gonzalo; Isabel Tristan, Ana; Chekir-Ghedira, Leila; Fernandez, Ignacio; et al. (ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2023)

Improved antitumor activity through a tyramidyl maslinic acid derivative. Design and validation as drug-loaded electrospun polymeric nanofibers - Luque C.; de la Cabeza Fernández M.; Fuentes-Rios D.; Cepero A.; Contreras-Cáceres R.; Doña M.; Perazzoli G.; Lozano-Chamizo L.; Filice M.; Marciello M.; Gonzalez-Rumayor V.; López-Romero J.M.; et al. (EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS AND BIOPHARMACEUTICS, 2023)

Green Synthesis of Highly Monodisperse and Spherical Ag Nanoparticles by a Combination of Teucrium ramosissimum Desf. (Lamiaceae) Extracts with Emphasis on the Stabilizing and Capping Biomolecules - Rim Bouhajeb; Ana C. Abreu; Silvia Fernández; Mohamed Bayrem-Ghedira; Leila Chekir-Ghedira; Ignacio Fernández; Rafael Contreras-Caceres (ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 2024)

Morphological effect on Core@shell AuAg nanoparticles for detecting p-aminothiophenol dimerization by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy - María de la Cabeza Fernández; Alexis Alvear?Jiménez; Arantxa Forte?Castro; Rafael Contreras?Cáceres; María Rosa López?Ramírez (Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 2024)

Experimental and Theoretical Insight into Different Species of p-Aminothiophenol Adsorbed on Silver Nanoparticles - María Rosa López-Ramírez; Laura García-Gómez; Arantxa Forte-Castro; Rafael Contreras-Caceres (Spectroscopy Journal, 2024)