Patents by Inventor Valerio VOLIANI

Valerio VOLIANI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Process for the preparation of hollow nanoparticles with a metal core
    Patent number: 11253615
    Abstract: The present invention relates to silica hollow nanoparticles having inside their cavity a metal core consisting of inorganic nanostructures coated by a protective agent and agglomerated with a polymeric aggregating agent, useful in particular in medicine in the bio-imaging techniques and/or in the radio-therapeutic or chemo-therapeutic techniques; the invention moreover refers to a process for the preparation of such nanoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA
    Inventor: Valerio Voliani
  • PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF HOLLOW NANOPARTICLES WITH A METAL CORE
    Publication number: 20190151482
    Abstract: The present invention relates to silica hollow nanoparticles having inside their cavity a metal core consisting of inorganic nanostructures coated by a protective agent and agglomerated with a polymeric aggregating agent, useful in particular in medicine in the bio-imaging techniques and/or in the radio-therapeutic or chemo-therapeutic techniques; the invention moreover refers to a process for the preparation of such nanoparticles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventor: Valerio VOLIANI
  • Hollow nanoparticles having a modulable metal core
    Patent number: 10124407
    Abstract: The present invention relates to hollow nanoparticles having inside their cavity a metal core constituted by metal seeds agglomerated with a cationic polyelectrolyte, useful in medicine as well as in the bio-imaging and/or radio-therapeutic or chemo-therapeutic techniques and also in the industry as starting materials for preparing catalysts or metamaterials in non-linear optical processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA
    Inventors: Valerio Voliani, Vincenzo Piazza
  • HOLLOW NANOPARTICLES HAVING A MODULABLE METAL CORE
    Publication number: 20180036799
    Abstract: The present invention relates to hollow nanoparticles having inside their cavity a metal core constituted by metal seeds agglomerated with a cationic polyelectrolyte, useful in medicine as well as in the bio-imaging and/or radio-therapeutic or chemo-therapeutic techniques and also in the industry as starting materials for preparing catalysts or metamaterials in non-linear optical processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Valerio VOLIANI, Vincenzo PIAZZA