List of Publications 1. S. D’Agostino, L. Chiodo, F. Della Sala, R. Cingolani and R. Rinaldi, Ab initio structural and electronic analysis of CH3SH self-assembled on a Cu(110) substrate, Phys. Rev. B, 75, 195444 (2007). 2. S. D’Agostino and F. Della Sala, Electromagnetic modelling of the optical behaviour of silver nanospheres on dielectric substrates: the role of a silver buffer layer, Superlattice & Microstructures, 47, 55 (2010). 3. S. D’Agostino, P. P. Pompa, R. Chiuri, R. J. Phaneuf, D. G. Britti, R. Rinaldi, R. Cingolani, and F. Della Sala, Enhanced fluorescente by metal nanospheres on metal substrates, Opt. Lett., 34, 2381 (2009). Selected for “the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology”. 4. M. Piacenza, S. D’Agostino, E. Fabiano and F. Della Sala, Ab initio depolarization in selfassembled molecular monolayers: Beyond conventional density-functional theory, Phys. Rev. B, 80, 153101 (2009). Selected for “the Virtual Journals in Science & Technolgy”. 5. E. Fabiano, M. Piacenza, S. D’Agostino and F. Della Sala, Towards an accurate description of the electronic properties of the biphenylthiol/gold interface: The role of exact exchange, J. Chem. Phys. 131, 234101 (2009). 6. F. Della Sala, E. Fabiano, S. Laricchia, S. D’Agostino and M. Piacenza, The role of exactexchange in the theoretical description of organic-metal interfaces, Int. J. Quantum Chem., 110, 2162 (2010). 7. G. Cheng, M. Mazzeo, S. D’Agostino, F. Della Sala, S. Carallo, and G. Gigli, Pure white hybrid light-emitting device with color rendering index higher than 90, Opt. Lett., 35, 616 (2010). 8. S. D’Agostino and F. Della Sala, Active Role of Oxide Layers on the Polarization of Plasmonic Nanostructures, ACS Nano, 2010, 4, 4117 (2010). 9. M. Mazzeo, F. Della Sala, F. Mariano, G. Melcarne, S. D’Agostino, Y. Duan, R. Cingolani and G. Gigli, Shaping white light through electroluminescent fully organic coupledmicrocavities, Adv. Mater., 22, 4696 (2010). 10. Stefania D'Agostino and Fabio Della Sala, Silver Nanourchins in Plasmonics: Theoretical Investigation on the Optical Properties of the Branches, J. Phys. Chem. C., 115(24). 11934 (2011). 11. F. Alpeggiani, S. D'Agostino, and L. C. Andreani, Surface plasmons and strong light-matter coupling in metallic nanoshells, Phys. Rev. B 86, 035421 (2012). 12. S. D’Agostino, F. Della Sala and L. C. Andreani, Dipole Decay rates engineering via metallic nanosystems, AIP Conf. Proc. 1475, 47 (2012). 13. S. D’Agostino, F. Della Sala and L. C. Andreani, Dipole Decay Rates Engineering via Silver Nanocones, Plasmonics, in press (2013). 14. S. D’Agostino, F. Della Sala and L. C. Andreani, Dipole‐Excited Surface Plasmons in Metallic Nanoparticles: an Engineering of Decay Dynamics within the Discrete Dipole Approximation, submitted to Phys. Rev. B (2013). 15. Fabio Della Sala and Stefania D’Agostino, Handbook of Molecular Plasmonics, Pan Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd., in press (2013).