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most citedUniversality of Avalanche Exponents in Plastic Deformation of Disordered Solids

107 citations

25 papers

q-bio.NC2025

Allometric scaling of brain activity explained by avalanche criticality

Tiago S. A. N. Simões, José S. Andrade, Hans J. Herrmann +2

Allometric scaling laws, such as Kleiber's law for metabolic rate, highlight how efficiency emerges with size across living systems. The brain, with its characteristic sublinear sc…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Wall damage due to oblique high velocity dust impacts

Panagiotis Tolias, Marco De Angeli, Dario Ripamonti +3

Runaway electron termination on plasma facing components can trigger material explosions that are accompanied by the expulsion of fast solid debris. Due to the large kinetic energi…

physics.app-ph2025★ 5 cited

UV-SERS monitoring of plasmons photodegradation of biomolecules on Aluminum platforms decorated with Rhodium nanoparticles

Yanqiu Zou, Luca Mattarozzi, Huaizhou Jin +13

In the search for novel nanostructured materials for UV plasmonics a limited number of choices can be done. Materials such as aluminum, rhodium, gallium and few others can be used.…

physics.plasm-ph2024★ 8 cited

Normal high velocity solid dust impacts on tiles of tokamak-relevant temperature

Marco De Angeli, Panagiotis Tolias, Francisco Suzuki-Vidal +7

Runaway electron incidence on plasma facing components triggers explosive events that are accompanied by the expulsion of fast solid debris. Subsequent dust-wall high speed impacts…

physics.app-ph2024★ 8 cited

Porous aluminium decorated with rhodium nanoparticles, preparation and use as platform for UV plasmonics

Shrobona Banerje, Luca Mattarozzi, Nicolo Maccaferri +11

There is a high current interest for novel plasmonic platforms and materials able to extend their applicability into the ultraviolet (UV) region of the electromagnetic spectrum. In…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 13 cited

Wall cratering upon high velocity normal dust impact

Panagiotis Tolias, Marco De Angeli, Dario Ripamonti +4

Dust-wall high speed impacts, triggered by the termination of runaway electrons on plasma facing components, constitute a source of erosion. Normal high velocity mechanical impacts…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 15 cited

Mo-Si-B alloys for ultra-high temperature space and ground applications: liquid assisted fabrication under various temperature and time conditions

G. Bruzda, W. Polkowski, R. Nowak +5

Boron-doped molybdenum silicides have been already recognized as attractive candidates for space and ground ultra-high temperature applications far beyond limits of state-of-the-ar…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 31 cited

On-Surface Synthesis of a Pure and Long-Range-Ordered Titanium(IV)-Porphyrin Contact Layer on Titanium Dioxide

Giacomo Lovat, Daniel Forrer, Mikel Abadia +5

We show the possibility of tailoring the molecular arrangement, as well as the chemical and structural modifications, of porphyrins at the monolayer saturation coverage on TiO2(110…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 25 cited

Evidence for high-velocity solid dust generation induced by runaway electron impact in FTU

M. De Angeli, P. Tolias, S. Ratynskaia +11

Post-mortem and in-situ evidence is presented in favor of the generation of high-velocity solid dust during the explosion-like interaction of runaway electrons with metallic plasma…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 45 cited

Predicting the failure of two-dimensional silica glasses

Francesc Font-Clos, Marco Zanchi, Stefan Hiemer +4

Being able to predict the failure of materials based on structural information is a fundamental issue with enormous practical and industrial relevance for the monitoring of devices…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 45 cited

Origin of relaxor behavior in barium-titanate based lead-free perovskites

Vignaswaran Veerapandiyan, Maxim N. Popov, Florian Mayer +12

It is well known that disordered relaxor ferroelectrics exhibit local polar correlations. The origin of localized fields that disrupt long range polar order for different substitut…

cond-mat.dis-nn2021★ 4 cited

Universal Density of Low Frequency States in Silica Glass at Finite Temperatures

Roberto Guerra, Silvia Bonfanti, Itamar Procaccia +1

The theoretical understanding of the low-frequency modes in amorphous solids at finite temperature is still incomplete. The study of the relevant modes is obscured by the dressing…

math.NA2021★ 6 cited

Numerical Solution and Bifurcation Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations with Extreme Learning Machines

Gianluca Fabiani, Francesco Calabrò, Lucia Russo +1

We address a new numerical scheme based on a class of machine learning methods, the so-called Extreme Learning Machines with both sigmoidal and radial-basis functions, for the comp…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021

Extreme value theory and the St. Petersburg paradox in the failure statistics of wires

Alessandro Taloni, Stefano Zapperi

The fracture stress of materials typically depends on the sample size and is traditionally explained in terms of extreme value statistics. A recent work reported results on the car…

physics.bio-ph2020★ 39 cited

Chromatin and cytoskeletal tethering determine nuclear morphology in progerin expressing cells

M. C. Lionetti, S. Bonfanti, M. R. Fumagalli +6

The nuclear morphology of eukaryotic cells is determined by the interplay between the lamina forming the nuclear skeleton, the chromatin inside the nucleus and the coupling with th…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 43 cited

Universal low-frequency vibrational modes in silica glasses

Silvia Bonfanti, Roberto Guerra, Chandana Mondal +2

It was recently shown that different simple models of glass formers with binary interactions define a universality class in terms of the density of states of their quasi-localized…

cond-mat.dis-nn2019★ 38 cited

Elementary plastic events in amorphous silica

Silvia Bonfanti, Roberto Guerra, Chandana Mondal +2

Plastic instabilities in amorphous materials are often studied using idealized models of binary mixtures that do not capture accurately molecular interactions and bonding present i…

cond-mat.stat-mech2019★ 2 cited

Oscillatory Instabilities in 3-Dimensional Frictional Granular Matter

Silvia Bonfanti, Joyjit Chattoraj, Roberto Guerra +2

The dynamics of amorphous granular matter with frictional interactions cannot be derived in general from a Hamiltonian and therefore displays oscillatory instabilities stemming fro…

physics.chem-ph2018★ 55 cited

Towards 'Pt-free' Anion-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: Fe-Sn Carbon Nitride-Graphene 'Core-Shell' Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Enrico Negro, Antoine Bach Delpeuch, Keti Vezzu' +12

We report on the development of two new Pt-free electrocatalysts (ECs) for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) based on graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs). We designed the ECs with a co…

physics.app-ph2018★ 49 cited

Boosting infrared energy transfer in 3D nanoporous gold antennas

D. Garoli, E. Calandrini, A. Bozzola +5

The applications of plasmonics to energy transfer from free-space radiation to molecules are currently limited to the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum due to the intr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018

Fractal-like plasmonic self-similar material with a tailorable plasma frequency in the near-infrared

Denis Garoli, Eugenio Calandrini, Angelo Bozzola +4

In this work, we show that modulating the fractal dimension of nanoporous gold allows its effective dielectric response to be tailored over a wide spectral range of infrared wavele…

cond-mat.stat-mech2017★ 31 cited

Excitation spectra in crystal plasticity

Markus Ovaska, Arttu Lehtinen, Mikko J. Alava +2

Plastically deforming crystals exhibit scale-free fluctuations that are similar to those observed in driven disordered elastic systems close to depinning, but the nature of the yie…

q-bio.CB2017★ 15 cited

Cholesterol impairment contributes to neuroserpin aggregation

Costanza Giampietro, Maria Chiara Lionetti, Giulio Costantini +3

Intraneural accumulation of misfolded proteins is a common feature of several neurodegenerative pathologies including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, and Familial Encephalopa…

physics.bio-ph2016★ 67 cited

Bursts of activity in collective cell migration

Oleksandr Chepizhko, Costanza Giampietro, Eleonora Mastrapasqua +11

Dense monolayers of living cells display intriguing relaxation dynamics, reminiscent of soft and glassy materials close to the jamming transition, and migrate collectively when spa…