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Resolving Light-Induced Structural Rearrangements in Responsive Microgels
Fabrizio Camerin, Megha Emerse, Gianpaolo Gallo +6
Optically-responsive microgels offer a versatile platform for designing adaptive soft materials with coupled light and thermal responsiveness. Control over the crosslinking degree…
Deciphering Molecular Charge Anisotropy: the Case of Antibody Solutions
Fabrizio Camerin, Susana Marin-Aguilar, Anna Stradner +2
Electrostatic interactions fundamentally govern the structure, stability, and dynamics of charged (bio)matter, yet the impact of heterogeneous and anisotropic charge distributions…
Beyond uniform screening: electrostatic heterogeneity dictates solution structure of complex macromolecules
Fabrizio Camerin, Marco Polimeni, Letizia Tavagnacco +7
The complexity of biomolecular interactions necessitates advanced methodologies to accurately capture their behavior in solution. In this work, we focus on monoclonal antibodies an…
Disentangling the Effects of Curvature and Misorientation on the Shrinkage Behavior of Loop-Shaped Grain Boundaries
Fabrizio Camerin, Susana Marín-Aguilar, Tim Griffioen +4
The material properties of polycrystals are strongly affected by the evolution and coarsening of their internal grain structures. Yet, studying this process is challenging due to t…
Electrostatics and viscosity are strongly linked in concentrated antibody solutions
Fabrizio Camerin, Marco Polimeni, Anna Stradner +2
Monoclonal antibodies are among the most promising therapeutic agents in modern medicine, yet their formulation into high-concentration solutions for subcutaneous self-administrati…
Depletion-induced crystallization of anisotropic triblock colloids
Fabrizio Camerin, Susana Marín-Aguilar, Marjolein Dijkstra
The intricate interplay between colloidal particle shape and precisely engineered interaction potentials has paved the way for the discovery of unprecedented crystal structures in…
Softness Matters: Effects of Compression on the Behavior of Adsorbed Microgels at Interfaces
Yuri Gerelli, Fabrizio Camerin, Steffen Bochenek +5
Deformable colloids and macromolecules adsorb at interfaces, as they decrease the interfacial energy between the two media. The deformability, or softness, of these particles plays…
Interfacial fluid rheology of soft particles
Maximilian M. Schmidt, José Ruiz-Franco, Steffen Bochenek +3
In situ interfacial rheology and numerical simulations are used to investigate microgel monolayers in a wide range of packing fractions, . The heterogeneous particle compre…
A colloidal viewpoint on the finite sphere packing problem: the sausage catastrophe
Susana Marín-Aguilar, Fabrizio Camerin, Stijn van der Ham +3
It is commonly believed that the most efficient way to pack a finite number of equal-sized spheres is by arranging them tightly in a cluster. However, mathematicians have conjectur…
Flexible Colloidal Molecules with Directional Bonds and Controlled Flexibility
Yogesh Shelke, Fabrizio Camerin, Susana Marín-Aguilar +3
Colloidal molecules are ideal model systems for mimicking real molecules and can serve as versatile building blocks for the bottom-up self-assembly of flexible and smart materials.…
Using cluster theory to calculate the experimental structure factors of antibody solutions
Nicholas Skar-Gislinge, Fabrizio Camerin, Anna Stradner +2
Monoclonal antibody solutions are set to become a major therapeutic tool in the years to come, capable of targeting various diseases by clever designing their antigen binding site.…
Guiding the self-assembly of colloidal diamond
Susana Marín-Aguilar, Fabrizio Camerin, Marjolein Dijkstra
The assembly of colloidal cubic diamond is a challenging process since the shape and interaction parameters and the thermodynamic conditions where this structure is stable are elus…
Exploiting anisotropic particle shape to electrostatically assemble colloidal molecules with high yield and purity
Yogesh Shelke, Susana Marín-Aguilar, Fabrizio Camerin +2
Hypothesis: Colloidal molecules with anisotropic shapes and interactions are powerful model systems for deciphering the behavior of real molecules and building units for creating m…
In-situ study of the impact of temperature and architecture on the interfacial structure of microgels
Steffen Bochenek, Fabrizio Camerin, Emanuela Zaccarelli +4
The structural characterization of microgels at interfaces is fundamental to understand both their 2D phase behavior and their role as stabilizers that enable emulsions to be broke…
Soft colloids for complex interfacial assemblies
Fabrizio Camerin, Emanuela Zaccarelli
The design of complex materials and the formation of specific patterns often arise from the properties of the individual building blocks. In this respect, colloidal systems offer a…
Link between morphology, structure and interactions of composite microgels
Rodrigo Rivas-Barbosa, José Ruiz-Franco, Mayra A. Lara-Peña +5
We combine small angle scattering experiments and simulations to investigate the internal structure and interactions of composite Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-Poly(ethylene glycol)…
Dynamical properties of different models of elastic polymer rings: confirming the link between deformation and fragility
Nicoletta Gnan, Fabrizio Camerin, Giovanni Del Monte +2
We report extensive numerical simulations of different models of 2D polymer rings with internal elasticity. We monitor the dynamical behavior of the rings as a function of the pack…
Two-step deswelling in the Volume Phase Transition of thermoresponsive microgels
Giovanni Del Monte, Domenico Truzzolillo, Fabrizio Camerin +7
Thermoresponsive microgels are one of the most investigated class of soft colloids, thanks to their ability to undergo a Volume Phase Transition (VPT) close to ambient temperature.…
The effect of internal architecture on the assembly of soft particles at fluid interfaces
Jacopo Vialetto, Fabrizio Camerin, Fabio Grillo +3
Monolayers of soft colloidal particles confined at fluid interfaces have been attracting increasing interest for fundamental studies and applications alike. However, establishing t…
Charge affinity and solvent effects in numerical simulations of ionic microgels
G. Del Monte, F. Camerin, A. Ninarello +3
Ionic microgel particles are intriguing systems in which the properties of thermo-responsive polymeric colloids are enriched by the presence of charged groups. In order to rational…
Tuning the rheological behavior of colloidal gels through competing interactions
José Ruiz-Franco, Fabrizio Camerin, Nicoletta Gnan +1
We study colloidal gels formed by competing electrostatic repulsion and short-range attraction by means of extensive numerical simulations under external shear. We show that, upon…
Microgels at interfaces behave as 2D elastic particles featuring reentrant dynamics
Fabrizio Camerin, Nicoletta Gnan, José Ruiz-Franco +3
Soft colloids are increasingly used as model systems to address fundamental issues such as crystallisation and the glass and jamming transitions. Among the available classes of sof…
Numerical insights on ionic microgels: structure and swelling behaviour
Giovanni Del Monte, Andrea Ninarello, Fabrizio Camerin +3
Recent progress has been made in the numerical modelling of neutral microgel particles with a realistic, disordered structure. In this work we extend this approach to the case of c…
Microgels Adsorbed at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces: A Joint Numerical and Experimental Study
Fabrizio Camerin, Miguel Angel Fernandez-Rodriguez, Lorenzo Rovigatti +5
Soft particles display highly versatile properties with respect to hard colloids, even more so at fluid-fluid interfaces. In particular, microgels, consisting of a cross-linked pol…