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A single-chain nanoparticle-based mean-field theory for associative polymers
Marco Cappa, Stefano Chiani, Francesco Sciortino +1
Associative polymers are a class of polymers containing attractive stickers that can reversibly bind to each other. Their fully-bonded state gives rise, in dilute conditions, to a…
Entropy-driven phase behaviour of all-DNA associative polymers
Francesco Tosti Guerra, Federico Marini, Francesco Sciortino +1
Associative polymers (APs) with reversible, specific interactions between ``sticker'' sites exhibit a phase behavior that depends on a delicate balance between distinct contributio…
A phase-field model for solutions of DNA-made particles
Marco Cappa, Francesco Sciortino, Lorenzo Rovigatti
We present a phase-field model based on the Cahn-Hilliard equation to investigate the properties of phase separation in DNA nanostar systems. Leveraging a realistic free-energy fun…
Automating Blueprints for Colloidal Quasicrystal Assembly
Diogo E. P. Pinto, Petr Šulc, Francesco Sciortino +1
One of the frontiers of nanotechnology is advancing beyond the periodic self-assembly of materials. Icosahedral quasicrystals, aperiodic in all directions, represent one of the mos…
Identification of local structures in water from supercooled to ambient conditions
Riccardo Foffi, Francesco Sciortino
Studies of water thermodynamics have long been tied to the identification of two distinct families of local structures, whose competition could explain the origin of the many therm…
Beyond Local Structures In Critical Supercooled Water Through Unsupervised Learning
Edward Danquah Donkor, Adu Offei-Danso, Alex Rodriguez +2
The presence of a second critical point in water has been a topic of intense investigation for the last few decades. The molecular origins underlying this phenomenon are typically…
Inverse design of a pyrochlore lattice of DNA origami through model-driven experiments
Hao Liu, Michael Matthies, John Russo +10
Sophisticated statistical mechanics approaches and human intuition have demonstrated the possibility to self-assemble complex lattices or finite size constructs, but have mostly on…
Engineering azeotropy to optimize the self-assembly of colloidal mixtures
Camilla Beneduce, Francesco Sciortino, Petr Sulc +1
The goal of inverse self-assembly is to design inter-particle interactions capable of assembling the units into a desired target structure. The effective assembly of complex struct…
Binding branched and linear DNA structures: from isolated clusters to fully bonded gels
Javier Fernandez-Castanon, Francesca Bomboi, Francesco Sciortino
The proper design of DNA sequences allows for the formation of well defined supramolecular units with controlled interactions via a consecution of self-assembling processes. Here,…
Small-angle neutron scattering and Molecular Dynamics structural study of gelling DNA nanostars
Javier Fernandez-Castanon, Francesca Bomboi, Lorenzo Rovigatti +8
DNA oligomers with properly designed sequences self-assemble into well defined constructs. Here, we exploit this methodology to produce bulk quantities of tetravalent DNA nanostars…