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20062026
most citedLimiting the valence: advancements and new perspectives on patchy colloids, soft functionalized nanoparticles and biomolecules

82 citations · 273 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

q-bio.CB2026

Kin-ematic Exclusion in Active Matter: Modelling Mutual Inhibition in \textit{Pseudomonas aeruginosa} Sibling Colonies

Dario Buonomo, Francesco Imperi, Fabio Bruni +2

The striking variety of macroscopic morphologies displayed by bacterial colonies depends on microscopic environmental and behavioural details in a manner that is currently not well…

cond-mat.soft2019

Designing an Optimal Ion Adsorber at the Nanoscale: The Unusual Nucleation of AgNP/Co -- Ni Binary Mixtures

Pietro Corsi, Iole Venditti, Chiara Battocchio +5

Selective removal of heavy metals from water is a complex topic. We present a theoretical computational approach, supported by experimental evidences, to design a functionalized na…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 8 cited

Exploiting Scaling Laws for Polymeric Bottle Brushes: a Theoretical Coarse-Graining for Homopolymeric Branched Polymers

P. Corsi, E. Roma, T. Gasperi +2

Bottle brushes are polymeric macromolecules made of a linear polymeric backbone grafted with side chains. The choice of the grafting density σg, the length ns the grafted side chai…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 82 cited

Limiting the valence: advancements and new perspectives on patchy colloids, soft functionalized nanoparticles and biomolecules

Emanuela Bianchi, Barbara Capone, Ivan Coluzza +2

Limited bonding valence, usually accompanied by well-defined directional interactions and selective bonding mechanisms, is nowadays considered among the key ingredients to create c…

cond-mat.soft2016★ 15 cited

Multiblob coarse-graining for mixtures of long polymers and soft colloids

Emanuele Locatelli, Barbara Capone, Christos N. Likos

Soft nanocomposites represent both a theoretical and an experimental challenge due to the high number of the microscopic constituents that strongly influence the behaviour of the s…

cond-mat.soft2015★ 28 cited

Soft self-assembled nanoparticles with temperature-dependent properties

Lorenzo Rovigatti, Barbara Capone, Christos N. Likos

The fabrication of versatile building blocks that are reliably self-assemble into desired ordered and disordered phases is amongst the hottest topics in contemporary material scien…