3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Many-body contributions to polymorphism and polyhexaticity in a water monolayer
Oriol Vilanova, Giancarlo Franzese
Nanoconfined water plays a crucial role in nanofluidics, biology, and cutting-edge technologies. The process of melting water monolayers and quasi-two-dimensional confined water in…
cond-mat.stat-mech2025
Efficient parallel algorithms for free-energy calculation of millions of water molecules in the fluid phases
Luis Enrique Coronas, Oriol Vilanova, Giancarlo Franzese
Simulating water droplets made up of millions of molecules and on timescales as needed in biological and technological applications is challenging due to the difficulty of balancin…
cond-mat.soft2025
Characterizing the Hard and Soft Nanoparticle-Protein Corona with Multilayer Adsorption
Oriol Vilanova, Alberto Martinez-Serra, Marco P Monopoli +1
Nanoparticles (NPs) in contact with biological fluid adsorb biomolecules into a corona. This corona comprises proteins that strongly bind to the NP (hard corona) and loosely bound…