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Probability distribution functions of sub- and super-diffusive systems
Fabio Cecconi, Giulio Costantini, Alessandro Taloni +1
We study the anomalous transport in systems of random walks (RW's) on comb-like lattices with fractal sidebranches, showing subdiffusion, and in a system of Brownian particles driv…
Size effects in micro and nanoscale materials fracture
Alessandro Taloni, Michele Vodret, Giulio Costantini +1
Micro and nanoscale materials have remarkable mechanical properties, such as enhanced strength and toughness, but usually display sample-to-sample fluctuations and non-trivial size…
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…
Protein driven lipid domain nucleation in biological membranes
Moritz Hoferer, Silvia Bonfanti, Alessandro Taloni +2
Lipid rafts are heterogeneous dynamic lipid domains of the cell membranes that are involved in several biological processes, like protein and lipids specific transport and signalin…
Fluctuations in protein aggregation: Design of preclinical screening for early diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease
Giulio Costantini, Zoe Budrikis, Alessandro Taloni +3
Autocatalytic fibril nucleation has recently been proposed to be a determining factor for the spread of neurodegenerative diseases, but the same process could also be exploited to…
Fracture size effects in nanoscale materials: the case of graphene
Alessandro Luigi Sellerio, Alessandro Taloni, Stefano Zapperi
Nanoscale materials display enhanced strength and toughness but also larger fluctuations and more pronounced size effects with respect to their macroscopic counterparts. Here we st…
Volume changes during active shape fluctuations in cells
Alessandro Taloni, Elena Kardash, Oguz Umut Salman +3
Cells modify their volume in response to changes in osmotic pressure but it is usually assumed that other active shape variations do not involve significant volume fluctuations. He…
Mechanical Properties of Growing Melanocytic Nevi and the Progression to Melanoma
Alessandro Taloni, Alexander A. Alemi, Emilio Ciusani +3
Melanocytic nevi are benign proliferations that sometimes turn into malignant melanoma in a way that is still unclear from the biochemical and genetic point of view. Diagnostic and…
Scalar model for frictional precursors dynamics
Alessandro Taloni, Andrea Benassi, Stefan Sandfeld +1
Recent experiments indicate that frictional sliding occurs by the nucleation of detachment fronts at the contact interface that may appear well before the onset of global sliding.…