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Nicoletta Gnan

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Ninarello A, Crassous J, Paloli D, Camerin F, Gnan N, Rovigatti L, et al.
Macromolecules . 2019 Oct; 52(20):7584-7592. PMID: 31656322
Thermoresponsive microgels are soft colloids that find widespread use as model systems for soft matter physics. Their complex internal architecture, made of a disordered and heterogeneous polymer network, has been...
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Del Monte G, Ninarello A, Camerin F, Rovigatti L, Gnan N, Zaccarelli E
Soft Matter . 2019 Oct; 15(40):8113-8128. PMID: 31589214
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 co-polymerised...
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Gnan N, Sciortino F, Zaccarelli E
Methods Mol Biol . 2019 Jul; 2039:187-208. PMID: 31342428
In this chapter we describe numerical procedures to evaluate the phase behavior of coarse-grained models for globular proteins. Specifically we focus on models based on hard spheres complemented with "patchy-like"...
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Camerin F, Fernandez-Rodriguez M, Rovigatti L, Antonopoulou M, Gnan N, Ninarello A, et al.
ACS Nano . 2019 Mar; 13(4):4548-4559. PMID: 30865829
Soft particles display highly versatile properties with respect to hard colloids and even more so at fluid-fluid interfaces. In particular, microgels, consisting of a cross-linked polymer network, are able to...
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Ruiz-Franco J, Gnan N, Zaccarelli E
J Chem Phys . 2019 Jan; 150(2):024905. PMID: 30646712
A transition from solid-like to liquid-like behavior occurs when colloidal gels are subjected to a prolonged exposure to a steady shear. This phenomenon, which is characterized by a yielding point,...
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Rovigatti L, Gnan N, Tavagnacco L, Moreno A, Zaccarelli E
Soft Matter . 2018 Dec; 15(6):1108-1119. PMID: 30543246
Microgels are complex macromolecules. These colloid-sized polymer networks possess internal degrees of freedom and, depending on the polymer(s) they are made of, can acquire a responsiveness to variations of the...
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Bergman M, Gnan N, Obiols-Rabasa M, Meijer J, Rovigatti L, Zaccarelli E, et al.
Nat Commun . 2018 Nov; 9(1):5039. PMID: 30487527
Thermoresponsive microgels find widespread use as colloidal model systems, because their temperature-dependent size allows facile tuning of their volume fraction in situ. However, an interaction potential unifying their behavior across...
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Rovigatti L, Gnan N, Zaccarelli E
J Phys Condens Matter . 2017 Dec; 30(4):044001. PMID: 29231178
Microgels are soft colloids that, by virtue of their polymeric nature, can react to external stimuli such as temperature or pH by changing their size. The resulting swelling/deswelling transition can...
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Gnan N, Rovigatti L, Bergman M, Zaccarelli E
Macromolecules . 2017 Nov; 50(21):8777-8786. PMID: 29151620
Microgels are colloidal-scale particles individually made of cross-linked polymer networks that can swell and deswell in response to external stimuli, such as changes to temperature or pH. Despite a large...
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Garcia N, Gnan N, Zaccarelli E
Soft Matter . 2017 Aug; 13(36):6051-6058. PMID: 28829478
Effective colloid-colloid interactions can be tailored through the addition of a complex cosolute. Here we investigate the case of a cosolute made by self-assembling patchy particles. Depending on the valence,...