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Year 2024

 
P. J. M. Swinkels, R. Sinaasappel, Z. Gong, S. Sacanna, W. V. Meyer, F. Sciortino and P. Schall
Networks of Limited-Valency Patchy Particles
Physical Review Letters, 132, 078203 (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.078203
 
Edward Danquah Donkor, Adu Offei-Danso, Alex Rodriguez, Francesco Sciortino, and Ali Hassanali
Beyond Local Structures in Critical Supercooled Water through Unsupervised Learning
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 15, 3996-4005 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c00383
 
Francesco Sciortino, Thomas E. Gartner, III and Pablo G. Debenedetti
Free-energy landscape and spinodals for the liquid-liquid transition of the TIP4P/2005 and TIP4P/Ice models of water
J. Chem. Phys. 160, 104501 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0196964
 
Andreas Neophytou and Francesco Sciortino
Potential energy landscape of a coarse grained model for water: ML-BOP
J. Chem. Phys. 160, 094504 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0188764
 
Riccardo Foffi and Francesco Sciortino
Identification of local structures in water from supercooled to ambient conditions
J. Chem. Phys. 160, 094504 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0188764
 
S Dey, R Rivas-Barbosa, F Sciortino, E Zaccarelli, P Zijlstra
Biomolecular interactions on densely coated nanoparticles: a single-molecule perspective
Nanoscale, DOI: 10.1039/d3nr06140j
 
Jean-Louis Barrat1 et al,
Soft matter roadmap
J. Phys. Mater. 7 (2024) 012501 https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/ad06cc
 

 

Year 2023

 
Camilla Beneduce, Francesco Sciortino, Petr Sulc, and John Russo
Engineering Azeotropy to Optimize the Self- Assembly of Colloidal Mixtures
ACS Nano 2023, 17, 24841-2485 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c05569
 
Lorenzo Rovigatti, Francesco Sciortino
Entropy-driven phase behavior of associative polymer networks
SciPost Phys. 15, 163 (2023). doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.4.163
 
Diogo E. P. Pinto, Petr Sulc, , Francesco Sciortino , and John Russo,
Design strategies for the self-assembly of polyhedral shells
Proceedings National Academy of Science, 120 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2219458120
 
Francesco Guidarelli Mattioli, Francesco Sciortino, and John Russo
Are Neural Network Potentials Trained on Liquid States Transferable to Crystal Nucleation? A Test on Ice Nucleation in the mW Water Model
J. Phys. Chem. B 127, pp.3894-3901 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c00693
 
Camilla Beneduce, Diogo E. P. Pinto, Petr Sulc, Francesco Sciortino, and John Russo
Two-step nucleation in a binary mixture of patchy particles
J. Chem. Phys. 158, 154502 (2023); doi: 10.1063/5.0140847 (2023).
 
Francesco Guidarelli Mattioli, Francesco Sciortino, and John Russo
A neural network potential with self-trained atomic fingerprints: a test with the mW water potential
J. Chem. Phys. 158, 104501 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0139245 (2023).
 

 

Year 2022

 
Riccardo Foffi and Francesco Sciortino
Correlated Fluctuations of Structural Indicators Close to the Liquid-Liquid Transition in Supercooled Water
J. Phys. Chem. B https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c07169 (2022)
 
Andreas Neophytou, Dwaipayan Chakrabarti and Francesco Sciortino
Topological nature of the liquid-liquid phase transition in tetrahedral liquids
Nature Physics https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01698-6 (2022).
News and Views by Camille Scalliet
 
Lorenzo Rovigatti and Francesco Sciortino
Designing Enhanced Entropy Binding in Single-Chain Nanoparticles
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 047801. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.047801
 
Jack Weis, Francesco Sciortino, Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos, and Pablo G. Debenedetti
Liquid-liquid criticality in the WAIL water model
J. Chem. Phys. 157, 024502 (2022); doi: 10.1063/5.0099520
 
ohn Russo, Flavio Romano, Lukas Kroc, Francesco Sciortino, Lorenzo Rovigatti and Petr Sulc
SAT-assembly: a new approach for designing self-assembling systems
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 34 354002 (2022); doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ac5479
 
Gianpietro Malescio and Francesco Sciortino
Self-assembly of quasicrystals and their approximants in fluids with bounded repulsive core and competing interactions
Journal of Molecular Liquids 349 (2022) 118209 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2021.118209
 
Manuela Leo, Enrico Lattuada, Debora Caprara, Luisa Salvatori, Andrea Vecchione, Francesco Sciortino, Patrizia Filetici and Antonella Stoppacciaro
Treatment of kidney clear cell carcinoma, lung adenocarcinoma and glioblastoma cell lines with hydrogels made of DNA nanostars
Biomater. Sci., 2022,10, 1304-1316 https://doi.org/10.1039/D1BM01643A
 
John Russo, Fabio Leoni, Fausto Martelli and Francesco Sciortino
The physics of empty liquids: from patchy particles to water
Rep. Prog. Phys. 85 (2022) 016601 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6633/ac42d9
 
Edoardo Maria Mollica, John Russo, H. Eugene Stanley, Francesco Sciortino
Decompression dynamics of high density amorphous ice above and below the liquid-liquid critical point
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids: X 13 (2022) 100081 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nocx.2022.100081
 

 

Year 2021

 
Enrico Lattuada, Debora Caprara, Roberto Piazza, Francesco Sciortino
Spatially uniform dynamics in equilibrium colloidal gels
Science Advances 7, eabk2360 (2021) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abk2360
 
Gianpietro Malescio and Francesco Sciortino
Self-assembly of quasicrystals and their approximants in fluids with bounded repulsive core and competing interactions
Journal of Molecular Liquids xxx (xxxx) xxx https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2021.118209
 
Andreas Neophytou, Dwaipayan Chakrabarti, and Francesco Sciortino
Facile self-assembly of colloidal diamond from tetrahedral patchy particles via ring selection
PNAS November 30, 2021 118 (48) e2109776118; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109776118
 
Riccardo Foffi, John Russo, and Francesco Sciortino
Structure of High-Pressure Supercooled and Glassy Water
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 175502, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.175502
 
Sofia Biagi, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Mehdi Abbasi, Lionel Bureau, Francesco Sciortino and Chaouqi Misbah
Hydrodynamic instability and flow reduction in polymer brush coated channels
Soft Matter, 2021, 17, 9235 DOI: 10.1039/d1sm00638j
 
Maud Formanek, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Francesco Sciortino, and Angel J. Moreno
Gel Formation in Reversibly Cross-Linking Polymers
Macromolecules 2021, 54, 14, 6613-6627 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02670
 
Riccardo Foffi, John Russo, and Francesco Sciortino
Structural and topological changes across the liquid-liquid transition in water
Suppelementary Material
J. Chem. Phys. 154, 184506 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0049299
 
Susana Marin-Aguilar, Frank Smallenburg, Francesco Sciortino, and Giuseppe Foffi
Monodisperse patchy particle glass former
J. Chem. Phys. 154, 174501 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0036963
 
Roberto Piazza, Marco Campello, Stefano Buzzaccaro and Francesco Sciortino
Phase Behavior and Microscopic Dynamics of a Thermosensitive Gel-Forming Polymer
Macromolecules 54, 8, 3897-3906 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02785
 

 

Year 2020

 
Pablo G. Debenedetti, Francesco Sciortino, Gul H. Zerze
Second critical point in two realistic models of water
Suppelementary Material
Science, 369, 289-292 (2020). 10.1126/science.abb9796
 
Enrico Lattuada, Debora Caprara, Vincenzo Lamberti and Francesco Sciortino
Hyperbranched DNA clusters
Nanoscale, 12, 23003-23012, (2020). DOI: 10.1039/d0nr04840b
 
Francesco Spinozzi, Maria Grazia Ortore, Giovanni Nava, Francesca Bomboi, Federica Carducci, Heinz Amenitsch, Tommaso Bellini, Francesco Sciortino, and Paolo Mariani
Gelling without Structuring: A SAXS Study of the Interactions among DNA Nanostars
Langmuir 2020, 36, 35, 10387-10396 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01520
 
Fausto Martelli, Fabio Leoni, Francesco Sciortino and John Russo
Connection between liquid and noncrystalline solid phases in water
J. Chem. Phys. 153, 104503 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0018923
 
Enrico Lattuada, Manuela Leo, Debora Caprara, Luisa Salvatori, Antonella Stoppacciaro, Francesco Sciortino and Patrizia Filetici
DNA-GEL, Novel Nanomaterial for Biomedical Applications and Delivery of Bioactive Molecules
Front. Pharmacol. 11:01345. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2020.01345
 
Francesco Sciortino, Yugang Zhang, Oleg Gang, and Sanat K. Kumar
Combinatorial-Entropy-Driven Aggregation in DNA-Grafted Nanoparticles
Acs Nano 2020, 14, 5628-5635 https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b10123
 
Abhishek B. Rao, James Shaw, Andreas Neophytou, Daniel Morphew, Francesco Sciortino, Roy L. Johnston, and Dwaipayan Chakrabarti
Leveraging Hierarchical Self-Assembly Pathways for Realizing Colloidal Photonic Crystals
ACS Nano 2020, 14, 5348-5359 https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b07849
 
Joan M. Montes de Oca, Francesco Sciortino, and Gustavo A. Appignanesi
A structural indicator for water built upon potential energy considerations
J. Chem. Phys. 152, 244503 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0010895
 
Gianpietro Malescio and Francesco Sciortino
Aggregate formation in fluids with bounded repulsive core and competing interactions
Journal of Molecular Liquids, 303, 112601 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2020.112601
 

 

Year 2019

 
Francesco Sciortino
Entropy in self assembly
Riv. Nuovo Cimento, Vol. 42 (2019) 511, DOI: 10.1393/ncr/i2019-10165-1
 
P. I. C. Teixeira and F. Sciortino
Patchy particles at a hard wall: Orientation dependent bonding
J. Chem. Phys. 151, 174903 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5124008
 
Eva G. Noya, Itziar Zubieta, David J. Pine and Francesco Sciortino
Assembly of clathrates from tetrahedral patchy colloids with narrow patches
J. Chem. Phys. 151, 094502 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5109382
 
Chiara Cardelli,Francesca Nerattini, Luca Tubiana, Valentino Bianco, Christoph Dellago, Francesco Sciortino, and Ivan Coluzza
General Methodology to Identify the Minimum Alphabet Size for Heteropolymer Design
Adv. Theory Simul., 1900031 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1002/adts.201900031
 
Philip H. Handle, Francesco Sciortino and Nicolas Giovambattista
Glass polymorphism in TIP4P/2005 water: A description based on the potential energy landscape formalism.
J. Chem. Phys. 150, 244506 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5100346
 
Pheerawich Chitnelawong, Francesco Sciortino, and Peter H. Poole
The stability-limit conjecture revisited
J. Chem. Phys. 150, 234502 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5100129
 
Gnan Nicoletta, Sciortino Francesco, Zaccarelli Emanuela
Patchy Particle Models to Understand Protein Phase Behavior
Methods Mol Biol. 2019;2039:187-208. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9678-0_14.
 
Francesca Bomboi, Debora Caprara, Javier Fernandez-Castanon and Francesco Sciortino
Cold-swappable DNA gels
Nanoscale, 2019, 11, 9691 - 9697, DOI: 10.1039/C9NR01156K
 
Philip H. Handle Lorenzo Rovigatti and Francesco Sciortino
q-Independent Slow Dynamics in Atomic and Molecular Systems
Phys. Rev. Letts. 122, 175501 (2019) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.175501
 
Paola Gallo and Francesco Sciortino
Several glasses of water but one dense liquid (Commentary)
Proceedings National Academy of Science, (2019) www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1904692116
 
Joan Manuel Montes de Oca , Sebastin R. Accordino, Gustavo A. Appignanesi , Philip H. Handle, and Francesco Sciortino
Size dependence of dynamic fluctuations in liquid and supercooled water
J. Chem. Phys. 150, 144505 (2019); doi: 10.1063/1.5085886
 
J. Fernandez-Castanon, M. Zanatta, L. Comez, A. Paciaroni, A. Radulescu, and F. Sciortino
All-DNA System Close to the Percolation Threshold
ACS Macro Lett. 8, 84--87 (2019). DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00822
 

 

Year 2018

 
J. Ariel Rodriguez Fris, Eric R. Weeks, Francesco Sciortino, and Gustavo A. Appignanesi
Spatiotemporal intermittency and localized dynamic fluctuations upon approaching the glass transition
Phys. Rev. E 97, 060601(R) (2018). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.060601
 
Jeremy C. Palmer, Peter H. Poole, Francesco Sciortino and Pablo G. Debenedetti
Advances in Computational Studies of the Liquid-Liquid Transition in Water and Water-Like Models
Chem. Rev. 2018, 118, 9129-9151 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00228
 
Angus McMullen, Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, Francesco Sciortino, Alexander Y. Grosberg and Jasna Brujic
Freely Jointed Polymers Made of Droplets
Phys. Rev. Letts. 121, 138002 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.138002
 
Simone Ciarella, Francesco Sciortino and Wouter G. Ellenbroek
Dynamics of Vitrimers: Defects as a Highway to Stress Relaxation
Phys. Rev. Letts. 121, 058003 (2018) ; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.058003
 
Silvia Corezzi, Francesco Sciortino and Cristiano De Michele
Exploiting limited valence patchy particles to understand autocatalytic kinetics
Nature Communication, 9:2647 (2018) ; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04977-0
 
Philip H. Handle and Francesco Sciortino
The Adam-Gibbs relation and the TIP4P/2005 model of water
Molecular Physics, DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2018.1471230
 
Javier Fernandez-Castanon, Silvio Bianchi, Filippo Saglimbeni, Roberto Di Leonardo, and Francesco Sciortino
Microrheology of DNA Hydrogels Gelling and Melting On Cooling
Soft Matter, 2018, DOI: 10.1039/C8SM00751A
 
Philip H. Handle and Francesco Sciortino
Potential energy landscape of TIP4P/2005 water
J. Chem. Phys. 148, 134505 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5023894
 
Shahrazad M A Malek, Francesco Sciortino, Peter H Poole and Ivan Saika-Voivod
Evaluating the Laplace pressure of water nanodroplets from simulations
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 30 144005 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/aab196
 
Lorenzo Rovigatti, Giovanni Nava, Tommaso Bellini and Francesco Sciortino
Self-Dynamics and Collective Swap-Driven Dynamics in a Particle Model for Vitrimers
Macromolecules, 51 ,1232-1241 (2018). DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b02186
 
J. Fernandez-Castanon, F. Bomboi, and F. Sciortino
Binding branched and linear DNA structures: From isolated clusters to fully bonded gels
J. Chem. Phys. 148, 025103 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5011720
 

 

Year 2017

 
Philip H. Handle Thomas Loerting and Francesco Sciortino
Supercooled and glassy water: Metastable liquid(s), amorphous solid(s), and a no-man's land
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA vol. 114 13336-13344 (2017). www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1700103114
 
Shahrazad M.A. Malek, Richard K. Bowles, Ivan Saika-Voivod, Francesco Sciortino and Peter H. Poole
Swarm relaxation: Equilibrating a large ensemble of computer simulations
Eur. Phys. J. E (2017) 40: 98 DOI 10.1140/epje/i2017-11588-2
 
Giovanni Nava, Marina Rossi, Silvia Biffi, Francesco Sciortino, and Tommaso Bellini
Fluctuating Elasticity Mode in Transient Molecular Networks
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 078002 (2017).
 
Francesco Sciortino
Which way to low-density liquid water?
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, Commentary to Perakis F. et al. (2017) Diffusive dynamics during the high-to-low density transition in amorphous ice. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 10.1073/pnas.1705303114. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1710601114
 
Francesco Sciortino and Emanuela Zaccarelli
Equilibrium gels of limited valence colloids
Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 30 (2017) 90-96 Doi 10.1016/j.cocis.2017.06.001
 
Lorenzo Rovigatti, Valentino Bianco, Jose' Maria Tavares, and Francesco Sciortino
Communication: Re-entrant limits of stability of the liquid phase and the Speedy scenario in colloidal model systems
The Journal of Chemical Physics 146, 041103 (2017); doi: 10.1063/1.4974830
 
Emanuele Locatelli, Philip H. Handle, Christos N. Likos, Francesco Sciortino and Lorenzo Rovigatti
Condensation and Demixing in Solutions of DNA Nanostars and Their Mixtures
ACS Nano 2017, 11, 2094-2102 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b08287
 
Massimiliano Chiappini, Erika Eiser and Francesco Sciortino
Phase behaviour in complementary DNA-coated gold nanoparticles and fd-viruses mixtures: a numerical study
Eur. Phys. J. E (2017) 40: 7 DOI 10.1140/epje/i2017-11493-8
 
Francesco Sciortino
Three-body potential for simulating bond swaps in molecular dynamics
Eur. Phys. J. E (2017) 40: 3 DOI 10.1140/epje/i2017-11496-5
 

 

Year 2016

 
Simone Ciarella, Oleg Gang and Francesco Sciortino
Toward the observation of a liquid-liquid phase transition in patchy origami tetrahedra: a numerical study
Eur. Phys. J. E (2016) 39: 131 DOI 10.1140/epje/i2016-16131-5
 
Sandalo Roldán-Vargas, orenzo Rovigatti, Fancesco Sciortino
Connectivity, dynamics, and structure in a tetrahedral network liquid
Soft Matter 12 (48), 9649-9656 DOI: 10.1039/C6SM02282K
 
Nicoletta Gnan, Francesco Sciortino, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Discontinous change from thermally-to geometrically-dominated effective interactions in colloidal solutions
Soft Matter 12 (48), 9649-9656 DOI: 10.1039/C6SM01872F
 
Francesco Sciortino
Basic concepts in self-assembly
Soft Matter Self-Assembly, Scuola E. Fermi, Varenna Vol. 193, 1
 
Z Preisler, T Vissers, F Smallenburg, F Sciortino
Crystals of Janus colloids at various interaction ranges
The Journal of Chemical Physics 145 (6), 064513
 
Nicolas Giovambattista, Francesco Sciortino, Francis W. Starr, Peter H. Poole
Potential energy landscape of the apparent first-order phase transition between low-density and high-density amorphous ice
The Journal of Chemical Physics 145 (22), 224501
 
Francesca Bomboi, Flavio Romano, Manuela Leo, Javier Fernandez-Castanon, Roberto Cerbino, Tommaso Bellini, Federico Bordi, Patrizia Filetici & Francesco Sciortino
Re-entrant DNA gels
Nat. Commun. 7, 13191 doi: 10.1038/ncomms13191 (2016).
Supplementary information
 
J. Fernandez-Castanon, F. Bomboi, L. Rovigatti, M. Zanatta, A. Paciaroni, L. Comez, L. Porcar, C. J. Jafta, G. C. Fadda, T. Bellini, and F. Sciortino
Small-angle neutron scattering and molecular dynamics structural study of gelling DNA nanostars
J. Chem. Phys. 145, 084910 (2016); doi: 10.1063/1.4961398
 
Tatjana Sentjabrskaja, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Cristiano De Michele, Francesco Sciortino, Piero Tartaglia, Thomas Voigtmann, Stefan Egelhaaf and Marco Laurati
Anomalous dynamics of intruders in a crowded environment of mobile obstacles
Nature Communications 7, 11133 2016 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11133
Supplementary information
 
Sofia Biagi, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Francesco Sciortino & Chaouqi Misbah
Surface wave excitations and backflow effect over dense polymer brushes
Scientific Reports | 6:22257 | DOI: 10.1038/srep22257
 

 

Year 2015

 
Saskia Bucciarelli, Lucia Casal-Dujat, Cristiano De Michele, Francesco Sciortino, Jan Dhont, Johan Bergenholtz, Bela Farago, Peter Schurtenberger, and Anna Stradner
Unusual Dynamics of Concentration Fluctuations in Solutions of Weakly Attractive Globular Proteins
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2015, 6, 4470-4474 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02092
 
Frank Smallenburg and Francesco Sciortino
Tuning the Liquid-Liquid Transition by Modulating the Hydrogen-Bond Angular Flexibility in a Model for Water
Phys. Rev. Letts. 115, 015701 (2015) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.015701
 
M.K. Quinn, N. Gnan, S. James, A. Ninarello, F. Sciortino, E. Zaccarelli and J.J. McManus
How fluorescent labelling alters the solution behaviour of proteins
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, 31177 (2015) DOI: 10.1039/c5cp04463d

 
Francesca Bomboi, Silvia Biffi, Roberto Cerbino, Tommaso Bellini, Federico Bordi, and Francesco Sciortino
Equilibrium gels of trivalent DNA-nanostars: Effect of the ionic strength on the dynamics
Eur. Phys. J. E (2015) 38: 64 DOI 10.1140/epje/i2015-15064-9

 
Sofia S. Kantorovich, Alexey O. Ivanov, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Jose M. Tavares, and Francesco Sciortino
Temperature-induced structural transitions in self-assembling magnetic nanocolloids
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics DOI: 10.1039/b000000x

 
G Munao', P O'Toole, T S Hudson, D Costa, C Caccamo, F Sciortino and A Giacometti
Cluster formation and phase separation in heteronuclear Janus dumbbells
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 27 (2015) 234101 (9pp) doi:10.1088/0953-8984/27/23/234101

 
Frank Smallenburg, Peter H. Poole & Francesco Sciortino
Phase diagram of the ST2 model of water
Molecular Physics, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2015.1043966

 
Connor R.C. Buhariwalla, Richard K. Bowles, Ivan Saika-Voivod, Francesco Sciortino and Peter H. Poole
Free energy of formation of small ice nuclei near the Widom line in simulations of supercooled water
Eur. Phys. J. E (2015) 38: 39 DOI 10.1140/epje/i2015-15039-x

 
Flavio Romano and Francesco Sciortino
Switching Bonds in a DNA Gel: An All-DNA Vitrimer
Phys. Rev. Letts. 114, 078104 (2015). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.078104

 
Khanh Thuy Nguyen, Anna Battisti, Daniele Ancora, Francesco Sciortino and Cristiano De Michele
Self-assembly of mesogenic bent-core DNA nanoduplexes
Soft Matter, 2015,11, 2934-2944 DOI: 10.1039/C4SM01571A

 
Silvia Biffi, Roberto Cerbino,a Giovanni Nava, Francesca Bomboi, Francesco Sciortino and Tommaso Bellini
Equilibrium gels of low-valence DNA nanostars: a colloidal model for strong glass formers
Soft Matter, 2015, 11, 3132. DOI: 10.1039/c4sm02144d

 
Frank Smallenburg, Laura Filion, and Francesco Sciortino
Liquid-Liquid Phase Transitions in Tetrahedrally Coordinated Fluids via Wertheim Theory
J. Phys. Chem. B 119, 29, 9076-9083 (2015). DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp508788m

 

 

Year 2014

 
Nicoletta Gnan, Gayatri Das, Matthias Sperl, Francesco Sciortino, and Emanuela Zaccarelli
Multiple Glass Singularities and Isodynamics in a Core-Softened Model for Glass-Forming Systems
Phys. Rev. Letts. 113, 258302 (2014). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.258302

 
Starr, Francis W.; Sciortino, Francesco
"Crystal-clear" liquid-liquid transition in a tetrahedral fluid
Soft Matter, 10, 9413-9422 (2014).

 
Ninarello, Andrea Saverio; Gnan, Nicoletta; Sciortino, Francesco
Observable-dependence of the effective temperature in off-equilibrium diatomic molecular liquids.
J. Chem. Phys., 141, 194507 (2014). DOI:10.1063/1.4901526

 
Hima Bindu Kolli, Elisa Frezza, Giorgio Cinacchi, Alberta Ferrarini, Achille Giacometti, Toby S. Hudson, Cristiano De Michele and Francesco Sciortino
Self-assembly of hard helices: a rich and unconventional polymorphism
Soft Matter, 10, 8171 (2014).

 
Frank Smallenburg, Laura Filion and Francesco Sciortino
Erasing no-man's land by thermodynamically stabilizing the liquid-liquid transition in tetrahedral particles
Nature Physics 10, 653 (2014). doi: 10.1038/NPHYS3030.
Highlighted in Nature Physics (N&V by F. Starr)

 
Khanh Thuy Nguyen, Francesco Sciortino and Cristiano De Michele
Self-Assembly-Driven Nematization
Langmuir, 2014, 30, 4814-4819. Doi: 10.1021/la500127n

 
Gianmarco Munao, Patrick 'Toole, Toby S. Hudson, Dino Costa, Carlo Caccamo, Achille Giacometti and Francesco Sciortino
Phase separation and self-assembly of colloidal dimers with tunable attractive strength: from symmetrical square-wells to Janus dumbbells
Soft Matter, 2014,10, 5269-5279 DOI: 10.1039/C4SM00544A

 
Zdenek Preisler, Teun Vissers, Gianmarco Munao', Frank Smallenburg and Francesco Sciortino
Equilibrium phases of one-patch colloids with short-range attractions
Soft Matter, 2014,10, 5121-5128 DOI: 10.1039/C4SM00505H

 
Lorenzo Rovigatti, Francesca Bomboi, and Francesco Sciortino
Accurate phase diagram of tetravalent DNA nanostars
J. Chem. Phys. 140, 154903 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4870467

 
Lorenzo Rovigatti, Frank Smallenburg, Flavio Romano and Francesco Sciortino
Gels of DNA Nanostars Never Crystallize
ACS Nano, 8, 3567-3574, 10.1021/nn501138w http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn501138w

 
Teun Vissers, Frank Smallenburg, Gianmarco Munao', Zdenk Preisler, and Francesco Sciortino
Cooperative polymerization of one-patch colloids
J. Chem. Phys. 140, 144902 (2014); doi: 10.1063/1.4869834 View online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4869834

 
Nicoletta Gnan, Emanuela Zaccarelli & Francesco Sciortino
Casimir-like forces at the percolation transition
Nat. Commun. 5:3267 doi: 10.1038/ncomms4267 (2014).

 
Achille Giacometti, Christoph Gogelein, Fred Lado, Francesco Sciortino, Silvano Ferrari and Giorgio Pastore
From square-well to Janus: Improved algorithm for integral equation theory and comparison with thermodynamic perturbation theory within the Kern-Frenkel model
J. Chem. Phys. 140, 094104 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4866899

 

 

Year 2013

 
Zdenek Preisler, Teun Vissers, Frank Smallenburg, Gianmarco Munao, and Francesco Sciortino
Phase Diagram of One-Patch Colloids Forming Tubes and Lamellae
J. Phys. Chem. B 2013, 117, 9540-9547 dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp404053t

 
Ivan Saika-Voivod, Frank Smallenburg, and Francesco Sciortino
Understanding tetrahedral liquids through patchy colloids
J. Chem. Phys. 139, 234901 (2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4840695

 
G. Munao`, D. Costa, A. Giacometti, C. Caccamo and F. Sciortino
Structure and phase behavior of colloidal dumbbells with tunable attractive interactions
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, 15, 20590-20599, DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52425F

 
Dussi, Simone; Rovigatti, Lorenzo; Sciortino, Francesco
On the gas-liquid phase separation and the self-assembly of charged soft dumbbells
Molecular Physics, 111:22-23, 3608-3617 (2013), DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2013.838315

 
Frank Smallenburg, Ludwik Leibler and Francesco Sciortino
Patchy Particle Model for Vitrimers
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 188002 (2013) 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.188002

 
Lorenzo Rovigatti, Sofia Kantorovich, Alexey O. Ivanov, José Maria Tavare and Francesco Sciortino
Branching points in the low-temperature dipolar hard sphere fluid
J. Chem. Phys. 139, 134901 (2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4821935

 
Lorenzo Rovigatti, Jose Maria Tavares and Francesco Sciortino
Self-Assembly in Chains, Rings, and Branches: A Single Component System with Two Critical Points
Phys.Rev.Lett. 111, 168302 (2013) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.168302

 
Silvia Biffi, Roberto Cerbino, Francesca Bomboi Elvezia Maria Paraboschi, Rosanna Asselta, Francesco Sciortino and Tommaso Bellini
Phase behavior and critical activated dynamics of limited-valence DNA nanostars
supplementary information
Proceedings National Academy of Science, 110 15633-15637. DOI: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1304632110

 
Frank Smallenburg and Francesco Sciortino
Liquids more stable than crystals in particles with limited valence and flexible bonds
Nature Physics 9, 554-558 doi:10.1038/nphys2693 (2013).
Highlighted in Nature Physics (N&V by J. Dyre)

 
Lorenzo Rovigatti, Sofia Kantorovich, Alexey O. Ivanov, José Maria Tavares, and Francesco Sciortino
Branching points in the low-temperature dipolar hard sphere fluid
J. Chem. Phys. 139, 134901 (2013); doi: 10.1063/1.4821935

 
Sandalo Roldan-Vargas, Frank Smallenburg, Walter Kob and Francesco Sciortino
Gelling by heating
Scientific Report 3, 2451 (2013). DOI: 10.1038/srep02451

 
Lorenzo Rovigatti, Daniel de las Heras, Jose Maria Tavares, Margarida M. Telo da Gama, and Francesco Sciortino
Computing the phase diagram of binary mixtures: A patchy particle case study
J. Chem. Phys. 138, 164904 (2013); doi: 10.1063/1.4802026

 
Teun Vissers, Zdenek Preisler, Frank Smallenburg, Marjolein Dijkstra, and Francesco Sciortino
Predicting crystals of Janus colloids
J. Chem. Phys. 138, 164505 (2013) doi: 10.1063/1.4801438

 
Gayatri Das, Nicoletta Gnan, Francesco Sciortino and Emanuela Zaccarelli
Unveiling the complex glassy dynamics of square shoulder systems: Simulations and theory
J. Chem. Phys. 138, 134501 DOI: 10.1063/1.4795837 (2013).

 
Marchetti, S ; Fratini, E ; Sennato, S ; Cazzolli, G ; Rossi, B ; Caponi, S ; Lanzi, L ; Carla, M ; Sciortino, F ; Viliani, G ; Gambi, CMC
Cluster Phases of Decorated Micellar Solutions with Macrocyclic Ligands
J. Phys. Chem. B, 117, 3613-3623 DOI: 10.1021/jp3055813 (2013).

 
Sofia Kantorovich, Alexey O. Ivanov, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Jose Maria Tavares and Francesco Sciortino
Nonmonotonic Magnetic Susceptibility of Dipolar Hard-Spheres at Low Temperature and Density
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 148306 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.148306 (2013).

 
Gianmarco Munao', Zdenek Preisler, Teun Vissers, Frank Smallenburg and Francesco Sciortino
Cluster formation in one-patch colloids: low coverage results
Soft Matter, 9, 2652-2661 DOI: 10.1039/c2sm27490f (2013).

 
Sofia Kantorovich, Elena Pyanzina, Cristiano De Michele and Francesco Sciortino
How to calculate structure factors of self-assembling anisotropic particles
Soft Matter, DOI: 10.1039/c3sm27895f (2013).

 
Francesco Sciortino and Emanuela Zaccarelli
News&Views: Soft Heaps and Clumpsy crystals
Nature, 493, 30-31 doi:10.1038/493030a (2013).

 
Giorgio Parisi and Francesco Sciortino
News&Views: Flying to the bottom
Nature Materials doi:10.1038/nmat3540 (2013).

 
Peter H. Poole, Richard K. Bowles, Ivan Saika-Voivod, and Francesco Sciortino
Free energy surface of ST2 water near the liquid-liquid phase transition
J. Chem. Phys. 138, 034505 (2013); doi: 10.1063/1.4775738

 
Nicoletta Gnan, Claudio Maggi, Giorgio Parisi, and Francesco Sciortino
Generalized Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation and Effective Temperature Upon Heating a Deeply Supercooled Liquid
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 035701 (2013) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.035701

 

 

Year 2012

 
Paola Gallo and Francesco Sciortino
Ising Universality Class for the Liquid-Liquid Critical Point of a One Component Fluid: A Finite-Size Scaling Test
Phys. Rev. Letts. , 109 ,77801 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.177801 (2012).

 
Nicoletta Gnan, Daniel de las Heras, Jos Maria Tavares, Margarida M. Telo da Gama and Francesco Sciortino
Properties of patchy colloidal particles close to a surface: A Monte Carlo and density functional study
J. Chem. Phys. , 137 084704 DOI: 10.1063/1.4746428 (2012).

 
Nicoletta Gnan, Emanuela Zaccarelli and Francesco Sciortino
Tuning effective interactions close to the critical point in colloidal suspensions
J. Chem. Phys. , 137 084903 DOI: 10.1063/1.4745479 (2012).

 
Silvia Corezzi , Daniele Fioretto and Francesco Sciortino
Chemical and physical aggregation of small-functionality particles (Highlight)
J. Soft Matter, 8, 11207-11216, DOI: 10.1039/C2SM26112J (2012).

 
 
 
Jose' Maria Tavares, Lorenzo Rovigatti, and Francesco Sciortino
Quantitative description of the self-assembly of patchy particles into chains and rings
J. Chem. Phys. 137, 044901 (2012); doi: 10.1063/1.4737930

 
Cristiano De Michele, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Tommaso Bellini and Francesco Sciortino
Self-assembly of short DNA duplexes: from a coarse-grained model to experiments through a theoretical link
Soft Matter, 8, 8388 (2012).

 
Goegelein Christoph; Romano Flavio; Sciortino Francesco and Achille Giacometti
Fluid-fluid and fluid-solid transitions in the Kern-Frenkel model from Barker-Henderson thermodynamic perturbation theory
J. Chem. Phys. 136, 094512 (2012)

 
Cristiano De Michele, Tommaso Bellini, and Francesco Sciortino
Self-Assembly of Bifunctional Patchy Particles with Anisotropic Shape into Polymers Chains: Theory, Simulations, and Experiments
Macromolecules , 45 ,1090-1106 DOI: 10.1021/ma201962x (2012).

 
Lorenzo Rovigatti, John Russo and Francesco Sciortino
Structural properties of the dipolar hard-sphere fluid at low temperatures and densities
Soft Matter DOI: 10.1039/c2sm25192b

 
Nicoletta Gnan, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Piero Tartaglia and Francesco Sciortino
How properties of interacting depletant particles control aggregation of hard-sphere colloids
Soft Matter, 8, 1991 (2012)

 
Flavio Romano , Eduardo Sanz , Piero Tartaglia and Francesco Sciortino
Phase diagram of trivalent and pentavalent patchy particles
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 24 064113 (2012)

 

 

Year 2011

 
Poole Peter H.; Becker Stephen R.; Sciortino Francesco and Francis Starr
Dynamical Behavior Near a Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition in Simulations of Supercooled Water
J. Phys. Chem. B 115, 48, 14176-14183 DOI: 10.1021/jp204889m (2011)

 
Lorenzo Rovigatti, John Russo and Francesco Sciortino
No Evidence of Gas-Liquid Coexistence in Dipolar Hard Spheres
Phys. Rev. Letts. 237801 (2011)

 
Lorenzo Rovigatti, Walter Kob and Francesco Sciortino
The vibrational density of states of a disordered gel model
J. Chem. Phys. 135, 104502 (2011)

 
Francesco Sciortino
Silicon in silico
Nature Physics, News and Views, 7, 523-524 (2011)

 
Francesco Sciortino and Emanuela Zaccarelli
Reversible gels of patchy particles
Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science 15, 246-253 (2011)

 
Ivan Saika-Voivod, Flavio Romano and Francesco Sciortino
Nucleation barriers in tetrahedral liquids spanning glassy and crystallizing regimes
J. Chem. Phys. 135, 124506 (2011)

 
Francesco Sciortino, Ivan Saika-Voivod and Peter H. Poole
Study of the ST2 model of water close to the liquid-liquid critical point
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13, 19759-19764 (2011)

 
Lorenzo Rovigatti and Francesco Sciortino
Self and collective correlation functions in a gel of tetrahedral patchy particles
Molecular Physics, 1-8 iFirst (2011)

 
J. Russo, J. M. Tavares, P. I. C. Teixeira, M. M. Telo da Gama and F. Sciortino
Re-entrant phase behaviour of network fluids: A patchy particle model with temperature-dependent valence
J. Chem. Phys. 135, 034501 (2011)

 
Munao G.; Costa D.; Sciortino F.; Caccamo C.
Simulation and theory of a model for tetrahedral colloidal particles
J. Chem. Phys. 134, 19, 194502 (2011)

 
Cardinaux Frederic; Zaccarelli Emanuela; Stradner Anna; et al.
Cluster-Driven Dynamical Arrest in Concentrated Lysozyme Solutions
J. Phys. Chem. B., 115, 7227-7237 (2011)

 
Saika-Voivod Ivan; King Heather Marie; Tartaglia Piero; Sciortino F. and Zaccarelli E.
Silica through the eyes of colloidal models-when glass is a gel
J. Phys. Condensed Matter, 23, 285101 (2011).

 
Accordino S. R.; Rodriguez Fris J. A.; Sciortino F.; et al.
Quantitative investigation of the two-state picture for water in the normal liquid and the supercooled regime
Eur. Phys. J. E , 34, 48 (2011).

 
Flavio Romano and Francesco Sciortino
Two dimensional assembly of triblock Janus particles into crystal phases in the two bond per patch limit
Soft Matter, 7, 5799-5804 (2011)

 
Flavio Romano, Eduardo Sanz and Francesco Sciortino
Crystallization of tetrahedral patchy particles insilico
J. Chem. Phys. 134, 174502 (2011)

 
Flavio Romano and Francesco Sciortino
Patchy from the bottom (News&Views)
Nature Materials 10, 171 (2011)

 
Riccardo Fantoni, Achille Giacometti, Francesco Sciortino and Giorgio Pastore
Cluster theory of Janus particles
Soft Matter 7, 2419 (2011)

 
Marco Bernabei, Angel J. Moreno, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Francesco Sciortino and Juan Colmenero
Chain dynamics in nonentangled polymer melts: A first-principle approach for the role of intramolecular barriers
Soft Matter 7, 1364 (2011)

 
J. Russo, J. M. Tavares, P. I. C. Teixeira, M. M. Telo da Gama and F. Sciortino
Reentrant Phase Diagram of Network Fluids
Phys. Rev. Letts. 106, 085703 (2011)

 
Barbara Ruzicka, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Laura Zulian, Roberta Angelini, Michael Sztucki, Abdellatif Moussad, Theyencheri Narayanan and Francesco Sciortino
Observation of empty liquids and equilibrium gels in a colloidal clay
Nature Materials 10, 56-60 (2011)

News and Views by Kegel and Lekkerkerker

Italian press coverage: Sole 24 Ore 14/12/2010

 
Marco Bernabei, Angel J. Moreno, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Francesco Sciortino, and Juan Colmenero
From caging to Rouse dynamics in polymer melts with intramolecular barriers: A critical test of the mode coupling theory
J. Chem. Phys. 134, 024523 (2011)

 

 

Year 2010

 
John Russo, Piero Tartaglia and Francesco Sciortino
Association of limited valence patchy particles in two dimensions
Soft Matter, 6, 4229-4236 (2010)

 
Francesco Sciortino, Achille Giacometti and Giorgio Pastore
A numerical study of one-patch colloidal particles: from square-well to Janus
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 12, 1186911877 (2010)

 
Chia Wei Hsu, Francesco Sciortino, and Francis W. Starr
Theoretical Description of a DNA-Linked Nanoparticle Self-Assembly
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 055502 (2010)

 
J. M. Tavares, P. I. C. Teixeira, M. M. Telo da Gama, and F. Sciortino
Equilibrium self-assembly of colloids with distinct interaction sites: Thermodynamics, percolation, and cluster distribution functions
J. Chem. Phys. 132, 234502 (2010)

 
 
Flavio Romano, Eduardo Sanz, and Francesco Sciortino
Phase diagram of a tetrahedral patchy particle model for different interaction ranges
J. Chem. Phys. 132, 184501 (2010)
JCP cover
 
Achille Giacometti, Fred Lado, Julio Largo, Giorgio Pastore, and Francesco Sciortino
Effects of patch size and number within a simple model of patchy colloids
J. Chem. Phys. 132, 174110 (2010)

 
John Russo and Francesco Sciortino
How do Self-Assembling Polymers and Gels Age Compared to Glasses?
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 195701 (2010)

 
Matthias Sperl, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Francesco Sciortino, Pradeep Kumar and H. Eugene Stanley
Disconnected Glass-Glass Transitions and Diffusion Anomalies in a Model with Two Repulsive Length Scales
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 145701 (2010)

 
J. Russo, J. Horbach, F. Sciortino and S. Succi
Nanoflows through disordered media: A joint lattice Boltzmann and molecular dynamics investigation
Europhys. Lett. 89 44001 (2010)

 
P. Tartaglia and F. Sciortino
Association of limited valence patchy particles in two dimensions
J. Phys. Condens. Matter 22, 104108 (2010).

 
S. Christian Mayer , Francesco Sciortino , Piero Tartaglia and Emanuela Zaccarelli
A spherical model with directional interactions: II. Dynamics and landscape properties
J. Phys. Condens. Matter 22, 104110 (2010).

 
Francesco Sciortino
Primitive models of patchy colloids
Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. , Vol. 75, No. 3, pp. 349358 (2010).

 
S. Corezzi, D. Fioretto, C. De Michele, E. Zaccarelli and F. Sciortino
Modeling the Crossover between Chemically and Diffusion-Controlled Irreversible Aggregation in a Small-Functionality Gel-Forming System
J. Phys. Chem. B, 114, 3769-3775 (2010).

 
Wei Dai, Chia Wei Hsu, Francesco Sciortino and Francis W. Starr
Valency Dependence of Polymorphism and Polyamorphism in DNA-Functionalized Nanoparticles
Langmuir, 26, 3601-3608 (2010).

 

 

Year 2009

 
Francesco Sciortino, Achille Giacometti and Giorgio Pastore
Phase Diagram of Janus Particles
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 237801 (2009) PRL Cover --- Nature Highlight
 
Flavio Romano, Eduardo Sanz and Francesco Sciortino
Role of the Range in the Fluid -- Crystal Coexistence for a Patchy Particle Model
J. Phys. Chem. B (Letter) 113 15133 --15136 (2009)

 
Achille Giacometti, Fred Lado, Julio Largo, Giorgio Pastore, and Francesco Sciortino
Phase diagram and structural properties of a simple model for one-patch particles
J. Chem. Phys. 131 174114 (2009)

 
D. C. Malaspina, J. A. Rodriguez Fris, G. A. Appignanesi and F. Sciortino
Identifying a causal link between structure and dynamics in supercooled water
Europhysics Letters, 88, 16003 (2009)

 
Russo J, Tartaglia P, Sciortino F
Reversible gels of patchy particles: Role of the valence
J. Chem. Phys. 131 014504 (2009)

 
S. Sennato, D. Truzzolillo, F. Bordi, F. Sciortino, C. Cametti
Colloidal particle aggregates induced by particle surface charge heterogeneity
Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects 343 34-42 (2009)

 
G. A. Appignanesi, J. A. Rodriguez Fris, F. Sciortino
Evidence of a two-state picture for supercooled water and its connections with glassy dynamics
Eur. Phys. J. E 29 305-310 (2009)

 
D. Truzzolillo, F. Bordi, F. Sciortino, C. Cametti
Kinetic arrest in polyion-induced inhomogeneously charged colloidal particle aggregation
Eur. Phys. J. E 29 229-237 (2009)

 
Francesco Sciortino, Cristiano De Michele, Silvia Corezzi, John Russo, Emanuela Zaccarelli and Piero Tartaglia
A parameter-free description of the kinetics of formation of loop-less branched structures and gels
Soft Matter 5, 2390-2398 (2009)

 
Toledano JCF, Sciortino F, Zaccarelli E
Colloidal systems with competing interactions: from an arrested repulsive cluster phase to a gel
Soft Matter 5, 2390-2398 (2009)

 
Ghofraniha N , Andreozzi P, Russo J, La Mesa C, Sciortino F
Assembly Kinetics in Binary Mixtures of Strongly Attractive Colloids
J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 6775-6781 (2009)

 
Hongjun Liu, Sanat K. Kumar, Francesco Sciortino, and Glenn T. Evans
Vapor-liquid coexistence of fluids with attractive patches: An application of Wertheim's theory of association
J. Chem. Phys. 130 044902 (2009)

 
S. Corezzi, C. De Michele, E. Zaccarelli, P. Tartaglia and F. Sciortino
Connecting Irreversible to Reversible Aggregation: Time and Temperature
J. Phys. Chem. B (Letter)January 13 (2009)

 
C. Mayer, F. Sciortino, C. N. Likos, P. Tartaglia, H. Loewen and E. Zaccarelli
Multiple glass transition in star polymer mixtures: Insights from theory and simulations
Macromolecules 42, 423-434 (2009)

 
F. Sciortino
Meccanismi di arresto dinamico in sistemi colloidali diluiti
Nuovo Saggiatore 25, 5--12 (2009)

 

 

Year 2008

 
Francesca Baldelli Bombelli, Filippo Gambinossi, Marco Lagi, Debora Berti, Gabriella Caminati, Tom Brown, Francesco Sciortino, Bengt Nordn and Piero Baglioni
DNA Closed Nanostructures: A Structural and Monte Carlo Simulation Study
J.Phys.Chem. B. 112, 15283-15294 (2008).

 
Zaccarelli E, Lu PJ, Ciulla F, Weitz D. and Sciortino F
Gelation as arrested phase separation in short-ranged attractive colloid-polymer mixtures
J.Phys. Condensed Matter 20, 494242 (2008).

 
Bianchi E, Tartaglia P, Sciortino F
Theoretical and numerical estimates of the gas-liquid critical point of a primitive model for silica
J. Chem. Phys. 129 , 224904 (2008).

 
C. MAYER, E. ZACCARELLI, E. STIAKAKIS, C. N. LIKOS, F. SCIORTINO, A. MUNAM, M. GAUTHIER, N. HADJICHRISTIDIS, H. IATROU, P. TARTAGLIA, H. LOEWEN AND D. VLASSOPOULOS,
Asymmetric caging in soft colloidal mixtures
Nature Materials 7, 780 -784 (2008).

Supplementary information
 
Chia Wei Hsu, Julio Largo, Francesco Sciortino, and Francis W. Starr
Hierarchies of networked phases induced by multiple liquid--liquid critical points
PNAS, 105, 13711-13715 (2008).

 
Peter J. Lu, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Fabio Ciulla, Andrew B. Schofield, Francesco Sciortino and David A. Weitz
Gelation of particles with short-range attraction
Nature, 453, 499 - 503 (2008).

 
Emanuela Zaccarelli, Stefan Andreev, Francesco Sciortino, and David R. Reichman
Numerical Investigation of Glassy Dynamics in Low-Density Systems
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 195701 (2008).

 
Silvia Corezzi, Cristiano De Michele, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Daniele Fioretto and Francesco Sciortino
A molecular dynamics study of chemical gelation in a patchy particle model
Soft Matter, 4, 1173 - 1177 (2008).

 
J. Largo, M. A. Miller, and F. Sciortino
The vanishing limit of the square-well fluid: The adhesive hard-sphere model as a reference system
J. Chem. Phys. 128, 134513 2008

 
Emanuela Bianchi, Piero Tartaglia, Emanuela Zaccarelli, and Francesco Sciortino
Theoretical and numerical study of the phase diagram of patchy colloids: Ordered and disordered patch arrangements
J. Chem. Phys. 128, 144504 (2008)

 
F. Sciortino; C. De Michele and J. Douglas
Growth of equilibrium polymers under non-equilibrium conditions
J. Phys. Condensed Matter 20, 155101, (2008)

 
 

 

Year 2007

 
Zaccarelli, E; Sciortino, F; Tartaglia, P
A spherical model with directional interactions. I. Static properties
J. Chem. Phys. 127, 174501 (2007)

 
 
Liu H, Kumar SK, Sciortino F
Vapor-liquid coexistence of patchy models: Relevance to protein phase behavior
J. Chem. Phys. 127, 084902 (2007)

 
Emanuela Bianchi, Piero Tartaglia, Emilia La Nave and Francesco Sciortino
Fully Solvable Equilibrium Self-Assembly Process: Fine-Tuning the Clusters Size and the Connectivity in Patchy Particle Systems
J. Phys. Chem. B 111, 11765 (2007).

 
Antonio Puertas, Cristiano De Michele, Francesco Sciortino, Piero Tartaglia and Emanuela Zaccarelli
Viscoelasticity and Stokes-Einstein relation in repulsive and attractive colloidal glasses
J. Chem. Phys. 127, 144906 (2007)

 
Fris JAR, Appignanesi GA, La Nave E, Sciortino F.
Metabasin dynamics and local structure in supercooled water
Phys. Rev. E. 75, 041501 (2007)

 
Christian Mayer Emmanuel Stiakakis Emanuela Zaccarelli Christos N. Likos Francesco Sciortino Piero Tartaglia Hartmut Lwen Dimitris Vlassopoulos
Rheological transitions in asymmetric colloidal star mixtures
Rheol Acta DOI 10.1007/s00397-006-0145-8 (2007)

 
Flavio Romano, Piero Tartaglia and Francesco Sciortino
Gas liquid phase coexistence in a tetrahedral patchy particle model
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 19, 322101 (2007)

 
Cristiano De Michele, Rolf Schilling, and Francesco Sciortino
Dynamics of Uniaxial Hard Ellipsoids
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 265702 (2007)

 
Julio Largo, Piero Tartaglia, and Francesco Sciortino1
Effective nonadditive pair potential for lock-and-key interacting particles: The role of the limited valence
Phys. Rev. E 76, 011402 2007

 
 
E. Allahyarov, E. Zaccarelli, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia and H. Loewen
Interaction between charged colloids in a low dielectric constant solvent
Europhysics Letter, 78, 38002, 2007

 
D. Costa, R. Ruberto, F. Sciortino, M. C. Abramo, and C. Caccamo
Glass Transition Line in C60: A Mode-Coupling/Molecular-Dynamics Study
Phys. Rev. E 76, 011402 2007

 
Largo, J.; Starr, F. W.; Sciortino, F.
Self-Assembling DNA Dendrimers: A Numerical Study
Langmuir, 23, 5896-5905. 2007

 
F. Cardinaux, A. Stradner, P. Schurtenberger, F. Sciortino and E. Zaccarelli
Modeling equilibrium clusters in lysozyme solutions
Europhysics Letter, 77, 48004, 2007

 
S. Mossa, C. De Michele, F. Sciortino
Aging in a laponite colloidal suspensions: a brownian dynamics simulation study
J. Chem. Phys.126, 014905, 2007

 

 

Year 2006

 
E. Bianchi, J. Largo, P. Tartaglia, E. Zaccarelli, F. Sciortino
Phase diagram of patchy colloids: towards empty liquids
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 168301, 2006 Commented in the Nature Journal Club by P. Debenedetti
 
 
 
C. De Michele, P. Tartaglia, F. Sciortino
Slow dynamics in a primitive tetrahedral network model
J. Chem. Phys. 125, 204710, 2006

 
S. Sastry, E. La Nave, F. Sciortino
Maximum valency lattice gas models
J. Stat. Mech. 12010, 2006
 
Zaccarelli E, Saika-Voivod I, Moreno AJ,
E. La Nave, S. V. Buldyrev, P. Tartaglia,
F. Sciortino

Mode-coupling theory predictions for a limited valency
attractive square well model

J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 18, S2373-S2382, 2006


 

F.W. Starr, F. Sciortino
Model for assembly and gelation of four-armed
DNA
dendrimers
J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 18, L347-L353, 2006

 
A. J. Moreno, I. S. Voivod, E. Zaccarelli, E. La Nave,
S. V. Buldyrev, P. Tartaglia, F. Sciortino
Non-Gaussian energy landscape of a simple
m odel for strong network forming liquids: accurate evaluation

of the configuration entropy
J. Chem. Phys. 124, 204509, 2006
 
C. De Michele, A. Scala, R. Schilling, F. Sciortino
Molecular correlation functions for uniaxial ellipsoids
in the isotropic state

J. Chem. Phys. 124, 104509, 2006

 
C. De Michele, S. Gabrielli, P. Tartaglia, F. Sciortino
Dynamics in the presence of attractive patchy interactions
J. Phys. Chem. B 110, 8064-8079, 2006
 
E.Zaccarelli, I. S. Voivod, S.V. Buldyrev
A. J. Moreno, P. Tartaglia, F. Sciortino
Gel to glass transition in simulation
of a valence-limited colloidal system

J. Chem. Phys.124, 124908, 2006
 

 


 
 

Anno 2005

 
E. Zaccarelli, C. Mayer, A. Asteriadi, C. N. Likos
F. Sciortino, J. Roovers, H. Iatrou, N. Hadjichristidis,
P. Tartaglia, H. L{\”o}wen, D. Vlassopoulos
Tailoring the flow of soft glasses by soft additives
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 268301, 2005
 

A.J. Moreno, S. V. Buldyrev, E. La Nave, I. Saika-Voivod, F.
Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, E. Zaccarelli

Energy landscape of a simple model for strong liquids
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 157801, 2005

 

E. Zaccarelli, S. V. Buldyrev, E. La Nave, A. J. Moreno, I. Saika-Voivod, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Model for reversible colloidal gelation
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 218301, 2005

 

S. H. Chong, A. J. Moreno, F. Sciortino, W. Kob
Evidence for the weak steric hindrance scenario in the supercooled-state
reorientational dynamics

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 215701, 2005

 
N. Giovambattista, H. E. Stanley, F. Sciortino
Relation between the high density phase and the very-high density phase
of amorphous solid water
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94
, 107803, 2005 
 
G. Foffi, C. De Michele, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Scaling and dynamics with the range of interaction in short-range attractive colloids
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 078301, 2005
 
N. Giovambattista, C. A. Angell, F. Sciortino, H. E. Stanley
Structural relaxation in the glass transition region of water
Phys. Rev. E 72, 011203, 2005
 

N. Giovambattista, H. E. Stanley, F. Sciortino
Phase diagram of amorphous solid water: low density, high density,
and very high density: amorphous ices

Phys. Rev. E 72, 031510, 2005

 
P. Kumar, S. V. Buldyrev, F. Sciortino, E. Zaccarelli, H. E. Stanley
Static and dynamic anomalies in a repulsive spherical ramp liquid: theory and simulation
Phys. Rev. E 72, 021501, 2005
 
E. La Nave, F. Sciortino, P.Tartaglia, M. S. Shell, P. G. Debenedetti
Reply to “ Comment on test of nonequilibrium thermodynamics
i n glassy systems: the soft-sphere case

Phys. Rev. E 71, 1033102, 2005
 
 N. Giovambattista, P. G. Debenedetti, F. Sciortino, H. E. Stanley
Structural order in glassy water
Phys. Rev. E 71, 061505, 2005
 
I. Saika-Voivod, F. Sciortino, T. Grande, P. H. Poole
Phase diagram of silica from computer simulation
Phys. Rev. E 70, 061507, 2005
 
A. J. Moreno, S. H. Chong, W. Kob, F. Sciortino
Dynamical arrest in a liquid of symmetric dumbellis.
Reorientational hopping for small molecular elongations
J. Chem Phys. 123, 204505, 2005
 

G. Foffi, C. De Michele, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Arrested phase separation in a short-ranged attractive colloidal system:
A numerical study

J. Chem. Phys. 122, 224903-224915, 2005

 

F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, E. Zaccarelli
One dimensional cluster growth and branding gels in colloidal
systems with short-range depletion attractive and screened
electrostatic repulsion

J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 21942-21953, 2005

 

A. M. Puertas, E. Zaccarelli, F. Sciortino
Viscoelastic properties of attractive and repulsive colloidal glasses
J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 17, L271-L278, 2005

 

L. Angelani, G. Foffi, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Diffusivity and configurational entropy maxima in short-range attractive colloids
J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 17, L113-L119, 2005

 

P.H. Poole, I. Saika-Voivod, F. Sciortino
Density minimum and liquid-liquid phase transition
J. Phys. Cond. Matt.17, L431-L437, 2005

 

F. Sciortino
Liquid-liquid transitions in one component systems
J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 17,V7-V8, 2005

 
F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Glassy colloidal systems
Advances in Physics 54, 471-524, 2005
 
 

L. Xu, P. Kumar, S.V.Buldyrev, S. H. Chen, P. H. Poole
F. Sciortino, H. E. Stanley
Relation between the Widom line and dynamic crossover in systems
with a liquid-liquid phase transitions

PNAS 102, 16558-16562, 2005

 

F. Sciortino, S. V. Buldyrev, C. De Michele, G. Foffi, N. Ghofraniha, E. La Nave,
A. J. Moreno, S. Mossa, I. Saika-Voivod, P. Tartaglia, E. Zaccarelli
Routes to colloidal gel formation
Comp. Phys. Comm. 169, 166-171, 2005

 


 

 

 

 
 

Year 2004


 

E. Zaccarelli, H. L{\"o}wen, P. P. F. Wessels, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, C. N. Likos
Is there reentrant glass in binary mixtures
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 225703, 2004

 

 

S. Mossa, F. Sciortino
Crossover (or Kovacs) effect in an aging molecular liquid
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 045504, 2004

 

 

N. Giovambattista, C. A. Angell, F. Sciortino, H. E. Stanley
Glass-transition temperature water. A numerical study
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 047801, 2004

 

 

F. Sciortino, S. Mossa, E. Zaccarelli, P. Tartaglia
Equilibrium cluster phases and low-density arrested disordered states:
the role of short-range. Attraction and long-range repulsion

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 055701, 2004

 

 

G. Foffi, W. G{\"o}tze, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, Th. Voigtmann
Alpha-relaxation processes in binary hard-spheres mixtures
Phys. Rev. E 69, 011505, 2004

 

 

I. Saika-Voivod, F. Sciortino, P. H. Poole
Free energy and configurational entropy of liquid silica
fragile-to-strong crossover and polyamorphism
Phys. Rev. E 69, 041503, 2004

 

 

N. Giovambattista, H. E. Stanley, F. Sciortino
Cooling rate, heating rate, and aging effects in glassy water
Phys. Rev. E 69, 050201, 2004

 

 

S. H. Chong, F. Sciortino
Structural relaxation in supercooled orthoterphenyl
Phys. Rev. E 69, 051202, 2004

 

 

I. Saika-Voivod, F. Sciortino
Distributions of inherent structure energies during aging
Phys. Rev. E 70, 041202, 2004

 

 

I. Saika-Voivod, E. Zaccarelli, F. Sciortino, S. V. Buldyrev, P. Tartaglia
Effect of bond lifetime on the dynamics of a short-range attractive colloidal system
Phys. Rev. E 70, 041401, 2004

 

 

E. La Nave, S. Mossa, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Liquid stability in a model for ortho-terphenyl
J. Chem. Phys. 120, 6128-6134, 2004

 

 

G. Foffi, E. Zaccarelli, S. V. Buldyrev, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Aging in short ranger attractive colloids: a numerical study
J. Chem. Phys. 120, 8824-8830, 2004

 

 

G. Ruocco, F. Sciortino, F. Zamponi, C. De Michele, T. Scopigno
Landscapes and fragilities
J. Chem. Phys. 120, 10666-10680, 2004

 

 

L. Angelani, C. De Michele, G. Ruocco, F. Sciortino
Saddles and softness in simple model liquids
J. Chem. Phys. 121, 7533-7534, 2004

 

 

G. Foffi, F. Sciortino, E. Zaccarelli, P. Tartaglia
Dynamical arrest in dense short-ranged attractive colloids
J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 16, 3791-3806, 2004

 

 

E. La Nave, F. Sciortino
On static dynamic heterogeneities water
J. Chem. Phys. B 108, 19663-19669, 2004

 

 

C. De Michele, F. Sciortino, A. Coniglio
Scaling in soft spheres: fragility invariance on the repulsive potential softness
J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 16, 489-494, 2004

 

 

S. Mossa, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, E. Zaccarelli
Ground-state clusters for short-range attractive and long-range repulsive potentials
Langmuir 20, 10756-10763, 2004

 

 
E. Zaccarelli, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Numerical study of the glass-glass transition in short-ranged
attractive colloids

J. Phys. : Cond. Matt. 16, 4849, 2004

 

Year 2003

 

 

 

A. Scala, C. Valeriani, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Fluctuation-dissipation relations and energy landscape in an out-of-equilibrium strong-glass-forming liquid
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 115503, 2003

 

 

G. Foffi, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, E. Zaccarelli, F. Lo Verso, L. Reatto, K. A. Dawson, C. N. Likos
Structural arrest in dense star polymer solutions

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 238301, 2003

 

 

F. Sciortino, E. La Nave, P. Tartaglia
Physics of the liquid-liquid critical point
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 155701, 2003

 

 

N. Giovambattista, H. E. Stanley, F. Sciortino
Potential energy landscape study of the amorphous-amorphous transformation
in H$-2$O

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 115504, 2003

 

 

E. Zaccarelli, G. Foffi, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Activated bond-breaking processes preempt the observation of a sharp glass-glass transition in dense short-ranged attractive colloids
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 108301, 2003

 

 

G. Foffi, W. G{\"o}tze, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, Th. Voigtmann
Mixing effects for the structural relaxation in binary hard-sphere liquids
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 085701, 2003

 

 

F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, E. Zaccarelli
Evidence of a higher-order singularity in dense short-ranged attractive colloids
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 268301, 2003

 

 

S. H. Chong, F. Sciortino
Structural relaxation in supercooled molecular liquid
Europhys. Lett. 64, 197-203, 2003

 

 

M. Yamada, H. E. Stanley, F. Sciortino
Equation of state of supercooled water from the sedimentation profile
Phys. Rev. E 67, 010202, 2003

 

 

E. La Nave, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, M. S. Shell, P. G. Debenedetti
Test of nonequilibrium thermodynamics in glassy systems: the soft-spheres case
Phys. Rev. E 68, 032103, 2003

 

 

L. Angelani, R. Di Leonardo, G. Ruocco
Reply to “ Comment on quasisaddles as relevant points
of the potential energy surface in the dynamics of supercooled liquids

J. Chem. Phys. 118, 5265-5266, 2003

 

 

M. S. Shell, P. G. Debenedetti, E. La Nave, F. Sciortino
Energy landscapes, ideal glasses, and their equation of state
J. Chem. Phys. 118, 8821-8830, 2003

 

 

L. Angelani, G. Ruocco, M. Sampoli, F. Sciortino
General features of the energy landscape in Lennard-Jones like model liquids
J. Chem. Phys. 119, 2120-2126, 2003

 

 

S. Mossa, E. La Nave, P. Tartaglia, F. Sciortino
Equilibrium and out of equilibrium thermodynamics in supercooled liquids and glasses
J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 15, S351-S357, 2003

 

 

E. Zaccarelli, G. Foffi, K. A. Dawson, S. V. Buldyrev, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Static and dynamical correlation functions behaviour in attractive colloidal systems
from theory and simulation
J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 15, S367-S374, 2003

 

 

E. La Nave, S. Mossa, C. De Michele, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Numerical evaluation of the statistical properties of a potential energy landscape
J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 15, S1085-S1094, 2003

 

 

F. W. Starr, C. Angell, E. La Nave, S. Sastry, A. Scala, F. Sciortino
Recent results on the connection between thermodynamics
and dynamics in supercooled water

Biophys. Chem. 105, 573-583, 2003

 

 

H. E. Stanley, S. V. Buldyrev, N. Giovambattista, E. La Nave, S. Mossa, A. Scala, F. Sciortino
Application of statistical physics to understand static and
d ynamic anomalies in liquid water
J. Stat. Phys. 110, 1039-1051, 2003

 

 

S. H. Chong, F. Sciortino
Structural relaxation in supercooled molecular liquid
Europhys. Lett. 64, 197-203, 2003

 

 
 

Year 2002

 

 

 

F. Sciortino
Disordered materials: one liquid, two glasses
News and Views , Nat. Mat. 1, 145-146, 2002

 

 

E. La Nave, H. E. Stanley, F. Sciortino
Configuration space connectivity across the fragile to strong transition in silica
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 035501, 2002

 

M. Yamada, S. Mossa, H. E. Stanley, F. Sciortino
Interplay between time-temperature-transformation and the liquid-liquid
phase transition in water
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 195701, 2002

 

 

E. La Nave, S. Mossa, F. Sciortino
Potential energy landscape equation of state
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 225701, 2002

 

 

N. Giovambattista, F. W. Starr, F. Sciortino, S. V. Buldyrev, H. E. Stanley
Transitions between inherent structures in water
Phys. Rev. E 65, 041502, 2002

 

 

S. Mossa, E. La Nave, H. E. Stanley, C. Donati, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Dynamics and configurational entropy in the Lewis-Wahnstr{\”o}m model for supercooled
Phys. Rev. E 65, 041205, 2002

 

 

G. Foffi, G. D. McCullagh, A. Lawlor, E. Zaccarelli, K. A Dawson, F. Sciortino , P. Tartaglia, D. Pini, G. Stell
Phase equilibria and glass transition in colloidal systems with short-ranged attractive interactions:
application to protein crystallization
Phys. Rev. E 65, 031407, 2002

 

 

C. De Michele, F. Sciortino
Equilibration times in numerical simulation of structural glasses: comparing parallel tempering and conventional molecular dynamics
Phys. Rev. E 65, 051202, 2002

 

 

G. Foffi, K. A. Dawson, S.V. Buldyrev, F. Sciortino, E. Zaccarelli, P. Tartaglia
Evidence for an unusual dynamical-arrest scenario in short-ranged colloidal systems
Phys. Rev. E 65, 050802, 2002

 

E. Zaccarelli, G. Foffi, K. A. Dawson, S. V. Buldyrev, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Confirmation of anomalous dynamical arrest in attractive colloids: a molecular dynamical arrest in attractive colloids. A molecular dynamics study
Phys. Rev. E 66, 041402, 2002

 

 

L. Angelani, G. Ruocco, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, F. Zamponi
Crossover between equilibrium and shear-controlled dynamics in sheared liquids
Phys. Rev. E 66, 061505, 2002

 

 

L. Angelani, R. Di Leonardo, G. Ruocco, A. Scala, F. Sciortino
Quasi-saddles as relevant points of the potential energy surface in the dynamics of supercooled liquids
J. Chem. Phys. 116, 10297-10306, 2002

 

F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, W. Kob
Thermodynamics and aging in supercooled liquids: the energy landscape approach
Physica A 306, 343-350, 2002

 

 

H. E. Stanley, S. V. Buldyrev, N. Giovambattista, E. La Nave, A. Scala, F. Sciortino
Statistical physics and liquid water : “What matters”
Physica A 306, 230-242, 2002

 

 

P. De Gregorio, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, E. Zaccarelli, K. A Dawson
Slowed relaxational dynamics beyond the fluctuation-dissipation theorem
Physica A 307, 15-26, 2002

 

H. E. Stanley, M. C. Barbosa, S. Mossa, P. A. Netz, F. Sciortino, F.W. Starr, M. Yamada
Statistical physics and liquid water at negative pressures
Physica A 315, 282-289, 2002

 

E. Zaccarelli, F. Sciortino , P. Tartaglia, G. Foffi, G. D. McCullagh, A. Lawlor, K. A. Dawson
Competition between crystallization and glassification for particles with short-ranged attraction.
Possible applications to protein crystallization
Physica A 314, 539-547, 2002

 

 

K. A. Dawson, G. Foffi, D. McCullagh, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, E. Zaccarelli
Ideal glass in attractive systems with different potentials
J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 14, 2223-2235, 2002

 

E. Zaccarelli, P. De Gregorio, G. Foffi, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, K. A Dawson
Dynamics of supercooled liquids: density fluctuations and mode coupling theory
J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 14, 2413-2437, 2002

 

 

A. Scala, L. Angelani, R. Di Leonardo, G. Ruocco, F. Sciortino
A stroll in the energy landscape
Philos. Mag. B 82, 151-161, 2002

 

R. Di Leonardo, L. Angelani, G. Parisi, G. Ruocco, F. Sciortino
Off-equilibrium dynamics in the energy landscape of a simple model glass

Philos. Mag. B 82, 163-169, 2002

 

S. Mossa, G. Ruocco, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Quenches and crunches: does the system explore in aging the same part of the configuration space explored in equilibrium?
Philos. Mag. B. 82, 695-705, 2002

 
W. Kob, M. Nauroth, F. Sciortino
Quantitative tests of mode-coupling theory for fragile
and strong glass formers

J. Non-Cryst. Sol. 307, 181-187, 2002
 
Year 2001
 

I. Saika-Voivod, P. H. Poole, F. Sciortino
Fragile-to-strong transition and polyamorphism in the energy landscape of liquid silica
Nature 412, 514-517, 2001

 

 

F. Sciortino, W. Kob
Deybe Waller factor of liquid silica: theory and simulation
Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 648-651, 2001

 

 

F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Extension of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem to the physical aging of a model glass-forming liquid
Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 107-110, 2001

 

 

E. Zaccarelli, G. Foffi, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, K. A. Dawson
Gaussian density fluctuations and mode coupling theory for supercooled liquid
Europhys. Lett. 55, 157-163, 2001

 

 

A. G. Foffi, E. Zaccarelli, P. Tartaglia, F. Sciortino, K. A. Dawson
Are particle gels glasses ?
Prog. Colloid Polym Sci (2001) 118:221-225

 

 

A. Rinaldi, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Dynamics in a supercooled molecular liquid: theory and simulations
Phys. Rev. E 63, 061210, 2001

 

 

F. W. Starr, S. Sastry, E. La Nave, A. Scala, H. E. Stanley, F. Sciortino
Thermodynamic and structural aspects of the potential energy surface of simulated water
Phys. Rev. E 63, 041201, 2001

 

 

E. La Nave, F. W. Starr, H. E. Stanley, F. Sciortino
Dynamics of supercooled water in configuration space
Phys. Rev. E 64, 036102, 2001

 

 

L. Letamaendia, E. P. Lestret, P. Panizza, J. Ronich, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, C. Hashimoto
Relaxation phenomena in AOT-water-decane critical and dense microemulsions
Physica A 300, 53-81, 2001

 

 

K. A. Dawson, G. Foffi, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, E. Zaccarelli
Mode-coupling theory of colloids with short-range attractions
J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 13, 9113-9126, 2001

 

 

F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Aging in simple liquids: a numerical study
J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 13, 9127-9139, 2001

 

K. Dawson, G. Foffi, M. Fuchs, W. G{\”o}tze, F. Sciortino, M. Sperl, P. Tartaglia,Th. Voigtmann, E. Zaccarelli
Higher order glass-transition singularities in colloidal systems with attractive singularities
Phys. Rev. E 63, 01141, 2001


 

E. Zaccarelli , G. Foffi, K. Dawson, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Mechanical properties of a model of attractive colloidal solutions
Phys. Rev. E 63, 031501, 2001


 
Year 2000
 

E. La Nave, A. Scala, F. Starr, F. Sciortino, H. E. Stanley
Instantaneous normal mode analysis of supercooled water
Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4605-4608, 2000

 

C. Donati, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Role of the unstable directions in the equilibrium and aging dynamics of supercooled liquids
Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1464-1467, 2000

 

 

L. Angelani, R. Di Leonardo, G. Ruocco, A. Scala, F. Sciortino
Saddles in the energy landscape probed by supercooled liquids
Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5356-5359, 2000

 

 

W. Kob, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Aging as dynamics in configuration space
Europhys. Lett. 49, 590-596, 2000

 

 

L. Fabbian, A. Latz, R. Schilling, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, C. Theis
Molecular correlations in a supercooled liquids
Phys. Rev. E 62, 2388-2403, 2000

 

C. Theis, A. Latz, R. Schilling, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Test of molecular mode coupling theory for general rigid molecules
Phys. Rev. E 62, 1856-1861, 2000

 

 

A. Scala, F. W. Starr, E. La Nave, H. E. Stanley, F. Sciortino
Free energy surface of supercooled water
Phys. Rev. E 62, 8016-8020, 2000

 

 

I. Saika-Voivod, F. Sciortino, P. H. Poole
Computer simulations of liquid silica: equation of state and liquid-liquid phase transition
Phys. Rev. E 63, 011202, 2000

 

 

F. Sciortino, W. Kob, P. Tartaglia
Thermodynamics of supercooled liquids in the inherent structure formalism:
a case study

J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 12, 6525-6534, 2000

 

 

F. Sciortino
Slow dynamics in supercooled water
Chem. Phys. 258, 295-302, 2000

 

W. Kob, J. L. Barrat, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, E. Zaccarelli
Aging in a simple glass former
J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 12, 6385-6394, 2000

 

G. Foffi, E. Zaccarelli, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Kinetic arrest originating in competition between attractive interaction and packing force
J. Stat. Phys. 100, 363-367, 2000

 

A. Scala, F. Starr, E. La Nave, F. Sciortino, H. E. Stanley
Configurational entropy and diffusivity of supercooled water
Nature 406, 166-169, 2000

 

 

 
Year 1999
 

F. W. Starr, S. Harrington, F. Sciortino, H. E. Stanley
Slow dynamics of water under pressure
Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3629-3632, 1999

 

 

F. Sciortino, W. Kob, P. Tartaglia
Inherent structure entropy of supercooled liquids
Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3214-3217, 1999

 

L. Fabbian, W. G{\"o}tze, F. Sciortino, F. Thiery, P. Tartaglia
Ideal glass-glass transitions and logarithmic decay of correlations in a simple system
Phys. Rev. E 59, 1347-1350, 1999

 

S. H. Chen, C. Liao, F. Sciortino, P. Gallo, P. Tartaglia
Model for single-particle dynamics in supercooled water
Phys. Rev. E 59, 6708-6715, 1999

 

 

E. La Nave, S. Sastry, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Solution of lattice gas models in the generalized ensemble on the Bethe lattice
Phys. Rev. E 59, 6348-6356, 1999

 

 

L. Fabbian, A. Latz, R. Schilling, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, C. Theis
Molecular mode-coupling theory for supercooled liquids: application to water
Phys. Rev. E 60, 5768-5778, 1999

 

 

F. Starr, F. Sciortino, H. E. Stanley
Dynamics of simulated water under pressure
Phys. Rev. E 60, 6757-6769, 1999

 

 

C. Liao, F. Sciortino, S. H. Chen
Model for dynamics in supercooled water
Phys. Rev. E 60, 6776-6787, 1999

 

 

F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
On the mode coupling theory-beta-correlator
J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 11, A261-A269, 1999

 
Year 1998
 

C. Padoa Schioppa, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Coniglio-Klein mapping in the metastable region
Phys. Rev. E 57, 3797-3803, 1998

 

 

L. Fabbian, F. Sciortino, F. Thiery, P. Tartaglia
Semischematic model for the center of mass dynamics in supercooled molecular liquids
Phys. Rev. E 57, 1485-1488, 1998

 

 

L. Fabbian, R. Schilling, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, C. Theis
Test of semischematic model for a liquid of linear molecules
Phys. Rev. E 58, 7272-7278, 1998

 

 

W. Li, T. Keyes, F. Sciortino
Three-flavor instantaneous normal mode formalism: diffusion, harmonicity and the potential energy landscape of liquid CS$ 2$
J. Chem. Phys. 108, 252-260, 1998

 

 

L. Fabbian, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Rotational dynamics in a simulated supercooled network forming liquid
J. Non-Cryst. Sol. 235-237, 325-330, 1998

 

 

L. Fabbian, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Mode Coupling for non spherical molecules: a semi-schematic model applied to simulated water
Philos. Mag. B, 77, 499-505, 1998

 

 

P. Codastefano, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, F. Bordi, A. Di Biasio
A phenomenological approach to relaxation in disordered systems
Coll. and Surf. A 140, 269-278, 1998

 

L. Letamandia, E. Louisor, E. Pru-Letsret, J. Rouch, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, H. Ushiki
Relaxation phenomena in critical microemulsion systems
Coll. and Surf. A 140, 289-293, 1998

 

 
Year 1997
 

F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Harmonic dynamics in supercooled liquids: the case of water
Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2385-2388, 1997

 

 

S. Harrington, R. Zhong, P. H. Poole, F. Sciortino, H. E. Stanley
Liquid-liquid phase transition: evidence from simulations
Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2409-2412, 1997

 

 

F. Sciortino, P. H. Poole, U. Essmann, H. E. Stanley
Line of compressibility maxima in the phase diagram of supercooled water
Phys. Rev. E 55 , 727-736, 1997

 

 

S. H. Chen, P. Gallo, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Molecular dynamics study of incoherent quasielastic neutron scattering spectra of supercooled water
Phys. Rev. E 56, 4231-4243, 1997

 

 

F. Sciortino, L. Fabbian, S. H. Chen, P. Tartaglia
Supercooled water and the kinetic glass transition II. Collective dynamics
Phys. Rev. E 56, 5397-5404, 1997

 

 

S. Harrington, P. H. Poole, F. Sciortino, H. E. Stanley
Equation of state of supercooled water simulated using the extended simple point charge intermolecular potential
J. Chem. Phys. 107, 7443-7450, 1997

 

 

F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Relaxation phenomena in disordered systems
Physica A 236, 140-148, 1997

 

 

H. E. Stanley, S. T. Harrington, P. H. Poole, S. Sastry, F. Sciortino, F. W. Starr
Cooperative molecular motions in water
Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl. 126, 201-206, 1997

 

 

H. E. Stanley, L. Cruz, S. T. Harrington, P. H. Poole, S. Sastry, F. Sciortino, F. W. Starr, R. Zhang
Cooperative molecular motions in water:
t he liquid-liquid critical point hypothesis

Physica A 236,19-37, 1997


 
Year 1996
 

P. Gallo, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, S. H. Chen
Slow dynamics in supercooled water
Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 2730-2733, 1996

 

S. Sastry, P. G. Debenedetti, F. Sciortino, H. E. Stanley
Singularity-free interpretation of the thermodynamics of supercooled water
Phys. Rev. E 53, 6144-6154, 1996

 

F. Sciortino, P. Gallo, P. Tartaglia, S. H. Chen
Supercooled water and the kinetic glass transition
Phys. Rev. E 54, 6331-6342, 1996

 

 

F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Cluster aggregation under diffusion
Physica A 231, 191-196, 1996

 

 

F. Bordi, C. Cametti, S. H. Chen, J. Rouch, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
The static electrical conductivity of water-in-oil microemulsions below percolation threshold
Physica A 231, 161-167, 1996

 

 

F. Bordi, C. Cametti, J. Rouch, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Cluster formation in water-in-oil microemulsions at percolation:
evaluation of the electrical properties

J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 8, A19-A37, 1996

 

 
Year 1995
 

F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Structure factor scaling during irreversible aggregation
Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 282-285, 1995

 

 

C. Cametti, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, S. H. Chen, J. Rouch
Complex electrical conductivity of water-in-oil microemulsions
Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 569-572, 1995

 

 

F. Sciortino, A. Belloni, P. Tartaglia
Irreversibile diffusion limited cluster aggregation:
the behavior of the scattered intensity
Phys. Rev. E 52, 4068-4079, 1995

 

 

F. Sciortino, U. Essman, H. E. Stanley, M. Hammati, J. Shao, G. Wolf, C. A. Angell
Crystal stability limited at positive and negative pressures and the crystal to amorphous transition
Phys. Rev. E 52, 6484-6491, 1995

 

 

P. Poole, T. Grande, F. Sciortino, H. E. Stanley, C. A. Angell
Amorphous polymorphism

Comp. Mat. Sci. 4, 373-382, 1995

 

 
Year 1994
 

P. H. Poole, F. Sciortino, T. Grande, H. E. Stanley, C. A. Angell
Effect of hydrogen bonds on the equation of state of liquid water
Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 1632-1635, 1994

 

 

S. C. Glotzer, M. F. Gyure, F. Sciortino, A. Coniglio, H. E. Stanley
Pinning in phase-separating systems
Phys. Rev. E 49, 247-258, 1994

 

 

Di Biasio, G. Bolle, C. Cametti, P. Codastefano, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Crossover region in the aggregation of colloids
Phys. Rev. E 50, 1649-1653, 1994

 

 

F. Sciortino, H. S. Sastry
Sound propagation in liquid water: the puzzle continues
J. Chem. Phys. 100, 3881-3893, 1994

 

 

S. Sastry, H. E. Stanley, F. Sciortino
Low frequency depolarized raman spectra in water: results from normal mode analysis
J. Chem. Phys. 100, 5361-5366, 1994

 

 

H. E. Stanley, C. A. Angell, U. Essmann, M. Hemmati, P. H. Poole, F. Sciortino
Is there a second critical point in liquid water?
Physica A 205, 122, 1994

 

S. H. Chen, J. Rouch, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia
Static and dynamic properties of water-in-oil microemulsions
near the critical and percolation points

J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 6, 10855-10883, 1994

 

 
Year 1993
 

S. Sastry, F. Sciortino and H. E. Stanley
Density anomalies and re-entrant spinodal behavior
Chem. Phys. Lett. 207, 275-280, 1993

 

S. C. Glotzer, M. F. Gyure, F. Sciortino, A. Coniglio, H. E. Stanley
Kinetics of phase separation in the presence of two disparate energy scales
Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3275-3278, 1993

 

Francesco Sciortino, Rama Bansil, H. Eugene Stanley and Preben Alstr\"om C. Glotzer, M. F. Gyure, F. Sciortino, A. Coniglio, H. E. Stanley
Interference of phase separation and gelation: A zeroth-order kinetic model
Phys. Rev. E, 47, 4615-4618 (1993).

 

C. K. Peng, S. V. Buldyrev, A. L. Goldberg, S. Havlin, F. Sciortino, M. Simons, H. E. Stanley
Long range power low correlations in DNA
Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 1776, 1993

 

 

F. Sciortino, R. Bansil, H. E. Stanley, P. Alstrom
Interference of phase separation and gelation
Phys. Rev. E 47, 4615-4618, 1993

 

P. H. Poole, U. Essmann, F. Sciortino, H. E. Stanley
Spinodals of liquid water
Phys. Rev. E 48, 3799-3817, 1993

 

N. Micali, C. Vasi, F. Mallamace, R. Bansil, S. Pajevic, F. Sciortino
Light-scattering studies in cross-linked gels: evidence of microphase separation
Phys. Rev. E 48, 4501-4508, 1993

 

 

F. Sciortino, G. Corongiu
Structure and dynamics in hexagonal ice: a molecular dynamics simulation using the ab-initio Ncc potential
J. Chem. Phys. 98, 5694-5700, 1993

 

 

S. Sastry, F. Sciortino, H. E. Stanley
Limits of stability of the liquid phase in a lattice model with water-like properties
J. Chem. Phys. 98, 9863-9872, 1993

 

 

F. Sciortino, K. U. Prasad, D. W. Urry, M. U. Palma
Self-assembly of a bioelastomeric structure:mean field critical behavior and flory-huggins free energy of interactions
Biopolymers 33, 743-752, 1993

 

 

S. Glotzer, R. Bansil, P. Cakkagher, M. F. Gyure, F. Sciortino, H. E. Stanley
Physical gels and microphase separation in multiblock copolymers
Physica A 201, 482-495, 1993

 

 

P. H. Poole, U. Essmann, F. Sciortino, H. E. Stanley
Phase diagram for amorphous solid water
Phys. Rev. E 48, 4605-4611, 1993


 
Year 1992
 

C. K. Peng, S. V. Buldyrev, A. L. Goldberg, S. Havlin, F. Sciortino, M. Simons, H. E. Stanley
Long range correlation in nucleotide sequences
Nature 356, 168-170, 1992

 

 

P. H. Poole, F. Sciortino, U. Essmann, H. E. Stanley
Phase behavior of metastable water
Nature 360, 324-328, 1992

 

 

F. Sciortino, A. Geiger, H. E. Stanley
Network defect and molecular mobility in liquid water
J. Chem. Phys. 96, 3857- 3865, 1992

 

S. V. Buldyrev, F. Sciortino
Theta S-point temperature and exponents for the bond fluctuation model
Physica A 182, 346-352, 1992

 

 

C. K. Peng, S. V. Buldyrev, A. L. Goldberg, S. Havlin, F. Sciortino, M. Simon, H. E. Stanley
Fractal landscape analysis of DNA walk
Physica A 191, 1-12, 1992

 

 

H. E. Stanley, S. V. Buldyrev, A. L. Goldberger, J. M. Hausdorff, S. Havlin, J. Mietus, C. K. Peng, F. Sciortino, M. Simons
Fractal landscapes in biological systems: long-range correlations in DNA and interbeat heart intervals
Physica A 191, 1-12, 1992


 

Year 1991

 

 

F. Sciortino, A. Geiger, H. E. Stanley
Effect or defect on molecular mobility in liquid water
Nature 354, 218-221, 1991

 

S. Satry, F. Sciortino, H. E. Stanley
Collective excitations in liquid water at low frequency and large wave vector
J. Chem. Phys. 95, 7775-7776, 1991

 

 

 
Year 1990
 

F. Sciortino, P. H. Poole, H. E. Stanley, S. Havlin
Lifetime of the bond network and gel-like anomalies in supercooled water
Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 1686-1689, 1990

 

 

P. Alstr{\"o}m, F. Sciortino
Dynamics of bonded networks with two energy scales
Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 2885-2888, 1990

 

 

F. Sciortino, A. Geiger, H. E. Stanley
Isochoric differential scattering functions in liquid water: the fifth neighbor as a network defect
Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 3452-3455, 1990

 

F. Sciortino, D. W. Urry, M. U. Palma, K. U. Prasad
Self-assembly of a bioelastomeric structure:
Solution dynamics and the spinodal and coacervation lines

Biopolymers 33, 743-752, 1990

 

 

M. Migliore, V. Martorana, F. Sciortino
An algorithm to find all paths between two nodes in a graph
J. Comp. Phys. 87, 231, 1990

 

 
 
Year 1989
 
F. Sciortino, S. L. Fornili
Hydrogen bond cooperativity in simulated water:
time dependance analysis of pair interactions

J. Chem. Phys. 90, 2786-2792, 1989

 

 

 
 
Year1988
 

F. Sciortino, M. U. Palma, D. W. Urry, K. U. Prasad
Nucleation and accretion of bioelastomeric fibers at biological temperatures and low concentration
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Com. 157, 1061-1066, 1988

 
 
Year1987
 

M. Leone, F. Sciortino, M. Migliore, S. L. Fornili, M. B. P. Vittorelli
Order parameter of gels and gelation kinetics of aqueous agarose system: relation to
the spinodal decomposition of the sol

Biopolymers 26, 743-761, 1987