News
	MICROARTE: a new project funded by Regione Lazio through Bando Progetti Gruppi di Ricerca 2020 Italian Soft Days 2018 3rd Edition, Padova 13- 14 September 2018 MIMIC ERC 2015 Consolidator Grant to study microgels and their effective interactions. More info can be found here Italian Soft Days 2016 2nd Edition, Milan 23-24 June 2016 Soft Matter Self-Assembly Summer School Varenna, Italy June 28-July 7, 2015 CECAM workshop: The Physics of Protein Self-Assembly Lausanne, Switzerland June 22-24, 2015 Nicoletta Gnan wins CNR Ricercatamente Prize for Young Researchers Congratulations Nicoletta! 1st Edition of Italian Soft Days Rome, 17-18 September 2014 2014: New research in Nature Communications Casimir-like forces at the percolation transition with Nicoletta Gnan and Francesco Sciortino Glass-glass transition during aging of a colloidal clay with Roberta Angelini, Barbara Ruzicka and coworkers 2013-2016: Futuro in Ricerca (MIUR) funds our research project ANISOFT: Anisotropies and non equilibrium in soft matter: routes to the self assembly of advanced materials with R. Cerbino (Universita' di Milano) e S. Buzzaccaro e D. Moscatelli (Politecnico di Milano) 2012: Read about COMPLOIDS Summer School Varenna, Italy July 3th-13th, 2012 2011: Soft Matter Review Article on Laponite Phase Diagram Read our contribution on lysozyme clusters in the J. Phys. Chem. B Special Issue on Clusters in Complex Fluids Read the Juelich Research Center press release about our recent work on Star Polymer and Linear Chains Mixtures in Phys. Rev. Lett. December 2010: Paper in Nature Materials on Empty Liquids and Equilibrium Gels in a Colloidal Clay see also the News and Views by W. K. Kegel and H. N. K. Lekkerkerker Press (in Italian): Dall'Italia arriva il 'liquido vuoto' (ANSA) Fisica: scoperto un nuovo stato della materia soffice' (CNR) La materia soffice e' anche stabile (Sole 24 ORE) November 2009:Principal Investigator of the Marie-Curie Initial training Network COMPLOIDS August 2009: Paper in PNAS July 2009: Presentation of Soft Matter Award by Prof. C.Likos May 2009: Soft Matter Award 2009 Read our contribution in the Emerging Investigators issue
	Sep 2008: Paper in Nature Materials on Asymmetric Glasses in Soft Mixtures Highlight in Materials Today, Vol. 11, N. 12 (2008); Press (in Italian) : dal Corriere della Sera; Il futuro della cosmetica? I colloidi; Diventare piu' belli: da oggi ci pensa il Fisico
	May 2008: Paper in Nature on Colloidal Gelation Press (in Italian) : Soffice la Materia Fatale l'Attrazione; Con Colloidi e Fotoni l'Infm fa il bis su Nature; Intervista
	Research Topics
	Thermodynamics and dynamics of colloidal systems, star polymers, micelles, globular proteins, glass-forming liquids; Dynamical arrest in colloidal systems; difference between gels and glasses, and identification of several gelation or glassification mechanisms; Models for ideal gels; patchy or directional interactions; charged systems or systems with competing interactions; Effective interactions: new kinds of depletion mechanisms and Casimir-like forces. Numerical simulations: Monte Carlo, Molecular and brownian dynamics, other techniques; Integral equations and phase diagrams Mode coupling theory and the glass transition