ISC researcher, Valentina Palmieri, and her collaborator M. Papi discuss the promising applications of functionalized graphene in the fight against COVID 19. Their research has been published in Nano Today, “Can graphene take part in the fight against COVID-19?“
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The pneumonia outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) represents a global issue.
Our researcher, Fabio Cecconi, has developed an analytical model elucidating the competition among electrophoresis, electroosmosis, and dielectrophoresis. The work is published on ACS Nano, M. Chinappi, Misa Yamaji, Ryuji Kawano, and Fabio Cecconi, “Analytical Model for Particle Capture in Nanopores Elucidates Competition among Electrophoresis, Electroosmosis, and Dielectrophoresis” ACS Nano, 14, 15816 (2020).
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The interaction between nanoparticles dispersed in a fluid and nanopores is governed by the interplay of hydrodynamical, electrical, and chemical effects.… Read the rest
| Founding Body: | ERC- 2017-ADG |
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| Total grant: | € 2300k |
| Principal Investigator: | Andrea Cavagna |
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| Project duration: | 2018-2023 |
| Website: | RG.BIO – Home |
| Founding Body: | PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY |
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| Total grant: | € 223k |
| Principal Investigator: | Stefania Melillo |
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| Project duration: | 2017-2021 |
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Our staff researcher Roberta Angelini is Guest Editor of a Special Issue of Polymers on “Polymer Microgels: Synthesis and Application”
Polymer microgels have attracted great attention in fundamental studies as good model systems for understanding the intriguing behaviors of soft colloids thanks to their elastic and deformable particles that provide a very rich phenomenology. These cross-linked particles with nanometric to micrometric dimensions are characterized by many fascinating properties such as swelling, softness, and responsivity that depend on their macromolecular architecture and can be triggered during the synthesis process.… Read the rest
Ruggero Vaia has published a new article on Physical Review E “Dispersionless pulse transport in mass-spring chains: All possible perfect Newton’s cradles“, R. Vaia, Phys. Rev. E 102, 023005 (2020).
Coherent pulse transmission along an arbitrarily long mass-spring chain is a prototype for several material systems: atom/ion chains, polymer molecules, in 1D, but also 2D and 3D systems with symmetry, such as multilayers.… Read the rest
| Founding Body: | European Community – Marie Skłodowska-Curie |
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| Total grant: | € 183k |
| Principal Investigator: | Hector Pablo Ojeda Collado |
| Other participants: | José Lorenzana |
| Project duration: | 2020-2022 |
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| Founding Body: | European Community – Marie Skłodowska-Curie |
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| Total grant: | € 171k |
| Principal Investigator: | Maria Navarro Gastiasoro |
| Other participants: | José Lorenzana |
| Project duration: | 2020-2022 |
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