publications
Optimal leap angle of legged and legless insects in a landscape of uniformly distributed random obstacles, F. Giavazzi, S. Spini, M. Carpineti and A. Vailati, R. Soc. open sci.8202279 (2021) open access
Multifractal analysis of glaciers in the Lombardy region of the Italian Alps, M. Carpineti, A. Rossoni, A. Senese, D Maragno, G. A Diolaiuti and A.Vailati, J. Phys. Complex. 2 025003 (2021) open access
Inclined convection in a layer of liquid water with poorly conducting boundaries, S. Castellini, M. Carpineti, F. Croccolo, and A. Vailati, Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 033481 (2020) open access
Giant Fluctuations Induced by Thermal Diffusion in Complex Liquids, Alberto Vailati, Philipp Baaske, Henri Bataller, Serena Bolis, Marco Braibanti, Marina Carpineti, Roberto Cerbino, Fabrizio Croccolo, Jean-Luc Dewandel, Aleksandar Donev, Loreto García-Fernández, Fabio Giavazzi, Robert Haslinger, Steven Hens, Maria Knauer, Werner Köhler, Ewald Kufner, José M. Ortiz de Zárate, Jeroen Peeters, Christian J. Schwarz, Inese Silkina, Shenghua Xu & Daniel Zapf, Microgravity Sci. Technol. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12217-020- open acces
Cylindrical flowing-junction cell for the investigation of fluctuations and pattern-formation in miscible fluids, F. Croccolo, D. Brogioli, and A. Vailati, Review of Scientific Instruments 90, 085109 (2019)
Metamaterial architecture from a self-shaping carnivorous plant, C. A. M. La Porta, M. C. Lionetti, S. Bonfanti, S. Milan, C. Ferrario, D. Rayneau-Kirkhope, M. Beretta, M. Hanifpour, U. Fascio, M. Ascagni, L. De Paola, Z. Budrikis, M. Schiavoni, E. Falletta, A. Caselli, O. Chepizhko, A. Tuissi, A. Vailati, and . Zapperi, PNAS 201904984 (2019)
European Space Agency experiments on thermodiffusion of fluid mixtures in space, M. Braibanti, P. -A. Artola P. Baaske H. Bataller J. -P. Bazile M. M. Bou-Ali D. S. Cannell M. Carpineti R. Cerbino F. Croccolo J. Diaz A. Donev A. Errarte J. M. Ezquerro A. Frutos-Pastor Q. Galand G. Galliero Y. Gaponenko L. García-Fernández J. Gavaldá F. Giavazzi M. Giglio C. Giraudet H. Hoang E. Kufner W. Köhler E. Lapeira A. Laverón-Simavilla J. -C. Legros I. Lizarraga T. Lyubimova S. Mazzoni N. Melville A. Mialdun O. Minster F. Montel F. J. Molster J. M. Ortiz de Zárate J. Rodríguez B. Rousseau X. RuizI. I. Ryzhkov M. Schraml V. Shevtsova C. J. Takacs T. Triller S. Van Vaerenbergh A. Vailati A. Verga R. Vermorel V. Vesovic V. Yasnou S. Xu D. Zapf K. Zhang, Eur. Phys. J. 42:86 (2019)
Asymmetric time-cross-correlation of nonequilibrium concentration fluctuations in a ternary liquid mixture, D. Brogioli, F. Croccolo, and A. Vailati, Phys. Rev. E 99, 053115 (2019)
Kinetics of growth of non-equilibrium fluctuations during thermodiffusion in a polymer solution, M. Carpineti, M. Sabato, F. Croccolo and A. Vailati, Eur. Phys. J. E 42, 25 (2019)
Propagating modes in a binary liquid mixture under thermal stress, F. Croccolo, L. Garcia-Fernández, H. Bataller, A. Vailati and J.M. Ortiz de Zárate, Phys. Rev. E 99, 012602 (2019)
Nonequilibrium solid-solid phase transition in a lattice of liquid jets, F. Croccolo, S. Castellini, F. Scheffold and A. Vailati, Phys. Rev. E 98, 063104 (2018)
High-ranking alleviates male local competition in lek mating systems, F. Giavazzi, N. Saino, A. Vailati, Scientific Reports 8, 15189 (2018)
Nonequilibrium fluctuations during diffusion in liquid layers, D. Brogioli and A. Vailati, Phys. Rev. E 96, 012136 (2017)
The NEUF-DIX space project - Non-EquilibriUm Fluctuations during DIffusion in compleX liquids, P. Baaske, H. Bataller, M. Braibanti, M. Carpineti, R. Cerbino, F. Croccolo, A. Donev, W. Köhler, J. M. Ortiz de Zárate, A. Vailati, Eur. Phys. J. E 39, 119 (2016)
fluctuations in a critical binary mixture, F. Giavazzi, A. Fornasieri, A. Vailati and R. Cerbino, Eur. Phys. J. E 39: 103 (2016)
Correlations and scaling properties of non-equilibrium fluctuations in liquid mixtures, D. Brogioli, F. Croccolo, and A. Vailati, Phys. Rev. E. 94 022142 (2016)
Structure and dynamics of concentration fluctuations in a non-equilibrium dense colloidal suspension, F. Giavazzi, G. Savorana, A. Vailati, R. Cerbino, Soft Matter 12, 6588 (2016)
Shadowgraph analysis of non-equilibrium fluctuations for measuring transport properties in microgravity in the GRADFLEX experiment, F. Croccolo, C. Giraudet, H. Bataller, R. Cerbino, and A. Vailati, Microgravity Sci. and Technol., 28, 467 (2016)
Dynamic scaling for the growth of non-equilibrium fluctuations during thermophoretic diffusion in microgravity, R. Cerbino, Y. Sun, A. Donev, A. Vailati, Sci. Rep. 5, 14486 (2015).
Inclined layer convection in a colloidal suspension with negative Soret coefficient at large solutal Rayleigh numbers, M. Italia, F. Croccolo, F. Scheffold and A. Vailati, Eur. Phys. J. E 37, 101 (2014)
Geometry for a penguin-albatross rookery, F. Giavazzi, and A. Vailati, Phys. Rev E 89, 052706 (2014) reprint on arxiv
Effect of a marginal inclination on pattern formation in a binary liquid mixture under thermal stress, F. Croccolo, F. Scheffold, and A. Vailati, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 014502 (2013) reprint on arxiv
Piccole esplosioni di energia biomeccanica, A. Vailati, in "Alice 2.0. Riflessioni sull'energia", edited by M. Carpineti, M. Giliberti and N. Ludwig ISBN88-8132-68-2 (Cusl, Milano 2013).
L'arma segreta del pesce arciere, A. Vailati, R. Cerbino, Sistema Università, Anno X, n. 41, p. 7 (2012).
How Archer Fish Achieve a Powerful Impact: Hydrodynamic Instability of a Pulsed Jet in Toxotes jaculatrix. A. Vailati, L. Zinnato, and R. Cerbino, PLoS ONE 7(10): e47867. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047867 (2012)
Tunable heat transfer with smart nanofluids, M. Bernardin, F. Comitani, and A. Vailati, Physical Review E, 85, 066321 (2012).
Gradient-driven fluctuations in microgravity, A. Vailati, R. Cerbino, S. Mazzoni, M. Giglio, C. J. Takacs and D. S. Cannell, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 24, 284134 (2012).
Giant thermophoresis of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgel particles, S. Wongsuwarn , D. Vigolo , R. Cerbino , A. M. Howe , A. Vailati , R. Piazza and P. Cicuta, Soft Matter 8, 5857-5863 (2012).
Thermal fluctuations in a layer of liquid Cs2 subjected to temperature gradients with and without the influence of gravity, C. J. Takacs, A. Vailati, R. Cerbino, S. Mazzoni, M. Giglio, and D. S. Cannell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 244502 (2011).
Fractal fronts of diffusion in microgravity. A. Vailati, R. Cerbino, S. Mazzoni, C. J. Takacs, D.S. Cannell, M. Giglio, Nature Communications 2:290 doi: 10.1038/ncomms1290 (2011).
Near-field scattering techniques: Novel instrumentation and results from time and spatially resolved investigations of soft matter systems, R. Cerbino, and A. Vailati, Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 14, 416 (2009), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cocis.2009.07.003
Scaling of the spatial power spectrum of excitations at the onset of solutal convection in a nanofluid far from equilibrium, F. Giavazzi, and A. Vailati, Phys. Rev. E 80, 015303(R) (2009), http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.015303
Bistable heat transfer in a nanofluid, G. Donzelli, R. Cerbino, and A. Vailati, Phys. Rev. Lett 102, 104503 (2009)
Mutual Voronoi tessellation in spoke pattern convection, S. Mazzoni, F. Giavazzi, R. Cerbino, M. Giglio, A. Vailati, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 188104 (2008).
Non-equilibrium fluctuations in diffusion experiments, F. Croccolo, R. Cerbino, A. Vailati and M. Giglio, Anomalous fluctuation phenomena in complex systems: Plasmas, Fluids and Financial Markets, 2008: 185-210 ISBN: 978-81-308-0255-8 Editors: Claudia Riccardi and H. Eduardo Roman (invited chapter)
Optical generation of Voronoi Diagram, F. Giavazzi, R. Cerbino, S. Mazzoni, M. Giglio, A. Vailati, Optics Express 16, 4819-4823 (2008).
Non-equilibrium fluctuations in Microgravity: initial results of GRADFLEX aboard FOTON-M3, A. Vailati, R. Cerbino, S. Mazzoni, C. J. Takacs, M. Giglio, D. S. Cannell, proceedings of "Third International Symposium on Physical Science in Space 2008", Journal of the Japan Society for Microgravity Application vol. 25, N. 3 , p. 617 (2008)
Thermophoretic convection of silica nanoparticles, A. Vailati, R. Cerbino, S. Mazzoni, F. Giavazzi, proceedings of the workshop "Collective phenomena in macroscopic systems", edited by G Bertin, R Pozzoli, M Romé, K R Sreenivasan, World Scientific Publishing Company (2007), pp 107-116.
Non-diffusive decay of gradient driven fluctuations in a free-diffusion process, F. Croccolo, D. Brogioli, A. Vailati, M. Giglio and D.S. Cannell, Physical Review E 76, 41112 (2007)
Fluctuations in diffusion processes in microgravity, S. Mazzoni, R. Cerbino, A. Vailati, M. Giglio, , Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1077, 351-364, (2006).
Use of dynamic Schlieren to study fluctuations during free diffusion, F. Croccolo, D. Brogioli, A. Vailati, M. Giglio and D.S. Cannell, Applied Optics 45, 2166 (2006)
Effect of gravity on the dynamics of non equilibrium fluctuations in a free diffusion experiment, F. Croccolo, D. Brogioli, A. Vailati, M. Giglio and D.S. Cannell, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1077, 365 (2006) PDF (0.2M)
Gradient-driven fluctuations experiment: fluid fluctuations in microgravity, A. Vailati, R. Cerbino, S. Mazzoni, M. Giglio, G. Nikolaenko, C. J. Takacs, D. S. Cannell, W. V. Meyer, A. E. Smart, Applied Optics 45, 2155-2165 (2006) (Cover paper)
Scaling behavior for the onset of convection in a colloidal suspension, R. Cerbino, S.Mazzoni, A. Vailati and M. Giglio, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 064501 (2005).
GRADFLEX: A Microgravity Experiment for Gradient Driven Fluctuations, B. Hirtz, F. Molster, A. Verga, R. Cerbino, S. Mazzoni, A. Vailati, M. Giglio, C.J. Takacs, D.S. Cannell, R. Greger, C. Pereira, Proceedings of the "International Astronautical Congress 2005", Fukuoka, Japan, 17-21 October 2005.” IAC-05-A2.6.01
Transient oscillations in Soret-driven convection in a colloidal suspension, S. Mazzoni, R. Cerbino, D. Brogioli, A. Vailati and M. Giglio, Eur. Phys. J. E 15, 305 (2004). PDF (175k)
A schlieren method for ultra-low angle light scattering measurements, D. Brogioli, A. Vailati and M. Giglio, Europhys. Lett. 63, 220 (2003). PDF (141k)
Fast-onset Soret-driven convection in a colloidal suspension heated from above, R. Cerbino, A. Vailati and M. Giglio, Phil. Mag. 83, 2023 (2003). PDF (141k)
Real-time wavelet-transform spectrum analyzer for the investigation of 1/f2 noise, D. Brogioli and A. Vailati, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 74, 2583 (2003). e-print
Heterodyne near-field scattering, D. Brogioli, A. Vailati and M. Giglio, App. Phys. Lett. 81, 4109 (2002). e-print
Soret driven convection in a colloidal solution heated from above at very large solutal Rayleigh number, R. Cerbino, A. Vailati and M. Giglio, Phys. Rev. E 66, 055301 (2002). PDF (262k)
New Flowing-Junction cell for the investigation of nonequilibrium fluctuations during diffusion processes in low gravity, F. Croccolo, A. Vailati and M. Giglio, Microgravity and Space Station Utilization 2, 69 (2001). PDF (1.0M)
Near-field intensity correlations of scattered light, M. Giglio, M. Carpineti, A. Vailati and D. Brogioli, Applied Optics 40, 4036 (2001). PDF (772k)
Capillary-to-bulk crossover of nonequilibrium fluctuations in the free diffusion of a near-critical binary mixture, P. Cicuta, A. Vailati and M. Giglio, Applied Optics 40, 4140 (2001). PDF (89k)
Diffusive mass transfer by nonequilibrium fluctuations: Fick's law revisited, D. Brogioli, and A. Vailati, Phys. Rev. E 63, 012105 (2001). e-print
Non equilibrium fluctuations in the free diffusion of binary mixtures and macromolecular solutions, D. Brogioli, A. Vailati and M. Giglio, in proceedings of "First International Symposium on Microgravity Research and Applications in Physical Sciences and Biotechnology, Brigitte Schurmann Editor, ESA Publications Division, 2001. PDF (26k)
Space intensity correlations in the near field of the scattered light: a direct measurement of the density correlation function g(r), M. Giglio, M. Carpineti, and A. Vailati, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1416 (2000). PDF (103k)
Equilibrium and nonequilibrium fluctuations at the interface between two fluid phases, P. Cicuta, A. Vailati and M. Giglio, Phys. Rev. E 62, 4920 (2000). PDF (89k)
" Optical methods for the physics of complex fluids ", A. Vailati, Lecture notes of the "XI Scuola Nazionale di Fisica della Materia", "Statistical Physics of complex fluids", edited by INFM, 2000. PDF (435k)
Giant fluctuations in diffusion processes, D. Brogioli, A. Vailati, and M. Giglio, Journal of Physics A: Condensed Matter. 12, 39 (2000). PDF (224k)
Universal behavior of nonequilibrium fluctuations in free diffusion processes, D. Brogioli, A. Vailati, and M. Giglio, Phys. Rev. E 61, R1 (2000). PDF(128k)
Giant fluctuations in a free diffusion process: a view from a different direction, A. Vailati and M. Giglio, Highlights INFM 1996/1997 (1999).
Nonequilibrium fluctuations in thermal-diffusion and free-diffusion processes, A. Vailati and M. Giglio, Entropie 217, 33 (1999).
Nonequilibrium fluctuations in time dependent diffusion processes, A.Vailati and M. Giglio, Phys. Rev. E 58, 4361 (1998). PDF (207k)
Giant fluctuations in a free diffusion process, A. Vailati and M.Giglio, Nature 390, 262 (1997). PDF (584k) see also the related News and Views PDF (347k)
Very low angle light scattering from steady state and time dependent nonequilibrium fluctuations, A. Vailati and M. Giglio, Progr. Colloid Polym. Sci. 104, 76 (1997).
Study of the q divergence of nonequilibrium fluctuations in a stressed fluid, A. Vailati and M. Giglio, Physica A 235, 105 (1997). PDF (261k)
Small angle light scattering concerning aggregation processes. D. Asnaghi, M. Carpineti, M. Giglio, and A. Vailati, Curr. Opin. Colloid Interface Sci., 2, 246 (1997).
q divergence of nonequilibrium fluctuations and its gravity induced frustration in a temperature stressed liquid mixture, A. Vailati and M. Giglio, Phys. Rev Lett. 77, 1484 (1996). PDF (126k)
Low angle static light scattering from non-equilibrium fluctuations, M. Giglio and A. Vailati, in Photon Correlation & Scattering, Vol. 14, OSA Technical Digest Series (Optical Society of America, Washington DC, 1996), pp. 44-46 (1996).
Light Scattering Studies of Aggregation Phenomena, D. Asnaghi, M. Carpineti, M. Giglio and A. Vailati, Physica A, 213, 148 (1995).
Is gravity on our way? The case of polyacrylamide gel polimerization, P. G. Righetti, A. Bossi, M. Giglio, A. Vailati, T. Lyubimova and V. A. Briskman, Electrophoresis 15, 1005 (1994).
Depolarized dynamic light scattering from optically anisotropic reaction-limited aggregates, A. Vailati, D. Asnaghi, M. Giglio and R. Piazza, Phys. Rev. E 48, R2358 (1993). PDF (549k)
Depolarized quasielastic light scattering from reaction limited aggregates of anisotropic spherical particles, A. Vailati, D. Asnaghi and M. Giglio, Progr. Colloid Polym. Sci. 93, 248 (1993).