2017

Endocytic reawakening of motility in jammed epithelia

C. Malinverno, S. Corallino, F. Giavazzi, M. Bergert, Q. Li, M. Leoni, A. Disanza, E. Frittoli, A. Oldani, E. Martini, T. Lendenmann, G. Deflorian, G.V. Beznoussenko, D. Poulikakos, K.H. Ong, M. Uroz, X. Trepat, D. Parazzoli, P. Maiuri, W. Yu, A. Ferrari, R. Cerbino, G. Scita 

Nature Materials, in press  (2017)

Emerging applications of label-free optical biosensors

G. Zanchetta, R. Lanfranco, F. Giavazzi, T. Bellini, M. Buscaglia

Nanophotonics, in press  (2017)

2016

Equilibrium and non-equilibrium concentration fluctuations in a critical binary mixture

F. Giavazzi, A. Fornasieri, A. Vailati, R. Cerbino

The European Physical Journal E 39, 103 (2016)

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

The European Physical Journal E 39, 119 (2016)

Re-entrant DNA gels

F. Bomboi, F. Romano, M. Leo, J. Fernandez-Castanon, R. Cerbino, T. Bellini, F. Bordi, P. Filetici, F. Sciortino

Nature Communications 13, 13191 (2016)

Liquid Crystal Ordering and Isotropic Gelation in Solutions of Four-Base-Long DNA Oligomers

T.P. Fraccia, G.P. Smith, L. Bethge, G. Zanchetta, G. Nava, S. Klussmann, N.A. Clark, T. Bellini

ACS Nano 10, 8508 (2016)

Design and characterization of superpotent bivalent ligands targeting oxytocin receptor dimers via a channel-like structure

M. Busnelli, G. Kleinau, M. Muttenthaler, S. B. Stoev, M. Manning, L. Bibic, L. A. Howell, P. J. McCormick, S. Di Lascio, D. Braida, M. Sala, G. E. Rovati, T. Bellini, B. Chini

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 59, 7152 (2016)

Small-angle neutron scattering and molecular dynamics structural study of gelling DNA nanostars

J. Fernandez-Castanon, F. Bomboi, L. Rovigatti, M. Zanatta, A. Paciaroni, L. Comez, L. Porcar, C. J. Jafta, G. C. Fadda, T. Bellini, F. Sciortino

Journal of Chemical Physics 145, 0084910 (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)

Platinum-Based Drugs and DNA Interactions Studied by Single-Molecule and Bulk Measurements

D. Salerno, G. L. Beretta, G. Zanchetta, S. Brioschi, M. Cristofalo, N. Missana, L. Nardo, V. Cassina, A. Tempestini, R. Giovannoni, M. G. Cerrito, N. Zaffaroni, T. Bellini, F. Mantegazza

Biophysical Journal 110, 2151 (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, A. Vailati  

Microgravity Science and Technology 28, 467 (2016)

Selective Adsorption on Fluorinated Plastic Enables the Optical Detection of Molecular Pollutants in Water

R. Lanfranco, F. Giavazzi, M. Salina, G. Tagliabue, E. Di Nicolò, T. Bellini, M. Buscaglia  

Physical Review Applied 5, 054012 (2016)

Simultaneous characterization of rotational and translational diffusion of optically anisotropic particles by optical microscopy

F. Giavazzi, C. Haro-Pérez, R. Cerbino  

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 28, 195201 (2016)

Label-Free Detection of DNA Single-Base Mismatches using a Simple Reflectance-Based Optical Technique

G. Nava, E. Ceccarello, F. Giavazzi, M. Salina, F. Damin, M. Chiari, M. Buscaglia, T. Bellini, G. Zanchetta  

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18, 13395 (2016) 

A comprehensive strategy for the analysis of acoustic compressibility and optical deformability on single cells

T. Yang, F. Bragheri, G. Nava, I. Chiodi, C. Mondello, R. Osellame, K. Berg-Sørensen, I. Cristiani, P. Minzioni

Scientific Reports 6, 23946 (2016)

Solution Behavior of Amphiphilic Glycodendrimers with a Rod-Like Core

S. Ordanini, G.Zanchetta, V. Porkolab, C. Ebel, F. Fieschi, I. Guzzetti, D. Potenza, A. Palmioli, Č. Podlipnik, D. Meroni, A. Bernardi

Macromolecular Bioscience 16, 896 (2016)

Hierarchical Propagation of Chirality through Reversible Polymerization: The Cholesteric Phase of DNA Oligomers

C. De Michele, G. Zanchetta, T. Bellini, E. Frezza, A. Ferrarini 

ACS Macro Letters 5, 208 (2016)

Invisible Fluorinated Materials for Optical Sensing

R. Lanfranco, M. Buscaglia 

Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering, 2016

Phases and structures of sunset yellow and disodium cromoglycate mixtures in water

A. Yamaguchi, G. P. Smith, Y. Yi, C. Xu, S. Biffi, F. Serra, T. Bellini, C. Zhu, N. A. Clark 

Physical Review E 93, 012704 (2016)

2015

Fiber-Based, Injection-Molded Optofluidic Systems: Improvements in Assembly and Applications

M. Matteucci, M. Triches, G. Nava, A. Kristensen, M. R. Pollard, K. Berg-Sørensen, R. J. Taboryski 

Micromachines 6, 1971 (2015)

Equilibrium gels of trivalent DNA-nanostars: Effect of the ionic strength on the dynamics

F. Bomboi,S. Biffi, R. Cerbino, F. Bordi, T. Bellini, F. Sciortino 

The European Physical Journal E 38, 64 (2015)

New “clickable” polymeric coating for glycan microarrays

C. Zilio, A. Bernardi, A. Palmioli, M. Salina, G. Tagliabue, M. Buscaglia, R. Consonni, M. Chiari

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 215, 412 (2015)

Dynamic scaling for the growth of non-equilibrium fluctuations during thermophoretic diffusion in microgravity

R. Cerbino, Y. Sun, A. Donev, A. Vailati

Scientific Reports 5, 14486 (2015)

Multi-spot, label-free immunoassay on reflectionless glass

M. Salina, F. Giavazzi, R. Lanfranco, E. Ceccarello, L. Sola, M. Chiari, B. Chini, R. Cerbino, T. Bellini, M. Buscaglia,

Biosensors and Bioelectronics 74, 539 (2015)

Investigation of temperature effect on cell mechanics by optofluidic microchips

T. Yang, G. Nava, P. Minzioni, M. Veglione, F. Bragheri, F. D. Lelii, R. Martinez Vazquez, R. Osellame, I. Cristiani

Biomedical Optics Express 6, 2991 (2015)

Control of size and aspect ratio in hydroquinone-based synthesis of gold nanorods

C.Morasso, S.Picciolini, D.Schiumarini, D.Mehn, I.Ojea-Jiménez, G.Zanchetta, R.Vanna, M.Bedoni, D.Prosperi, F.Gramatica

Journal of Nanoparticle Research 17, 330 (2015)

All-silica microfluidic optical stretcher with acoustophoretic prefocusing 

G. Nava, F. Bragheri, T. Yang, P. Minzioni, R. Osellame, I. Cristiani, K. Berg-Sørensen 

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics 19, 837 (2015)

An optofluidic constriction chip for monitoring metastatic potential and drug response of cancer cells

R. Martinez Vazquez, G. Nava,  M. Veglione, T. Yang, F. Bragheri, P. Minzioni, E. Bianchi, M. Di Tano, I. Chiodi, R. Osellame, C. Mondelloand    I. Cristiani

Integrative Biology 7, 477 (2015)

An integrated optofluidic device for single-cell sorting driven by mechanical properties

T. Yang, P. Paiè, G. Nava, F. Bragheri, R. Martinez Vazquez, P. Minzioni, M. Veglione, M. Di Tano, C. Mondello, R. Osellame, I. Cristiani

Lab on a Chip 15, 1262 (2015)

Evidence of Liquid Crystal–Assisted Abiotic Ligation of Nucleic Acids

T.P. Fraccia, G. Zanchetta, V. Rimoldi, N.A. Clark, T. Bellini

Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biospheres 45, 51 (2015)

Abiotic ligation of DNA oligomers templated by their liquid crystal ordering

T.P. Fraccia, G.P. Smith, G. Zanchetta, E. Paraboschi, Y. Yi, D.M. Walba, G. Dieci, N.A. Clark, T. Bellini

Nature Communications 6, 6424 (2015)

Equilibrium gels of low-valence DNA nanostars: a colloidal model for strong glass formers

S. Biffi, R. Cerbino, G. Nava, F. Bomboi, F. Sciortino, T. Bellini

Soft Matter 11, 3132 (2015)

2014

A fast and simple label-free imunoassay based on a smartphone

F. Giavazzi, M. Salina, E. Ceccarello, A. Ilacqua, F. Damin, L. Sola, M. Chiari, B. Chini, R. Cerbino, T. Bellini, M. Buscaglia

Biosensors and Bioelectronics 58, 395 (2014)

Viscoelasticity of nematic liquid crystals at a glance

F. Giavazzi, S. Crotti, A. Speciale, F. Serra, G. Zanchetta, V. Trappe, M. Buscaglia, T. Bellini, R. Cerbino

Soft matter 10, 3938 (2014) 

Digital Fourier Microscopy for Soft Matter Dynamics

F. Giavazzi, R. Cerbino

Journal of Optics 16, 083001 (2014)

2013

 Phase behavior and critical activated dynamics of limited-valence DNA nanostars

S. Biffi, R. Cerbino, F. Bomboi, E.M. Paraboschi, R. Asselta, F. Sciortino, T. Bellini

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110, 15633 (2013)

Multispot, label-free biodetection at a phantom plastic–water interface

F. Giavazzi, M. Salina, R. Cerbino, M. Bassi, D. Prosperi, E. Ceccarello, F. Damine, L. Sola, M. Rusnati, M. Chiari, B. Chini, T. Bellini, M. Buscaglia

 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110, 9350 (2013) 

Nematic Liquid Crystals Embedded in Cubic Microlattices: Memory Effects and Bistable Pixels

F. Serra, S. M. Eaton, R. Cerbino, M. Buscaglia, G. Cerullo, R. Osellame, and T. Bellini

Advanced Functional Materials 23, 3990 (2013)

Propagation of chirality in mixtures of natural and enantiomeric DNA oligomers

M. Rossi, G. Zanchetta, S. Klussmann, N. A. Clark, and T. Bellini 

Physical Review Letters 110, 107801 (2013)

2012

 Self-assembly of short DNA duplexes: from a coarse-grained model to experiments through a theoretical link

C. De Michele, L. Rovigatti, T. Bellini, F. Sciortino

Soft Matter 8, 8388 (2012)

Alignment of the columnar liquid crystal phase of nano-DNA by confinement in channels

D.K. Yoon, G.P. Smith, E. Tsai, M. Moran, D.M. Walba, T. Bellini, I.I. Smalyukh, N.A. Clark

Liquid Crystals 39, 571 (2012)

Characterizing concentrated, multiply-scattering and actively-driven fluorescent systems with confocal differential dynamic microscopy

P. J. Lu, F. Giavazzi, T. E. Angelini, E. Zaccarelli, F. Jargstorff, A. B. Schofield, J. N. Wilking, M. B. Romanowsky, D. A. Weitz, and R. Cerbino 

Physical Review Letters 108, 218103 (2012)

Two-dimensional x-ray beam phase sensing 

S. Bérujon, E. Ziegler, R. Cerbino, and L. Peverini 

Physical Review Letters 108, 158102 (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, e47867 (2012)

Gradient-driven fluctuations in micro-gravity 

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 (2012)

Effect of configuration of the microchannels fabricated by femtosecond laser micromachining on topological defects in confined liquid 

K. C. Vishnubhatla, R. Osellame, G. Cerullo, F. Serra, R. Cerbino, M. Buscaglia and T. Bellini

Proceedings of SPIE 82490B (2012)

DNA binding and cytotoxicity of fluorescent curcumin-based Zn(II) complexes 

D. Pucci, T. Bellini, A. Crispini, I. D'Agnano, P. Liguori, S. Pirillo, P. Garcia-Orduna, A. Valentini and G. Zanchetta

MedChemComm 3, 462 (2012)

Liquid crystal self-assembly of random-sequence DNA oligomers 

T. Bellini, G. Zanchetta, T. P. Fraccia, R. Cerbino, E. Tsai, G. P. Smith, M. J. Moran, D. M. Walba and N. A. Clark

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109, 1110 (2012)

Self-Assembly of bifunctional patchy particles with anisotropic shape into polymers chains: theory, simulations, and experiments 

C. De Michele, T. Bellini, and F. Sciortino

Macromolecules 45, 1090 (2012)

Electric birefringence of dispersions of platelets 

M. L. Jimenez, L. Fornasari, F. Mantegazza, M. C. D. Mourad, and T. Bellini

Langmuir 28, 251 (2012)

DNA-Based Soft Phases

T. Bellini, R. Cerbino, and G. Zanchetta

Topics in Current Chemistry 318, 225 (2012)

2011

Kinetics of colloidal fractal aggregation by differential dynamic microscopy  

F. Ferri, A. D'Angelo, M. Lee, A. Lotti, M. C. Pigazzini, K. Singh and R. Cerbino

The European Physical Journal - Special Topics, 199, 139 (2011)

Topological defects of nematic liquid crystals confined in porous networks 

F. Serra, K. C. Vishnubhatla, M. Buscaglia, R. Cerbino, R. Osellame, G. Cerullo, and T. Bellini

Soft Matter, 7, 10945 (2011)

The emergence of memory in liquid crystals  

F. Serra, M. Buscaglia, and T. Bellini

Materials Today, 14, 488 (2011)

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

Physical Review Letters, 106, 244502 (2011)

Fractal fronts of diffusion in microgravity

A. Vailati, R. Cerbino, S. Mazzoni, C.J. Takacs, D.S. Cannell, and M. Giglio

Nature Communications, 2, 290 (2011)

Making connections between ultrafast protein folding kinetics and molecular dynamics simulations 

T. Cellmer, M. Buscaglia, E.R. Henry, J. Hofrichter, and W.A. Eaton

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 108, 6103 (2011)

Memory and topological frustration in nematic liquid crystals confined in porous materials 

T. Araki, M. Buscaglia, T. Bellini, and H. Tanaka

Nature Materials, 10, 303 (2011)

2010

Elastic anisotropy at a glance: the optical signature of disclination lines 

M. Buscaglia, G. Lombardo, L. Cavalli, R. Barberi, and T. Bellini

Soft Matter, 6, 5434 (2010)

Right-handed double-helix ultrashort DNA yields chiral nematic phases with both right- and left-handed director twist 

G. Zanchetta, F. Giavazzi, M. Nakata, M. Buscaglia, R. Cerbino, N.A. Clark, and T. Bellini

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 107, 17497 (2010)

Towards a Universal Method for the Stable and Clean Functionalization of Inert Perfluoropolymer Nanoparticles: Exploiting Photopolymerizable Amphiphilic Diacetylenes 

C. Morasso, M. Colombo, S. Ronchi, L. Polito, S. Mazzucchelli, D. Monti, M. Buscaglia, T. Bellini, and D. Prosperi

Advanced Functional Materials, 20, 3932 (2010)

Exploring soft matter with x-rays: from the discovery of the DNA structure to the challenges of free electron lasers 

G. Zanchetta, and R. Cerbino

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 22, 323102 (2010)

Noise in laser speckle correlation and imaging techniques 

S.E. Skipetrov, J. Peuser, R. Cerbino, P. Zakharov, B. Weber, and F. Scheffold 

Optics Express, 18, 14519 (2010) 

The electrokinetic behavior of charged non-spherical colloids 

M.L. Jimenez, and T. Bellini

Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 15, 131 (2010)

2009

Spontaneous self-assembly of nucleic acids: liquid crystal condensation of complementary sequences in mixtures of DNA and RNA oligomers 

G. Zanchetta

Liquid Crystals Today, 18, 40 (2009)

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)

Scattering information obtained by optical microscopy: Differential dynamic microscopy and beyond 

F. Giavazzi, D. Brogioli, V. Trappe, T. Bellini, and R. Cerbino

Physical Review E, 80, 031403 (2009)

Field-induced clearing in sphere-sphere and rod-sphere binary mixtures of charged colloidal particles 

L. Fornasari, F. Mantegazza, M.L. Jimenez, M. Buscaglia, and T. Bellini

Physical Review E, 79, 060401(R) (2009)

Bistable Heat Transfer in a Nanofluid 

G. Donzelli, R. Cerbino, and A. Vailati

Physical Review Letters, 102, 104503 (2009)

Dispersed Phantom Scatterer Technique Reveals Subtle Differences in Substrate Recognition by Phospholipase D Inactive Mutants 

C. Morasso, T. Bellini, D. Monti, M. Bassi, D. Prosperi, and S. Riva

ChemBioChem, 10, 639 (2009)

Kinetics of Contact Formation and End-to-End Distance Distributions of Swollen Disordered Peptides 

A. Soranno, R. Longhi, T. Bellini, and M. Buscaglia

Biophysical Journal, 96, 1515 (2009)

2008

Liquid crystal ordering of DNA and RNA oligomers with partially overlapping sequences 

G. Zanchetta, M. Nakata, M. Buscaglia, N. A. Clark, and T. Bellini

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 20, 494214 (2008)

Physical Polymerization and Liquid Crystallization of RNA Oligomers 

G. Zanchetta, T. Bellini, M. Nakata, and N. A. Clark

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130, 12864 (2008)

Liquid Crystal Alignment on a Chiral Surface: Interfacial Interaction with Sheared DNA Films 

M. Nakata, G. Zanchetta, M. Buscaglia, T. Bellini, and N. A. Clark

Langmuir, 24, 10390 (2008) - Cover Article

Differential dynamic microscopy: Probing wavevector-dependent dynamics with a microscope 

R. Cerbino, and V. Trappe

Physical Review Letters, 100, 188102 (2008)

X-ray scattering information obtained from near-field speckle 

R. Cerbino, L. Peverini, M. Potenza, A. Robert, P. Bösecke, and M. Giglio

Nature Physics, 4, 238 (2008)

Phase separation and liquid crystallization of complementary sequences in mixtures of nanoDNA oligomers 

G. Zanchetta, M. Nakata, M. Buscaglia, T. Bellini, and N. A. Clark

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 105, 1111 (2008)

2007

End-to-End Stacking and Liquid Crystal Condensation of 6– to 20–Base Pair DNA Duplexes 

M. Nakata, G. Zanchetta, B. D. Chapman, C. D. Jones, J. O. Cross, R. Pindak, T. Bellini, and N. A. Clark

Science, 318, 1276 (2007)

Avidin Decorated Core–Shell Nanoparticles for Biorecognition Studies by Elastic Light Scattering

D. Prosperi, C. Morasso, P. Tortora, D. Monti, and T. Bellini

ChemBioChem, 8, 1021 (2007)

Electrokinetics in extremely bimodal suspensions 

M. L. Jimenez, F. J. Arroyo, A. V. Delgado, F. Mantegazza, T. Bellini, and R. Rica

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 309, 296 (2007)

Coil-to-globule transition of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) doped with chiral amino acidic comonomers 

F. Lebon, M. Caggioni, F. Bignotti, S. Abbate, F. Gangemi, G. Longhi, F. Mantegazza, and T. Bellini

Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 111, 2372 (2007)

2006

Phantom Nanoparticles as Probes of Biomolecular Interactions

D. Prosperi, C. Morasso, F. Mantegazza, M. Buscaglia, L. Hough, and T. Bellini

Small, 2, 1060 (2006)

Memory effects in nematics with quenched disorder

M. Buscaglia, T. Bellini, C. Chiccoli, F. Mantegazza, P. Pasini, M. Rotunno, and C. Zannoni

Physical Review E, 74, 011706 (2006)

Optical and electro-optical derivation of the pretransitional behavior of orientational and shear viscosities in the isotropic phase of liquid crystals

M. L. Jiménez, F. Mantegazza, L. Gallazzi, G. Zanchetta, and T. Bellini

Physical Review E, 74, 011707 (2006)

Effects of Denaturants on the Dynamics of Loop Formation in Polypeptides

M. Buscaglia, L. J. Lapidus, W. A. Eaton, and J. Hofrichter

Biophysical Journal, 91, 276 (2006)

2005

Light scattered by model phantom bacteria reveals molecular interactions at their surface

A. Ghetta, D. Prosperi, F. Mantegazza, L. Panza, S. Riva, and T. Bellini

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 102, 15866 (2005)

Anomalous field-induced particle orientation in dilute mixtures of charged rod-like and spherical colloids

F. Mantegazza, M. Caggioni, M. L. Jimenez, and T. Bellini

Nature Physics, 1, 103 (2005)

Pretransitional behavior of a water in liquid crystal microemulsion close to the demixing transition: Evidence for intermicellar attraction mediated by paranematic fluctuations

M. Caggioni, A. Giacometti, T. Bellini, N. A. Clark, F. Mantegazza, and A. Maritan

Journal of Chemical Physics, 122, 214721 (2005)

Nematics with Quenched Disorder: Pinning Out the Origin of the Memory

M. Rotunno, M. Buscaglia, C. Chiccoli, F. Mantegazza, P. Pasini, T. Bellini, and C. Zannoni

Physical Review Letters, 94, 097802 (2005)

Determination of Ultrafast Protein Folding Rates from Loop Formation Dynamics 

M. Buscaglia, J. Kubelka, W. A. Eaton, and J. Hofrichter

Journal of Molecular Biology, 347, 657 (2005)

2004

Phase behavior of polarizable spherocylinders in external fields

M. Rotunno, T. Bellini, Y. Lansac, and M. A. Glaser

Journal of Chemical Physics, 121, 5541 (2004)

Isotropic to Nematic Transition of Aerosil-Disordered Liquid Crystals

M. Caggioni, A. Roshi, S. Barjami, F. Mantegazza, G.S. Iannacchione, and T. Bellini

Physical Review Letters, 93, 127801 (2004)

Guided propagation in electric-field controlled hybrid nematic waveguides

M. Marangoni, R. Osellame, R. Ramponi, M. Buscaglia, and T. Bellini

Journal of Applied Physics, 95, 5972 (2004)

2003

Kinetics of Intramolecular Contact Formation in a Denatured Protein

M. Buscaglia, B. Schuler, L. J. Lapidus, W. A. Eaton, and J. Hofrichter

Journal of Molecular Biology, 332, 9 (2003)

Fluctuation mediated interaction and phase separation of nanoparticles in a liquid crystal solvent

T. Bellini, M. Caggioni, N.A. Clark, F. Mantegazza, A. Maritan, and A. Pelizzola

Physical Review Letters, 91, 085704 (2003)

Isotropic to smectic A phase transitions in a porous matrix: a case of multiporous phase coexistence

T. Bellini, N.A. Clark, and D.R. Link

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 15, S175 (2003)

2002

Electro-optic characteristics of the Vries tilted smectic liquid crystals: analog behavior in the smectic A* and smectic C* phases

N.A. Clark, T. Bellini et al.

Applied Physics Letters, 80, 4097 (2002)

Effect of ionic mobility on the enhanced dielectric and electro-optic susceptibility of suspensions: theory and experiments

F.J. Arroyo, A.V. Delgado, F. Carrique, M.L. Jimenez, T. Bellini, and F. Mantegazza

Journal of Chemical Physics, 116, 10973 (2002)

Field controlled optical profile of a waveguide having a liquid crystalline core

M. Marangoni, M. Buscaglia, R. Osellame, R. Ramponi, F. Mantegazza, and T. Bellini

Applied Physics Letters, 81, 2337 (2002)

Nematics with quenched disorder: how long will it take to heal?

T. Bellini, M. Buscaglia, C. Chiccoli, F. Mantegazza, P. Pasini, and C. Zannoni

Physical Review Letters, 88, 245506 (2002)

2001

Universality and scaling of the disordering of a smectic liquid crystal

T. Bellini, L. Radzihovsky, J. Toner, and N.A. Clark

Science, 294, 1074 (2001)

2000

Nematics with quenched disorder:  What is left when long range order is disrupted?

T. Bellini, M. Buscaglia, C. Chiccoli, F. Mantegazza, P. Pasini, and C. Zannoni

Physical Review Letters, 85, 1008 (2000)