2024
"Anisotropic functionalized platelets: percolation, porosity and network properties”, Carina Karner and Emanuela Bianchi, Nanoscale Advances, 6, 443
“Liquid-liquid phase separation driven by charge heterogeneity", Daniele Notarmuzi and Emanuela Bianchi, submitted, arXiv:2401.10655
"Partially bonded crystals: a pathway to porosity and polymorphism", Carina Karner and Emanuela Bianchi, submitted, arXiv:2405.01300
"Dilute suspensions of Janus rods: the role of bond and shape anisotropy", Carlo Andrea De Filippo, Sara Del Galdo, Emanuela Bianchi, Cristiano De Michele and Barbara Capone, submitted, arXiv:2406.08083
2020
"A Matter of Size and Placement: Varying the Patch Size of Anisotropic Patchy Colloids", Carina Karner, Felix Müller and Emanuela Bianchi, Int. J. Mol. Sci., 21, 8621
"Shape control of soft patchy nanoparticles under confinement", Ivonne Elisabeth Ventura Rosales, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Emanuela Bianchi, Christos N. Likos, Emanuele Locatelli, Nanoscale, 12, 21188-21197
"Hierarchical self-assembly of patchy colloidal platelets ", Carina Karner, Christoph Dellago and Emanuela Bianchi, Soft Matter, 16, 2774
"How patchiness controls the properties of chain-like assemblies of colloidal platelets", Carina Karner, Christoph Dellago and Emanuela Bianchi, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 32, 204001
2019
"Patchy colloids: a theoretical and numerical perspective on functionalized units for self-assembly", Emanuela Bianchi, invited chapter for the book “Self-Assembly of Nano- and Micro-structured Materials using Colloidal Engineering", Elsevier, edited by Dwaipayan Chakrabarti and Stefano Sacanna, Frontiers of Nanoscience, 13, 37-60, ISBN: 978-0-08-102302-0
"Design of patchy rhombi: from close-packed tilings to open lattices", Carina Karner, Christoph Dellago and Emanuela Bianchi, Nano Letters, 19, 7806
2018
“Tuning the order of colloidal monolayers: assembly of heterogeneously charged colloids close to a patterned substrate", Emanuele Locatelli and Emanuela Bianchi, Soft Matter, 14, 8119
“Molecular dynamics simulations of inverse patchy colloids", Silvano Ferrari, Gerhard Kahl and Emanuela Bianchi, The European Physical Journal E, 41, 43
2017
“Hierarchical self-organization of soft patchy nanoparticles into morphologically diverse aggregates", Ioana C. Garlea, Emanuela Bianchi, Barbara Capone, Lorenzo Rovigatti and Christos N. Likos, Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 30, 1
“Inverse patchy colloids: Synthesis, modeling and self-organization", Emanuela Bianchi, Peter D. J. van Oostrum, Christos N. Likos and Gerhard Kahl, Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 30, 18
“Limiting the valence: advancements and new perspectives on patchy colloids, soft functionalized nanoparticles and biomolecules”, Emanuela Bianchi, Barbara Capone, Ivan Coluzza, Lorenzo Rovigatti and Peter D.J. van Oostrum, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 19, 19847
“Spontaneous assembly of a hybrid crystal-liquid phase in inverse patchy colloid systems”, SilvanoFerrari, Emanuela Bianchi and Gerhard Kahl, Nanoscale, 9, 1956
“Modeling the effective interactions between heterogeneously charged colloids to design responsive self- assembled materials”, Emanuela Bianchi, invited chapter for the book “Design of Self-assembling Materials", Springer, edited by Ivan Coluzza, ISBN 978-3-319-71578-0
2016
“Static and dynamic properties of inverse patchy colloids”, Gerhard Kahl, Emanuela Bianchi and Silvano Ferrari, Proceedings of the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi", Course 193 “Soft Matter Self- Assembly", edited by C. N. Likos, F. Sciortino, E. Zaccarelli and P. Ziherl (IOS, Amsterdam; SIF, Bologna), DOI:10.3254/978-1-61499-662-0-291
2015
“Generalized inverse patchy colloid model”, Monika Stipsitz, Gerhard Kahl and Emanuela Bianchi, J.Chem. Phys., 142, 114905
“Inverse patchy colloids with small patches: fluid structure and dynamical slowing down”, SilvanoFerrari, Emanuela Bianchi, Yurii Kalyuzhnyi and Gerhard Kahl, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 27, 234104
“Patchy Particles”, Emanuela Bianchi, Gerhard Kahl, Christos N. Likos and Francesco Sciortino J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 27, 230301
“Phase behaviour of inverse patchy colloids: effect of the model parameters”, Eva G. Noya and Emanuela Bianchi, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 27, 234103
“Self assembly of Janus particles under shear”, Arash Nikoubashman, Emanuela Bianchi and Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos, Soft Matter, 11, 3767
“Soft-patchy nanoparticles: modeling and self-organization”, Emanuela Bianchi, BarbaraCapone, Gerhard Kahl and Christos Likos, Faraday Discussions, 181, 123
“Theoretical and numerical investigations of inverse patchy colloids in the fluid phase”, Yurii Kalyuzhnyi, Emanuela Bianchi, Silvano Ferrari and Gerhard Kahl, J. Chem. Phys., 142, 114108
2014
“Phase diagram of inverse patchy colloids assembling into an equilibrium laminar phase”, Eva G. Noya, Günther Doppelbauer, Ismene Kolovos, Gerhard Kahl and Emanuela Bianchi, Soft Matter, 10, 8464
“Tunable assembly of heterogeneously charged colloids”, Emanuela Bianchi, Christos N. Likos and Gerhard Kahl, Nano Letters, 14, 3412
2013
“Self-assembly of heterogeneously charged particles under confinement”, Emanuela Bianchi, Christos N. Likos and Gerhard Kahl, ACS Nano, 7, 4657
2012
“Competing ordered structures formed by particles with a regular tetrahedral patch decoration”, Gunther Doppelbauer, Eva G. Noya, Emanuela Bianchi and Gerhard Kahl, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 24, 284124
“Predicting patchy particle crystals: variable box shape simulations and evolutionary algorithms", Emanuela Bianchi, Gunther Doppelbauer, Laura Filion, Marjolein Dijkstra and Gerhard Kahl, J. Chem. Phys., 136, 214102
“Self-assembly scenarios of patchy colloidal particles”, Gunther Doppelbauer, Eva G. Noya, Emanuela Bianchi and Gerhard Kahl, Soft Matter, 8, 7768
2011
“Inverse patchy colloids: from microscopic description to mesoscopic coarse-graining”, Emanuela Bianchi, Gerhard Kahl and Christos N. Likos, Soft Matter, 7, 8313
“Patchy colloids: state of the art and perspectives”, Emanuela Bianchi, Ronald Blaak and Christos N.L ikos, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., Perspective Article, 13, 6397
2010
“Self-assembly scenarios of patchy particles in two-dimensions”, Gunther Doppelbauer, Emanuela Bianchi and Gerhard Kahl, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 22, 104105
2008
“Theoretical and numerical estimate of the gas-liquid critical point of a primitive model for silica”, Emanuela Bianchi, Piero Tartaglia and Francesco Sciortino, J. Chem. Phys., 129, 224904
“Theoretical and numerical study of the phase diagram of patchy colloids: ordered and disordered patch arrangements”, Emanuela Bianchi, Piero Tartaglia, Emanuela Zaccarelli and Francesco Sciortino, J. Chem. Phys., 128, 144504
2007
“Fully solvable equilibrium self-assembly process: fine-tuning the clusters size and the connectivity in patchy particle systems”, Emanuela Bianchi, Piero Tartaglia, Emilia La Nave and Francesco Sciortino, J. Phys. Chem. B., 111, 11765
“Self-assembly of patchy particles into polymer chains: a parameter-free comparison between Wertheim theory and Monte Carlo simulation”, Francesco Sciortino, Emanuela Bianchi, Jack F. Douglas and Piero Tartaglia, J. Chem Phys., 126, 194903
2006
“Phase diagram of patchy colloids: towards empty liquids”, Emanuela Bianchi, Julio Largo, Piero Tartaglia, Emanuela Zaccarelli and Francesco Sciortino, Phys. Rev. Lett., 97, 168301