Program

July 4th, 2024

• 10:00 - 10:45 Participant registration and welcome coffee

Invited talk

• 10:45 - 11:30 Albert P.H.J. Schenning  Light responsive liquid crystal polymers

Session 1: "Functional Soft Materials and Technologies"

• 11:30 - 11:45 Alessandra Del Giudice  Unfolding and refolding of Albumin induced by a time-programmable dissipative pH-jump

• 11:45 - 12:00 Caterina Dallari  LipoGold tags as game-changer multifunctional probes for SERS-based applications

• 12:00 - 12:15 Sara Bescós Ramo  Amino-yne reaction for hydrogel synthesis: revealing the chemistry underlying the cleavage of β-aminoacrylate based crosslinks

• 12:15 - 12:30 Ivan Novikau Magneto-Controllability in Magnetic Nanogels

• 12:30 - 12:45 Valentina Nigro Complex behaviours in thin films of soft microgels

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch break

Invited talk

• 14:00 - 14:45 Damien Baigl Synthetic self-assembly with life-like properties

Session 2: "Flow, Transport and Interfacial Phenomena"

• 14:45 - 15:00 Beatrice Cipriani A mesoscale model for the diffusion of nanoparticles in biological fluids: the challenge of the protein corona.

• 15:00 - 15:15 Daniele Filippi Fluidization and wall slip of dense emulsion boosted by directional surface roughness

• 15:15 - 15:30 Matteo Bessega Thermal diffusion of hard sphere mixtures

• 15:30 - 15:45 Alessio Meggiolaro Development of a droplet microfluidic device to isolate extracellular vesicles based on magnetic bead capturing

15:45 - 17:15 Poster Session and Coffee Break

Keynote

• 17:15 - 17:45 Emanuela Zaccarelli Modeling microgel particles

Session 3: "Active Matter and Biological Soft Matter"

• 17:45 - 18:00 Gavino Bassu Transport of bacteria in hydrogels with tunable porosity: from active motion to anomalous diffusion

• 18:00 - 18:15 Andrea Zendrini Biomolecular corona dynamics depends on extracellular vesicle origin

• 18:15 - 18:30 Francesco Avanzini Nonideal Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Multiple Routes to Instability

• 18:30 - 18:45 Matteo Becchi “Layer-by-layer” unsupervised clustering of noise time-series data

• 18:45 - 19:00 Ilaria Mosca Multi-scale diffusion in therapeutic monoclonal antibody solutions

20:30 Conference dinner

July 5th, 2024

Invited talk

• 9:00 - 9:45 Martina Havenith-Newen  Probing free energy in reactions by terahertz (THz) spectroscopy - Ask the water!

Session 4: "Self Assembly and Aggregation Phenomena"

• 9:45 - 10:00 Federico Caimi  Ferroelectric nematics as electric field guides

• 10:00 - 10:15 Stefano Marni  Fluid Jets and Polar Domains in Ferroelectric Liquid Droplets

• 10:15 - 10:30 Camilla Beneduce  SAT-assembly: the effective path to tailored self-assembly and to a deeper understanding of structure diversity

• 10:30 - 10:45 Alejandro Martinez-Bueno Adenine based columnar liquid crystals with semiconductivity and chirality amplification.

10:45 - 11:15 Poster Session and Coffee Break

Sponsors' Session

• 11:15 - 11:35 Xenocs

• 11:35 - 11:45 Alfatest

Session 5: "Self Assembly and Aggregation Phenomena"

• 11:45 - 12:00 Ilaria De Santis Plasmonic nanoparticles to probe the mechanical properties of synthetic lipid bilayers

• 12:00 - 12:15 Diogo Pinto Colored Kirigami: Inverse design of planar nets to self-fold 3D shells

• 12:15 - 12:30 Simone Donato Liquid Crystalline Networks as multi.responsive microstructures

• 12:30 - 12:45 Maria Grazia Izzo The liquid-liquid phase transition in complex systems: the interplay between liquid-liquid and ferroelctric phase transitions

• 12:45 - 13:00 Maria Izabel Muniz Foscarini Assessment and optimization of structural heterogeneity of a DNA aptamer inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 infection

13:00 - 14:15 Lunch break

Keynote

• 14:15 - 14:45 Roberto Cerbino Yielding under the microscope

Session 6: "Arrested Systems and Dynamical Processes"

• 14:45 - 15:00 Domenico Truzzolillo Emerging scenarios on the yielding transition of soft colloids

• 15:00 - 15:15 Rafael Gervasone Optothermally-Induced Stress in Soft Gels

15:00 - 15:30 Awards Ceremony and Closing Remarks

Notes

• Coffee breaks will be provided during the conference.

• Posters and sponsor booths are situated in the same area where coffee breaks will be served.

• The conference does not provide lunch breaks. However, bars and food shops are conveniently located next to the conference area and in the immediate vicinity.

• Reservations for the conference dinner will be accepted later through a separate form.

• When planning your stay, keep in mind that participants not present during the awards ceremony will not be eligible for the awards.