Modeling microgels: from microscopic design to macroscopic description

Project Information

MIMIC

Grant agreement ID: 681597

DOI 10.3030/681597

Project closed

EC signature date 10 March 2016

Start date 1 June 2016

End date 31 January 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 314 375,00

EU contribution € 1 314 375,00

Coordinated by

CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
Italy

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (47)

Proteinlike dynamical transition of hydrated polymer chains

Author(s): L. Tavagnacco, M. Zanatta, E. Buratti, B. Rosi, B. Frick, F. Natali, J. Ollivier, E. Chiessi, M. Bertoldo, E. Zaccarelli, A. Orecchini
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 3/1, 2021, Page(s) 013191, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.3.013191

Gellan Gum Microgels as Effective Agents for a Rapid Cleaning of Paper

Author(s): Benedetta Di Napoli, Silvia Franco, Leonardo Severini, Manuel Tumiati, Elena Buratti, Mattia Titubante, Valentina Nigro, Nicoletta Gnan, Laura Micheli, Barbara Ruzicka, Claudia Mazzuca, Roberta Angelini, Mauro Missori, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: ACS Applied Polymer Materials, Issue 2/7, 2020, Page(s) 2791-2801, ISSN 2637-6105
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.0c00342

Glass and Jamming Rheology in Soft Particles Made of PNIPAM and Polyacrylic Acid.

Author(s): Silvia Franco; Elena Buratti; Valentina Nigro; Emanuela Zaccarelli; Barbara Ruzicka; Roberta Angelini
Published in: International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Issue 5, 2021, ISSN 1422-0067
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22084032

Molecular insights on poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) coil-to-globule transition induced by pressure

Author(s): Letizia Tavagnacco, Ester Chiessi, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021, ISSN 1463-9084
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0cp06452a

Onset of criticality in hyper-auxetic polymer networks

Author(s): Ninarello, Andrea; Ruiz-Franco, José; Zaccarelli, Emanuela
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28026-z

Universality class of the motility-induced critical point in large scale off-lattice simulations of active particles

Author(s): Claudio Maggi; Matteo Paoluzzi; Andrea Crisanti; Emanuela Zaccarelli; Nicoletta Gnan
Published in: Soft MAtter, Issue 3, 2021, ISSN 1744-6848
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0sm02162h

The Double-Faced Electrostatic Behavior of PNIPAm Microgels

Author(s): Simona Sennato, Edouard Chauveau, Stefano Casciardi, Federico Bordi, Domenico Truzzolillo
Published in: Polymers, Issue 13/7, 2021, Page(s) 1153, ISSN 2073-4360
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym13071153

On the Role of Competing Interactions in Charged Colloids with Short-Range Attraction

Author(s): José Ruiz-Franco, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, Issue 12/1, 2021, Page(s) 51-70, ISSN 1947-5454
Publisher: Annual Reviews Inc.
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-061020-053046

Molecular description of the coil-to-globule transition of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in water/ethanol mixture at low alcohol concentration

Author(s): Letizia Tavagnacco, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Ester Chiessi
Published in: Journal of Molecular Liquids, Issue 297, 2020, Page(s) 111928, ISSN 0167-7322
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2019.111928

Static and dynamic properties of block copolymer based grafted nanoparticles across the non-ergodicity transition

Author(s): Daniele Parisi, José Ruiz-Franco, Yingbo Ruan, Chen Yiang Liu, Benoit Loppinet, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Dimitris Vlassopoulos
Published in: Physics of Fluids, Issue 32/12, 2020, Page(s) 127101, ISSN 1070-6631
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0031862

Thermoresponsivity of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgels in water-trehalose solution and its relation to protein behavior

Author(s): Benedetta PetraRosi, Letizia Tavagnacco, Lucia Comez, Paola Sassi, Maria Ricci, Elena Buratti, Monica Bertoldo, Caterina Petrillo, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Ester Chiessi, Silvia Corezzi
Published in: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2021, Page(s) 705-718, ISSN 0021-9797
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.07.006

Tuning the rheological behavior of colloidal gels through competing interactions

Author(s): J. Ruiz-Franco, F. Camerin, N. Gnan, E. Zaccarelli
Published in: Physical Review Materials, Issue 4/4, 2020, ISSN 2475-9953
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevmaterials.4.045601

Equilibrium gels of limited valence colloids

Author(s): Francesco Sciortino, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, Issue 30, 2017, Page(s) 90-96, ISSN 1359-0294
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2017.06.001

Effective potentials induced by self-assembly of patchy particles

Author(s): Nicolás Ariel García, Nicoletta Gnan, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 13/36, 2017, Page(s) 6051-6058, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/C7SM01293D

In Silico Synthesis of Microgel Particles

Author(s): Nicoletta Gnan, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Maxime Bergman, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: Macromolecules, Issue 50/21, 2017, Page(s) 8777-8786, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b01600

Dynamical and structural signatures of the glass transition in emulsions

Author(s): Chi Zhang, Nicoletta Gnan, Thomas G Mason, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Frank Scheffold
Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, Issue 2016/9, 2016, Page(s) 094003, ISSN 1742-5468
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2016/09/094003

Swelling of responsive-microgels: experiments versus models

Author(s): Valentina Nigro, Roberta Angelini, Monica Bertoldo, Barbara Ruzicka
Published in: Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Issue 532, 2017, Page(s) 389-396, ISSN 0927-7757
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2017.04.059

Dynamical behavior of microgels of interpenetrated polymer networks

Author(s): Valentina Nigro, Roberta Angelini, Monica Bertoldo, Fabio Bruni, Maria Antonietta Ricci, Barbara Ruzicka
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 13/30, 2017, Page(s) 5185-5193, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/C7SM00739F

Discontinous change from thermally- to geometrically-dominated effective interactions in colloidal solutions

Author(s): Nicoletta Gnan, Francesco Sciortino, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 12/48, 2016, Page(s) 9649-9656, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/C6SM01872F

Internal structure and swelling behaviour of in silico microgel particles

Author(s): Lorenzo Rovigatti, Nicoletta Gnan, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Issue 30/4, 2018, Page(s) 044001, ISSN 0953-8984
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/aaa0f4

Crystal-to-Crystal Transition of Ultrasoft Colloids under Shear

Author(s): J. Ruiz-Franco, J. Marakis, N. Gnan, J. Kohlbrecher, M. Gauthier, M. P. Lettinga, D. Vlassopoulos, E. Zaccarelli
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 120/7, 2018, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.078003

On the molecular origin of the cooperative coil-to-globule transition of poly( N -isopropylacrylamide) in water

Author(s): L. Tavagnacco, E. Zaccarelli, E. Chiessi
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 20/15, 2018, Page(s) 9997-10010, ISSN 1463-9076
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c8cp00537k

Overcharging and reentrant condensation of thermoresponsive ionic microgels

Author(s): Domenico Truzzolillo, Simona Sennato, Stefano Sarti, Stefano Casciardi, Chiara Bazzoni, Federico Bordi
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 14/20, 2018, Page(s) 4110-4125, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c7sm02357j

Evidence of a low-temperature dynamical transition in concentrated microgels

Author(s): Marco Zanatta, Letizia Tavagnacco, Elena Buratti, Monica Bertoldo, Francesca Natali, Ester Chiessi, Andrea Orecchini, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 4/9, 2018, Page(s) eaat5895, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat5895

On the effect of the thermostat in non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations

Author(s): José Ruiz-Franco, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: The European Physical Journal E, Issue 41/7, 2018, Page(s) 80, ISSN 1292-8941
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2018-11689-4

How to simulate patchy particles

Author(s): Lorenzo Rovigatti, John Russo, Flavio Romano
Published in: The European Physical Journal E, Issue 41/5, 2018, Page(s) 59, ISSN 1292-8941
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2018-11667-x

A new look at effective interactions between microgel particles

Author(s): Maxime J. Bergman, Nicoletta Gnan, Marc Obiols-Rabasa, Janne-Mieke Meijer, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Peter Schurtenberger
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 9/1, 2018, Page(s) 5039, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07332-5

Modelling realistic microgels in an explicit solvent

Author(s): F. Camerin, N. Gnan, L. Rovigatti, E. Zaccarelli
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 8/1, 2018, Page(s) 14426, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32642-5

Numerical modelling of non-ionic microgels: an overview

Author(s): Lorenzo Rovigatti, Nicoletta Gnan, Letizia Tavagnacco, Angel J. Moreno, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: Soft Matter, 2019, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/C8SM02089B

A Colloid Approach to Self-Assembling Antibodies

Author(s): Nicholas Skar-Gislinge, Michela Ronti, Tommy Garting, Christian Rischel, Peter Schurtenberger, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Anna Stradner
Published in: Molecular Pharmaceutics, Issue 16/6, 2019, Page(s) 2394-2404, ISSN 1543-8384
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.9b00019

Water–Polymer Coupling Induces a Dynamical Transition in Microgels

Author(s): Letizia Tavagnacco, Ester Chiessi, Marco Zanatta, Andrea Orecchini, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Issue 10/4, 2019, Page(s) 870-876, ISSN 1948-7185
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00190

Microgels Adsorbed at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces: A Joint Numerical and Experimental Study

Author(s): Fabrizio Camerin, Miguel Ángel Fernández-Rodríguez, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Maria-Nefeli Antonopoulou, Nicoletta Gnan, Andrea Ninarello, Lucio Isa, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 13/4, 2019, Page(s) 4548-4559, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b00390

Critical phenomena in active matter

Author(s): M. Paoluzzi, C. Maggi, U. Marini Bettolo Marconi, N. Gnan
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 94/5, 2016, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.94.052602

The microscopic role of deformation in the dynamics of soft colloids

Author(s): Nicoletta Gnan, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: Nature Physics, 2019, ISSN 1745-2473
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-019-0480-1

Rheological investigation of gels formed by competing interactions: A numerical study

Author(s): José Ruiz-Franco, Nicoletta Gnan, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 150/2, 2019, Page(s) 024905, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5052317

Connecting Elasticity and Effective Interactions of Neutral Microgels: The Validity of the Hertzian Model

Author(s): Lorenzo Rovigatti, Nicoletta Gnan, Andrea Ninarello, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: Macromolecules, 2019, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b00099

q -Independent Slow Dynamics in Atomic and Molecular Systems

Author(s): Philip H. Handle, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Francesco Sciortino
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 122/17, 2019, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.175501

Modeling Microgels with a Controlled Structure across the Volume Phase Transition

Author(s): Andrea Ninarello, Jérôme J. Crassous, Divya Paloli, Fabrizio Camerin, Nicoletta Gnan, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Peter Schurtenberger, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: Macromolecules, Issue 52/20, 2019, Page(s) 7584-7592, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01122

Multi-particle collision dynamics for a coarse-grained model of soft colloids

Author(s): José Ruiz-Franco, Diego Jaramillo-Cano, Manuel Camargo, Christos N. Likos, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 151/7, 2019, Page(s) 074902, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5113588

Numerical insights on ionic microgels: structure and swelling behaviour

Author(s): Giovanni Del Monte, Andrea Ninarello, Fabrizio Camerin, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Nicoletta Gnan, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 15/40, 2019, Page(s) 8113-8128, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c9sm01253b

Charge affinity and solvent effects in numerical simulations of ionic microgels

Author(s): Giovanni Del Monte, Fabrizio Camerin, Andrea Ninarello, Nicoletta Gnan, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Issue 33/8, 2021, Page(s) 084001, ISSN 0953-8984
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/abc4cb

Atomic scale investigation of the volume phase transition in concentrated PNIPAM microgels

Author(s): M. Zanatta, L. Tavagnacco, E. Buratti, E. Chiessi, F. Natali, M. Bertoldo, A. Orecchini, E. Zaccarelli
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 152/20, 2020, Page(s) 204904, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0007112

Microgels at Interfaces Behave as 2D Elastic Particles Featuring Reentrant Dynamics

Author(s): Fabrizio Camerin, Nicoletta Gnan, José Ruiz-Franco, Andrea Ninarello, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: Physical Review X, Issue 10/3, 2020, ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.10.031012

Effect of Chain Polydispersity on the Elasticity of Disordered Polymer Networks.

Author(s): Valerio Sorichetti; Valerio Sorichetti; Andrea Ninarello; José Ruiz-Franco; Virginie Hugouvieux; Walter Kob; Walter Kob; Emanuela Zaccarelli; Lorenzo Rovigatti
Published in: Macromolecules, Issue 5, 2021, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00176

Two-step deswelling in the Volume Phase Transition of thermoresponsive microgels.

Author(s): Giovanni Del Monte; Giovanni Del Monte; Domenico Truzzolillo; Fabrizio Camerin; Andrea Ninarello; Edouard Chauveau; Letizia Tavagnacco; Nicoletta Gnan; Lorenzo Rovigatti; Simona Sennato; Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , National Academy of Sciences, 2021, 118 (37), pp.e2109560118, Issue 6, 2021, ISSN 1091-6490
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2109560118

The effect of internal architecture on the assembly of soft particles at fluid interfaces

Author(s): Jacopo Vialetto, Fabrizio Camerin, Fabio Grillo, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Lucio Isa
Published in: ACS Nano, 2021, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c02486

Volume fraction determination of microgel composed of interpenetrating polymer networks of PNIPAM and polyacrylic acid

Author(s): S Franco, E Buratti, B Ruzicka, V Nigro, N Zoratto, P Matricardi, E Zaccarelli, R Angelini
Published in: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2021, ISSN 1361-648X
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/abe1ec

Other (1)

Soft colloids for complex interfacial assemblies

Author(s): Fabrizio Camerin and Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2122051119