Francesco Varrato
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Fields of expertise
Simulation and theory of coarse grained models of soft matter. Studies on colloidal gels, polymer melts, supercooled liquids and glassy systems. Research on physical fractals and dynamically arrested amorphous structures.
Publications
Selected publications
| Francesco Varrato, Giuseppe Foffi Molecular Physics, Volume 109, Issue 22, 2011 |
Apollonian packings as physical fractals |
| Lorenzo Di Michele, Francesco Varrato, Jurij Kotar, Simon H Nathan, Giuseppe Foffi, Erika Eiser Nature Communications volume 4, Article number: 2007 (2013) |
Multistep kinetic self-assembly of DNA-coated colloids |
| Francesco Varrato, Lorenzo Di Michele, Maxim Belushkin, Nicolas Dorsaz, Simon H Nathan, Erika Eiser, Giuseppe Foffi PNAS November 20, 2012 109 (47) 19155-19160 |
Arrested demixing opens route to bigels |
| Lorenzo Di Michele, D Fiocco, F Varrato, Srikanth Sastry, Erika Eiser, Giuseppe Foffi Soft Matter, 2014, 10, 3633-3648 |
Aggregation dynamics, structure, and mechanical properties of bigels |
| Biagio Nigro, Claudio Grimaldi, Peter Ryser, Francesco Varrato, Giuseppe Foffi, Peter J Lu Phys. Rev. E 87, 062312 – Published 19 June 2013 |
Enhanced tunneling conductivity induced by gelation of attractive colloids |
| Francesco Varrato EPFL PhD Thesis |
Routes to Novel Colloidal Gels |
| Francesco Varrato Pisa Univesity Master Thesis |
Correlazione temporale della velocità in liquidi molecolari |