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Selected Publications
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, in press
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
PNAS, in press
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, in
press
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, in press
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)
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