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New metastable form of ice and its role in the homogeneous crystallization of water by Russo, John, Romano, Flavio, Tanaka, Hajime

“…The homogeneous crystallization of water at low temperature is believed to occur through the direct nucleation of cubic (I c ) and hexagonal (I h ) ices. Here,…”
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Patterning symmetry in the rational design of colloidal crystals by Romano, Flavio, Sciortino, Francesco

“…Colloidal particles have the right size to form ordered structures with periodicities comparable to the wavelength of visible light. The tantalizing colours of…”
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Glass Forming Ability in Systems with Competing Orderings by Russo, John, Romano, Flavio, Tanaka, Hajime

“…Some liquids, if cooled rapidly enough to avoid crystallization, can be frozen into a nonergodic glassy state. The tendency for a material to form a glass when…”
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Designing Patchy Interactions to Self-Assemble Arbitrary Structures by Romano, Flavio, Russo, John, Kroc, Lukáš, Šulc, Petr

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A comparison between parallelization approaches in molecular dynamics simulations on GPUs by Rovigatti, Lorenzo, Šulc, Petr, Reguly, István Z., Romano, Flavio

“…We test the relative performances of two different approaches to the computation of forces for molecular dynamics simulations on graphics processing units. A…”
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Sequence-dependent thermodynamics of a coarse-grained DNA model by Šulc, Petr, Romano, Flavio, Ouldridge, Thomas E, Rovigatti, Lorenzo, Doye, Jonathan P K, Louis, Ard A

“…We introduce a sequence-dependent parametrization for a coarse-grained DNA model [T. E. Ouldridge, A. A. Louis, and J. P. K. Doye, J. Chem. Phys. 134, 085101…”
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Re-entrant DNA gels by Bomboi, Francesca, Romano, Flavio, Leo, Manuela, Fernandez-Castanon, Javier, Cerbino, Roberto, Bellini, Tommaso, Bordi, Federico, Filetici, Patrizia, Sciortino, Francesco

“…DNA is acquiring a primary role in material development, self-assembling by design into complex supramolecular aggregates, the building block of a…”
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DNA hybridization kinetics: zippering, internal displacement and sequence dependence by Ouldridge, Thomas E, Sulc, Petr, Romano, Flavio, Doye, Jonathan P K, Louis, Ard A

“…Although the thermodynamics of DNA hybridization is generally well established, the kinetics of this classic transition is less well understood. Providing such…”
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Computing phase diagrams for a quasicrystal-forming patchy-particle system by Reinhardt, Aleks, Romano, Flavio, Doye, Jonathan P K

“…We introduce an approach to computing the free energy of quasicrystals, which we use to calculate phase diagrams for systems of two-dimensional patchy…”
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A nucleotide-level coarse-grained model of RNA by Šulc, Petr, Romano, Flavio, Ouldridge, Thomas E, Doye, Jonathan P K, Louis, Ard A

“…We present a new, nucleotide-level model for RNA, oxRNA, based on the coarse-graining methodology recently developed for the oxDNA model of DNA. The model is…”
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Influence of patch-size variability on the crystallization of tetrahedral patchy particles by Romano, Flavio, Russo, John, Tanaka, Hajime

“…The understanding of disorder effects on crystallization is of fundamental and technological importance. It is well established by both theory and experiment…”
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Coarse-graining DNA for simulations of DNA nanotechnology by Doye, Jonathan P K, Ouldridge, Thomas E, Louis, Ard A, Romano, Flavio, Šulc, Petr, Matek, Christian, Snodin, Benedict E K, Rovigatti, Lorenzo, Schreck, John S, Harrison, Ryan M, Smith, William P J

“…To simulate long time and length scale processes involving DNA it is necessary to use a coarse-grained description. Here we provide an overview of different…”
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Nucleation barriers in tetrahedral liquids spanning glassy and crystallizing regimes by Saika-Voivod, Ivan, Romano, Flavio, Sciortino, Francesco

“…Crystallization and vitrification of tetrahedral liquids are important both from a fundamental and a technological point of view. Here, we study via extensive…”
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Role of the Range in the Fluid−Crystal Coexistence for a Patchy Particle Model by Romano, Flavio, Sanz, Eduardo, Sciortino, Francesco

“…We evaluate the phase diagram of the four-site Kern−Frenkel patchy particle model [ Kern N. ; Frenkel D. J. Chem. Phys. 2003, 118, 9882. ], a model…”
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Proof-of-Concept Multistage Biomimetic Liposomal DNA Origami Nanosystem for the Remote Loading of Doxorubicin by Palazzolo, Stefano, Hadla, Mohamad, Spena, Concetta Russo, Bayda, Samer, Kumar, Vinit, Lo Re, Francesco, Adeel, Muhammad, Caligiuri, Isabella, Romano, Flavio, Corona, Giuseppe, Canzonieri, Vincenzo, Toffoli, Giuseppe, Rizzolio, Flavio

“…One of the most promising applications of DNA origami is its use as an excellent evolution of nanostructured intelligent systems for drug delivery, but short…”
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Colloidal self-assembly Patchy from the bottom up by Sciortino, Francesco, Romano, Flavio

“…Writing in Nature, Steve Granick and co-workers report an exciting experimental example of a bottom-up design, in which patchy colloids--colloidal particles…”
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Switching bonds in a DNA gel: an all-DNA vitrimer by Romano, Flavio, Sciortino, Francesco

“…We design an all-DNA system that behaves like vitrimers, innovative plastics with self-healing and stress-releasing properties. The DNA sequences are…”
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How to simulate patchy particles by Rovigatti, Lorenzo, Russo, John, Romano, Flavio

“… Patchy particles is the name given to a large class of systems of mesoscopic particles characterized by a repulsive core and a discrete number of short-range…”
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Gels of DNA Nanostars Never Crystallize by Rovigatti, Lorenzo, Smallenburg, Frank, Romano, Flavio, Sciortino, Francesco

“…Using state-of-the-art numerical techniques, we show that, upon lowering the temperature, tetravalent DNA nanostars form a thermodynamically stable, fully…”
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Novel stable crystalline phase for the Stillinger-Weber potential by Romano, Flavio, Russo, John, Tanaka, Hajime

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