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Computational Insight on the Interaction of Common Blood Proteins with Gold Nanoparticles by Tavanti, Francesco, Menziani, Maria Cristina

“…Protein interactions with engineered gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and the consequent formation of the protein corona are very relevant and poorly understood…”
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Multiscale Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Multiple Protein Adsorption on Gold Nanoparticles by Tavanti, Francesco, Pedone, Alfonso, Menziani, Maria Cristina

“…A multiscale molecular dynamics simulation study has been carried out in order to provide in-depth information on the adsorption of hemoglobin, myoglobin, and…”
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Disclosing the Interaction of Gold Nanoparticles with Aβ(1-40) Monomers through Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations by Tavanti, Francesco, Pedone, Alfonso, Menziani, Maria Cristina

“…Amyloid-β aggregation is one of the principal causes of amyloidogenic diseases that lead to the loss of neuronal cells and to cognitive impairments. The use of…”
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Insights into the Effect of Curcumin and (-)-Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate on the Aggregation of Aβ(1-40) Monomers by Means of Molecular Dynamics by Tavanti, Francesco, Pedone, Alfonso, Menziani, Maria Cristina

“…In this study, we compared the effects of two well-known natural compounds on the early step of the fibrillation process of amyloid-β (1-40), responsible for…”
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Computational Insight into the Effect of Natural Compounds on the Destabilization of Preformed Amyloid-β(1⁻40) Fibrils by Tavanti, Francesco, Pedone, Alfonso, Menziani, Maria Cristina

“…One of the principal hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is related to the aggregation of amyloid-β fibrils in an insoluble form in the brain, also known as…”
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Biogenic Synthesis and Characterization of Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Silver Nanoparticles Using Flower Extract of Couroupita guianensis Aubl by Singh, Reetika, Hano, Christophe, Tavanti, Francesco, Sharma, Bechan

“…Aubl. is an important medicinal tree. This tree is rich in various phytochemicals, and is therefore used as a potent antioxidant and antibacterial agent. This…”
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Unraveling the complexity of amyloid polymorphism using gold nanoparticles and cryo-EM by Cendrowska, Urszula, Silva, Paulo Jacob, Ait-Bouziad, Nadine, Müller, Marie, Guven, Zekiye Pelin, Vieweg, Sophie, Chiki, Anass, Radamaker, Lynn, Kumar, Senthil T., Fändrich, Marcus, Tavanti, Francesco, Menziani, Maria Cristina, Alexander-Katz, Alfredo, Stellacci, Francesco, Lashuel, Hilal A.

“…Increasing evidence suggests that amyloid polymorphism gives rise to different strains of amyloids with distinct toxicities and pathologyspreading properties…”
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A multi-scale-multi-stable model for the rhodopsin photocycle by Tavanti, Francesco, Tozzini, Valentina

“…We report a multi-scale simulation study of the photocycle of the rhodopsins. The quasi-atomistic representation ("united atoms" UA) of retinal is combined…”
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Supercritical CO2 Confined in Palygorskite and Sepiolite Minerals: A Classical Molecular Dynamics Investigation by Muniz-Miranda, Francesco, Lodesani, Federica, Tavanti, Francesco, Presti, Davide, Malferrari, Daniele, Pedone, Alfonso

“…We have investigated the ability of two modular phyllosilicates (palygorskite and sepiolite) to store CO2 molecules inside their structural channels by means…”
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Device‐to‐Materials Pathway for Electron Traps Detection in Amorphous GeSe‐Based Selectors by Slassi, Amine, Medondjio, Linda‐Sheila, Padovani, Andrea, Tavanti, Francesco, He, Xu, Clima, Sergiu, Garbin, Daniele, Kaczer, Ben, Larcher, Luca, Ordejón, Pablo, Calzolari, Arrigo

“…The choice of the ideal material employed in selector devices is a tough task both from the theoretical and experimental side, especially due to the lack of a…”
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The Effect of Alkaline Cations on the Intercalation of Carbon Dioxide in Sepiolite Minerals: A Molecular Dynamics Investigation by Tavanti, Francesco, Muniz-Miranda, Francesco, Pedone, Alfonso

“…The ability of the sepiolite mineral to intercalate CO2 molecules inside its channels in the presence of different alkaline cations (K+, Na+, and Li+) has been…”
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Concurring effect of doping and composition on the thermodynamic properties of amorphous GexSe1-x alloys by Tavanti, Francesco, Calzolari, Arrigo

“…Chalcogenide materials are attracting growing attention for their ability to switch between different electrical states in response to temperature or current…”
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Competitive Binding of Proteins to Gold Nanoparticles Disclosed by Molecular Dynamics Simulations by Tavanti, Francesco, Pedone, Alfonso, Menziani, Maria Cristina

“…This work reports the results of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of citrate-coated gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) in interaction with insulin and…”
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Multi-technique Approach to Unravel the (Dis)order in Amorphous Materials by Tavanti, Francesco, Calzolari, Arrigo

“…The concept of order in disordered materials is the key to controlling the mechanical, electrical, and chemical properties of amorphous compounds widely…”
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Hierarchical Short- and Medium-Range Order Structures in Amorphous GexSe1-x for Selectors Applications by Dianat, Francesco Tavanti Behnood, Catellani, Alessandra, Calzolari, Arrigo

“…ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 2020, 2, 2961-2969 In the upcoming process to overcome the limitations of the standard von Neumann architecture, synaptic…”
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BELLO: A post-processing tool for the local-order analysis of disordered systems by Dianat, Behnood, Tavanti, Francesco, Padovani, Andrea, Larcher, Luca, Calzolari, Arrigo

“…The characterization of the atomic structure of disordered systems, such as amorphous, glasses and (bio)molecule in solution, is a fundamental step for most…”
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Computational Insight into the Interaction of Cytochrome C with Wet and PVP-Coated Ag Surfaces by Tavanti, Francesco, Pedone, Alfonso, Matteini, Paolo, Menziani, Maria Cristina

“…In this work, the adsorption of cytochrome C (CytC) on wet {100}, {111}, {110}, and {120} silver surfaces has been investigated by computational simulations…”
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Computational Insights into the Binding of Monolayer-Capped Gold Nanoparticles onto Amyloid‑β Fibrils by Tavanti, Francesco, Pedone, Alfonso, Menziani, Maria Cristina, Alexander-Katz, Alfredo

“…Amyloids-β (Aβ) fibrils are involved in several neurodegenerative diseases. In this study, atomistic molecular dynamics simulations have been used to…”
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Site-Selective Surface-Enhanced Raman Detection of Proteins by Matteini, Paolo, Cottat, Maximilien, Tavanti, Francesco, Panfilova, Elizaveta, Scuderi, Mario, Nicotra, Giuseppe, Menziani, Maria Cristina, Khlebtsov, Nikolai, de Angelis, Marella, Pini, Roberto

“…Strategies for protein detection via surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) currently exploit the formation of randomly generated hot spots at the…”
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An atomic-level look at the structure-property relationship of cerium-doped glasses using classical molecular dynamics by Pedone, Alfonso, Tavanti, Francesco, Malavasi, Gianluca, Menziani, Maria Cristina

“…Ce-containing bioactive glasses are of great interest in biomedical field since they exert antioxidant properties associated with low toxicity and a broad…”
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