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Cryogenic electron tomography to determine thermodynamic quantities for nanoparticle dispersions

Davide Demurtas, Francesco Stellacci, Quy Ong Khac, Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva, Anna Murello, Ting Mao, Francesca Olgiati, Xufeng Xu

Here we present a method to extract thermodynamic quantities for nanoparticle dispersions in solvents. The method is based on the study of tomograms obtained from cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET). The approach is demonstrated for gold nanoparticles ( ...

2022

Nature-Inspired Circular-Economy Recycling for Proteins: Proof of Concept

Luc Patiny, Daniel Ortiz Trujillo, Laure Menin, Francesco Stellacci, Anna Murello, Simone Giaveri, Shiyu Cheng

The billion tons of synthetic-polymer-based materials (i.e. plastics) produced yearly are a great challenge for humanity. Nature produces even more natural polymers, yet they are sustainable. Proteins are sequence-defined natural polymers that are constant ...

Wiley2021

Surface energy characterization of nanoscale metal using quantitative nanomechanical characterization of atomic force microscopy (vol 507, 145041, 2020)

Francesco Stellacci, Anna Murello

ELSEVIER2020

Water interactions with complex surfaces

Anna Murello

The solvent accessible surface area of proteins is very complex, mainly because it is composed of domains with different degrees of affinity for water. The domains nature and arrangement determine both the interactions of the proteins with water (and there ...

EPFL2020

Determination and evaluation of the nonadditivity in wetting of molecularly heterogeneous surfaces

Francesco Stellacci, Quy Ong Khac, Sylvie Roke, Zhi Luo, Michele Ceriotti, Filip Kovacik, David Mark Wilkins, Halil Ibrahim Okur, Anna Murello

The interface between water and folded proteins is very complex. Proteins have "patchy" solvent-accessible areas composed of domains of varying hydrophobicity. The textbook understanding is that these domains contribute additively to interfacial properties ...

National Academy of Sciences2019

Amorphous CaCO3: Influence of the Formation Time on Its Degree of Hydration and Stability

Camelia Borca, Francesco Stellacci, Huachuan Du, Esther Amstad, Anna Murello, Mathias Steinacher

Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is one of the most abundant biominerals that is prevalent in rocks and often used as a structural material in marine animals. Many of these natural CaCO3-based materials display excellent mechanical properties that are difficult t ...

2018