LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

 Achille Giacometti

 

2012

 

A. Giacometti

Self-assembly mechanism in colloids: perspective from Statistical Physics

Submitted to Central European J. of Physics (special issue for the SigmaPhi2011 conference)

 

C. Gogelein, F. Romano, F. Sciortino, and A. Giacometti

Fluid-Fluid and Fluid-Solid transition in the Kern-Frenkel model from

Barker-Henderson thermodynamic perturbation theory

Submitted to J. Chem. Phys. 2011

 

2011

 

R. Fantoni. Al. Malijevsky, A. Santos, and A. Giacometti

The penetrable square-well model: extensive versus non-extensive phases

Molecular Physics 109, 2723-2736 (2011)

(Special issue dedicated to Prof. Luciano Reatto)

 

R. Fantoni, A. Giacometti F. Sciortino and G. Pastore

Cluster theory for Janus particles

Soft Matter  7, 2419-2427 (2011)

Highlighted as "Hot Article" in the Soft Matter Blog (http://blogs.rsc.org/sm/2011/02/) 18 Feb. 2011

Featured in the Top 10 most downloaded articles February 2011 (http://blogs.rsc.org/sm/2011/03/28/top-ten-most-read-soft-matter-articles-in-february/)

 

R. Fantoni. Al. Malijevsky, A. Santos, and A. Giacometti

Phase diagram of the penetrable square-well model

Europhys. Lett 93, 26002-p1/26002-p5 (2011)

 

D. Gazzillo and A. Giacometti

Effects of Polydispersity and Anisotropy in Colloidal and Protein Solutions: an integral equation approach

Interdiscip. Sci. Comput. Life Sci. (Special issue dedicated to Prof. Lesser Blum) 3, 251-265 (2011)

 

 

A.V. Badasyan, Sh. A. Tonoyan,  Y. Sh. Mamasakhlisov, A. Giacometti, A.S. Benight and V.F. Morozov

Competition for hydrogen bond formation in the helix-coil transition and protein folding

Phys. Rev. E 83, 051903-1/051903-9 (2011)

 

2010

 

R. Buccolieri, F. Sartoretto, A. Giacometti, S. Di Sabatino, L. S. Leo, B. Pulvirenti, M. Sandberg, H. Wigo

Flow and Pollutant Dispersion within the Canal Grande Channel in Venice (Italy) via CFD Techniques

Proceedings in Harmo12 Conference, 760-765 (2010)

 

F. Sciortino, A. Giacometti and G. Pastore

A Numerical Study of One-Patch Colloidal Particles: from Square-Well to Janus

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.  12, 11869-11877 (2010)

 

R. Fantoni, A. Giacometti, Al. Malijevsky and A. Santos

A Numerical Test of a High-Penetrability Approximation for the One-Dimensional

Penetrable-Square-Well Model

J. Chem. Phys. 133, 024101-1/024101-14 (2010)

 

A. Giacometti,F. Lado, J. Largo, G. Pastore and F. Sciortino

Effect of patch size and number within a simple model of patchy colloids

J. Chem. Phys. 132, 174110-1/174110-15 (2010)

Highlighted as Editors Choices for 2010 (http://jcp.aip.org/editors_choices_2010)

 

A.V. Badasyan, A. Giacometti, Y. Sh. Mamasakhlisov, V.F. Morozov and A.S. Benight

Microscopic foundation of the Zimm-Bragg model

Phys. Rev. E  81, 021921-1/021921-4 (2010)

 

2009

 

A. Giacometti, G. Pastore and F. Lado

Liquid-vapor coexistence in square-well fluids: a RHNC study

Molec. Phys. 107, 555-562  (2009)

 

A. Giacometti,F. Lado, J. Largo, G. Pastore and F. Sciortino

Phase diagram and structural properties of a simple model for one-patch particles

J. Chem. Phys. 131, 174114-1/174114-13 (2009)

 

R. Fantoni, A. Giacometti, Al. Malijevsky and A. Santos

Penetrable-Square-Well fluids: Analytical study and Monte Carlo simulations

J. Chem. Phys. 131, 124106-1/124106-14 (2009)

 

F. Sciortino, A. Giacometti and G. Pastore

Phase diagram of Janus Particles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 237801-1/237801-4 (2009)

Featured for the cover (issue 23, 4 December 2009)

Featured in Nature Research Highlights, Vol. 462, 17 December 2009, page 828

 

D. Gazzillo, R. Fantoni and A. Giacometti

Local orientational ordering in fluids of sperical model with dipolar-like anisotropic adhesion

Phys. Rev. E  80, 061207-1/061207-12 (2009)

 

A. Santos, R. Fantoni and A. Giacometti

Thermodynamic consistency of energy and virial routes: An exact proof within the linearized Debye-Hückel theory

J. Chem. Phys. 131, 181105-1/181105-3 (2009)

Featured in the JCP web selection

Featured in the Top 20 most downloaded November 2009

 

2008

 

C. Poletto, A. Giacometti, A. Trovato, J.R. Banavar and A. Maritan

Emergence of Secondary Motifs in Tube-Like Polymers in a Solvent

Phys. Rev. E 77, 061804  (2008)

Selected for the Virtual Journal of Biology Physics Research, Vol. 16, Issue 1, July 1 (2008)

 

D. Gazzillo, A. Giacometti and R. Fantoni

Fluids of spherical molecules with dipolar-like nonuniform adhesion. An analytically solvable anisotropic model.

Phys. Rev. E  78, 021201-1/021201-20 (2008)

 

A. Santos, R. Fantoni and A. Giacometti

Penetrable Square-well fluids: exact results in one-dimensions

Phys. Rev. E 77, 051206-1/051206-12 (2008)

 

2007

 

R. Fantoni, D. Gazzillo, A. Giacometti, M. Miller and G. Pastore

Patchy Sticky Hard Spheres: analytical studies and Monte Carlo simulations

J. Chem. Phys. 127, 234507-1/234507-16 (2007)

Selected for the Virtual Journal of Biology Physics Research, Vol. 15, Issue 1, January 1 (2008)

 

A. Giacometti

Christian Doppler in Modern Science and Technology

in Proceeding of the Commemorative Symposia Christian Doppler, Life and Work, Principle and Applications (Living Edition, Starna Austria 2007)

 

2006

 

D. Gazzillo, A. Giacometti, R. Fantoni, and P. Sollich

Multicomponent adhesive hard sphere models and short-ranged

attractive interactions in colloidal or micellar solutions

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051407-1/051407-14 (2006)

Selected for the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology,
Volume 14, Issue 23, December 4 (2006)
 

D. Gazzillo, A. Giacometti and R. Fantoni

Phase behavior of polydisperse sticky hard spheres:

Analytical solution and perturbation theory

Molec. Physics 101, 3451-3459 (2006)

 

 

R. Fantoni, D. Gazzillo, A. Giacometti and P. Sollich

Phase behavior of weakly polydisperse sticky hard spheres:

Perturbation theory for the Percus-Yevick solution

J. Chem. Phys. 125, 164504-1/164504-16 (2006)

 

A. Giacometti, M. Rossi and L. Battiston

Collective dynamics in coupled maps on a lattice with quenched disorder

Phys. Rev. E 73, 036214-1/03214-11 (2006)

 

2005

 

R. Fantoni, D. Gazzillo and A. Giacometti

The demixing and gas-liquid instability of a binary mixture of sticky hard sphere

Phys. Rev. E 71, 011503-1/011503 15 (2005)

 

M. Caggioni, A. Giacometti, T. Bellini, N.A. Clark, F. Mantegazza and A. Maritan

Pretransitional behavior in a water-DDAB-5CB microemulsion close to the demixing transition. Evidence for intermicellar attraction mediated by paranematic fluctuations

J. Chem. Phys 122, 034901-1/034901-15 (2005)

Selected for the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology,
Volume 11, Issue 24, June 20 (2005)
 

A. Giacometti, D. Gazzillo, G. Pastore, and T.K. Das

A numerical study of a binary Yukawa model in regimes characteristic

of globular proteins in solution

Phys. Rev. E 71, 031108-1/031108-10 (2005)

Selected for the Virtual Journal of Biology Physics Research,
Volume 9, Issue 7, April 1 (2005)
 

R. Fantoni, D. Gazzillo and A. Giacometti

Stability boundaries and percolation threshold for polydisperse fluids of adhesive colloidal particles

J. Chem. Phys., 122, 034901-1/034901-15 (2005)

 

2004

 

D. Gazzillo and A. Giacometti

Analytical solutions for Baxter's model of sticky hard sphere fluids

within closures different from the Percus-Yevick approximation

J. Chem. Phys., 120, 4742-4754 (2004)

Selected for the Virtual Journal of Biology Physics Research,
Volume 7, Issue 6, March 15 (2004)

 

2003

 

D. Gazzillo and A. Giacometti

Structure factor for polydisperse fluids with surface adhesion

J. Appl. Cryst., 36, 832-835 (2003)

 

D. Gazzillo and A. Giacometti

Pathologies in the sticky limit of hard-sphere-Yukawa models for colloidal fluids: a possible correction.

Molec. Physics, 101,  2171-2179 (2003)

 

2002

 

D. Gazzillo and A. Giacometti

Polydisperse fluid mixtures of adhesive colloidal particles

Physica A 304, 202-210 (2002)

 

F. Spinozzi, D. Gazzillo, A. Giacometti, P. Mariani and F. Carsughi

Interaction of proteins in solution from small angle scattering: a perturbative approach

Biophysical Journal 82, 2165 (2002)

 

 L. Giada, A. Giacometti, and M. Rossi

A pseudo-spectral method for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation

Phys. Rev. E  65, 036134-1/036134-11 (2002)

 

D. Gazzillo and A. Giacometti

On the compressibility equation of state for multicomponent adhesive hard sphere fluids

Molec. Physics 100, 3307-3312  (2002)

 

2001

 

A. Giacometti and M. Rossi

A pseudo-spectral approach to the inverse problem in interface dynamics

Phys. Rev. E 63, 046102-1/046102-12 (2001)

  

M. Rossi, A. Giacometti, and L. Giada

Simulations pseudo-spectrales et mèthodes d'identification d'interfaces de type KPZ

in Proceeding at the 3^ieme Colloque Chaos et Chaos spatio-temporel, LeHavre (2001)

 

2000

 

F. Carsughi, A. Giacometti and D. Gazzillo

Small Angle Scattering data analysis for dense polydisperse system: the FLAC program

Comput. Phys. Commun. 133, 66-75 (2000)

 

A. Giacometti and M. Rossi

Interface dynamics from experimental data

Phys. Rev. E 62, 1716-1724 (2000)

 

A. Giacometti

Local Minimal Energy Landscapes in River Networks

Phys. Rev. E  62, 6042-6051 (2000)

 

D. Gazzillo  and A. Giacometti

Structure factors for the simplest solvable model of polydisperse colloidal fluids with surface adhesion

J. Chem. Phys. 113, 9837-9848 (2000)

 

1997

 

G. Caldarelli, A. Giacometti, A. Maritan, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe and A. Rinaldo

Randomly Pinned Landscape Evolution

Phys. Rev. E 55, R4865-4868 (1997)

 

 M. Swift, F. Colaiori, A. Flammini, A. Maritan, A. Giacometti and J. R. Banavar

Scaling Relationships in Agglomeration and Annihilation Models

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 3278-3281 (1997)

 

 J. R. Banavar, F. Colaiori, A. Flammini, A. Giacometti, A. Maritan and A. Rinaldo:

Sculpting of a Fractal River Basin

Phys. Rev. Lett.78, 4522-4525 (1997)

 

D. Gazzillo, A. Giacometti and F. Carsughi

Scattering functions for multicomponents mixtures of charged hard spheres, including the polydisperse limit.

Analytical expression in the Mean Spherical Approximation

J. Chem, Phys. 107, 10141-10153 (1997)

 

1996

 

A.Maritan, A.Rinaldo, R. Rigon, A. Giacometti and I. Rodrigues-Iturbe 

Scaling Laws for River Networks

Phys. Rev. E  53, 1510-1515 (1996)

 

A.Giacometti, A.Maritan, F.Toigo and J.Banavar

Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem and Dynamical Renormalization Group

J. Stat. Phys. 82, 1669-1674 (1996)

 

K.P.N. Murthy, K. W. Kehr and A. Giacometti

Multifractal Scaling of Moments of Mean First Passage Time in the Presence

of Sinai Disorder

Phys. Rev. E 53, 444-449, (1996)

 

 R. Rigon, I.Rodrigues-Iturbe,A.Giacometti, A.Maritan, D. Tarboton

and A. Rinaldo:

On Hack's Law

Water Resour. Res. 32, 3367-3374 (1996)

 

A.Giacometti and K. P. N. Murthy

Diffusion and Trapping on a one-dimensional lattice

Phys. Rev. E 53, 5647-5655,(1996)

 

K.P.N. Murthy, A. Giacometti and K.W.Kehr

Multifractal Scaling in Sinai Diffusion

 Physica A 224, 232-238 (1996)

 

A.Maritan, J.R. Banavar, M. Cieplak, F. Colaiori, A. Flammini, A. Giacometti, A. Rinaldo and I. Rodrigues-Iturbe

Statistical Mechanics of River Networks

in Proceedings of the 19-th IUPAP Statphys 19, Xiamen China

H. Bailin ed. (World Scientific, 1996)

  

1995

 

A.Giacometti, A.Maritan and J.Banavar

Continuum model for river networks

Phys.Rev.Lett. 75, 577-580, (1995).

 

A.Giacometti, A.Maritan, F.Toigo and J.Banavar

Real space renormalization group for Langevin dynamics in absence of translational invariance

J.Stat.Phys. 79, 649-668 (1995)

 

A.Giacometti

Exact closed form of the return probability on the Bethe lattice

 J.Phys.A: Math and Gen. 28 L13-L17, (1995)

 

 T.Wichmann, A.Giacometti and K.P.N. Murthy

Iterated Function System and diffusion in the presence of traps

Phys.Rev. E 52, 481-485, (1995)            

 

1994

 

A.Giacometti and A.Maritan

Weak non Self-Averaging behaviour in a Random trapping Environment

 Phys.Rev. E 49, 227-231, (1994)

 

A.Giacometti, A.Maritan and H.Nakanishi

Statistical  Mechanics of Random Paths on Disordered Lattices

J.Stat. Phys. 75, 669-706, (1994)

 

A.Giacometti and H.Nakanishi

A new finite-size scaling approach to random walks

J.Phys.A: Math. and Gen.  27, 2277-2288 (1994)

 

A.Giacometti and H.Nakanishi

Eigenspectrum and Localization for Diffusion with Traps

Phys.Rev. E 50, 1093-1099, (1994)

 

A.Giacometti

Hierarchical trapping on a one-dimensional lattice

 Modern Phys.Lett. B 8, 399-405, (1994)

 

1990

 

A.Giacometti and A.Maritan

 Anomalous diffusion in presence of boundary conditions

J. de Physique 51, 1387-1402 (1990).

 

1988

 

A.Giacometti, A.Maritan and A.L. Stella

 Diffusion on a one-dimensional structure with waiting-time distribution

Phys. Rev. B  38, 2758-2764 (1988).