The aggregation of proteins is of fundamental relevance in a number of daily phenomena,
as important and diverse as blood coagulation, medical diseases, or cooking an egg in the …

Recently, an increasing experimental effort has been devoted to the synthesis of complex
colloidal particles with chemically or physically patterned surfaces and possible specific …

Looking at globular proteins with the eyes of a colloid scientist has a long tradition, in fact a
significant part of the early colloid literature was focused on protein solutions. However, it …

We report theoretical and numerical evaluations of the phase diagram for a model of patchy
particles. Specifically, we study hard spheres whose surface is decorated by a small number …

We investigate the competition between glass formation and crystallization of open
tetrahedral structures for particles with tetrahedral patchy interactions. We analyze the …

We perform numerical simulations of a simple model of one-patch colloidal particles to
investigate:(i) the behavior of the gas–liquid phase diagram on moving from a spherical …

In the last years a significant progress in the understanding of the aggregation properties of
patchy colloidal particles and of the process of formation of equilibrium gels has taken place …

Understanding food properties is paramount for enhancing features such as appearance,
taste and texture, for improving health-related factors such as minimizing the onset of …

We evaluate the phase diagram of the Kern–Frenkel patchy model with four interaction sites
for four different values of the radial interaction range (all in the single-bond-per-patch …

Anisotropic patchy particles have become an archetypical statistical model system for
associating fluids. Here, we formulate an approach to the Kern–Frenkel model via the …