Fabrizio Camerin

TL;DR: This model allows for a systematic microscopic investigation of soft particles at fluid interfaces, which is essential to develop predictive power for the use of microgels in a broad range of applications, including the stabilization of smart emulsions and the versatile patterning of surfaces.

TL;DR: A coarse-grained model of microgels whose structural properties are in quantitative agreement with results obtained with small-angle X-ray scattering experiments across a wide range of temperatures, encompassing the volume phase transition is put forward.

TL;DR: A suitable model is identified which fully captures the main features of the implicit model and further provides information on the solvent uptake by the interior of the microgel network and on its role in the collapse kinetics, paving the way for addressing problems where solvent effects are dominant, such as the case of microgels at liquid-liquid interfaces.

TL;DR: Despite their complexity, microgels confined to a liquid-liquid interface can be described through relatively simple interactions that reveal the presence of intriguing behavior at high density as mentioned in this paper, which can be used to characterize the behavior of high density.

TL;DR: In this paper, a core-shell microgel is synthesized, whose soft core can be chemically degraded in a controlled fashion to obtain a series of particles ranging from analogues of standard batch-synthesized microgels to completely hollow ones after total core removal.