Giancarlo Franzese

TL;DR: The presence of a LDL and a HDL can be directly related to an interaction potential with an attractive part and two characteristic short-range repulsive distances, and the results show that the LDL and HDL phases can occur in systems with no density anomaly.

TL;DR: A study combining mean-field calculations and Monte Carlo simulations shows that a common physical mechanism underlies each of the four scenarios for low-temperature phase behavior of liquid water, and that two key physical quantities determine which of theFour scenarios describes water: the strength of the directional component of the hydrogen bond and thestrength of the cooperative component ofThe hydrogen bond.

TL;DR: The combined experimental and computational approach is a step toward the development of systematic prediction and control of protein–NP corona composition based on a hierarchy of equilibrium protein binding constants.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Widom line is explored for a Hamiltonian model of water using an analytic approach, and discussed the plausibility of the hypothesized liquid-liquid critical point, as well as its possible consequences.

TL;DR: A modified van der Waals equation is presented which qualitatively reproduces the behavior of both critical points within some range of parameters, and gives insight on the mechanisms ruling the dependence of the two critical points on the potential's parameters.