Lorenzo Di Michele

TL;DR: This work proposes strategies to direct the gelation of two-component colloidal mixtures by sequentially activating selective interactions and investigates morphological changes in the structure of the arrested phases both by means of molecular dynamics simulations and experimentally by using DNA-coated colloids.

TL;DR: A mechanism of aggregation through arrested demixing in binary colloidal mixtures, which leads to the formation of a yet unexplored class of materials––bigels, which is obtained by tuning interspecies interactions.

TL;DR: The latest achievements in understanding and controlling DNA-mediated interactions between colloidal particles are reviewed, which are expected to solve the decennial issues encountered in the self assembly of DNA-coated colloids.

TL;DR: A model providing a thorough understanding of the thermal response of pairs and networks of DNA-tethered liposomes is developed, explaining the emergent properties out of the interplay between the temperature-dependent deformability of the vesicles and the DNA-mediated adhesive forces.

TL;DR: Analysis of molecular maps showed significant variations in the co-clustering stoichiometry between junctophilin-2 and RyR, even between nearby nanodomains, constituting an additional level of complexity in RyR arrangement and regulation of calcium signaling, intrinsically built into the nanodOMains.