Primary publications
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Ryan A. Brady, Nicholas J. Brooks, Pietro Cicuta and Lorenzo Di Michele
Crystallization of Amphiphilic DNA C-Stars
Nano Letters to appear (2017)
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Jiro Sakai, Eugenia Cammarota, John Wright, Pietro Cicuta, Rachel Gottschalk, Ning Li, Iain Fraser and Clare Bryant
Lipopolysaccharide-induced NF-kB nuclear translocation is primarily dependent on MyD88, but TNFa expression requires TRIF and MyD88
Scientific Reports, to appear (2017)
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Emma L. Talbot, Jurij Kotar, Lucia Parolini, Lorenzo Di Michele and Pietro Cicuta
Thermophoretic Migration of Vesicles Depends on Mean Temperature and Head Group Chemistry
Nature Communications, to appear (2017)
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Emma L. Talbot, Lucia Parolini, Jurij Kotar, Lorenzo Di Michele and Pietro Cicuta
Thermal driven domain and cargo transport in lipid membranes
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, to appear (2017)
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Omar A. Amjad, Bortolo M. Mognetti, Pietro Cicuta and Lorenzo Di Michele
Membrane Adhesion through Bridging by Multimeric Ligands
Langmuir, to appear (2017)
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Himantha Cooray, Pietro Cicuta and Dominic Vella
Floating and sinking of a pair of spheres at a liquid--fluid interface
Langmuir, to appear (2017)
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S.A. Rautu, D. Orsi, L. Di Michele, G. Rowlands, P. Cicuta, M.S. Turner
The Role of Optical Projection in the Analysis of Membrane Fluctuations
Soft Matter, to appear (2017)
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D.R. Brumley, N. Bruot, J. Kotar, R.E. Goldstein, P. Cicuta, M. Polin
Long-range interactions and phase defects in chains of fluid-coupled oscillators
Phys. Rev. Fluids, to appear (2016)
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D.-G. Lee, P. Cicuta and D. Vella
Self-assembly of repulsive interfacial particles via collective sinking
Soft Matter DOI: 10.1039/C6SM00901H (2016)
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S.J. Bachmann, J. Kotar, L. Parolini, A. Saric, P. Cicuta, L. Di Michele, B.M. Mognetti
Melting transition in lipid vesicles functionalised by mobile DNA linkers
Soft Matter 12, 7804-7817 (2016)
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V. Proserpio, A. Piccolo, L. Haim-Vilmovsky, G. Kar, T. Lonnberg, V. Svensson, J. Pramanik, K.N. Natarajan, W. Zhai, X. Zhang, G. Donati, M. Kayikci, J. Kotar, A.N. McKenzie, R. Montandon, K.R. James, D. Fernandez-Ruiz, W.R. Heath, A. Haque, O. Billker, S. Woodhouse, P. Cicuta, M. Nicodemi, S.A. Teichmann
Single-cell analysis of CD4+ T-cell differentiation reveals three major cell states and progressive acceleration of proliferation.
Genome Biol. 17, 103 (2016)
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N. Bruot and P. Cicuta
Realizing the physics of motile cilia synchronization with driven colloids
Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 7, 1-26 (2016)
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Andrew S. Kennard, Matteo Osella, Avelino Javer,
Jacopo Grilli, Philippe Nghe, Sander J. Tans, Pietro Cicuta and
Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
Individuality and universality in the growth-division laws of single E-coli cells
Phys. Rev. E DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.012408 (2016)
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Marte van der Linden, Breanndán O. Conchúir, Elisabetta Spigone, Arun Niranjan, Alessio Zaccone and Pietro Cicuta
Microscopic Origin of the Hofmeister Effect in Gelation Kinetics of Colloidal Silica
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01300 (2015)
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Sowmya Purushothaman, Pietro Cicuta, Oscar Ces and Nicholas J. Brooks
Influence of High Pressure on the Bending Rigidity of Model Membranes
J. Phys. Chem. B DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b05272 (2015)
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Shunsuke F. Shimobayashi, Bortolo M. Mognetti, Lucia Parolini, Davide Orsi, Pietro Cicuta, Lorenzo Di Michele
Direct measurement of DNA-mediated adhesion between lipid bilayers
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17, 15615-15628 (2015)
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Elisa Tamborini, C Patrick Royall and Pietro Cicuta
Correlation between crystalline order and vitrification in colloidal monolayers
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 27, 194124 (2015)
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Lucia Parolini, Adam D Law, Armando Maestro, D Martin A Buzza and Pietro Cicuta
Interaction between colloidal particles on an oil–water interface in dilute and dense phases
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 27, 194119 (2015)
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Lucia Parolini, Bortolo M. Mognetti, Jurij Kotar, Erika Eiser, Pietro Cicuta and Lorenzo Di Michele
Volume and porosity thermal regulation in lipid mesophases by coupling mobile ligands to soft membranes
Nature Communications 6, 5948 (2015)
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Sarra Achouri, John A. Wright, Lewis Evans, Charlotte Macleod, Gillian Fraser, Pietro Cicuta and Clare E. Bryant
The frequency and duration of Salmonella–macrophage adhesion events determines infection efficiency
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 370, 20140033 (2015)
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Luigi Feriani, Luigi Cristofolini and Pietro Cicuta
Soft pinning of liquid domains on topographical hemispherical caps
Chem. Phys. Lipids 185, 78-87 (2015)
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Si Ming Man, Andrew Ekpenyong, Panagiotis Tourlomousis, Sarra Achouri, Eugenia Cammarota, Katherine Hughes, Alessandro Rizzo, Gilbert Ng, John A. Wright,
Pietro Cicuta, Jochen R. Guck and Clare E. Bryant
Actin polymerization as a key innate immune effector mechanism to control Salmonella infection
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111, 17588-17593 (2014)
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Alex J. Crick, Michel Theron, Teresa Tiffert, Virgilio L. Lew, Pietro Cicuta, Julian C. Rayner
Quantitation of Malaria Parasite-Erythrocyte Cell-Cell Interactions Using Optical Tweezers
Biophysical Journal 107, 846–853 (2014)
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highlighted in BioPhotonics: Link
discussed in Athene Donald's Guardian blog: Link
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Matthew A. A. Grant, Bartlomiej Waclaw, Rosalind J. Allen and Pietro Cicuta
The role of mechanical forces in the planar-to-bulk transition in growing Escherichia coli microcolonies
J. Roy. Soc.: Interface 11, 20140400 (2014)
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Avelino Javer, Nathan Kuwada, Zhicheng Long, Vincenzo Benza, Kevin Dorfman, Paul Wiggins, Pietro Cicuta and Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
Persistent super-diffusive motion of Escherichia coli chromosomal loci
Nature Communications 5, 3854 (2014)
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Si Ming Man, Lee Hopkins, Eileen Nugent, Susan Cox, Ivo Glück, Panagiotis Tourlomousis, John A. Wright, Pietro Cicuta, Tom P Monie and Clare E Bryant
Inflammasome activation causes dual recruitment of NLRC4 and NLRP3 to the same macro-molecular complex
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111, 7403 (2014)
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Vivek V. Thacker, Krystyna Bromek, Benoit Meijer, Jurij Kotar, Bianca Sclavi, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, Ulrich F. Keyser and Pietro Cicuta
Bacterial nucleoid structure probed by active drag and resistive pulse sensing
Integrative Biology 6, 184 (2014)
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Matthew A.A. Grant, Elena Kazamia, Pietro Cicuta, Alison G. Smith
Direct exchange of vitamin B12 is demonstrated by modelling the growth dynamics of algal-bacterial cocultures
ISME J. 8, 1418–1427 (2014)
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Jurij Kotar, Luke Debono, Nicolas Bruot, Stuart Box, David Phillips, Stephen Simpson, Simon Hanna and Pietro Cicuta
Optimal hydrodynamic synchronization of colloidal rotors
Physical Review Letters 111, 228103 (2013)
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Sebastian Knoche, Dominic Vella, Elodie Aumaitre, Patrick Degen, Heinz Rehage, Pietro Cicuta and Jan Kierfeld
Elastometry of Deflated Capsules: Elastic Moduli from Shape and Wrinkle Analysis
Langmuir 29, 12463–12471 (2013)
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Debjani Paul *, Sarra Achouri *, Young-Zoon Yoon, Jurgen Herre, Clare E. Bryant and Pietro Cicuta
Phagocytosis dynamics depends on target shape
Biophysical Journal 105, 1143–1150 (2013)
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Nicolas Bruot and Pietro Cicuta
Emergence of polar order and cooperativity in hydrodynamically coupled model cilia
J. R. Soc.: Interface 10, 20130571 (2013)
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Avelino Javer*, Zhicheng Long*, Eileen Nugent, Marco Grisi, Kamin Siriwatwetchakul,
Kevin D. Dorfman, Pietro Cicuta, and Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
Short-time loci displacement unveils E. coli chromosome organization
Nature Communications 4, 3003 (2013)
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doi: 10.1038/ncomms3003
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Elodie Aumaitre, Sebastian Knoche, Pietro Cicuta, Dominic Vella
Wrinkling in the deflation of elastic bubbles
European Physical Journal E 36, 22 (2013)
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doi: 10.1140/epje/i2013-13022-3 (2013)
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Alex Crick, Teresa Tiffert, Sheel Shah, Jurij Kotar, Virgilio L. Lew and Pietro Cicuta
An automated live imaging platform for studying merozoite egress-invasion in malaria cultures
Biophysical Journal 104, 997-1005 (2013)
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This work discussed in CavMag: Link - Zhicheng Long, Eileen Nugent, Avelino Javer, Pietro Cicuta, Bianca Sclavi, Marco Cosentino
Lagomarsino and Kevin D. Dorfman
Microfluidic chemostat for measuring single cell dynamics in bacteria
Lab on a Chip 13, 947-954 (2013)
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- Simon Wongsuwarn, Yan Ji, Pietro Cicuta and Eugene M. Terentjev
Fast and reversible microscale formation of columns in carbon nanotube suspensions
Soft Matter 9, 235-240 (2013)
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- Nicolas Bruot, Jurij Kotar, Filippo de Lillo, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino and Pietro Cicuta
Driving potential and noise level determine the synchronization state of hydrodynamically coupled oscillators
Physical Review Letters 109, 164103 (2012)
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- Romain Lhermerout, Nicolas Bruot, Giovanni M. Cicuta, Jurij Kotar and Pietro Cicuta
Collective synchronization states in arrays of driven colloidal oscillators
New Journal of Physics 14, 105023 (2012)
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- Loïc Damet, Giovanni M. Cicuta, Jurij Kotar, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino and Pietro Cicuta
Hydrodynamically synchronized states in active colloidal arrays
Soft Matter 8, 8672-8678 (2012)
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- Vincenzo G. Benza, Bruno Bassetti, Kevin D. Dorfman, Vittore F. Scolari,
Krystyna Bromek, Pietro Cicuta and Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
Physical descriptions of the bacterial nucleoid at large scales, and their biological implications
Rep. Prog. Phys. 75, 076602 (2012)
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- Julia R. Gog, Alicia Murcia, Natan Osterman, Olivier Restif, Trevelyan J. McKinley, Mark
Sheppard, Sarra Achouri, Bin Wei, Pietro Mastroeni, James L. N. Wood, Duncan J. Maskell, Pietro
Cicuta and Clare E. Bryant
Dynamics of Salmonella infection of macrophages at the single cell level
J. R. Soc.: Interface 9, 2696-707 (2012)
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- Simon Wongsuwarn, Daniele Vigolo, Roberto Cerbino, Andrew M. Howe, Alberto Vailati,
Roberto Piazza and Pietro Cicuta
Giant thermophoresis of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgel particles
Soft Matter 8, 5857-5863 (2012)
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- Himantha Cooray, Pietro Cicuta and Dominic Vella
The capillary interaction between two vertical cylinders
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 24, 284104 (2012)
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- Davide Orsi, Giacomo Baldi, Pietro Cicuta and Luigi Cristofolini
On the relation between hierarchical morphology and mechanical properties of a colloidal 2D gel system
Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 413, 71–77 (2012)
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- Elodie Aumaitre, Simon Wongsuwarn, Damiano Rossetti, Nicholas D. Hedges, Andrew R. Cox,
Dominic Vella and Pietro Cicuta
A viscoelastic regime in dilute hydrophobin monolayers
Soft Matter 8, 1175 (2012)
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- Giovanni M. Cicuta, Enrico Onofri, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino and Pietro Cicuta
Patterns of synchronization in the hydrodynamic coupling of active colloids
Phys. Rev. E 85, 016203 (2012)
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- Nicolas Bruot, Loïc Damet, Jurij Kotar, Pietro Cicuta and Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
Noise and Synchronization of a Single Active Colloid
Physical Review Letters 107, 094101 (2011)
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- Aidan T. Brown, Jurij Kotar and Pietro Cicuta
Active rheology of phospholipid vesicles
Phys. Rev. E 84, 021930 (2011)
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- Wolfgang-Andreas Bauer, Jurij Kotar, Pietro Cicuta, Robert Woodward, Jonathan Weaver and Wilhelm T. S. Huck
Microfluidic production of monodisperse functional o/w droplets and study of their reversible pH dependent aggregation behavior
Soft Matter 7, 4214 (2011)
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- Elodie Aumaitre, Dominic Vella and Pietro Cicuta
On the measurement of the surface pressure in Langmuir films with finite shear elasticity
Soft Matter 7, 2530 (2011)
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- Young Zoon Yoon, Jurij Kotar, Aidan T. Brown and Pietro Cicuta
Red blood cell dynamics: from spontaneous fluctuations to non-linear response
Soft Matter 7, 2042 (2011)
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- Jakob M. A. Mauritz, Alessandro Esposito, Teresa Tiffert, Jeremy N. Skepper, Alice Warley, Young-Zoon Yoon, Pietro Cicuta, Virgilio L. Lew, Jochen R. Guck and Clemens F. Kaminski
Biophotonic techniques for the study of malaria-infected red blood cells
Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 48, 1055-1063 (2010)
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- Natan Osterman, Jurij Kotar, Eugene M. Terentjev and Pietro Cicuta
Relaxation kinetics of stretched disclination lines in a nematic liquid crystal
Phys. Rev. E 81, 061701 (2010)
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- Giovanni M. Cicuta, Jurij Kotar, Aidan T. Brown, Ji-Ho Noh and Pietro Cicuta
Hydrodynamic coupling in polygonal arrays of colloids: Experimental and analytical results
Phys. Rev. E 81, 051403 (2010)
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- Jurij Kotar, Marco Leoni, Bruno Bassetti, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino and Pietro Cicuta
Hydrodynamic synchronization of colloidal oscillators
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107, 7669-7673 (2010)
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- Anuphon Laohavisit, Aidan T. Brown, Pietro Cicuta and Julia M. Davies
Annexins: Components of the Calcium and Reactive Oxygen Signaling Network
Plant Physiology 152, 1824–1829 (2010)
Link - Young-Zoon Yoon and
Pietro Cicuta
Optical trapping of colloidal particles and cells by focused evanescent fields using conical lenses
Optics Express 18, 7076 (2010)
Link - Young-Zoon Yoon, John P Hale, Peter G Petrov and
Pietro Cicuta
Mechanical properties of ternary lipid membranes near a liquid–liquid phase separation boundary
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 22, 062101 (2010)
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highlighted in IoP labtalk: Link
- M. Leoni, B. Bassetti, J. Kotar, P. Cicuta and M. Cosentino Lagomarsino
Minimal two-sphere model of the generation of fluid flow at low Reynolds numbers
Phys. Rev. E 81, 036304 (2010)
Link - Young-Zoon Yoon, Ha Hong, Aidan Brown, Dong Chung Kim, Dae Joon Kang, Virgilio L. Lew, and Pietro Cicuta
Flickering Analysis of Erythrocyte Mechanical Properties: Dependence on Oxygenation Level, Cell Shape, and Hydration Level
Biophysical Journal 97, 1606–1615 (2009)
Link - Elisabetta Spigone, Gil-Young Cho, Gerald G. Fuller, and Pietro Cicuta
Surface Rheology of a Polymer Monolayer: Effects of Polymer Chain Length and Compression Rate
Langmuir 25, 7457–7464 (2009)
Link - Dominic Vella and Pietro Cicuta
Granular character of particle rafts
Physical Review Letters 102, 138302 (2009)
Link - Marco Leoni, Jurij Kotar, Bruno Bassetti, Pietro Cicuta and Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino
A basic swimmer at low Reynolds number
Soft Matter 5, 472 - 476 (2009), DOI: 10.1039/b812393d
Link - Sarah Veatch, Pietro Cicuta, Prabuddha Sengupta, Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith, David Holowka and Barbara Baird
Critical Fluctuations in Plasma Membrane Vesicles
ACS Chemical Biology 3, 287 (2008)
Link - Young-Zoon Yoon, Jurij Kotar, Gilwon Yoon and Pietro Cicuta
Non-linear mechanical response of the Red Blood Cell
Physical Biology 5, 036007 (2008)
Link - Aurelia R. Honerkamp-Smith, Pietro Cicuta, Marcus D. Collins, Sarah L. Veatch, Marcel den Nijs, M. Schick and Sarah L. Keller
Line tensions, correlation lengths, and critical exponents in lipid membranes near critical points
Biophysical Journal 95, 236–246 (2008)
Link - P. Cicuta and A. M. Donald
Microrheology: a review of the method and applications
Soft Matter 3, 1449–1455 (2007)
Link - P. Cicuta, S.L. Keller and S.L. Veatch
Diffusion of Liquid Domains in Lipid Bilayer Membranes
J. Phys. Chem. B 111, 3328-3331 (2007)
Link - P. Cicuta
Compression and shear surface rheology in spread layers of beta-casein and beta-lactoglobulin
J. Coll. Interface Sci. 308, 93-99 (2007)
Link - T.A.M. Ferenczi and P. Cicuta
Shear and compression viscoelasticity in polymer monolayers
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 17, 3445-3453 (2005)
Link - P. Cicuta and E. M. Terentjev
Viscoelasticity of a protein monolayer from anisotropic surface pressure measurements
European Physical Journal E. 16, 147-158 (2005)
Link - P. Cicuta and I. Hopkinson
Scaling of dynamics in 2d semi-dilute polymer solutions
Europhysics Letters 68, 65-71 (2004)
Link - P. Cicuta, A. R. Tajbakhsh and E. M. Terentjev
Photonic gaps in cholesteric elastomers under deformation
Phys. Rev. E 70, 011703 (2004)
Link - P. Cicuta and I. Hopkinson
Recent developments of surface light scattering as a tool for optical-rheology of polymer monolayers
Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects 233, 97–107 (2004)
Link - P. Cicuta, E.J.Stancik and G.G.Fuller
Shearing or Compressing a Soft Glass in 2D: Time-concentration superposition
Physical Review Letters 90, 236101 (2003)
Link - L. Cristofolini, P. Cicuta and M.P. Fontana
Looking for the glass transition in a single molecular layer on the water surface
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 15, S1031 (2003)
Link - Pietro Cicuta and Ian Hopkinson
Dynamic light scattering from colloidal fractal monolayers
Phys. Rev. E 65, 041404 (2002)
Link - Pietro Cicuta, A.R. Tajbakhsh and Eugene M. Terentjev
Evolution of photonic structure on deformation of cholesteric elastomers
Phys. Rev. E 65, 051704 (2002)
Link - Pietro Cicuta, Ian Hopkinson and Peter G. Petrov
Photocontrol of Protein Conformation in a Langmuir Monolayer
J. Chem. Phys. 115, 9991 (2001)
Link - Pietro Cicuta and Ian Hopkinson
Studies of a weak polyampholyte at the air-buffer interface: The effect of varying pH and ionic strength
J. Chem. Phys. 114, 8659 (2001)
Link - Pietro Cicuta, Alberto Vailati and Marzio Giglio
Capillary to bulk crossover of nonequilibrium fluctuations in the free diffusion of a near--critical binary liquid mixture
Applied Optics 40, 4140 (2001)
Link - Pietro Cicuta, Alberto Vailati and Marzio Giglio
Equilibrium and nonequilibrium fluctuations at the interface between two fluid phases
Phys. Rev. E 62, 4920 (2000)
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Other
- Avelino Javer, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino and Pietro Cicuta
Bacterial Chromosome Dynamics by Locus Tracking in Fluorescence Microscopy
chapter 13 in Chromosome Architecture - Methods in Molecular Biology 1431; ed. Mark C. Leake.
Springer, pp 161-174, 2016 - Aidan T. Brown and Pietro Cicuta
Interfaces and Membranes
chapter 13 in The Oxford Handbook of Soft Condensed Matter; ed. Eugene M. Terentjev and David A. Weitz.
Oxford University Press, pp 535-588, 2015 - Alex J. Crick, Eugenia Cammarota, Katie Moulang, Jurij Kotar and Pietro Cicuta
Advances in single cell experimental design made possible by automated imaging platforms with feedback through segmentation
chapter 26 in Methods in Cell Biology - Biophysical Methods in Cell Biology 125, 471-88 (2015), ed. Ewa Paluch.
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Critical Fluctuations in Lipid Mixtures
entry in the Encyclopedia of Biophysics, Springer, pp 387-390, 2013
Link - P.Cicuta
Tackling Malaria
CavMag (Cavendish Laboratory Newsletter), July 2012
Link - P.Cicuta
various lectures at undergraduate level within the
Institute of Physics' (IoP) project on Biological Physics, (2011)
Link - P.Cicuta
Measuring cells with light
Physics Review (a Physics journal aimed at high school students), April 2010
Link - P.Cicuta
Rheology of bi-dimensional systems. Part I: Examples of interfacial films and rheometers
Panta Rei (bulletin of the Italian Society of Rheology), vol. 4 (2005)
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Rheology of bi-dimensional systems. Part II: Rheology of protein and polymer layers.
Panta Rei (bulletin of the Italian Society of Rheology), vol. 5 (2006)