Dr Pietro Cicuta

Primary publications

1. 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)
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2. 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)
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3. Dominic Vella and Pietro Cicuta
   Granular character of particle rafts
   Physical Review Letters 102, 138302 (2009)
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4. 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
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5. 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)
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6. Young-Zoon Yoon, Jurij Kotar, Gilwon Yoon and Pietro Cicuta
   Non-linear mechanical response of the Red Blood Cell
   Physical Biology 5, 036007 (2008)
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7. 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)
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8. P. Cicuta and A. M. Donald
   Microrheology: a review of the method and applications
   Soft Matter 3, 1449–1455 (2007)
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9. 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)
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10. P. Cicuta
    Compression and shear surface rheology in spread layers of beta-casein and beta-lactoglobulin
    J. Coll. Interface Sci. 308, 93-99 (2007)
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11. T.A.M. Ferenczi and P. Cicuta
    Shear and compression viscoelasticity in polymer monolayers
    J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 17, 3445-3453 (2005)
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12. P. Cicuta and E. M. Terentjev
    Viscoelasticity of a protein monolayer from anisotropic surface pressure measurements
    European Physical Journal E. 16, 147-158 (2005)
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13. P. Cicuta and I. Hopkinson
    Scaling of dynamics in 2d semi-dilute polymer solutions
    Europhysics Letters 68, 65-71 (2004)
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14. P. Cicuta, A. R. Tajbakhsh and E. M. Terentjev
    Photonic gaps in cholesteric elastomers under deformation
    Phys. Rev. E 70, 011703 (2004)
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15. 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)
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16. 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)
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17. 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)
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18. Pietro Cicuta and Ian Hopkinson
    Dynamic light scattering from colloidal fractal monolayers
    Phys. Rev. E 65, 041404 (2002)
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19. Pietro Cicuta, A.R. Tajbakhsh and Eugene M. Terentjev
    Evolution of photonic structure on deformation of cholesteric elastomers
    Phys. Rev. E 65, 051704 (2002)
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20. Pietro Cicuta, Ian Hopkinson and Peter G. Petrov
    Photocontrol of Protein Conformation in a Langmuir Monolayer
    J. Chem. Phys. 115, 9991 (2001)
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21. 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)
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22. 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)
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23. 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

• 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)
  
• P.Cicuta
  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)