Dr Pietro Cicuta

Primary publications

1. Himantha Cooray, Pietro Cicuta and Dominic Vella
   The capillary interaction between two vertical cylinders
   J. Phys.: Condens. Matter to appear (2012)
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2. 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 to appear (2012)
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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. Aidan T. Brown, Jurij Kotar and Pietro Cicuta
   Active rheology of phospholipid vesicles
   Phys. Rev. E 84, 021930 (2011)
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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. Jurij Kotar, Marco Leoni, Bruno Bassetti, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino and Pietro Cicuta
    Hydrodynamic synchronization of colloidal oscillators
    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 107, 7669-7673 (2010)
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    see also Supplementary Material: Link
    
14. 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)
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15. 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)
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16. 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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    see also Supplementary Material: Link
    highlighted in IoP labtalk: Link
    
17. 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)
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18. 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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19. 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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20. Dominic Vella and Pietro Cicuta
    Granular character of particle rafts
    Physical Review Letters 102, 138302 (2009)
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21. 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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22. 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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23. 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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24. 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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25. P. Cicuta and A. M. Donald
    Microrheology: a review of the method and applications
    Soft Matter 3, 1449–1455 (2007)
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26. 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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27. 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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28. 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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29. 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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30. P. Cicuta and I. Hopkinson
    Scaling of dynamics in 2d semi-dilute polymer solutions
    Europhysics Letters 68, 65-71 (2004)
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31. 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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32. 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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33. 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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34. 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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35. Pietro Cicuta and Ian Hopkinson
    Dynamic light scattering from colloidal fractal monolayers
    Phys. Rev. E 65, 041404 (2002)
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36. 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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37. 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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38. 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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39. 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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40. 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)
  
• P.Cicuta
  Measuring cells with light
  Physics Review (a Physics journal aimed at high school students), April (2010)
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