Alberto Giacomello

Pubblicazioni

Titolo Pubblicato in Anno
Collapse of superhydrophobicity on nanopillared surfaces PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS 2017
Intrusion and extrusion of water in hydrophobic nanopores PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2017
Cavitation in confinement: a classical nucleation theory approach AIMETA 2017 - Proceedings of the XXIII Conference of the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 2017
Wetting and cavitation pathways on nanodecorated surfaces SOFT MATTER 2016
Wetting hysteresis induced by nanodefects PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2016
Perpetual superhydrophobicity SOFT MATTER 2016
Focus Article: Theoretical aspects of vapor/gas nucleation at structured surfaces THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 2016
Mechanism of the Cassie-Wenzel transition via the atomistic and continuum string methods THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 2015
Unraveling the Salvinia Paradox: Design Principles for Submerged Superhydrophobicity ADVANCED MATERIALS INTERFACES 2015
How to control bubble nucleation from superhydrophobic surfaces JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONFERENCE SERIES 2015

ERC

  • LS9_10
  • PE3_16
  • PE5_10
  • PE8_5

KET

  • Nanotecnologie
  • Advanced materials
  • Big data & computing
  • Life-science technologies & biotechnologies

Interessi di ricerca

I am Associate Professor of Fluid Dynamics at Sapienza University and principal investigator of the ERC-StG project HyGate. My research is in theoretical and computational fluid mechanics of interfaces at the micro- and nano-scale. In particular, I am keen on understanding the origin of metastability in problems of engineering and multidisciplinary interest, including ion channel gating, superhydrophobicity, contact angle hysteresis, nanobubbles and cavitation inception.

Keywords

superhydrophobicity
hydrophobic effect
hydrophobic drugs
drag reduction
computational fluid dynamics
microfluidics
capillarity
nanoporous materials
phase transition mechanisms
rare events
Molecular dynamic simulation
Navier-Stokes equations
continuum mechanics
computational mechanics
High Performance Computing
activation energy
energy harvesting
drops
bubbles
high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Gruppi di ricerca - Responsabile

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