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Nicoletta and Emanuela have published an Article in Nature Physics on the role of deformation in the dynamics of soft colloids. A press release (in Italian) can also be found here.

In this ACS Nano paper experiments and simulations are combined to investigate the behavior of microgels at a liquid-liquid interface. A press release (in Italian) can also be found here.

A paper where experiments and simulations are used together to investigate the effective interactions acting between microgels has appeared in Nature Communications. A press release (in Italian) can be found here.

A protein-like dynamical transition in microgels has appeared in Science Advances.

We just published a paper about microgels in explicit solvent in Scientific Reports .

A prestigious Levi Montalcini grant was awarded to Lorenzo Rovigatti.
Congratulations Lorenzo!

Some members of the MIMIC group are going to the second Summer school on Functional Microgels and Microgel Systems, jointly organized by the SFB 985 Functional Microgels and Microgel Systems at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA). Visit here the website of the school.

The MIMIC group welcomes two new members:

• Fabrizio Camerin joined the group as a PhD student. He will work on microgels at the interface.
• Andrea Ninarello joined the group as a post-doc. He will work on hollow and ultrasoft microgels.

A paper on the characterisation of the structure and swelling behaviour of our realistic microgel has appeared on the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter in the Special Issue dedicated to the Liquid Matter Conference 2017.

Our first paper about the generation of a realistic microgel on a computer has been published in Macromolecules and has been picked as the ACS Editors’ Choice for October 18!