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NeuroMorph: A Toolset for the Morphometric Analysis and Visualization of 3D Models Derived from Electron Microscopy Image Stacks

Pascal Fua, Graham Knott, Corrado Cali, Biagio Nigro, Anne Alison Jorstad, Marta Wawrzyniak

Serial electron microscopy imaging is crucial for exploring the structure of cells and tissues. The development of block face scanning electron microscopy methods and their ability to capture large image stacks, some with near isotropic voxels, is proving ...

Humana Press2015

Impact of tunneling anisotropy on the conductivity of nanorod dispersions

Claudio Grimaldi, Biagio Nigro

While the tunneling conductance between two spherical-like conducting particles depends on the relative interparticle distance, the wave function overlap between states of two rodlike particles, and so the tunneling conductance, depends also on the relativ ...

American Physical Society2014

Quasiuniversal Connectedness Percolation of Polydisperse Rod Systems

Peter Ryser, Claudio Grimaldi, Biagio Nigro

The connectedness percolation threshold (eta(c)) and critical coordination number (Z(c)) of systems of penetrable spherocylinders characterized by a length polydispersity are studied by way of Monte Carlo simulations for several aspect ratio distributions. ...

American Physical Society2013

Morphology Effects on the Tunneling Conductivity of Disordered Nanocomposites

Biagio Nigro

EPFL2013

Depletion-interaction effects on the tunneling conductivity of nanorod suspensions

Peter Ryser, Claudio Grimaldi, Biagio Nigro

We study by simulation and theory how the addition of insulating spherical particles affects the conductivity of fluids of conducting rods, modeled by spherocylinders. The electrical connections are implemented as tunneling processes, leading to a more det ...

American Physical Society2013

Tunneling and percolation transport regimes in segregated composites

Peter Ryser, Claudio Grimaldi, Biagio Nigro

We consider the problem of electron transport in segregated conductor-insulator composites in which the conducting particles are connected to all others via tunneling conductances, thus forming a global tunneling-connected resistor network. Segregation is ...

2012

Tunneling conductivity in composites of attractive colloids

Peter Ryser, Claudio Grimaldi, Biagio Nigro

In conductor-insulator nanocomposites in which conducting fillers are dispersed in an insulating matrix, the electrical connectedness is established by inter-particle tunneling or hopping processes. These systems are intrinsically non-percolative and a coh ...

American Institute of Physics2012

Transport properties of nonhomogeneous segregated composites

Peter Ryser, Claudio Grimaldi, Thomas Maeder, Gianluca Ambrosetti, Biagio Nigro

In conductor-insulator composites in which the conducting particles are dispersed in an insulating continuous matrix the electrical connectedness is established by interparticle quantum tunneling. A recent formulation of the transport problem in these kind ...

2011