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Francesco Varrato
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Routes to Novel Colloidal Gels
The thesis describes how demixing of binary colloidal mixtures could be used to design new kinds of amorphous structures. We show that a rich phase behavior emerges, dependent on density (colloidal concentration) and composition (species relative populatio ...
EPFL2012Arrested demixing opens route to bigels
Nicolas Dorsaz, Francesco Varrato, Giuseppe Foffi, Maxim Belushkin
Understanding and, ultimately, controlling the properties of amorphous materials is one of the key goals of material science. Among the different amorphous structures, a very important role is played by colloidal gels. It has been only recently understood ...
Natl Acad Sciences2012Apollonian packings as physical fractals
Francesco Varrato, Giuseppe Foffi
The Apollonian packings (APs) of spheres are fractals that result from a space-filling procedure. We discuss the finite size effects for finite intervals s is an element of [s(min), s(max)] between the largest and the smallest sizes of the filling spheres. ...
2011Apollonian packings as physical fractals
Francesco Varrato, Giuseppe Foffi
The Apollonian packings (APs) of spheres are fractals that result from a space-filling procedure. We discuss the finite size effects for finite intervals s is an element of [s(min), s(max)] between the largest and the smallest sizes of the filling spheres. ...
2011