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Francesco Sciortino

Francesco Sciortino

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Chemistry
Italy
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
100
Citations
33454
World Ranking
1286
National Ranking
24

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Francesco Sciortino is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy, focusing primarily on materials science. Their research extensively covers materials chemistry, with significant contributions in molecular biology, biomedical engineering, condensed matter physics, and atomic and molecular physics, and optics.

The main research topics addressed by Sciortino include material dynamics and properties, pickering emulsions and particle stabilization, phase equilibria and thermodynamics, theoretical and computational physics, nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, and surfactants and colloidal systems.

Sciortino has published numerous papers in prominent venues. Some of the recent publications are:

  • Second critical point in two realistic models of water, 2020, Science
  • Advances in the study of supercooled water, 2021, The European Physical Journal E
  • Leveraging Hierarchical Self-Assembly Pathways for Realizing Colloidal Photonic Crystals, 2020, ACS Nano
  • Topological nature of the liquid-liquid phase transition in tetrahedral liquids, 2022, Nature Physics
  • Inverse design of a pyrochlore lattice of DNA origami through model-driven experiments, 2024, Science

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Sciortino are:

  • John Russo
  • Lorenzo Rovigatti
  • Petr Šulc
  • Andreas Neophytou
  • Pablo G. Debenedetti

Sciortino's work appears regularly in several scientific journals and repositories, including:

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Letters
  • ACS Nano
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Phase behaviour of metastable water

    Peter H. Poole;Francesco Sciortino;Ulrich Essmann;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Gelation of particles with short-range attraction

    Peter J. Lu;Emanuela Zaccarelli;Fabio Ciulla;Andrew B. Schofield

  • Relation between the Widom line and the dynamic crossover in systems with a liquid–liquid phase transition

    Limei Xu;Pradeep Kumar;S. V. Buldyrev;S.-H. Chen

  • SINGULARITY-FREE INTERPRETATION OF THE THERMODYNAMICS OF SUPERCOOLED WATER

    Srikanth Sastry;Pablo G. Debenedetti;Francesco Sciortino;H. E. Stanley

  • Phase Diagram of Patchy Colloids: Towards Empty Liquids

    Emanuela Bianchi;Julio Largo;Piero Tartaglia;Emanuela Zaccarelli

  • Equilibrium cluster phases and low-density arrested disordered states: the role of short-range attraction and long-range repulsion.

    Francesco Sciortino;Stefano Mossa;Emanuela Zaccarelli;Piero Tartaglia

  • Effect of hydrogen bonds on the thermodynamic behavior of liquid water.

    Peter H. Poole;Francesco Sciortino;Tor Grande;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Inherent Structure Entropy of Supercooled Liquids

    F. Sciortino;W. Kob;P. Tartaglia

  • Higher-order glass-transition singularities in colloidal systems with attractive interactions

    Kenneth A. Dawson;Giuseppe Foffi;Matthias Fuchs;Wolfgang Götze

  • Supercooled water and the kinetic glass transition.

    F Sciortino;Paola Gallo;P Tartaglia;SH Chen

  • Effect of defects on molecular mobility in liquid water

    Francesco Sciortino;Alfons Geiger;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Observation of empty liquids and equilibrium gels in a colloidal clay

    Barbara Ruzicka;Emanuela Zaccarelli;Laura Zulian;Roberta Angelini

  • Fragile-to-strong transition and polyamorphism in the energy landscape of liquid silica

    Ivan Saika-Voivod;Peter H. Poole;Francesco Sciortino

  • Configurational entropy and diffusivity of supercooled water

    Antonio Scala;Francis W. Starr;Francis W. Starr;Emilia La Nave;Francesco Sciortino

  • Slow dynamics of water molecules in supercooled states.

    Paola Gallo;F Sciortino;P Tartaglia;Sh Chen

  • Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition: Evidence from Simulations

    Stephen Harrington;Rong Zhang;Peter H. Poole;Francesco Sciortino

  • Phase diagram of Janus particles.

    Francesco Sciortino;Achille Giacometti;Giorgio Pastore

  • Glassy colloidal systems

    F. Sciortino;P. Tartaglia

  • Potential energy landscape description of supercooled liquids and glasses

    Francesco Sciortino

  • Spinodal of liquid water

    Peter H. Poole;Francesco Sciortino;Ulrich Essmann;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Saddles in the energy landscape probed by supercooled liquids.

    L. Angelani;R. Di Leonardo;G. Ruocco;A. Scala

  • Network defects and molecular mobility in liquid water

    Francesco Sciortino;Alfons Geiger;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Computer simulations of liquid silica: Equation of state and liquid-liquid phase transition

    Ivan Saika-Voivod;Francesco Sciortino;Peter H. Poole

  • Dynamics of simulated water under pressure.

    Francis W. Starr;Francesco Sciortino;H. Eugene Stanley

  • Disordered materials: One liquid, two glasses

    Francesco Sciortino

  • Ground-state clusters for short-range attractive and long-range repulsive potentials.

    S. Mossa;F. Sciortino;P. Tartaglia;E. Zaccarelli

  • Phase diagram for amorphous solid water.

    Peter H. Poole;Ulrich Essmann;Francesco Sciortino;Francesco Sciortino;Francesco Sciortino;H. Eugene Stanley

Frequent Co-Authors

Emanuela Zaccarelli
Emanuela Zaccarelli National Research Council (CNR)
H. Eugene Stanley
H. Eugene Stanley Boston University
H. E. Stanley
H. E. Stanley Boston University
Francis W. Starr
Francis W. Starr Wesleyan University
Sergey V. Buldyrev
Sergey V. Buldyrev Yeshiva University
Antonio Scala
Antonio Scala National Research Council (CNR)
Kenneth A. Dawson
Kenneth A. Dawson University College Dublin
Nicolas Giovambattista
Nicolas Giovambattista City University of New York
Giancarlo Ruocco
Giancarlo Ruocco Italian Institute of Technology
Tommaso Bellini
Tommaso Bellini University of Milan

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