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Overview

Lucio Isa is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland, contributing significantly to various interdisciplinary research areas. Their work spans engineering, materials science, and physics and astronomy, highlighting a diverse expertise focused on material behaviors and microscale phenomena.

Their research encompasses several key subfields, including materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, condensed matter physics, mechanical engineering, and atomic and molecular physics with optics. This multidisciplinary approach supports their investigations into complex material interactions and innovative microscale systems.

Isa's scholarly output covers a broad range of topics, notably micro and nano robotics, Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization, surfactants and colloidal systems, microfluidic and bio-sensing technologies, advanced materials and mechanics, polymer surface interaction studies, and hydrogels focusing on synthesis, properties, and applications.

Recent publications by Lucio Isa include the following:

  • Poly-N-isopropylacrylamide Nanogels and Microgels at Fluid Interfaces, 2020, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Feedback-controlled active brownian colloids with space-dependent rotational dynamics, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Exploring the roles of roughness, friction and adhesion in discontinuous shear thickening by means of thermo-responsive particles, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Microscale Marangoni Surfers, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Steering self-organisation through confinement, 2023, Soft Matter

Isa frequently collaborates with various researchers, including Shivaprakash N. Ramakrishna, Jacopo Vialetto, Fabio Grillo, Maximilian R. Bailey, and Laura Alvarez. These collaborations reflect a network of expertise that supports their multifaceted scientific endeavors.

Their publication record spans multiple respected venues, with frequent contributions to arXiv (Cornell University), Soft Matter, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Langmuir, and SSRN Electronic Journal. These platforms indicate an active engagement with both preprint dissemination and peer-reviewed journal publication across relevant research communities.

Best Publications

  • Microscopic mechanism for shear thickening of non-Brownian suspensions.

    Nicolas Fernandez;Roman Mani;David Rinaldi;Dirk Kadau

  • PEG-stabilized core-shell nanoparticles: impact of linear versus dendritic polymer shell architecture on colloidal properties and the reversibility of temperature-induced aggregation.

    Torben Gillich;Canet Acikgöz;Lucio Isa;A. Dieter Schlüter

  • Shear banding and flow-concentration coupling in colloidal glasses

    R. Besseling;L. Isa;P. Ballesta;G. Petekidis

  • Unraveling the 3D localization and deformation of responsive microgels at oil/water interfaces: a step forward in understanding soft emulsion stabilizers.

    Karen Geisel;Lucio Isa;Walter Richtering

  • Measuring single-nanoparticle wetting properties by freeze-fracture shadow-casting cryo-scanning electron microscopy

    Lucio Isa;Falk Lucas;Roger Wepf;Erik Reimhult;Erik Reimhult

  • Particle Lithography from Colloidal Self-Assembly at Liquid−Liquid Interfaces

    Lucio Isa;Karthik Kumar;Mischa Müller;Jan Grolig

  • Adsorption of microgels at an oil–water interface: correlation between packing and 2D elasticity

    Florent Pinaud;Karen Geisel;Pascal Massé;Bogdan Catargi

  • Nanoscale surface chemistry directs the tunable assembly of silver octahedra into three two-dimensional plasmonic superlattices.

    Yih Hong Lee;Wenxiong Shi;Hiang Kwee Lee;Hiang Kwee Lee;Ruibin Jiang

  • Roughness-dependent tribology effects on discontinuous shear thickening.

    Chiao Peng Hsu;Shivaprakash N. Ramakrishna;Michele Zanini;Nicholas D. Spencer

  • Adsorption of soft particles at fluid interfaces

    Robert W. Style;Lucio Isa;Eric R. Dufresne

  • Non-equilibrium nature of two-dimensional isotropic and nematic coexistence in amyloid fibrils at liquid interfaces

    Sophia Jordens;Lucio Isa;Ivan Usov;Raffaele Mezzenga

  • Universal emulsion stabilization from the arrested adsorption of rough particles at liquid-liquid interfaces.

    Michele Zanini;Claudia Marschelke;Svetoslav E. Anachkov;Emanuele Marini

  • Quantitative imaging of colloidal flows

    Rut Besseling;Lucio Isa;Eric R. Weeks;Wilson C.K. Poon

  • Programmable colloidal molecules from sequential capillarity-assisted particle assembly.

    Songbo Ni;Songbo Ni;Jessica Leemann;Jessica Leemann;Ivo Buttinoni;Lucio Isa

  • Thermal-lensing measurement of particle thermophoresis in aqueous dispersions

    Roberto Rusconi;Lucio Isa;Roberto Piazza

  • Shear zones and wall slip in the capillary flow of concentrated colloidal suspensions

    Lucio Isa;Rut Besseling;Wilson C K Poon

  • Isostructural solid–solid phase transition in monolayers of soft core–shell particles at fluid interfaces: structure and mechanics

    Marcel Rey;Miguel Ángel Fernández-Rodríguez;Miguel Ángel Fernández-Rodríguez;Mathias Steinacher;Mathias Steinacher;Laura Scheidegger

  • Direct measurement of contact angles of silica particles in relation to double inversion of pickering emulsions.

    Bernard Paul Binks;Lucio Isa;Andrew Terhemen Tyowua

  • Poly- N-isopropylacrylamide Nanogels and Microgels at Fluid Interfaces

    Marcel Rey;Miguel Angel Fernandez-Rodriguez;Matthias Karg;Lucio Isa

  • Slip and flow of hard-sphere colloidal glasses.

    P. Ballesta;P. Ballesta;Rut Besseling;L. Isa;G. Petekidis

  • Quantitative imaging of colloidal flows

    Lucio Isa;Rut Besseling;Eric R. Weeks;Wilson C. K. Poon

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Reimhult
Erik Reimhult BOKU University
Walter Richtering
Walter Richtering RWTH Aachen University
Wilson C. K. Poon
Wilson C. K. Poon University of Edinburgh
Matthias Karg
Matthias Karg Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Nicolas H. Voelcker
Nicolas H. Voelcker Monash University
Jan Vermant
Jan Vermant ETH Zurich
Martin Kröger
Martin Kröger ETH Zurich
Peter Fischer
Peter Fischer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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