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Pier Luca Maffettone is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions in specialized subfields such as Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Polymers and Plastics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's main topics of research include Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies, Digital Holography and Microscopy, Polymer Foaming and Composites, Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies, Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications, and Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films.

Maffettone's recent publications illustrate the scope of their work. These include:

  • Perspectives on liquid biopsy for label-free detection of "circulating tumor cells" through intelligent lab-on-chips, 2020, published in View
  • Label-free liquid biopsy through the identification of tumor cells by machine learning-powered tomographic phase imaging flow cytometry, 2023, Scientific Reports
  • Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence Immunosensor Based on Plasmonic Arrays of Gold Nanoislands on an Etched Glass Substrate, 2020, ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • Digital holography as metrology tool at micro-nanoscale for soft matter, 2022, Light Advanced Manufacturing
  • Full-Field and Quantitative Analysis of a Thin Liquid Film at the Nanoscale by Combining Digital Holography and White Light Interferometry, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Frequently publishing in venues such as Physics of Fluids, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, AIP conference proceedings, and Chemical Engineering Science, Maffettone demonstrates a broad engagement with scholarly platforms focused on fluid dynamics, materials, and related applied sciences.

Collaborations have been consistent with several researchers, including Daniele Tammaro, Massimiliano M. Villone, Pietro Ferraro, Sara Coppola, and Gaetano D'Avino, indicating active co-authorship networks in their areas of study.

Best Publications

  • A description of the liquid-crystalline phase of rodlike polymers at high shear rates

    G. Marrucci;P. L. Maffettone

  • Equation of change for ellipsoidal drops in viscous flow

    P.L. Maffettone;M. Minale

  • Quantifying dispersion of layered nanocomposites via melt rheology

    Jan Vermant;S Ceccia;S Ceccia;M. K Dolgovskij;P. L Maffettone

  • Particle Migration due to Viscoelasticity of the Suspending Liquid and Its Relevance in Microfluidic Devices

    Gaetano D'Avino;Francesco Greco;Pier Luca Maffettone

  • Single line particle focusing induced by viscoelasticity of the suspending liquid: theory, experiments and simulations to design a micropipe flow-focuser

    Gaetano D'Avino;Giovanni Romeo;Massimiliano M. Villone;Francesco Greco

  • Particle dynamics in viscoelastic liquids

    G. D’Avino;P.L. Maffettone

  • Microrheological Modeling of Flow-Induced Crystallization

    Salvatore Coppola;Nino Grizzuti;Pier Luca Maffettone

  • Nematic phase of rodlike polymers. I. Prediction of transient behavior at high shear rates

    G. Marrucci;P. L. Maffettone

  • Particle motion in square channel flow of a viscoelastic liquid: Migration vs. secondary flows

    MM Massimiliano Villone;G d'Avino;MA Martien Hulsen;F Greco

  • Particle alignment in a viscoelastic liquid flowing in a square-shaped microchannel

    Francesco Del Giudice;Giovanni Romeo;Gaetano D'Avino;Francesco Greco

  • Viscoelasticity-induced migration of a rigid sphere in confined shear flow

    G d'Avino;PL Maffettone;F Greco;MA Martien Hulsen

  • The rigid-rod model for nematic polymers: An analysis of the shear flow problem

    V. Faraoni;Massimiliano Grosso;S. Crescitelli;P. L. Maffettone

  • Effects of the degree of undercooling on flow induced crystallization in polymer melts

    Salvatore Coppola;Luigi Balzano;Emilia Gioffredi;Pier Luca Maffettone

  • Viscoelastic flow-focusing in microchannels: scaling properties of the particle radial distributions

    Giovanni Romeo;Gaetano D'Avino;Gaetano D'Avino;Francesco Greco;Paolo A. Netti;Paolo A. Netti

  • Full-angle tomographic phase microscopy of flowing quasi-spherical cells.

    Massimiliano M. Villone;Pasquale Memmolo;Francesco Merola;Martina Mugnano

  • NEMATIC PHASE OF RODLIKE POLYMERS. II, POLYDOMAIN PREDICTIONS IN THE TUMBLING REGIME

    G. Marrucci;P. L. Maffettone

  • Continuum theory for nematic liquid crystals with tensorial order

    A.M Sonnet;P.L Maffettone;E.G Virga

  • Microrheology with Optical Tweezers: Measuring the relative viscosity of solutions ‘at a glance'

    Manlio Tassieri;Francesco Del Giudice;Emma J. Robertson;Neena Jain

  • Prediction of chaotic dynamics in sheared liquid crystalline polymers.

    Massimiliano Grosso;R Keunings;S Crescitelli;P. L. Maffettone

  • Ellipsoidal drop model for single drop dynamics with non-Newtonian fluids

    Pier Luca Maffettone;Francesco Greco

  • Rotation of a sphere in a viscoelastic liquid subjected to shear flow. Part I: Simulation results

    Gaetano D’Avino;Martien A. Hulsen;Frank Snijkers;Jan Vermant

Frequent Co-Authors

MA Martien Hulsen
MA Martien Hulsen Eindhoven University of Technology
Paolo A. Netti
Paolo A. Netti Italian Institute of Technology
Pasquale Memmolo
Pasquale Memmolo National Research Council (CNR)
Jan Vermant
Jan Vermant ETH Zurich
Giovanni Camino
Giovanni Camino Polytechnic University of Turin
Piero Salatino
Piero Salatino University of Naples Federico II
Roland Keunings
Roland Keunings Université Catholique de Louvain
Gerald G. Fuller
Gerald G. Fuller Stanford University
Roberta Maria Bongiovanni
Roberta Maria Bongiovanni Polytechnic University of Turin

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