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Tommaso Bellini

Tommaso Bellini

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Materials Science

D-Index
45
Citations
6755
World Ranking
11835
National Ranking
272

Overview

Tommaso Bellini is affiliated with the University of Milan in Italy. Their research spans several areas within the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant number of publications in Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics including DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, Liquid Crystal Research Advancements, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, and Photonic Crystals and Applications.

Notable papers authored or co-authored by Tommaso Bellini include:

  • Serological follow-up of SARS-CoV-2 asymptomatic subjects, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Surface alignment of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals, 2021, Soft Matter
  • Explosive electrostatic instability of ferroelectric liquid droplets on ferroelectric solid surfaces, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Fluid superscreening and polarization following in confined ferroelectric nematics, 2023, Nature Physics
  • Walking Ferroelectric Liquid Droplets with Light, 2023, Advanced Materials

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bellini include Giovanni Nava, L. Lucchetti, Luca Casiraghi, Marco Buscaglia, and Giuliano Zanchetta.

The venues where Bellini publishes most frequently include Soft Matter, arXiv (Cornell University), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, and the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Best Publications

  • End-to-end stacking and liquid crystal condensation of 6 to 20 base pair DNA duplexes.

    Michi Nakata;Giuliano Zanchetta;Brandon D. Chapman;Christopher D. Jones

  • Phase behavior of the liquid crystal 8CB in a silica aerogel.

    Tommaso Bellini;Noel A. Clark;Chris D. Muzny;Lei Wu

  • Phase behavior and critical activated dynamics of limited-valence DNA nanostars

    Silvia Biffi;Roberto Cerbino;Francesca Bomboi;Elvezia Maria Paraboschi

  • Universality and Scaling in the Disordering of a Smectic Liquid Crystal

    Tommaso Bellini;Tommaso Bellini;Leo Radzihovsky;John Toner;Noel A. Clark

  • Equilibrium sedimentation profiles of screened charged colloids: A test of the hard-sphere equation of state.

    Roberto Piazza;Tommaso Bellini;Vittorio Degiorgio

  • Scattering information obtained by optical microscopy: differential dynamic microscopy and beyond.

    Fabio Giavazzi;Doriano Brogioli;Veronique Trappe;Tommaso Bellini

  • Emerging applications of label-free optical biosensors

    Giuliano Zanchetta;Roberta Lanfranco;Fabio Giavazzi;Tommaso Bellini

  • The case of thresholdless antiferroelectricity: polarization-stabilized twisted SmC* liquid crystals give V-shaped electro-optic response

    Per Rudquist;Jan Lagerwall;M. Buivydas;F. Gouda

  • Dynamic Light Scattering Study of Nematic and Smectic-A Liquid Crystal Ordering in Silica Aerogel.

    Tommaso Bellini;Noel A. Clark;Dale W. Schaefer

  • X-ray scattering study of smectic ordering in a silica aerogel.

    Noel A. Clark;Tommaso Bellini;Rainer M. Malzbender;Britt N. Thomas

  • Memory and topological frustration in nematic liquid crystals confined in porous materials

    Takeaki Araki;Takeaki Araki;Marco Buscaglia;Tommaso Bellini;Hajime Tanaka

  • Heat-capacity study of nematic-isotropic and nematic-smectic-A transitions for octylcyanobiphenyl in silica aerogels

    L. Wu;B. Zhou;C. W. Garland;T. Bellini

  • Right-handed double-helix ultrashort DNA yields chiral nematic phases with both right- and left-handed director twist.

    Giuliano Zanchetta;Fabio Giavazzi;Michi Nakata;Marco Buscaglia

  • Static and dynamic light scattering study of fluorinated polymer colloids with a crystalline internal structure

    Vittorio Degiorgio;Roberto Piazza;Tommaso Bellini

  • Freezing transition for colloids with adjustable charge: A test of charge renormalization.

    Palberg T;Mönch W;Bitzer F;Piazza R

  • Phase separation and liquid crystallization of complementary sequences in mixtures of nanoDNA oligomers

    Giuliano Zanchetta;Michi Nakata;Marco Buscaglia;Tommaso Bellini

  • Light-scattering measurement of the nematic correlation length in a liquid crystal with quenched disorder

    Tommaso Bellini;Noel A. Clark;Vittorio Degiorgio;Francesco Mantegazza

  • A fast and simple label-free immunoassay based on a smartphone.

    Fabio Giavazzi;Matteo Salina;Erica Ceccarello;Andrea Ilacqua

  • Electro-optic characteristics of de Vries tilted smectic liquid crystals: Analog behavior in the smectic A * and smectic C * phases

    N. A. Clark;T. Bellini;R.-F. Shao;D. Coleman

  • Random-field effects on the nematic-smectic-A phase transition due to silica aerosil particles

    B. Zhou;G. S. Iannacchione;C. W. Garland;T. Bellini

Frequent Co-Authors

Noel A. Clark
Noel A. Clark University of Colorado Boulder
Roberto Osellame
Roberto Osellame National Research Council (CNR)
Francesco Sciortino
Francesco Sciortino Sapienza University of Rome
David M. Walba
David M. Walba University of Colorado Boulder
Claudio Zannoni
Claudio Zannoni University of Bologna
Giulio Cerullo
Giulio Cerullo Polytechnic University of Milan
Ángel V. Delgado
Ángel V. Delgado University of Granada
Marcella Chiari
Marcella Chiari National Research Council (CNR)
Chenhui Zhu
Chenhui Zhu Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Bice Chini
Bice Chini University of Milan

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