Theory of Soft Matter

Alessio Zaccone has been a Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Professor since 2014. His research aims to understand the relationship between molecular interactions and the dynamical collective behavior of condensed matter systems, including macroscopic properties. Modern methods of theoretical physics are used, backed by computer simulations, to obtain insights into the mechanical response, the morphology and the phase transition behaviour of disordered atomic and molecular solids (e.g. metallic glasses, amorphous polymers etc.), colloidal suspensions and other complex fluids, and biomolecular self-assembling systems.

TUM-IAS funded doctoral candidate:
Johannes Kraußer (PhD in 2017), Theory of Soft Matter

Publications by the Focus Group

2016

Kyriakos, Konstantinos; Philipp, Martine; Lin, Che-Hung; Dyakonova, Margarita; Vishnevetskaya, Natalya; Grillo, Isabelle; Zaccone, Alessio; Miasnikova, Anna; Laschewsky, André; Müller-Buschbaum, Peter; Papadakis, Christine M.: Quantifying the Interactions in the Aggregation of Thermoresponsive Polymers: The Effect of Cononsolvency. Macromolecular Rapid Communications 37 (5), 2016, 420-425 mehr…
Schlegel, M.; Brujic, J.; Terentjev, E. M.; Zaccone, A.: Local structure controls the nonaffine shear and bulk moduli of disordered solids. Scientific Reports 6 (1), 2016 mehr…

2015

Denisov, Dmitry V.; Dang, Minh Triet; Struth, Bernd; Zaccone, Alessio; Wegdam, Gerard H.; Schall, P.: Sharp symmetry-change marks the mechanical failure transition of glasses. Scientific Reports 5 (1), 2015 mehr…
Gu, Sasa; Kaiser, Julian; Marzun, Galina; Ott, Andreas; Lu, Yan; Ballauff, Matthias; Zaccone, Alessio; Barcikowski, Stephan; Wagener, Philipp: Ligand-free Gold Nanoparticles as a Reference Material for Kinetic Modelling of Catalytic Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol. Catalysis Letters 145 (5), 2015, 1105-1112 mehr…
Krausser, Johannes; Samwer, Konrad H.; Zaccone, Alessio: Interatomic repulsion softness directly controls the fragility of supercooled metallic melts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (45), 2015, 13762-13767 mehr…
Mermet-Guyennet, M.R.B.; Gianfelice de Castro, J.; Varol, H.S.; Habibi, M.; Hosseinkhani, B.; Martzel, N.; Sprik, R.; Denn, M.M.; Zaccone, A.; Parekh, S.H.; Bonn, D.: Size-dependent reinforcement of composite rubbers. Polymer 73, 2015, 170-173 mehr…
Zaccone, A.; Terentjev, I.; Di Michele, L.; Terentjev, E. M.: Fragmentation and depolymerization of non-covalently bonded filaments. The Journal of Chemical Physics 142 (11), 2015, 114905 mehr…
van der Linden, Marte; Conchúir, Breanndán O.; Spigone, Elisabetta; Niranjan, Arun; Zaccone, Alessio; Cicuta, Pietro: Microscopic Origin of the Hofmeister Effect in Gelation Kinetics of Colloidal Silica. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 6 (15), 2015, 2881-2887 mehr…

2014

Gu, Sasa; Wunder, Stefanie; Lu, Yan; Ballauff, Matthias; Fenger, Robert; Rademann, Klaus; Jaquet, Baptiste; Zaccone, Alessio: Kinetic Analysis of the Catalytic Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol by Metallic Nanoparticles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118 (32), 2014, 18618-18625 mehr…
Zaccone, A.; Schall, P.; Terentjev, E. M.: Microscopic origin of nonlinear nonaffine deformation in bulk metallic glasses. Physical Review B 90 (14), 2014 mehr…
Zaccone, A.; Winter, H. H.; Siebenbürger, M.; Ballauff, M.: Linking self-assembly, rheology, and gel transition in attractive colloids. Journal of Rheology 58 (5), 2014, 1219-1244 mehr…

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