Alberto Scacchi
PhD in Physics
alberto.scacchi@utu.fi +358 29 450 2866 +358 50 473 8807 : P77 |
Biophysics; Active Matter; Self-Assembly; Phase Separation; Colloidal Films; Polymer Films; Liquid Liquid Phase Separation; Classical Density Functional Theory; Particle Based Simulations.
Head of the Computational Soft Matter Group.
I obtained my PhD in Physics from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, in 2018. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, I pursued my first postdoctoral research at Loughborough University, in the United Kingdom, until the summer of 2020. Subsequently, I have been a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University, Finland, working in three different departments: Chemistry and Materials, Applied Physics, and Bioproducts and Biosystems. Since June 2024, I have been an Assistant Professor of Computational Materials Engineering at the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering of the University of Turku.
My broad research interest spans from the application of different numerical simulations (such as Brownian dynamics, dissipative particle dynamics and coarse-grained molecular dynamics) and statistical mechanics theories (classical density functional theories) to study the (non-)equilibrium morphological response of different systems, such as, e.g., colloidal suspensions, nano-particles, proteins, and a variety of polymeric morphologies in different environments. One of the main aims of my research is to provide accessible theoretical tools able to connect the molecular details of soft matter component systems to their mesoscopic response.
- Mechanical Properties of Materials MTEK0005 (Autumn)
- Multiscale Modelling MTEK0033 (Spring)
- (2025)
- Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
- Adsorption of polyelectrolytes in the presence of varying dielectric discontinuity between solution and substrate (2024)
- Journal of Chemical Physics
- Metastable Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Aging Lead to Strong Processing Path Dependence in Mini-Spidroin Solutions (2024)
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Multiscale modelling of biopolymers (2024)
- Advances in Physics: X
- Nonmonotonic electrophoretic mobility of rodlike polyelectrolytes by multivalent coions in added saltTunable Assembly of Photocatalytic Colloidal Coatings for Antibacterial Applications (2024)
- Physical review EACS Applied Polymer Materials
- Trainable bioinspired magnetic sensitivity adaptation using ferromagnetic colloidal assemblies (2024)
- Cell Reports Physical Science
- Triblock Proteins with Weakly Dimerizing Terminal Blocks and an Intrinsically Disordered Region for Rational Design of Condensate PropertiesCracking polymer coatings of paper-like surfaces: Control via block structure and (2024)
- Small
- Dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate surfactant self-assembly dependency of solvent hydrophilicity: a modelling study (2024)
- Controlling self-assembling co-polymer coatings of hydrophilic polysaccharide substrates via co-polymer block length ratio (2023)
- Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
- (2023)
- Applied Surface Science
- Effect of Particle Interactions on the Assembly of Drying Colloidal Mixtures (2023)
- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
- Interactions between Rigid Polyelectrolytes Mediated by Ordering and Orientation of Multivalent Nonspherical Ions in Salt Solutions (2023)
- Physical Review LettersPhysical Chemistry Chemical Physics
- Theoretical and computational analysis of the electrophoretic polymer mobility inversion induced by charge correlations (2023)
- Physical review E
- (2022)
- Langmuir
- Interaction between two polyelectrolytes in monovalent aqueous salt solutionsEvaporation-driven self-assembly of binary and ternary colloidal polymer nanocomposites for abrasion resistant applications (2022)
- Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Assembly of Silk-like Proteins is Dependent on the Polymer Length (2022)
- Biomacromolecules
- Modified Poisson-Boltzmann theory for polyelectrolytes in monovalent salt solutions with finite-size ions (2022)
- Journal of Chemical Physics
- 2021
- Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
- Self-assembly in soft matter with multiple length scales (2021)
- Physical Review Research
- Self-assembly of binary solutions to complex structures (2021)
- Journal of Chemical Physics