Flavio ROMANO

Position
Associate Professor
Telephone
041 234 8617
E-mail
flavio.romano@unive.it
Scientific sector (SSD)
Fisica teorica della materia, modelli, metodi matematici e applicazioni [PHYS-04/A]
Website
www.unive.it/people/flavio.romano (personal record)
Office
Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dsmn
Where: Campus scientifico via Torino
Room: office 414 A (Alfa building, 4th floor)
Office
European Center for Living Technology (ECLT)
Where: Ca' Bottacin
Research Institute
Research Institute for Complexity

Publications

Year Type Publication
Year Type Publication
2024 Journal Article Liu, Hao; Matthies, Michael; Russo, John; Rovigatti, Lorenzo; Narayanan, Raghu Pradeep; Diep, Thong; McKeen, Daniel; Gang, Oleg; Stephanopoulos, Nicholas; Sciortino, Francesco; Yan, Hao; Romano, Flavio; Šulc, Petr Inverse design of a pyrochlore lattice of DNA origami through model-driven experiments in SCIENCE, vol. 384, pp. 776-781 (ISSN 0036-8075)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/5077087
2023 Journal Article Dal Compare, Laura; Romano, Flavio; Wood, Jared A.; Widmer-Cooper, Asaph; Giacometti, Achille Janus helices: From fully attractive to hard helices in THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol. 159, pp. 1790501-1790516 (ISSN 0021-9606)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5042541
2023 Journal Article Poppleton, Erik; Matthies, Michael; Mandal, Debesh; Romano, Flavio; Šulc, Petr; Rovigatti, Lorenzo oxDNA: coarse-grained simulations of nucleic acids made simple in JOURNAL OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE, vol. 8, pp. 4693 (ISSN 2475-9066)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5015530
2022 Journal Article Rovigatti, Lorenzo; Russo, John; Romano, Flavio; Matthies, Michael; Kroc, Lukáš; Šulc, Petr A simple solution to the problem of self-assembling cubic diamond crystals in NANOSCALE, vol. 14, pp. 14268-14275 (ISSN 2040-3372)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5015526
2022 Journal Article Giulia Moro, Cedrix J. Dongmo Foumthuim, Marco Spinaci, Ettore Martini, Dafne Cimino, Eleonora Balliana, Peter Lieberzeit, Flavio Romano, Achille Giacometti, Rui Campos, Karolien De Wael, Ligia Maria Moretto How perfluoroalkyl substances modify fluorinated self-assembled monolayer architectures: An electrochemical and computational study in ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA, vol. 1204, pp. 339740 (ISSN 1873-4324)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3754950
2022 Journal Article Russo, John; Romano, Flavio; Kroc, Lukáš; Sciortino, Francesco; Rovigatti, Lorenzo; Šulc, Petr SAT-assembly: a new approach for designing self-assembling systems in JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER, vol. 34, pp. 354002 (ISSN 0953-8984)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5015529
2022 Book Article Jonathan P.K. Doye; Ard A. Louis; John S. Schreck; Flavio Romano; Ryan M. Harrison; Majid Mosayebi; Megan C. Engel; Thomas E. Ouldridge Free energy landscapes of DNA and its assemblies: perspectives from coarse-grained modelling , Energy Landscapes of Nanoscale Systems, Elsevier, vol. 21, pp. 195-210 (ISSN 1876-2778)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5015528
2021 Journal Article Lopes, Joyce T.; Romano, Flavio; Grelet, Eric; Franco, Luís F. M.; Giacometti, Achille Phase behavior of hard cylinders in THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol. 154, pp. 1049021-1049032 (ISSN 0021-9606)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3737506
2020 Journal Article Romano, Flavio; Russo, John; Kroc, Lukáš; Šulc, Petr Designing Patchy Interactions to Self-Assemble Arbitrary Structures in PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 125, pp. 118003 (ISSN 0031-9007)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5015531
2019 Journal Article Snodin B.E.K.; Schreck J.S.; Romano F.; Louis A.A.; Doye J.P.K. Coarse-grained modelling of the structural properties of DNA origami in NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH, vol. 47, pp. 1585-1597 (ISSN 0305-1048)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3718916
2019 Journal Article Harrison R.M.; Romano F.; Ouldridge T.E.; Louis A.A.; Doye J.P.K. Identifying Physical Causes of Apparent Enhanced Cyclization of Short DNA Molecules with a Coarse-Grained Model in JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION, vol. 15, pp. 4660-4672 (ISSN 1549-9618)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3718918
2019 Journal Article Palazzolo S.; Hadla M.; Spena C.R.; Bayda S.; Kumar V.; Lo Re F.; Adeel M.; Caligiuri I.; Romano F.; Corona G.; Canzonieri V.; Toffoli G.; Rizzolio F. Proof-of-Concept Multistage Biomimetic Liposomal DNA Origami Nanosystem for the Remote Loading of Doxorubicin in ACS MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, vol. 10, pp. 517-521 (ISSN 1948-5875)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3718915
2019 Journal Article Suma A.; Poppleton E.; Matthies M.; Sulc P.; Romano F.; Louis A.A.; Doye J.P.K.; Micheletti C.; Rovigatti L. TacoxDNA: A user-friendly web server for simulations of complex DNA structures, from single strands to origami in JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY, vol. 40, pp. 2586-2595 (ISSN 0192-8651)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3721828
2018 Journal Article Gao, Yongxiang; Romano, Flavio; Dullens, Roel P. A.; Doye, Jonathan K.; Aarts, Dirk G. A. L. Directed self-assembly into low-density colloidal liquid crystal phases in PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS, vol. 2, pp. 015601 (ISSN 2475-9953)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3697159
2018 Journal Article Engel M.C.; Smith D.M.; Jobst M.A.; Sajfutdinow M.; Liedl T.; Romano F.; Rovigatti L.; Louis A.A.; Doye J.P.K. Force-Induced Unravelling of DNA Origami in ACS NANO, vol. 12, pp. 6734-6747 (ISSN 1936-0851)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3718920
2018 Journal Article Russo J.; Romano F.; Tanaka H. Glass Forming Ability in Systems with Competing Orderings in PHYSICAL REVIEW. X, vol. 8, pp. 119-119 (ISSN 2160-3308)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3718922
2018 Journal Article Rovigatti L.; Russo J.; Romano F. How to simulate patchy particles⋆ in THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER, vol. 41, pp. 59 (ISSN 1292-8941)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3718989
2018 Journal Article Fonseca P.; Romano F.; Schreck J.S.; Ouldridge T.E.; Doye J.P.K.; Louis A.A. Multi-scale coarse-graining for the study of assembly pathways in DNA-brick self-assembly in THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol. 148, pp. 134910 (ISSN 0021-9606)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3718990
2017 Journal Article Sharma, Rahul; Schreck, John S.; Romano, Flavio; Louis, Ard A.; Doye, Jonathan P. K.* Characterizing the Motion of Jointed DNA Nanostructures Using a Coarse-Grained Model in ACS NANO, vol. 11, pp. 12426-12435 (ISSN 1936-0851)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3697156
2017 Journal Article Sulc, Petr; Romano, Flavio; Ouldridge, Thomas; Doye, Jonathan; Louis, Ard Coarse-Grained Modeling of RNA for Biology and Nanotechnology in BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL, vol. 112, pp. 369a (ISSN 0006-3495)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3697157
2016 Journal Article Schreck, John S.; Romano, Flavio; Zimmer, Matthew H.; Louis, Ard A.; Doye, Jonathan P. K. Characterizing DNA Star-Tile-Based Nanostructures Using a Coarse-Grained Model in ACS NANO, vol. 10, pp. 4236-4247 (ISSN 1936-0851)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3673823
2016 Journal Article Snodin, Benedict E. K.; Romano, Flavio; Rovigatti, Lorenzo; Ouldridge, Thomas E.; Louis, Ard A.; Doye, Jonathan P. K. Direct Simulation of the Self-Assembly of a Small DNA Origami in ACS NANO, vol. 10, pp. 1724-1737 (ISSN 1936-0851)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3673822
2016 Journal Article Bomboi, Francesca; Romano, Flavio; Leo, Manuela; Fernandez-Castanon, Javier; Cerbino, Roberto; Bellini, Tommaso; Bordi, Federico; Filetici, Patrizia; Sciortino, Francesco Re-entrant DNA gels in NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 7, pp. 13191 (ISSN 2041-1723)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3681593
2015 Journal Article Rovigatti, Lorenzo; Šulc, Petr; Reguly, István Z.; Romano, Flavio A Comparison between Parallelization Approaches in Molecular Dynamics Simulations on GPUs in JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA, John Wiley and Sons Inc., vol. 36, pp. 1-8 (ISSN 0192-8651)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3673819
2015 Journal Article Schreck, John S.; Ouldridge, Thomas E.; Romano, Flavio; Louis, Ard A.; Doye, Jonathan P. K. Characterizing the bending and flexibility induced by bulges in DNA duplexes in THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol. 142, pp. 165101 (ISSN 0021-9606)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3673816
2015 Journal Article Schreck, John S; Ouldridge, Thomas E.; Romano, Flavio; Šulc, Petr; Shaw, Liam P.; Louis, Ard A.; Doye, Jonathan P. K. DNA hairpins destabilize duplexes primarily by promoting melting rather than by inhibiting hybridization in NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, vol. 43, pp. 6181-6190 (ISSN 0305-1048)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3673821
2015 Journal Article Snodin, Benedict E. K.; Randisi, Ferdinando; Mosayebi, Majid; Šulc, Petr; Schreck, John S.; Romano, Flavio; Ouldridge, Thomas E.; Tsukanov, Roman; Nir, Eyal; Louis, Ard A.; Doye, Jonathan P. K. Introducing improved structural properties and salt dependence into a coarse-grained model of DNA in THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol. 142, pp. 234901 (ISSN 0021-9606)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3673820
2015 Journal Article Šulc, Petr; Ouldridge, Thomas E.; Romano, Flavio; Doye, Jonathan P. K.; Louis, Ard A. Modelling toehold-mediated RNA strand displacement in BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL, vol. 108, pp. 1238-1247 (ISSN 0006-3495)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3673815
2015 Journal Article Romano, Flavio; Sciortino, Francesco Switching bonds in a DNA gel: An all-DNA vitrimer in PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 114, pp. 078104 (ISSN 0031-9007)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3672789
2014 Journal Article Šulc, Petr; Romano, Flavio; Ouldridge, Thomas E.; Doye, Jonathan P. K.; Louis, Ard A. A nucleotide-level coarse-grained model of RNA in THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol. 140, pp. 235102 (ISSN 0021-9606)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3673811
2014 Journal Article Rovigatti, Lorenzo; Smallenburg, Frank; Romano, Flavio; Sciortino, Francesco Gels of DNA nanostars never crystallize in ACS NANO, vol. 8, pp. 3567-3574 (ISSN 1936-0851)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3672774
2014 Journal Article Romano, Flavio; Russo, John; Tanaka, Hajime Influence of patch-size variability on the crystallization of tetrahedral patchy particles in PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 113, pp. 138303 (ISSN 0031-9007)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3673814
2014 Journal Article Russo, John; Romano, Flavio; Tanaka, Hajime New metastable form of ice and its role in the homogeneous crystallization of water in NATURE MATERIALS, vol. 13, pp. 733-739 (ISSN 1476-1122)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3673812
2014 Journal Article Romano, Flavio; Russo, John; Tanaka, Hajime Novel stable crystalline phase for the Stillinger-Weber potential in PHYSICAL REVIEW. B, CONDENSED MATTER AND MATERIALS PHYSICS, vol. 90, pp. 014204 (ISSN 1098-0121)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3673813
2014 Journal Article Šulc, Petr; Ouldridge, Thomas E.; Romano, Flavio; Doye, Jonathan P. K.; Louis, Ard A. Simulating a burnt-bridges DNA motor with a coarse-grained DNA model in NATURAL COMPUTING, vol. 13, pp. 535-547 (ISSN 1567-7818)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3673817
2014 Journal Article Mosayebi, Majid; Romano, Flavio; Ouldridge, Thomas E.; Louis, Ard A.; Doye, Jonathan P. K. The role of loop stacking in the dynamics of DNA hairpin formation in JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. B, CONDENSED MATTER, MATERIALS, SURFACES, INTERFACES & BIOPHYSICAL, vol. 118, pp. 14326-14335 (ISSN 1520-6106)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3673818
2013 Journal Article Romano, Flavio; Chakraborty, Debayan; Doye, Jonathan P. K.; Ouldridge, Thomas E.; Louis, Ard A. Coarse-grained simulations of DNA overstretching in THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol. 138 (ISSN 0021-9606)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3672792
2013 Journal Article Doye Jonathan P. K.; Ouldridge Thomas E.; Louis Ard A.; Romano Flavio; Sulc Petr; Snodin Benedict E. K.; Rovigatti L.; Schreck John S.; Harrison Ryan M.; Smith William P. J. Coarse-graining DNA for simulations of DNA nanotechnology in PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol. 15, pp. 20395-20414 (ISSN 1463-9076)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3672790
2013 Journal Article Reinhardt, Aleks; Romano, Flavio; Doye, Jonathan P. K. Computing Phase Diagrams for a Quasicrystal-Forming Patchy-Particle System in PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 110 (ISSN 0031-9007)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3672791
2013 Journal Article Ouldridge Thomas E; Sulc Petr; Romano Flavio; Doye Jonathan P K; Louis Ard A DNA hybridization kinetics: zippering, internal displacement and sequence dependence in NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH, vol. 41, pp. 8886-8895 (ISSN 1362-4962)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3672785
2012 Journal Article C. Gogelein; F. Romano; F. Sciortino; A. Giacometti Fluid-fluid and fluid-solid transitions in the Kern-Frenkel model from Barker-Henderson thermodynamic perturbation theory in THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol. 136, pp. 094512-1-094512-10 (ISSN 0021-9606)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/31762
2012 Journal Article Romano, Flavio; Sciortino, Francesco Patterning symmetry in the rational design of colloidal crystals in NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 3, pp. 975 (ISSN 2041-1723)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3672782
2012 Journal Article Flavio Romano; Eduardo Sanz; Piero Tartaglia; Francesco Sciortino Phase diagram of trivalent and pentavalent patchy particles in JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER, vol. 24, pp. 064113 (ISSN 0953-8984)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3672786
2012 Journal Article Sulc Petr; Romano Flavio; Ouldridge Thomas E.; Rovigatti Lorenzo; Doye Jonathan P. K.; Louis Ard A. Sequence-dependent thermodynamics of a coarse-grained DNA model in THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol. 137, pp. 135101 (ISSN 0021-9606)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3672784
2012 Journal Article Romano, Flavio; Hudson, Alexander; Doye, Jonathan P. K.; Ouldridge, Thomas E.; Louis, Ard A. The effect of topology on the structure and free energy landscape of DNA kissing complexes in THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol. 136, pp. 215102 (ISSN 0021-9606)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3672773
2012 Book Article Giacometti A.; Romano F; Sciortino F. Theoretical Calculations of Phase Diagrams and Self-assembly in Patchy Colloids in Shan Jang, Steve Granick, Janus Particle Synthesis, Self-Assembly and Applications, RSC Publishing, pp. 108-137 (ISBN 9781849734233)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/36580
2011 Journal Article Romano, Flavio; Sciortino, Francesco COLLOIDAL SELF-ASSEMBLY Patchy from the bottom up in NATURE MATERIALS, vol. 10, pp. 171-173 (ISSN 1476-1122)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3672779
2011 Journal Article Romano, Flavio; Sanz, Eduardo; Sciortino, Francesco Crystallization of tetrahedral patchy particles in silico in THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol. 134, pp. 174502 (ISSN 0021-9606)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3672778
2011 Journal Article Romano, Flavio; De Michele, Cristiano; Marenduzzo, Davide; Sanz, Eduardo Monte Carlo and event-driven dynamics of Brownian particles with orientational degrees of freedom in THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol. 135, pp. 124106 (ISSN 0021-9606)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3672783
2011 Journal Article Saika-Voivod, Ivan; Romano, Flavio; Sciortino, Francesco Nucleation barriers in tetrahedral liquids spanning glassy and crystallizing regimes in THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol. 135, pp. 124506 (ISSN 0021-9606)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3672780
2011 Journal Article Romano, Flavio; Sciortino, Francesco Two dimensional assembly of triblock Janus particles into crystal phases in the two bond per patch limit in SOFT MATTER, vol. 7, pp. 5799-5804 (ISSN 1744-683X)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3672781
2010 Journal Article Romano, Flavio; Sanz, Eduardo; Sciortino, Francesco Phase diagram of a tetrahedral patchy particle model for different interaction ranges in THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol. 132, pp. 184501 (ISSN 0021-9606)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3672777
2009 Journal Article Romano, Flavio; Sanz, Eduardo; Sciortino, Francesco; Role of the Range in the Fluid-Crystal Coexistence for a Patchy Particle Model in JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. B, CONDENSED MATTER, MATERIALS, SURFACES, INTERFACES & BIOPHYSICAL, vol. 113, pp. 15133-15136 (ISSN 1520-6106)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3672776
2007 Journal Article Romano, Flavio; Tartaglia, Piero; Sciortino, Francesco; Gas-liquid phase coexistence in a tetrahedral patchy particle model in JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER, vol. 19, pp. 322101-1-322101-11 (ISSN 0953-8984)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3672775

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