L. Cianchi, P. Moretti and F. Piazza
Superconducting cuprates: a simple model of coupling between electronic holes through apical ions
Phys. Lett. A , 246 , 451 (1998)
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F. Piazza, S. Lepri and R. Livi
Slow energy relaxation and localization in 1D lattices
J. Phys. A , 34 , 9803 (2001)
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F. Piazza et al.
Study of atomic motions in EuBa_2Cu_3O_[7-d] by Moessbauer and EXAFS spectroscopies
J. Superc. , 14 , 675 (2001)
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F. Piazza, S. Lepri and R. Livi
Cooling nonlinear lattices toward localisation
Chaos - Focus issue "Nonlinear localised modes; Fundamental Concepts and Applications",
13 (2), 637-645 (2003)
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F. Piazza
A Quantum Perturbative Pair Distribution for determining interatomic potentials from EXAFS
J. Phys. C , 14 (45) 11623 (2002)
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L. Bongini, D. Fanelli, F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios, S. Sandin and U. Skoglund
Freezing Immunoglobulins to see them move
PNAS , 101 , 6466-6471 (2004)
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L. Bongini, D. Fanelli, F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios, S. Sandin and U. Skoglund
Dynamics of Antibodies from Cryo-Electron Tomography
Biophys. Chemistry , 115(2-3) 235-240 (2005)
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F. Piazza and P. Lio'
Statistical analysis of low-complexity sequences in the human genome
Physica A , 347 , 472-488 (2005)
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F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios, D. Fanelli, L. Bongini and U. Skoglund
Anticooperativity in diffusion-controlled reactions with pairs of partially absorbing domains: a model for the antigen-antibody encounter
Eur. Biophysics J. - 34(7) 899-911 (2005)
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T. Dauxois, R. Khomeriki, F. Piazza and S. Ruffo
The anti-FPU problem
Chaos - 15 , 015110 (2005)
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M. Elefhteriou, S. Lepri, R. Livi and F. Piazza
Stretched-exponential relaxation in arrays of coupled rotators
Physica D - 204 /3-4, 230-239 (2005)
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F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios and Y.-H. Sanejouand
Slow energy relaxation of macromolecules and nano-clusters in solution
Phys. Rev. Lett. - 94, 145502 (2005)
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P. De Los Rios, F. Cecconi, A. Grignoli Pretre, G. Dietler, O. Michielin, F. Piazza and B. Juanico
Functional Dynamics of PDZ Binding Domains: a Normal Mode Analysis
Biophys. J. - 89 , 14-21 (2005)
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S. Ciliberti, P. De Los Rios and F. Piazza
Glass-like structure of globular proteins and the boson peak
Phys. Rev. Lett. - 96, 198103 (2006)
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S. Ciliberti, P. De Los Rios and F. Piazza
On the origin of the Boson peak in globular proteins
Philosophical Magazine. - 87(3-5), 631-641 (2007)
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C. Caretta-Cartozo, P. De Los Rios, F. Piazza and P. Lio,
Topological analysis of a network of periodic genes in the cell-cycle of Schizosaccharomyces Pombe
PLoS Computational Biology - 3 (6), e103 (2007)
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F. Cecconi, P. De Los Rios and F. Piazza
Diffusion-limited unbinding of small peptides from PDZ domains
J. Phys. Chem. B - 111, 11057-11063 (2007)
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L. Bongini, D. Fanelli, S. Svensson, M. Gedda, F. Piazza, and U. Skoglund.
Resolving the geometry of biomolecules imaged by cryo electron tomography
J. Microscopy - 228, 174-184 (2007)
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L. Bongini, D. Fanelli, F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios, M. Sanner and U. Skoglund
A dynamical study of antibody-antigen encounter reactions
Physical Biology - 4, 172-180 (2007)
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B. Juanico, Y.-H. Sanejouand, F. Piazza and P. De Los Rios
Discrete breathers in nonlinear network models of proteins
Physical Review Letters - 99, 238104 (2007)
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F. Piazza
Surface effects in nonlinear distributed systems: slow relaxation and spontaneous emergence of localized coherent modes
invited book chapter for "New Research on Nonlinear Phenomena", T. Perlidze ed.
Nova Science Publishers, NY (2008),
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F. Piazza and Y.-H. Sanejouand
Discrete breathers in protein structures
Physical Biology - 5, 026001 (2008)
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F. Piazza and S. Lepri
Heat wave propagation in a nonlinear chain
Physical Review B - 79, 094306 (2009)
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F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios and F. Cecconi
Temperature dependence of normal mode reconstructions of protein dynamics
Physical Review Letters - 102, 218104 (2009)
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F. Piazza and Y.-H. Sanejouand
Long-range energy transfer in proteins
Physical Biology - 6 , 046014 (2009)
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F. Piazza and Y.-H. Sanejouand
Energy transfer in nonlinear network models of proteins
Europhysics Letters - 88 , 68001 (2009)
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T. Piazza and F. Piazza
On inconsistent entities. A reply to Colyvan
Philosophical Studies - 150, issue 2, 301-311 (2010)
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L. Bongini, F. Piazza, L. Casetti and P. De Los Rios
Vibrational entropy and the structural organization of proteins
European Physical Journal (EPJ) E - 33(1), 89-96 (2010)
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N. Dorsaz, C. De Michele, F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios and G. Foffi
Diffusion-limited reactions in crowded environments
Physical Review Letters - 105, 120601 (2010)
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N. Dorsaz , C. De Michele, F. Piazza and G. Foffi
Inertial effects in diffusion-limited reactions
Journal of Physics C; Condensed Matter - 22, 104116 (2010)
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F. Piazza
A simple Monte Carlo model for crowd dynamics
Physical Review E - 82, 02611 (2010)
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F. Piazza and Y.-H. Sanejouand
Breather-mediated energy transfer in proteins
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Series S (DCDS) - 4(5), 1247 (2011)
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S. Luccioli, A. Imparato, S. Lepri, F. Piazza and A. Torcini
Discrete breathers in a realistic coarse-grained model of proteins
Physical Biology - 8, 046008 (2011)
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A. Zaccone, N. Dorsaz, F. Piazza, C. De Michele, M. Morbidelli and Giuseppe Foffi
Crowding, intermolecular interactions, and shear-flow effects in the diffusion model of chemical reactions
Journal of Physical Chemistry - 115(22), 7383-7396 (2011)
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P. Csermely, K. Singh Sandhu, E. Hazai, Z. Hoksza, H. J.M. Kiss, F. Miozzo, D. V. Veres, F. Piazza, R. Nussinov
Disordered proteins and network disorder in network descriptions of protein structure, dynamics and function. Hypotheses and a comprehensive review
Current Protein and Peptide Science - 13(1), 9-33 (2012)
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Carlo Maffi, Marco Baiesi, Lapo Casetti, Francesco Piazza and Paolo De Los Rios
First order coil-to-globule transition driven by vibrational entropy
Nature Communications - 3, 1065 (2012)
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P. de Buyl, G. De Ninno, D. Fanelli, C. Nardini, A. Patelli, F. Piazza and Y. Y. Yamaguchi
Absence of thermalization for systems with long-range interactions coupled to a thermal bath
Physical Review E - 87 , 042110 (2013)
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M. Naji, F. Piazza, G. Guimbretiere, A. Canizaré and Y. Vaills
Structural Relaxation Dynamics and Annealing Effects of Sodium Silicate Glass
Journal of Physical Chemistry B - 117 , 5757-5764 (2013)
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F. Piazza, G. Foffi and C. De Michele
Irreversible bimolecular reactions with inertia: from the trapping to the target setting at finite densities
Journal of Physics C - Condensed Matter - 25, 245101 (2013)
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F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios, C. De Michele, N. Dorsaz and G. Foffi
Diffusion-limited reactions in crowded environments: a local density approximation
Journal of Physics C - Condensed Matter - 25, 375104 (2013)
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M. Naji, F. Piazza, G. Guimbretière, A. Canizarès, S. Ory, Y. Vaills
Heating rate effect on the activation of viscoelastic relaxation in silicate glasses
Physics Procedia - 48, 125-131 (2013)
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G. Foffi, A. Pastore, F. Piazza and P. A. Temussi
Macromolecular crowding: chemistry and physics meet biology
(Ascona, Switzerland, 10-14 June 2012)
Physical Biology - 10, 040301 (2013)
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M. Galanti, D. Fanelli and F. Piazza
Persistent random walk with exclusion: a model for pulse propagation in dense media
Eur. Phys. J. B - 86, 456 (2013)
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M. Galanti, D. Fanelli, A. Maritan and F. Piazza
Diffusion of tagged particles in a crowded medium
Europhys. Letters - 107, 20006 (2014)
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F. Piazza
Nonlinear excitations match correlated motions unveiled by NMR in proteins: a new perspective on allosteric cross-talk
Physical Biology - 11, 036003 (2014)
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E. Spiga, L. A. Abriata, F. Piazza, M. Dal Peraro
Dissecting the Effects of Concentrated Carbohydrate Solutions on Protein Diffusion, Hydration and Internal Dynamics
Journal of Physical Chemistry B - 118(20), 5310-5321 (2014)
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V. I. Dubinko and F. Piazza
On the role of disorder in catalysis driven by discrete breathers
Letters on Materials - 4(4), 273-278 (2014)
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F. Piazza and S. D. Traytak
Diffusion-influenced reactions in a hollow nano-reactor with a circular hole
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics - 17, 10417-10425 (2015)
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Jean-Yves Dewavrin, Muhammed Abdurrahiem, Anna Blocki, Mrinal Musib, Francesco Piazza and Michael Raghunath
Synergistic Rate Boosting of Collagen Fibrillogenesis in Heterogeneous Mixtures of Crowding Agents
Journal of Physical Chemistry B - 119(12), 4350-4358 (2015)
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Francesca Di Patti, Duccio Fanelli and Francesco Piazza
Optimal search strategies on complex multi-linked networks
Scientific Reports - 5, Article/DOI number: 10.1038/srep09869 (2015)
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Simon Aubailly and Francesco Piazza
Cutoff lensing: predicting catalytics sites in enzymes
Scientific Reports - 5, Article number: 14874 (2015)
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Stefano Iubini, Octavi Boada, Yasser Omar and Francesco Piazza
Transport of quantum excitations coupled to spatially extended nonlinear many-body systems
New Journal of Physics - 17, 113030 (2015)
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Marta Galanti, Duccio Fanelli and Francesco Piazza
Conformation-controlled binding kinetics of antibodies
Scientific Reports - 6, Article number: 18976 (2016)
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M. Galanti, D. Fanelli, S. D. Traytak and F. Piazza
Theory of diffusion-influenced reactions in complex geometries
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics - 18, 15950-15954 (2016)
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M. Galanti, D. Fanelli, S. Angioletti-Uberti, M. Ballauff, J. Dzubiella and F. Piazza
Reaction rate of a composite core-shell nanoreactor with multiple, spatially distributed embedded nano-catalysts
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics - 18, 20758-20767 (2016)
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M. Galanti, D. Fanelli and F. Piazza
Macroscopic Transport Equations in Many-Body Systems from Microscopic Exclusion Processes in Disordered Media: A Review
Front. Phys. , 03 August 2016
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2016.00033

C. De Michele, P. De Los Rios, G. Foffi and F. Piazza
Simulation and Theory of Antibody Binding to Crowded Antigen-Covered Surfaces
Plos Comp. Biol. - 12(3), e1004752-- (2016)
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S. Pouyandeh, S. Iubini, S. Jurinovich, Y. Omar, B. Mennucci, F. Piazza
Exciton transport in the PE545 complex: insight from atomistic QM/MM-based quantum master equations and elastic network models
Physical Biology - 14 066001 (2017)
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A. Sozza, F. Piazza, M. Cencini, F. De Lillo, G. Boffetta
Point-particle method to compute diffusion-limited cellular uptake
Physical Review E - 97 023301 (2018)
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R. Roa, S. Angioletti-Uberti, Y. Lu, J. Dzubiella, F. Piazza, and M. Ballauff
Catalysis by metallic nanoparticles in solution: Thermosensitive microgels as nanoreactors
Z. Phys. Chemie - 232(5-6) 773-803 (2018)
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M. Asllani, T. Carletti, F. Di Patti, D. Fanelli, F. Piazza
Hopping in the crowd to unveil network topology
Physical Review Letters - 120 158301 (2018)
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Marta Galanti, Duccio Fanelli, Sergey D. Traytak, Francesco Piazza
Diffusion to capture and the concept of diffusive interactions
Chemical kinetics beyond the textbook - G. Oshanin ed., World Scientific (2018)
preprint, arXiv:1807.01378

Annise Riviere, Stefano Lepri, Daniele Colognesi, Francesco Piazza
Wavelet imaging of transient energy localization in nonlinear systems at thermal equilibrium: the case study of NaI crystals at high temperature
Physical Review B - 99 024307 (2019)
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Francesco Piazza and Denis Grebenkov
Diffusion-controlled reactions on non-spherical partially absorbing axisymmetric surfaces
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 21 (46) 25896-25906 (2019)
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Yann Chalopin, Francesco Piazza, Svitlana Mayboroda, Claude Weisbuch, Marcel Filoche
Universality of fold-encoded localized vibrations in enzymes
Scientific Reports 9(1) Article number: 12835 (2019)
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Marin Matic, Suman Saurabh, Josef Hamacek and Francesco Piazza
Crowding-induced Uncompetitive Inhibition of Lactate Dehydrogenase: Role of Entropic Pushing
J. Phys. Chem. B 124(5) 727-734 (2020)
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S. Iubini, S. Borlenghi, A. Delin, S. Lepri, F. Piazza
Dephasing-assisted macrospin transport
Entropy 22(2), 210 (2020)
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D. Fanelli and F. Piazza
Analysis and forecast of COVID-19 spreading in China, Italy and France
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 137 109761 (2020)
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S. Saurabh and F. Piazza
Mesoscale computational protocols for the design of highly cooperative bivalent macromolecules
Scientific Reports 10 Article number: 7992(2020)
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Rouba Nasreddine, Lucija Orli, Ghassan Al Hamoui Dit Banni, Synti Fayad, Axel March, Francesco Piazza, Chrystel Lopin, Josef Hamak, Reine Nehme
Polyethylene glycol crowding effect on hyaluronidase activity monitored by capillary electrophoresis
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 412 4195-4207(2020)
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Timoteo Carletti, Duccio Fanelli, Francesco Piazza
COVID-19: The unreasonable effectiveness of simple models
Chaos, Solitons & Fractals: X 5 100034 (2020)
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T. P. O. Nogueira, H. O. Frota, Francesco Piazza, and José Rafael Bordin
Tracer diffusion in crowded solutions of sticky polymers
Physical Review E 102 032618 (2020)
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Andrea Barucci, Alessandra Flori, Roberto Carpi, Daniele De Marchi, Marco Esposito, Luca Menichetti, Roberto Pini, Fulvio Ratto, Giacomo Belli, Francesco Piazza
Ficoll as testing material for diffusion weighted imaging-quality assurance phantoms
Magnetic Resonance Imaging 76 1-7 (2021)
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Reine Nehme, Rouba Nasreddine, Lucija Orlic, Chrystel Lopin-Bon, Josef Hamacek, Francesco Piazza
Kinetic theory of hyaluronan cleavage by bovine testicular hyaluronidase in standard and crowded environments
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects 1865(3) 129837 (2021)
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D. M. Busiello, S. Liang, F. Piazza and P. De Los Rios,
Dissipation-driven selection of states in non-equilibrium chemical networks
Communications Chemistry 4 16 (2021)
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A. V. Dass, T. Georgelin, F. Westall, F. Foucher, P. De Los Rios, D. M. Busiello, S. Liang, and F. Piazza
Equilibrium and non-equilibrium furanose selection in the ribose isomerisation network
Nature Communications 12 2749 (2021)
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S. Lepri and F. Piazza
Mechanisms for transient localization in a diatomic nonlinear chain
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 102 105913 (2021)
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