Soft Water: understanding what makes a fluid behave like water

Project Information

SOFTWATER

Grant agreement ID: 759187

DOI 10.3030/759187

Project closed

EC signature date 15 September 2017

Start date 1 February 2018

End date 31 March 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 952 561,00

EU contribution € 952 561,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA
Italy

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (32)

Two-step nucleation in a binary mixture of patchy particles Editor’s Pick

Author(s): Camilla Beneduce, Diogo E. P. Pinto, Petr Šulc, Francesco Sciortino, John Russo
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023, ISSN 1089-7690
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0140847

Influence of Hydrodynamic Interactions on Colloidal Crystallization

Author(s): Michio Tateno, Taiki Yanagishima, John Russo, Hajime Tanaka
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 123/25, 2019, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.258002

Dominating lengthscales of zebrafish collective behaviour

Author(s): Yushi Yang , Francesco Turci, Erika Kague, Chrissy L. Hammond, John Russo, C. Patrick Royall
Published in: PLOS Computational Biology, 2022, ISSN 1553-734X
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009394

The physics of empty liquids: from patchy particles to water

Author(s): John Russo, Fabio Leoni, Fausto Martelli, Francesco Sciortino
Published in: Reports on Progress in Physics, 2022, ISSN 0034-4885
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/ac42d9

Crystallisation and polymorph selection in active Brownian particles.

Author(s): Fergus J. Moore; C. Patrick Royall; C. Patrick Royall; Tanniemola B. Liverpool; John Russo; John Russo
Published in: The European Physical Journal. E, Soft Matter, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 1292-8941
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2107.11236

Engineering Azeotropy to Optimize the Self-Assembly of Colloidal Mixtures

Author(s): Camilla Beneduce, Francesco Sciortino, Petr Šulc, John Russo
Published in: ACS Nano, 2023, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c05569

From ultra-fast growth to avalanche growth in devitrifying glasses

Author(s): Taiki Yanagishima, John Russo, Roel Dullens, Hajime Tanaka
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0155915

Towards Glasses with Permanent Stability.

Author(s): Taiki Yanagishima; Taiki Yanagishima; John Russo; Roel P. A. Dullens; Roel P. A. Dullens; Hajime Tanaka
Published in: Physical Review Letters, 2021, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.215501

Crystal nucleation in a vapor deposited Lennard-Jones mixture

Author(s): Fabio Leoni, Hajime Tanaka, John Russo
Published in: Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2023, ISSN 0167-7322
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2023.123178

SAT-assembly: a new approach for designing self-assembling systems

Author(s): John Russo, Flavio Romano,Lukas Kroc, Francesco Sciortino, Lorenzo Rovigatti,and Petr Sulc
Published in: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2022, ISSN 0953-8984
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac5479

Designing Patchy Interactions to Self-Assemble Arbitrary Structures

Author(s): Flavio Romano, John Russo, Lukáš Kroc, Petr Šulc
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 125/11, 2020, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.118003

Are Neural Network Potentials Trained on Liquid States Transferable to Crystal Nucleation? A Test on Ice Nucleation in the mW Water Model

Author(s): Francesco Guidarelli Mattioli; Francesco Sciortino; John Russo
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 1520-6106
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c00693

Structural signatures of ultrastability in a deposited glassformer

Author(s): Fabio Leoni, Fausto Martelli, C Patrick Royall, John Russo
Published in: Physical Review Letters, 2023, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.198201

Nonclassical Nucleation Pathways in Stacking-Disordered Crystals

Author(s): Fabio Leoni; John Russo
Published in: Physical Review X, 2021, ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2105.05506

The race to the bottom: approaching the ideal glass?

Author(s): C Patrick Royall, Francesco Turci, Soichi Tatsumi, John Russo, Joshua Robinson
Published in: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Issue 30/36, 2018, Page(s) 363001, ISSN 0953-8984
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aad10a

Origin of the emergent fragile-to-strong transition in supercooled water

Author(s): Rui Shi, John Russo, Hajime Tanaka
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 115/38, 2018, Page(s) 9444-9449, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1807821115

Coupling of sedimentation and liquid structure: Influence on hard sphere nucleation

Author(s): Nicholas Wood, John Russo, Francesco Turci, C. Patrick Royall
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 149/20, 2018, Page(s) 204506, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5050397

Crystalline clusters in mW water: Stability, growth, and grain boundaries

Author(s): Fabio Leoni, Rui Shi, Hajime Tanaka, John Russo
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 151/4, 2019, Page(s) 044505, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5100812

Revealing key structural features hidden in liquids and glasses

Author(s): Hajime Tanaka, Hua Tong, Rui Shi, John Russo
Published in: Nature Reviews Physics, Issue 1/5, 2019, Page(s) 333-348, ISSN 2522-5820
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media
DOI: 10.1038/s42254-019-0053-3

Direct link between mechanical stability in gels and percolation of isostatic particles

Author(s): Hideyo Tsurusawa, Mathieu Leocmach, John Russo, Hajime Tanaka
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 5/5, 2019, Page(s) eaav6090, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav6090

Glass Forming Ability in Systems with Competing Orderings

Author(s): John Russo, Flavio Romano, Hajime Tanaka
Published in: Physical Review X, Issue 8/2, 2018, ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.8.021040

Water-like anomalies as a function of tetrahedrality

Author(s): John Russo, Kenji Akahane, Hajime Tanaka
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 115/15, 2018, Page(s) E3333-E3341, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1722339115

Common microscopic structural origin for water’s thermodynamic and dynamic anomalies

Author(s): Rui Shi, John Russo, Hajime Tanaka
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 149/22, 2018, Page(s) 224502, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5055908

A new topological descriptor for water network structure

Author(s): Lee Steinberg, John Russo, Jeremy Frey
Published in: Journal of Cheminformatics, Issue 11/1, 2019, ISSN 1758-2946
Publisher: Chemistry Central
DOI: 10.1186/s13321-019-0369-0

How to simulate patchy particles

Author(s): Lorenzo Rovigatti, John Russo, Flavio Romano
Published in: The European Physical Journal E, Issue 41/5, 2018, ISSN 1292-8941
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2018-11667-x

Active Brownian particles in random and porous environments

Author(s): Fergus Moore; John Russo; Tanniemola B. Liverpool; C. Patrick Royall
Published in: EISSN: 1089-7690, Issue 10, 2023, ISSN 1089-7690
Publisher: AIP publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0131340

A simple solution to the problem of self-assembling cubic diamond crystals

Author(s): Lorenzo Rovigatti; John Russo; Flavio Romano; Michael Matthies; Lukáš Kroc; Petr Šulc
Published in: Nanoscale, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2040-3372
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2nr03533b

Design strategies for the self-assembly of polyhedral shells

Author(s): Diogo E. P. Pinto, Petr Šulc, Francesco Sciortino, John Russo
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023, ISSN 1091-6490
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2219458120

Structural and topological changes across the liquid–liquid transition in water

Author(s): Riccardo Foffi, John Russo, Francesco Sciortino
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 154/18, 2021, Page(s) 184506, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0049299

Connection between liquid and non-crystalline solid phases in water

Author(s): Fausto Martelli, Fabio Leoni, Francesco Sciortino, John Russo
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 153/10, 2020, Page(s) 104503, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0018923

A neural network potential with self-trained atomic fingerprints: A test with the mW water potential

Author(s): Francesco Guidarelli Mattioli; Francesco Sciortino; John Russo
Published in: Crossref, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 1089-7690
Publisher: AIP
DOI: 10.1063/5.0139245

Inverse design of self-folding 3D shells

Author(s): Diogo Pinto, Nuno Araujo, Petr Sulc,John Russo
Published in: Physical Review Letters, 2024, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.118201