Dr. Alessio Zaccone

University of Cambridge
Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0HE
United Kingdom

Phone: +44-1223-337456
Email: az302@cam.ac.uk

ETH Zürich
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
HCI F 133
Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10
8093 Zürich
Switzerland

Phone: +41-44-63-23068
Fax: +41 44 632 10 82
Email: alessio.zaccone@chem.ethz.ch

Résumé

• 2000-2005: Study of Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
  MSc degree in Chemical Engineering. Grade: 110/110 points.
• 2004-2005: Research Student, TU Berlin (Germany). Grade: 1 (top grade awarded by German universities).
• 2006-2009: PhD studies “On a coarse-graining principle in colloidal physics with application to fluid and arrested colloidal suspensions in shearing fields“ supervised by Prof. M. Morbidelli, Department of Chemistry, ETH Zurich. October 2009: PhD degree in Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich.
• 2010- 2011: Swiss National Science Foundation Research Fellow at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, theory of condensed and biological matter (with Prof. E. Terentjev).
• 2011-present: Oppenheimer Research Fellow in the Theory of Condensed Matter Group and in the Biological and Soft Systems Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Scholarships and Awards

• ETH medal award for outstanding PhD theses
• Oppenheimer Research Fellowship, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, endowed with 156’000 GBP
• Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship

Research interests

• soft condensed matter (including biological matter), physical kinetics, chemical kinetics

Editorial activity

• Referee for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Physical Review E, Biomacromolecules, Industrial&Engineering Chemistry Research, Chemical Engineering Science

Project Description

Shear-driven kinetics, rheology and fluid-solid (gelation) transition of colloidal fluids

Publications

Publications in refereed journals

1. Zaccone and Terentjev
   Theory of thermally activated ionization and dissociation of bound states
   Physical Review Letters 108, 038302 (2012).
2. Zaccone, Blundell, and Terentjev
   Network disorder and nonaffine deformations in marginal solids
   Physical Review B 84, 174119 (2011).
3. Zaccone, Crassous, Beri, and Ballauff
   Quantifying the reversible association of thermosensitive nanoparticles
   Physical Review Letters 107, 168303 (2011).
4. Zaccone, Gentili, Wu, Morbidelli, and Del Gado
   Shear-driven solidification of dilute colloidal suspensions.
   Physical Review Letters 106, 138302 (2011).
5. Zaccone and Scossa-Romano
   Analytical description of the nonaffine response of amorphous solids.
   Physical Review B 83, 184205 (2011). Abstract
6. Zaccone, Dorsaz, DeMichele, Piazza, Morbidelli, and Foffi
   Crowding, intermolecular interactions and shear-flow effects in the diffusion model of chemical reactions. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 115, 7383 (2011).
7. Xie, Wu, Zaccone, Braun, and Morbidelli
   Criticality for shear-induced gelation of charge-stabilized colloids
   Soft Matter 6, 2692 (2010).
8. Zaccone, Gentili, Wu, and Morbidelli
   Shear-induced reaction-limited aggregation kinetics of Brownian particles at arbitrary concentrations
   Journal of Chemical Physics 132, 134903 (2010).
9. Wu, Tsoutsoura, Lattuada, Zaccone, and Morbidelli
   Effect of Temperature on High Shear-Induced Gelation of Charge-Stabilized Colloids without Adding Electrolytes
   Langmuir 26, 2761 (2010).
10. Zaccone and Del Gado,
    On mean coordination and structural heterogeneity in model amorphous solids
    Journal of Chemical Physics 132, 024906 (2010).
11. Zaccone, Wu, and Del Gado,
    Elasticity of short-ranged attractive colloids: homogeneous and heterogeneous glasses
    Physical Review Letters 103, 208301 (2009).
12. Zaccone, Wu, Gentili, and Morbidelli,
    Theory of activated-rate processes under shear with application to shear-induced aggregation of colloids
    Physical Review E80, 051404 (2009).
13. Zaccone
    The shear modulus of metastable amorphous solids with strong central and bond-bending interactions
    Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 21, (28) 285103 (2009).
14. Zaccone et al.
    Breakup of dense colloidal aggregates under hydrodynamic stresses
    Physical Review E79, 061401 (2009).
15. Wu, Zaccone, Tsoutsoura, Lattuada, and Morbidelli,
    High shear-induced gelation of charge-stabilized colloids in a microchannel without adding electrolytes
    Langmuir 25, 4715 (2009).
16. Zaccone, Wu, Portaluri, Lattuada, and Morbidelli,
    Mechanically stirred single-stage column for continuous gelation of colloidal systems
    AIChE Journal, 54, 3106 (2008).
17. Zaccone, Wu, Lattuada, and Morbidelli,
    Charged molecular films on Brownian particles: structure, interactions and relation to stability,
    Journal of Physical Chemistry B 112, 6793 (2008).
18. Zaccone, Wu, Lattuada, and Morbidelli,
    Correlation between surfactant adsorption/association phenomena and colloidal stability studied by light scattering,
    Journal of Physical Chemistry B 112, 1976 (2008). Abstract
19. Zaccone, Lattuada, Wu, and Morbidelli,
    Theoretical elastic moduli for disordered packings of interconnected spheres,
    Journal of Chemical Physics 127, 174512 (2007).
20. Zaccone, Gäbler, Maaß, Marchisio, and Kraume,
    Drop breakage in liquid-liquid stirred dispersions - Modelling of single drop breakage,
    Chemical Engineering Science 62, 6297-6307 (2007). Abstract
21. Maass, Gäbler, Zaccone, Paschedag, and Kraume,
    Experimental investigations and modelling of breakage phenomena in stirred liquid/liquid systems,
    Chem. Eng. Res. Des. 85, 703 (2007).

Conferences proceedings

• Wu, Zaccone, Lattuada, and Morbidelli,
  Rheological properties and structure of gels generated from stable polymer colloids through high sehar in a microchannel
  American Institute of Physics Conf. Proc. , Vol. 1027, pp. 1021 (2008) Abstract
• S. Maaß, A. Gäbler, M. Wegener, A. Zaccone, A. Paschedag, M. Kraume, Drop breakage and daughter drop distribution in stirred liquid/liquid systems and their modelling within the population balance equation. 12th European Conference on Mixing, Bologna, 27.-30. June 2006.

Invited Lectures

• “Nonaffine relaxations in disordered materials and colloidal gels” CECAM Workshop “Aging of Engineering Materials: a Computational Approach to Durability and Sustainability”, Zurich 8-10/02/2012.
• “Statistical mechanics of elasticity in disordered solids”, Series of Seminars in Statistical Mechanics, Laboratoire de Physique Theorique de l’Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, 26/01/2012.
• “Mechanical properties of disordered matter”, Lorentz Seminar, Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 7/02/2012.
• "Shear driven solidification of colloidal suspensions", Key-note lecture delivered at European Colloid and Interface Society Conference, Berlin 4-9/09/2011.
• “Crowding, disorder, and kinetic theory: from living cells to the stellar interiors”, invited lecture at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Zurich, 16/03/2011.
• “Shear-driven solidification of diluted colloidal suspensions” Gordon Research Conference on Granular and Granular-Fluid Flow, Colby College, Maine, 24/06/2010.
• “Kinetics of shear-induced aggregation, growth and gelation in colloidal suspensions” Seminaire de Physique Theorique, Institute of Theoretical Physics, EPF Lausanne, 12/04/2010.
• “Activated-rate processes in shear and application to shear-induced phenomena in soft matter” Helmholtz Institute for Materials and Energy (formerly Hahn-Meitner Institute), Berlin, Germany, 16/11/2009.
• “Nonaffine relaxations and the jamming transition of frictionless granular packings: analytical results” Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 23/10/2009.
• “On a coarse-graining concept in colloidal physics with application to colloidal fluids, gels, and glasses in shearing fields” ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Computational Physics Seminar, 30/09/2009.
• “Elasticity of dense colloidal aggregates and its application to problems in the rheology of dispersions” ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Polymer Physics Seminar, 16/04/2008.
• “Adsorption of surfactant on colloidal particles studied by laser light scattering” Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Chemistry, 27/10/2007.
• “Breakup of colloidal aggregates under turbulent flows” National University of Singapore, Department of Chemical Engineering, Singapore, 25/10/2007.
• “Elasticity of dense cohesive aggregates within the affine approximation”, van der Waals-Zeeman Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 16/06/2007.
• “Colloidal science at the interface of physical chemistry, soft matter and engineering”, University of Cambridge, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge, UK, 26/10/2006.
• “Elasticity of short-ranged attractive colloids: homogeneous and heterogeneous glasses” June 2009, American Chemical Society-Colloids&Interfaces Division Meeting, New York, USA.
  “Modeling the elastic response of amorphous solids with attraction” November 2008, AIChE Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA.
• “Effect of hydration repulsion on the shear-induced aggregation of colloids” September 2008, European Colloid and Interfaces Society Conference, Krakow, Poland.
• “Study of short-range repulsive hydration forces between surfactant-coated colloidal particles” September 2007, European Colloid and Interfaces Society Conference, Geneva, Switzerland.
• “Adsorption of ionic surfactants on polymer colloids studied by light scattering and its effect on colloidal stability” November 2007, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, USA.