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  1. Exciton transport in the PE545 complex: insight from atomistic QM/MM-based quantum master equations and elastic network models

    Article • Physical Biology, November 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Francesco Piazza

  2. Diffusion of tagged particles in a crowded medium

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), July 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Francesco Piazza

  3. Dissecting the Effects of Concentrated Carbohydrate Solutions on Protein Diffusion, Hydration, and Internal Dynamics

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, May 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Francesco Piazza

  4. Nonlinear excitations match correlated motions unveiled by NMR in proteins: a new perspective on allosteric cross-talk

    Article • Physical Biology, April 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Francesco Piazza

  5. Persistent random walk with exclusion

    Article • The European Physical Journal B, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesco Piazza

  6. Diffusion-limited reactions in crowded environments: a local density approximation

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, August 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Francesco Piazza, Prof. Cristiano De Michele

  7. Macromolecular crowding: chemistry and physics meet biology (Ascona, Switzerland, 10–14 June 2012)

    Article • Physical Biology, August 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Francesco Piazza

  8. Irreversible bimolecular reactions with inertia: from the trapping to the target setting at finite densities

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, May 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Francesco Piazza, Prof. Cristiano De Michele

  9. Structural Relaxation Dynamics and Annealing Effects of Sodium Silicate Glass

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, May 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Francesco Piazza

  10. Absence of thermalization for systems with long-range interactions coupled to a thermal bath

    Article • Physical Review E, April 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Francesco Piazza

  11. First-order coil-globule transition driven by vibrational entropy

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesco Piazza

  12. Discrete breathers in a realistic coarse-grained model of proteins

    Article • Physical Biology, June 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Francesco Piazza

  13. Crowding, Intermolecular Interactions, and Shear Flow Effects in the Diffusion Model of Chemical Reactions

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, June 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Francesco Piazza, Prof. Cristiano De Michele

  14. Diffusion-Limited Reactions in Crowded Environments

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Francesco Piazza, Prof. Cristiano De Michele

  15. Vibrational entropy and the structural organization of proteins

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, September 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesco Piazza

  16. Simple Monte Carlo model for crowd dynamics

    Article • Physical Review E, August 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Francesco Piazza

  17. Inertial effects in diffusion-limited reactions

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, February 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Francesco Piazza, Prof. Cristiano De Michele

  18. Energy transfer in nonlinear network models of proteins

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), December 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Francesco Piazza

  19. Long-range energy transfer in proteins

    Article • Physical Biology, November 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Francesco Piazza

  20. Temperature Dependence of Normal Mode Reconstructions of Protein Dynamics

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Francesco Piazza

  21. On inconsistent entities. A reply to Colyvan

    Article • Philosophical Studies, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesco Piazza

  22. Heat wave propagation in a nonlinear chain

    Article • Physical Review B, March 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Francesco Piazza

  23. Discrete breathers in protein structures

    Article • Physical Biology, May 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Francesco Piazza

  24. Discrete Breathers in Nonlinear Network Models of Proteins

    Article • Physical Review Letters, December 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Francesco Piazza

  25. Resolving the geometry of biomolecules imaged by cryo electron tomography

    Article • Journal of Microscopy, November 2007, Wiley

    Francesco Piazza

  26. A dynamical study of antibody–antigen encounter reactions

    Article • Physical Biology, October 2007, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Francesco Piazza

  27. Diffusion-Limited Unbinding of Small Peptides from PDZ Domains

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, September 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Francesco Piazza

  28. On the origin of the boson peak in globular proteins

    Article • The Philosophical Magazine A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied Physics, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Francesco Piazza

  29. Bottleneck Genes and Community Structure in the Cell Cycle Network of S. pombe

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, January 2007, PLOS

    Francesco Piazza

  30. Glasslike Structure of Globular Proteins and the Boson Peak

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Francesco Piazza

  31. Functional Dynamics of PDZ Binding Domains: A Normal-Mode Analysis

    Article • Biophysical Journal, July 2005, Elsevier

    Francesco Piazza

  32. Stretched-exponential relaxation in arrays of coupled rotators

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, May 2005, Elsevier

    Francesco Piazza

  33. Slow Energy Relaxation of Macromolecules and Nanoclusters in Solution

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Francesco Piazza

  34. Anticooperativity in diffusion-controlled reactions with pairs of anisotropic domains: a model for the antigen–antibody encounter

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, April 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesco Piazza

  35. Dynamics of antibodies from cryo-electron tomography

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, April 2005, Elsevier

    Francesco Piazza

  36. The anti-FPU problem

    Article • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, March 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Thierry Dauxois, Francesco Piazza

  37. Statistical analysis of simple repeats in the human genome

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, March 2005, Elsevier

    Francesco Piazza

  38. Freezing immunoglobulins to see them move

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2004, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Francesco Piazza

  39. Cooling nonlinear lattices toward energy localization

    Article • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, June 2003, American Institute of Physics

    Francesco Piazza

  40. A quantum perturbative pair distribution for determining interatomic potentials from extended x-ray absorption spectroscopy

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, November 2002, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Francesco Piazza

  41. Slow energy relaxation and localization in 1D lattices

    Article • Journal of Physics A General Physics, November 2001, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Francesco Piazza

  42. Article • Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesco Piazza

  43. Superconducting cuprates: A simple model of coupling between electronic holes through apical ions

    Article • Physics Letters A, September 1998, Elsevier

    Francesco Piazza