Posts by Anna Sofia Tascini published at ITN SNAL - Marie Curie Initial Training Network

Altafulla: Fat is fun

Anna Sofia Tascini — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 17:18:10 +0000

7-9 September 2018 – Altafulla, Spain Outreach activity: “La personalidad dividida de la grasa” Demonstration for children on the beach the physics behind fat in water

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Thermal transport across nanoparticle-fluid interfaces: the interplay of interfacial curvature and nanoparticle-fluid interactions

Anna Sofia Tascini — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 09:16:45 +0000

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (2016) Anna Sofia Tascini, Jeff Armstrong, Eliodoro Chiavazzo, Matteo Fasano, Pietro Asinari and Fernando Bresme We investigate the general dependence of the thermal transport across nanoparticle-fluid interfaces using molecular dynamics computations. We show that the thermal conductance depends strongly both on the wetting characteristics of the nanoparticle-fluid interface as well as on the nanoparticle size. Strong nanoparticle-fluid interactions, leading to full wetting states in the host fluid, result in high thermal conductances and efficient interfacial transport of heat. Weak interactions result in partial dry or dry states, and consistently low thermal

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SNAL @ Imperial Festival

Anna Sofia Tascini — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 09:26:32 +0000

Discover why a ‘split personality’ makes fat molecules key to life, and play with a sticky polymer slime you can make at home. From the 8th to the 10th of May, the Imperial Festival returns for the fourth time, opening its doors so that visitors can see, with their own eyes, some of the research carried out at Imperial College. Imperial’s South Kensington campus becomes crowded with interactive workshops, tours, talks and performances to describe the work of researchers at Imperial in a colourful, non-conventional and playful way! Support from mainstream media suggests that since 2012 the festival has grown

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Imperial College London: Fundamentals and Applications of Lipid Membrane Biophysics

Anna Sofia Tascini — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:19:45 +0000

Dates: 22nd-24th September 2015 Location: Horsley Park (Ockham Road South, East Horsley, KT24 6DT) SCOPE Lipid membranes are the basic building blocks for almost all living organisms. For years numerous reports have been focused on this area to establish a comprehensive understanding of membrane structures. More recently, the development of modern experimental techniques, such as small-angle X-ray scattering, small-angle neutron scattering and cyro-TEM, provides more powerful tools for this study. In addition to experimental study, theoretical models and computational simulations also contribute to broadening the scope of this field. The fundamental study of lipid membranes facilitates technical applications, for instance, designing drug carriers which can be transferred

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IC – Membrane Biophysics group facilities

Anna Sofia Tascini — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 03:16:09 +0000

The Membrane Biophysics group of Imperial College of London has a range of equipment, much of which is under constant development to ensure we remain at the forefront of membrane biophysics research. They also have two fully equiped preparation labs. Please see the sections below for a more detailed description of our facilities.

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Atomistic Simulation

Anna Sofia Tascini — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 02:15:09 +0000

Atomistic simulation is the theoretical and computational modelling of what happens at the atomic scale in solids, liquids, molecules and plasmas. It could be perform throughout Molecular Statics and Molecular Dynamics . Molecular dynamics simulations follow the same approach of a real experiment: The first step is the preparation and the description of a sample of the material we wish to study. This sample is a model configuration consisting in atoms. Each elementary particle is modelled by point masses, with three degrees of freedom (,, space directions). A mass , a position , a velocity and an acceleration are associated to

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Summary of the Meeting in Cambridge 1 October 2014

Anna Sofia Tascini — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 06:45:57 +0000

1-2 October 2014 – Cambridge, Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge. After months of discussions and proposals conducted by supervisors from each host institution and the program director, Dr. Vladimir Baulin, the management meeting in Cambridge sets the beginning of a great adventure! In an atmosphere both earnest and casual, many topics have been discussed. Some, such as schedules for jointed events, everyone’s expectation, objectives of Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), potential collaborations, and network outreach activities. Each ESR, through 10-minutes presentation, has gotten the opportunity to (1) demonstrate available infrastructure of the host institution (2) present available

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ESR6-L: Atomistic and coarse-grained simulations of the interactions of nano-objects and biosurfactants with lipid bilayers

Anna Sofia Tascini — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:01:04 +0000

Objectives This project is focused on the study of the interactions of nano-objects and biosurfactants with lipid bilayers using continuum theory and atomistic and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. Equilibrium state of stratum corneum (SC) lipid bilayers in contact with keratin corneocytes; Interaction of nanoparticles and proteins with SC lipid bilayers; Understanding the role of strongly-asymmetric ceramides in the structure and integrity of SC bilayers. Tasks and methodology Modelling of strongly-asymmetric ceramide-1; Effects of adsorption of nanorods and nanospheres on lipid bilayers; Behaviour of Janus and patchy spheres and rod-coil diblock copolymers; Computational methods for determining elastic properties of functionalised bilayers.

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