Research interests
My research area is in fluid and interfacial problems at the micro- and nano-scale. Research topics include: wetting, rare events, nucleation, superhydrophobicity, contact angle hysteresis, nanofluidics, microfluidics, energy harvesting
@: alberto.giacomello@uniroma1.it
Work experience
Associate Professor, March 2019 -- present
Researcher (Ricercatore a tempo determinato di tipo A) funded by ERC Advanced Grant n.339446, Sapienza Università di Roma, July 2014--February 2019
Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany, February 2013--May 2014
PhD. Student in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Sapienza Università di Roma, November 2010--January 2014
Research engineer under NSF Grants CMMI-0745753 and CMMI-0926791, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Summer 2010
ERC Starting Grant 2018 "HyGate - Hydrophobic Gating in nanochannels: understanding single channel mechanisms for designing better nanoscale sensors" (Principal Investigator) FFABR2017, Fundamental Research Funding, Italian Ministry of Public Education, 2017 (Principal Investigator)
PRACE Access 2016, computational research grant, 40M CPU hours (Principal Investigator) PRACE Access 2015, computational research grant, 50M CPU hours (Principal Investigator) “Avvio alla ricerca”, starting research grant, Sapienza, 2012 (Principal Investigator)
Awards and honours
2017 AIMETA Junior Prize in Fluid Mechanics, Salerno, 2017 Best scientific presentation, PRACEdays17, Barcelona, 2017
Finalist at the 9th ERCOFTAC da Vinci Competition (selected among the 5 best European Ph.D. theses in flow, turbulence, and combustion)
Best Mechanical Engineering M.S. Thesis, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, 2011
Graduate Center Merit-Based Scholarship, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, 2010
Fellowship for ``Double degree program'' by the Honors Center of Italian Universities (H2CU), 2009--2010
Publications
- M Amabili, Y Grosu, A Giacomello, S Meloni, A Zaki, F Bonilla, A Faik, C.M. Casciola. "Pore Morphology Determines Spontaneous Liquid Extrusion from Nanopores". ACS Nano (2019) 13 (2), 1728-1738
- Y Grosu, A Giacomello, S Meloni, L González-Fernández, M Chorazewski, M. Geppert-Rybczynska, A. Faik, J.M. Nedelec, J.P. Grolier. "Viscosity at the Nanoscale: Confined Liquid Dynamics and Thermal Effects in Self-Recovering Nanobumpers". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2018) 122 (26), 14248-14256
- M. Amabili, S. Meloni, A. Giacomello, C.M. Casciola. "Activated Wetting of Nanostructured Surfaces: Reaction Coordinates, Finite Size Effects, and Simulation Pitfalls". The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2018) 122 (1), 200-212
- E. Lisi, M. Amabili, S. Meloni, A. Giacomello, C.M. Casciola. "Self-Recovery Superhydrophobic Surfaces: Modular Design". ACS Nano (2018) 12 (1), 359-367
- A. Tinti, A. Giacomello, Y. Grosu, C.M. Casciola. "Intrusion and extrusion of water in hydrophobic nanopores". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(48), E10266–E10273 (2017)
- M. Amabili, A. Giacomello, S. Meloni, C.M. Casciola. "Collapse
of superhydrophobicity on nanopillared surfaces". Physical Review
Fluids, 2(3), 034202 (2017)
- M.
Amabili, A. Giacomello, S. Meloni, C.M. Casciola. "Intrusion and
extrusion of a liquid on nanostructured surfaces", Journal of Physics:
Condensed Matter, 29(1), 014003 (2017)
- S.
Meloni, A. Giacomello, C.M. Casciola "Focus Article: Theoretical
aspects of vapor/gas nucleation at structured surfaces", Journal of
Chemical Physics, 145, 211802 (2016)
- A. Giacomello, L. Schimmele, S. Dietrich. "Perpetual superhydrophobicity" Soft Matter, 12, 8927 -- 8934 (2016)
- M.
Amabili, E. Lisi, A. Giacomello, C.M. Casciola. "Wetting and cavitation
pathways on nanodecorated surfaces", Soft Matter, 12, 3046--3055 (2016)
- A.
Giacomello, L. Schimmele, S. Dietrich. "Wetting hysteresis induced by
nanodefects". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,
113(3), E262--E271 (2016).
- M.
Amabili, A. Giacomello, S. Meloni, C.M. Casciola. "Unraveling the
Salvinia Paradox: Design Principles for Submerged Superhydrophobicity".
Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2 (14), 1500248 (2015) [with back cover]
- A. Giacomello, S. Meloni, M. Muller, C.M. Casciola, “Mechanism of the Cassie-Wenzel transition via the atomistic and continuum string methods”, The Journal of Chemical Physics 142, 104701 (2015)
- A. Checco, B. M. Ocko, A. Rahman, C. T. Black, M. Tasinkevych, A. Giacomello, S. Dietrich. Collapse and Reversibility of the Superhydrophobic State on Nanotextured Surfaces. Physical Review Letters, 112(21), 216101 (2014). [Highlight in: I.S. Osborne (2014). Getting in shape to stay dry longer. Science, 344(6191), 1477]
- D. Gentili, G. Bolognesi, A. Giacomello, M. Chinappi, C.M. Casciola (2014). Pressure effects on water slippage over silane-coated rough surfaces: pillars and holes Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 16(6), 1009--1018 (2014)
- A. Giacomello, M. Chinappi, S. Meloni, C.M. Casciola. Geometry as a catalyst: howvapor cavities nucleate from defects. Langmuir, 29, 14873- 14884, (2013)
- D. Gentili; M. Chinappi; G. Bolognesi; A. Giacomello; C.M. Casciola (2013). Water slippageon hydrophobic nanostructured surfaces: molecular dynamics results for different filling levels Meccanica, 48, 1853-1861 (2013)
- A. Giacomello, M. Chinappi, S. Meloni, C.M. Casciola (2012). Metastable Wetting onSuperhydrophobic Surfaces: Continuum and Atomistic Views of the Cassie-Baxter-Wenzel Transition, Physical Review Letters, 109, 226102 (2012)
- A. Giacomello, S. Meloni, M. Chinappi, C.M. Casciola (2012). Cassie-Baxter and WenzelStates on a Nanostructured Surface: Phase Diagram, Metastabilities, and TransitionMechanism by Atomistic Free Energy Calculations Langmuir, 10764- 10772, 28, (2012)
- P. Nenzi, A. Giacomello, G. Bolognesi, M. Chinappi, M. Balucani, C.M. Casciola (2011). Superhydrophobic Porous Silicon Surfaces Sensors and Transducers, 62- 72, 13, (2011)
- A. Giacomello, M. Porfiri, (2011). Underwater energy harvesting from a heavy flag hosting ionic polymer metal composites. Journal of Applied Physics, 109(8), 084903, (2011)
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