List of works - Alberta Ferrarini

Analysis of NAD 2D-NMR spectra of saturated fatty acids in polypeptide aligning media by experimental and modeling approaches.

scientific article published on 12 December 2011

Broken helix in vesicle and micelle-bound alpha-synuclein: insights from site-directed spin labeling-EPR experiments and MD simulations.

scientific article published on 6 May 2008

Central-to-axial chirality transfer revealed by liquid crystals: a combined experimental and computational approach for the determination of absolute configuration of carboxylic acids with an α chirality centre.

scientific article published in October 2011

Chiral amplification in a cyanobiphenyl nematic liquid crystal doped with helicene-like derivatives.

scientific article published on 07 October 2009

Chiral doping of nematic phases and its application to the determination of absolute configuration

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Chiral nematic phase of suspensions of rodlike viruses: left-handed phase helicity from a right-handed molecular helix

scientific article published on 28 June 2006

Chiral self-assembly of helical particles ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 2016

Chirality transfer across length-scales in nematic liquid crystals: fundamentals and applications.

scientific article published on 11 October 2010

Cholesteric and screw-like nematic phases in systems of helical particles

scientific article

Communication: from rods to helices: evidence of a screw-like nematic phase ⬇️

scientific article published in February 2014

Correlation between molecular structure and helicity of induced chiral nematics in terms of short-range and electrostatic-induction interactions. The case of chiral biphenyls

scientific article published on 01 August 2001

Density functional theory of nematic elasticity: softening from the polar order

scientific article published on 20 May 2016

Electroclinic effect in nematic liquid crystals: the role of molecular and environmental chirality.

scientific article published on 5 June 2013

Enantiotopic discrimination and director organization in the twist-bend nematic phase.

scientific article

Entropy-Driven Chiral Order in a System of Achiral Bent Particles

scientific article published on 29 September 2015

Flexoelectricity in an oxadiazole bent-core nematic liquid crystal ⬇️

From the Molecular Structure to Spectroscopic and Material Properties: Computational Investigation of a Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystal

scientific article published on 27 January 2014

From the double-stranded helix to the chiral nematic phase of B-DNA: a molecular model

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

Full Determination of Zero Field Splitting Tensor of the Excited Triplet State of C60Derivatives of Arbitrary Symmetry from High Field TREPR in Liquid Crystals

scientific article published on 01 February 2006

Helical Inclusions in Phospholipid Membranes: Lipid Adaptation and Chiral Order

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Homochiral helices of oligonaphthalenes inducing opposite-handed cholesteric phases.

scientific article

Investigation of internal and external potentials acting on benzyl halides dissolved in different nematic solvents

Left or right cholesterics? A matter of helix handedness and curliness. ⬇️

scientific article

Modeling the effects of structure and dynamics of the nitroxide side chain on the ESR spectra of spin-labeled proteins.

scientific article

Molecular field theory with atomistic modeling for the curvature elasticity of nematic liquid crystals

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

Molecular geometry, twist-bend nematic phase and unconventional elasticity: a generalised Maier-Saupe theory

scientific article published on 01 December 2014

Molecular structure and elastic properties of thermotropic liquid crystals: integrated molecular dynamics--statistical mechanical theory vs molecular field approach.

scientific article published in March 2013

Molecular theory of dielectric relaxation in nematic dimers.

scientific article published in October 2004

Monomeric fullerenes in lipid membranes: effects of molecular shape and polarity

scientific article published on 19 September 2011

Passive Membrane Permeability: Beyond the Standard Solubility-Diffusion Model.

scientific article published on 6 November 2013

Phase behavior and properties of the liquid-crystal dimer 1′′,7′′-bis(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl) heptane: A twist-bend nematic liquid crystal

scientific article published on 16 September 2011

Photoinduced reorganization of motor-doped chiral liquid crystals: bridging molecular isomerization and texture rotation

scientific article published on 08 October 2008

Polarity-sensitive fluorescent probes in lipid bilayers: bridging spectroscopic behavior and microenvironment properties.

scientific article published on 4 August 2011

Quantum-mechanical studies of NMR properties of solutes in liquid crystals: a new strategy to determine orientational order parameters.

scientific article published in February 2005

Second-harmonic generation and the influence of flexoelectricity in the nematic phases of bent-core oxadiazoles ⬇️

Shape model for the molecular interpretation of the flexoelectric effect

scientific article published on 26 July 2001

Simple molecular model for induced cholesteric phases

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Solute Partitioning into Lipid Bilayers: An Implicit Model for Nonuniform and Ordered Environment

scientific article published on August 2010

The interplay of configuration and conformation in helical perylenequinones: Insights from chirality induction in liquid crystals and calculations ⬇️

scientific article published on January 24, 2012

The isotropic-to-nematic phase transition in hard helices: theory and simulation

scientific article published in April 2013

Thermo-orientation in fluids of arbitrarily shaped particles

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Understanding the distinctive elastic constants in an oxadiazole bent-core nematic liquid crystal

scientific article published on 05 October 2012

Understanding the twist-bend nematic phase: the characterisation of 1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4'-yloxy)-6-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4'-yl)hexane (CB6OCB) and comparison with CB7CB.

scientific article published on 22 July 2016

List of works by Alberta Ferrarini

Analysis of NAD 2D-NMR spectra of saturated fatty acids in polypeptide aligning media by experimental and modeling approaches.

Broken helix in vesicle and micelle-bound alpha-synuclein: insights from site-directed spin labeling-EPR experiments and MD simulations.

Central-to-axial chirality transfer revealed by liquid crystals: a combined experimental and computational approach for the determination of absolute configuration of carboxylic acids with an α chirality centre.

Chiral amplification in a cyanobiphenyl nematic liquid crystal doped with helicene-like derivatives.

Chiral doping of nematic phases and its application to the determination of absolute configuration

Chiral nematic phase of suspensions of rodlike viruses: left-handed phase helicity from a right-handed molecular helix

Chiral self-assembly of helical particles ⬇️

Chirality transfer across length-scales in nematic liquid crystals: fundamentals and applications.

Cholesteric and screw-like nematic phases in systems of helical particles

Communication: from rods to helices: evidence of a screw-like nematic phase ⬇️

Correlation between molecular structure and helicity of induced chiral nematics in terms of short-range and electrostatic-induction interactions. The case of chiral biphenyls

Density functional theory of nematic elasticity: softening from the polar order

Electroclinic effect in nematic liquid crystals: the role of molecular and environmental chirality.

Enantiotopic discrimination and director organization in the twist-bend nematic phase.

Entropy-Driven Chiral Order in a System of Achiral Bent Particles

Flexoelectricity in an oxadiazole bent-core nematic liquid crystal ⬇️

From the Molecular Structure to Spectroscopic and Material Properties: Computational Investigation of a Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystal

From the double-stranded helix to the chiral nematic phase of B-DNA: a molecular model

Full Determination of Zero Field Splitting Tensor of the Excited Triplet State of C60Derivatives of Arbitrary Symmetry from High Field TREPR in Liquid Crystals

Helical Inclusions in Phospholipid Membranes: Lipid Adaptation and Chiral Order

Homochiral helices of oligonaphthalenes inducing opposite-handed cholesteric phases.

Investigation of internal and external potentials acting on benzyl halides dissolved in different nematic solvents

Left or right cholesterics? A matter of helix handedness and curliness. ⬇️

Modeling the effects of structure and dynamics of the nitroxide side chain on the ESR spectra of spin-labeled proteins.

Molecular field theory with atomistic modeling for the curvature elasticity of nematic liquid crystals

Molecular geometry, twist-bend nematic phase and unconventional elasticity: a generalised Maier-Saupe theory

Molecular structure and elastic properties of thermotropic liquid crystals: integrated molecular dynamics--statistical mechanical theory vs molecular field approach.

Molecular theory of dielectric relaxation in nematic dimers.

Monomeric fullerenes in lipid membranes: effects of molecular shape and polarity

Passive Membrane Permeability: Beyond the Standard Solubility-Diffusion Model.

Phase behavior and properties of the liquid-crystal dimer 1′′,7′′-bis(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl) heptane: A twist-bend nematic liquid crystal

Photoinduced reorganization of motor-doped chiral liquid crystals: bridging molecular isomerization and texture rotation

Polarity-sensitive fluorescent probes in lipid bilayers: bridging spectroscopic behavior and microenvironment properties.

Quantum-mechanical studies of NMR properties of solutes in liquid crystals: a new strategy to determine orientational order parameters.

Second-harmonic generation and the influence of flexoelectricity in the nematic phases of bent-core oxadiazoles ⬇️

Shape model for the molecular interpretation of the flexoelectric effect

Simple molecular model for induced cholesteric phases

Solute Partitioning into Lipid Bilayers: An Implicit Model for Nonuniform and Ordered Environment

The interplay of configuration and conformation in helical perylenequinones: Insights from chirality induction in liquid crystals and calculations ⬇️

The isotropic-to-nematic phase transition in hard helices: theory and simulation

Thermo-orientation in fluids of arbitrarily shaped particles

Understanding the distinctive elastic constants in an oxadiazole bent-core nematic liquid crystal

Understanding the twist-bend nematic phase: the characterisation of 1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4'-yloxy)-6-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4'-yl)hexane (CB6OCB) and comparison with CB7CB.

Unexpected high ordering of a [60]Fullerene nitroxide in the nematic phase of 4-4′-azoxyanisole