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  1. Restoring the tumour mechanophenotype of vocal fold cancer reverts its malignant properties

    Article • Nature Materials, February 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  2. ShearView: A compact stress- and strain-controlled linear rheometer for integrated rheomicroscopy

    Article • Journal of Rheology, December 2025, Society of Rheology

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  3. De Novo Gene Transcription of Connexin Mediates Cytoplasmic Fluid Exchange and Flocking Transitions in Physiological and Cancerous Epithelial Systems

    Article • Advanced Science, December 2025, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  4. Enhanced ethanol retention and thermal stability in calcium chloride-stabilized ethyl cellulose gel fuels

    Article • Academia Materials Science, November 2025, Academia.edu

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  5. The Hitchhiker’s guide to differential dynamic microscopy

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, October 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  6. Myxococcus xanthus for active matter studies: a tutorial for its growth and potential applications

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  7. One- and two-particle microrheology of soft materials based on optical-flow image analysis

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  8. Quantitative Microscopy of Active Colloids

    Article • December 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  9. P13-32 Bafilomycin induces mitochondrial reorganization, nuclear deformation and γH2AX increase in T24 bladder cancer cells

    Article • Toxicology Letters, September 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  10. Matrix Viscoelasticity Decouples Bubble Growth and Mobility in Coarsening Foams

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  11. Dynamics of anisotropic colloidal systems: What to choose, DLS, DDM or XPCS?

    Article • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, April 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  12. Anomalous relaxation of coarsening foams with viscoelastic continuous phases

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  13. Soft matter roadmap*

    Article • Journal of Physics Materials, December 2023, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Dr Heather M Shewan

  14. Protein Sizing with Differential Dynamic Microscopy

    Article • Macromolecules, October 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  15. Editorial: Probing out-of-equilibrium soft matter

    Article • Frontiers in Physics, March 2023, Frontiers

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  16. Introduction to viscoelasticity and plasticity, and their relation to the underlying microscopic dynamics in soft matter systems

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, March 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  17. Diffusion in liquid mixtures

    Article • npj Microgravity, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  18. Probing Out-of-Equilibrium Soft Matter

    Article • January 2023, Frontiers

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  19. Tissue fluidification promotes a cGAS–STING cytosolic DNA response in invasive breast cancer

    Article • Nature Materials, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Claudio Tripodo

  20. Quantitative rheo-microscopy of soft matter

    Article • Frontiers in Physics, October 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  21. Echo speckle imaging of dynamic processes in soft materials

    Article • Optics Express, August 2022, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  22. Reciprocal Space Study of Brownian Yet Non-Gaussian Diffusion of Small Tracers in a Hard-Sphere Glass

    Article • Frontiers in Physics, June 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  23. Non-invasive measurement of nuclear relative stiffness from quantitative analysis of microscopy data

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  24. Multiscale heterogeneous dynamics in two-dimensional glassy colloids

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, April 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  25. Bistability of Dielectrically Anisotropic Nematic Crystals and the Adaptation of Endothelial Collectives to Stress Fields

    Article • Advanced Science, March 2022, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  26. Performance indicators in higher education quality management of learning and teaching: lessons from a benchlearning exercise of six European universities

    Article • Quality in Higher Education, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  27. Hecw controls oogenesis and neuronal homeostasis by promoting the liquid state of ribonucleoprotein particles

    Article • Nature Communications, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  28. Differential dynamic microscopy for the characterization of polymer systems

    Article • Journal of Polymer Science, June 2021, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  29. Probing roto-translational diffusion of small anisotropic colloidal particles with a bright-field microscope

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  30. Deformation profiles and microscopic dynamics of complex fluids during oscillatory shear experiments

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  31. Disentangling collective motion and local rearrangements in 2D and 3D cell assemblies

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  32. Multiple dynamic regimes in a coarsening foam

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, October 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  33. Giant Fluctuations Induced by Thermal Diffusion in Complex Liquids

    Article • Microgravity Science and Technology, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  34. Emergence of Multiscale Dynamics in Colloidal Gels

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  35. MicroMotility: State of the art, recent accomplishments and perspectives on the mathematical modeling of bio-motility at microscopic scales

    Article • Mathematics in Engineering, January 2020, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  36. Functional transcription promoters at DNA double-strand breaks mediate RNA-driven phase separation of damage-response factors

    Article • Nature Cell Biology, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  37. Unjamming overcomes kinetic and proliferation arrest in terminally differentiated cells and promotes collective motility of carcinoma

    Article • Nature Materials, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Claudio Tripodo

  38. European Space Agency experiments on thermodiffusion of fluid mixtures in space

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Aliaksandr Mialdun, Professor Roberto Cerbino

  39. Tracking-Free Determination of Single-Cell Displacements and Division Rates in Confluent Monolayers

    Article • Frontiers in Physics, October 2018, Frontiers

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  40. Quantitative optical microscopy of colloids: The legacy of Jean Perrin

    Article • Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, March 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  41. Flocking transitions in confluent tissues

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  42. Differential dynamic microscopy microrheology of soft materials: A tracking-free determination of the frequency-dependent loss and storage moduli

    Article • Physical Review Materials, December 2017, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  43. Dark field differential dynamic microscopy enables accurate characterization of the roto-translational dynamics of bacteria and colloidal clusters

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, December 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Marco Buscaglia, Professor Roberto Cerbino

  44. Active diffusion and advection in Drosophila oocytes result from the interplay of actin and microtubules

    Article • Nature Communications, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  45. Image windowing mitigates edge effects in Differential Dynamic Microscopy

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  46. Perspective: Differential dynamic microscopy extracts multi-scale activity in complex fluids and biological systems

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, September 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  47. Giant fluctuations and structural effects in a flocking epithelium

    Article • Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, August 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  48. Endocytic reawakening of motility in jammed epithelia

    Article • Nature Materials, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  49. Active diffusion and advection in the Drosophila ooplasm result from the interplay of the actin and microtubule cytoskeletons

    Article • January 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  50. The NEUF-DIX space project - Non-EquilibriUm Fluctuations during DIffusion in compleX liquids

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  51. Re-entrant DNA gels

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2016, Nature

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  52. Equilibrium and non-equilibrium concentration fluctuations in a critical binary mixture

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  53. Shadowgraph Analysis of Non-equilibrium Fluctuations for Measuring Transport Properties in Microgravity in the GRADFLEX Experiment

    Article • Microgravity Science and Technology, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  54. Simultaneous characterization of rotational and translational diffusion of optically anisotropic particles by optical microscopy

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, April 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  55. Structure and dynamics of concentration fluctuations in a non-equilibrium dense colloidal suspension

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  56. Multi-spot, label-free immunoassay on reflectionless glass

    Article • Biosensors and Bioelectronics, December 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Professor Marco Buscaglia

  57. Dynamic scaling for the growth of non-equilibrium fluctuations during thermophoretic diffusion in microgravity

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2015, Nature

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  58. Equilibrium gels of trivalent DNA-nanostars: Effect of the ionic strength on the dynamics

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  59. Equilibrium gels of low-valence DNA nanostars: a colloidal model for strong glass formers

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Tommaso Inzani

  60. Correction: Equilibrium gels of low-valence DNA nanostars: a colloidal model for strong glass formers

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Tommaso Inzani

  61. Portable, Multispot, Label-Free Immunoassay on a Phantom Perfluorinated Plastic

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Professor Marco Buscaglia

  62. A fast and simple label-free immunoassay based on a smartphone

    Article • Biosensors and Bioelectronics, August 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Professor Marco Buscaglia

  63. Digital Fourier microscopy for soft matter dynamics

    Article • Journal of Optics, August 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  64. Viscoelasticity of nematic liquid crystals at a glance

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Fabio Giavazzi, Professor Roberto Cerbino, Professor Marco Buscaglia

  65. Phase behavior and critical activated dynamics of limited-valence DNA nanostars

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  66. Liquid Crystals: Nematic Liquid Crystals Embedded in Cubic Microlattices: Memory Effects and Bistable Pixels (Adv. Funct. Mater. 32/2013)

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, August 2013, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  67. Multispot, label-free biodetection at a phantom plastic–water interface

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Professor Marco Buscaglia

  68. Nematic Liquid Crystals Embedded in Cubic Microlattices: Memory Effects and Bistable Pixels

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, March 2013, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Professor Marco Buscaglia

  69. ChemInform Abstract: DNA‐Based Soft Phases

    Article • ChemInform, March 2013, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  70. How Archer Fish Achieve a Powerful Impact: Hydrodynamic Instability of a Pulsed Jet in Toxotes jaculatrix

    Article • PLOS One, October 2012, PLOS

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  71. Gradient-driven fluctuations in microgravity

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, June 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  72. Characterizing Concentrated, Multiply Scattering, and Actively Driven Fluorescent Systems with Confocal Differential Dynamic Microscopy

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  73. Two-Dimensional X-Ray Beam Phase Sensing

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Dr Sebastien Berujon

  74. Effect of configuration of the microchannels fabricated by femtosecond laser micromachining on topological defects in confined liquid crystals

    Article • February 2012, SPIE

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Professor Marco Buscaglia

  75. Liquid crystal self-assembly of random-sequence DNA oligomers

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  76. Bistability of nematic liquid crystals confined in 3D scaffold produced by two-photon polymerization

    Article • January 2012, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Professor Marco Buscaglia

  77. Giant thermophoresis of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgel particles

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  78. Non-equilibrium fluctuations on earth and in micro-gravity. The GRADFLEX experiment

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, December 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  79. Kinetics of colloidal fractal aggregation by differential dynamic microscopy

    Article • The European Physical Journal Special Topics, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  80. Thermal Fluctuations in a Layer of LiquidCS2Subjected to Temperature Gradients with and without the Influence of Gravity

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  81. Fractal fronts of diffusion in microgravity

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  82. DNA-Based Soft Phases

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  83. Topological defects of nematic liquid crystals confined in porous networks

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Professor Marco Buscaglia

  84. Right-handed double-helix ultrashort DNA yields chiral nematic phases with both right- and left-handed director twist

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2010, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Professor Marco Buscaglia

  85. Exploring soft matter with x-rays: from the discovery of the DNA structure to the challenges of free electron lasers

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

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  86. Noise in laser speckle correlation and imaging techniques

    Article • Optics Express, June 2010, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  87. Near-field scattering techniques: Novel instrumentation and results from time and spatially resolved investigations of soft matter systems

    Article • Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, December 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  88. Scattering information obtained by optical microscopy: Differential dynamic microscopy and beyond

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Dr Veronique Trappe

  89. Bistable Heat Transfer in a Nanofluid

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

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  90. Mutual Voronoi Tessellation in Spoke Pattern Convection

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  91. Differential Dynamic Microscopy: Probing Wave Vector Dependent Dynamics with a Microscope

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Dr Veronique Trappe

  92. Optical generation of Voronoi diagram

    Article • Optics Express, March 2008, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  93. X-ray-scattering information obtained from near-field speckle

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  94. THERMOPHORETIC CONVECTION OF SILICA NANOPARTICLES

    Article • August 2007, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  95. Soft X-ray Fresnel-like diffraction from thin films edges by an ultrafast laser plasma source

    Article • June 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino, Professor Gianluca Valentini

  96. Correlations of light in the deep Fresnel region: An extended Van Cittert and Zernike theorem

    Article • Physical Review A, May 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  97. New trends in light scattering

    Article • Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, February 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  98. Fluctuations in Diffusion Processes in Microgravity

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, September 2006, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  99. Gradient-driven fluctuations experiment: fluid fluctuations in microgravity

    Article • Applied Optics, April 2006, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  100. GRADFLEX: The Microgravity Experiment for Gradient...

    Article • October 2005, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  101. Near field heterodyne X-ray speckles

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, August 2005, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  102. Scaling Behavior for the Onset of Convection in a Colloidal Suspension

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

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  103. Transient oscillations in Soret-driven convection in a colloidal suspension

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, November 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  104. Fast-onset Soret-driven convection in a colloidal suspension heated from above

    Article • The Philosophical Magazine A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied Physics, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Roberto Cerbino

  105. Soret driven convection in a colloidal solution heated from above at very large solutal Rayleigh number

    Article • November 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Roberto Cerbino