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IANIRO Alessandro

Group Leader, BioPhysics

Adolphe Merkle Institute Chemin des Verdiers 4 CH-1700 Fribourg Switzerland

Office:	B128
Phone:	+41 26 300 9517
Email:	alessandro.ianiro@unifr.ch
	0000-0003-4709-4350

Projects lead

Soft artificial muscle

Soft artificial muscle for advancement in robotics and medicine

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Projects team

Solid-State Nanopores

Single-protein analysis using solid-state nanopores.

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Pore-Forming Peptides

Engineering and characterization of pore-forming peptides.

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Bio-inspired Electricity

Bio-inspired, biocompatible, mechanically flexible electrical power.

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Publications

Pneumolysin nanopores with 20 nm inner diameter to characterize the size and shape of Tau oligomers
Anasua Mukhopadhyay, Wachara Chanakul, Yu-Noel Larpin, Saurabh Awasthi, Anna D. Protopopova, René Köffel, Alessandro Ianiro, Michael Mayer
not found (2025)

Large and Stable Nanopores Formed by Complement Component 9 for Characterizing Single Folded Proteins
Wachara Chanakul, Anasua Mukhopadhyay, Saurabh Awasthi, Anna D. Protopopova, Alessandro Ianiro, Michael Mayer
ACS Nano (2025)

Large-area, self-healing block copolymer membranes for energy conversion
Christian C. M. Sproncken, Peng Liu, Justin Monney, William S. Fall, Carolina Pierucci, Philip B. V. Scholten, Brian Van Bueren, Marcos Penedo, Georg Ernest Fantner, Henricus H. Wensink, Ullrich Steiner, Christoph Weder, Nico Bruns, Michael Mayer, Alessandro Ianiro
Nature 630 , 866-871 (2024)

Photocleavable Polymer Cubosomes: Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Photorelease
Hui Chen, Marcel Schumacher, Alessandro Ianiro, Tim Julian Stank, Nicole Janoszka, Chen Chen, Suna Azhdari, Thomas Hellweg, André H. Gröschel
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2024)

Structure and Properties of Metallosupramolecular Polymers with a Nitrogen-Based Bidentate Ligand
Franziska Marx, Malte Beccard, Alessandro Ianiro, Andrea Dodero, Laura N. Neumann, Grégory Stoclet, Christoph Weder, Stephen Schrettl
Macromolecules (2023)

Computational design of anisotropic nanocomposite actuators
Alessandro Ianiro, José Augusto Berrocal, Remco Tuinier, Michael Mayer, Christoph Weder
The Journal of Chemical Physics 158 , 014901 (2023)

Metallosupramolecular polymers as precursors for platinum nanocomposites
Claudio Cappelletti, Luis M. Olaechea, Alessandro Ianiro, Cristina Prado-Martínez, Emad Oveisi, Christoph Weder, Stephen Schrettl
Polymer Chemistry (2022)

The Green Lean Amine Machine: Harvesting Electric Power While Capturing Carbon Dioxide from Breath
Trevor J. Kalkus, Anirvan Guha, Philip B.V. Scholten, Dmitrii Nagornii, Ali Coskun, Alessandro Ianiro, Michael Mayer
Advanced Science (2021)

Powering Electronic Devices from Salt Gradients in AA‐Battery‐Sized Stacks of Hydrogel‐Infused Paper
Anirvan Guha, Trevor J. Kalkus, Thomas B. H. Schroeder, Oliver G. Willis, Chris Rader, Alessandro Ianiro, Michael Mayer
Advanced Materials (2021)

Solvent Selectivity Governs the Emergence of Temperature Responsiveness in Block Copolymer Self-Assembly
Alessandro Ianiro, Marco M.R.M. Hendrix, Paul Joshua Hurst, Joseph P. Patterson, Mark Vis, Michael Sztucki, A. Catarina C. Esteves, Remco Tuinier
Macromolecules (2021)

Kinetic state diagrams for a highly asymmetric block copolymer assembled in solution
M. Paula Vena, Demi de Moor, Alessandro Ianiro, Remco Tuinier, Joseph P. Patterson
Soft Matter (2021)

Nonionic Block Copolymer Coacervates
Aoon Rizvi, Urja Patel, Alessandro Ianiro, Paul J. Hurst, Jovany G. Merham, Joseph P. Patterson
Macromolecules (2020)

Crystallization by particle attachment is a colloidal assembly process
Giulia Mirabello, Alessandro Ianiro, Paul H. H. Bomans, Takuto Yoda, Atsushi Arakaki, Heiner Friedrich, Gijsbertus de With, Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk
Nature Materials (2020)

Doxorubicin-Loaded Squid Pen Plaster: A Natural Drug Delivery System for Cancer Cells
Giulia Magnabosco, Alessandro Ianiro, Dario Stefani, Alice Soldà, Stefania Rapino, Giuseppe Falini, Matteo Calvaresi
ACS Applied Bio Materials (2020)

Architecture-Dependent Interplay between Self-Assembly and Crystallization in Discrete Block Co-Oligomers
Katja Petkau-Milroy, Alessandro Ianiro, Melanie M. L. Ahn, Jose Rodrigo Magana, Marle E. J. Vleugels, Brigitte A. G. Lamers, Remco Tuinier, Ilja K. Voets, Anja R. A. Palmans, E. W. Meijer
ACS Macro Letters (2020)

(Homo)polymer-mediated colloidal stability of micellar solutions
Álvaro González García, Alessandro Ianiro, Roos Beljon, Frans A. M. Leermakers, Remco Tuinier
Soft Matter (2020)

Dual responsive PMEEECL–PAE block copolymers: a computational self-assembly and doxorubicin uptake study
Amin Koochaki, Mohammad Reza Moghbeli, Sousa Javan Nikkhah, Alessandro Ianiro, Remco Tuinier
RSC Advances (2020)

Block copolymer hierarchical structures from the interplay of multiple assembly pathways
Alessandro Ianiro, Meng Chi, Marco M. R. M. Hendrix, Ali Vala Koç, E. Deniz Eren, Michael Sztucki, Andrei V. Petukhov, Gijsbertus de With, A. Catarina C. Esteves, Remco Tuinier
Polymer Chemistry (2020)

Design principles for metamorphic block copolymer assemblies
Alessandro Ianiro, Steven P. Armes, Remco Tuinier
Soft Matter (2020)

A Single Thermoresponsive Diblock Copolymer Can Form Spheres, Worms or Vesicles in Aqueous Solution
Liam P. D. Ratcliffe, Matthew J. Derry, Alessandro Ianiro, Remco Tuinier, Steven P. Armes
Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2019)

Controlling the Spatial Distribution of Solubilized Compounds within Copolymer Micelles
Alessandro Ianiro, Álvaro González García, Stefan Wijker, Joseph P. Patterson, A. Catarina C. Esteves, Remco Tuinier
Langmuir (2019)

Liquid–liquid phase separation during amphiphilic self-assembly
Alessandro Ianiro, Hanglong Wu, Mark M. J. van Rijt, M. Paula Vena, Arthur D. A. Keizer, A. Catarina C. Esteves, Remco Tuinier, Heiner Friedrich, Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk, Joseph P. Patterson
Nature Chemistry (2019)

Designing stable, hierarchical peptide fibers from block co-polypeptide sequences
Mark M. J. van Rijt, Adriano Ciaffoni, Alessandro Ianiro, Mohammad-Amin Moradi, Aimee L. Boyle, Alexander Kros, Heiner Friedrich, Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk, Joseph P. Patterson
Chemical Science (2019)

Photocatalytic activity of exfoliated graphite–TiO2 nanoparticle composites
Gloria Guidetti, Eva A. A. Pogna, Lucia Lombardi, Flavia Tomarchio, Iryna Polishchuk, Rick R. M. Joosten, Alessandro Ianiro, Giancarlo Soavi, Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk, Heiner Friedrich, Boaz Pokroy, Anna K. Ott, Marco Goisis, Francesco Zerbetto, Giuseppe Falini, Matteo Calvaresi, Andrea C. Ferrari, Giulio Cerullo, Marco Montalti
Nanoscale (2019)

On the Colloidal Stability of Spherical Copolymeric Micelles
Álvaro González García, Alessandro Ianiro, Remco Tuinier
ACS Omega (2018)

A roadmap for poly(ethylene oxide)-block -poly-ε-caprolactone self-assembly in water: Prediction, synthesis, and characterization
Alessandro Ianiro, Joseph Patterson, Álvaro González García, Mark M. J. van Rijt, Marco M. R. M Hendrix, Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk, Ilja K. Voets, A. Catarina C. Esteves, Remco Tuinier
Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics (2018)

Morphological changes of calcite single crystals induced by graphene–biomolecule adducts
Matteo Calvaresi, Matteo Di Giosia, Alessandro Ianiro, Francesco Valle, Simona Fermani, Iryna Polishchuk, Boaz Pokroy, Giuseppe Falini
Journal of Crystal Growth (2017)

One-pot, solvent-free, metal-free synthesis and UCST-based purification of poly(ethylene oxide)/poly-ε-caprolactone block copolymers
Alessandro Ianiro, Isabel Jiménez‐Pardo, A. Catarina C. Esteves, Remco Tuinier
Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry (2016)

Customizing Properties of β-Chitin in Squid Pen (Gladius) by Chemical Treatments
Alessandro Ianiro, Matteo Giosia, Simona Fermani, Chiara Samorì, Marianna Barbalinardo, Francesco Valle, Graziella Pellegrini, Fabio Biscarini, Francesco Zerbetto, Matteo Calvaresi, Giuseppe Falini
Marine Drugs (2014)

IANIRO Alessandro

Soft artificial muscle

Solid-State Nanopores

Pore-Forming Peptides

Bio-inspired Electricity