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Antonio Checco

Education

• Ph.D. 2003: Physics, Universite' Pierre et Marie Curie, PARIS VI, France
• B.S. 1998: Physics (Cum Laude), Universita' della Calabria, Cosenza, Italy

Awards

• "Pierre Favard" Award 2005, French Society of Microscopy (for outstanding graduate research performed with microscopy techniques)

Research Interests

• Wetting and Capillary Phenomena: Nanoscale Effects
• Computational Studies of Wetting on Chemically Inhomogeneous Surfaces
• Template-directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymer Thin-Films
• Self Assembled Monolayers (SAM): Structure, Wettability and Chemical Patterning by Scanning Probe and UV lithographies
• Wettabilty and Phase transition of nanoscale atmospheric aerosols 
• Scanning Probe Microscopy Techniques (with emphasis on Environmental AFM)

Links

• AFM image gallery
• Environmental AFM at BNL

Key Publications

• Morphology of Air Nanobubbles Trapped at Hydrophobic Nanopatterned Surfaces, A. Checco, T. Hofmann, E. DiMasi, C.T. Black and B.M. Ocko, Nano Lett., 10, 1354 (2010)
• Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers on Two-Dimensional Chemical Patterns Fabricated by Electro-Oxidation Nanolithography, J. Xu, S. Park, S. Wang, T. P. Russell, B. M. Ocko, A. Checco, Adv. Mater. 22, 2268 (2010)
• Liquid spreading under nanoscale confinement, A. Checco, Phys Rev. Lett. 102, 106103 (2009)
• Non-linear elasticity of a liquid contact line, A. Checco, Europhys. Lett. 85, 16002 (2009)
• Liquid nanostripes, A. Checco, O. Gang and B.M. Ocko, Phys Rev. Lett. 96, 056104 (2006)
• High resolution non-contact AFM imaging of liquids condensed onto chemically nanopatterned surfaces, A. Checco, Y. Cai, O. Gang and B.M. Ocko, Ultramicroscopy 106, 703, 2006.
• Nanoscale wettability of self-assembled monolayers investigated by non-contact Atomic Force Microscopy, A. Checco, J. Daillant, P. M. Guenoun and R. Boukherroub Langmuir 2, 126 (2006).
• Nonlinear dependence of the contact angle of nanodroplets on contact line curvature, A. Checco, J. Daillant and P. M. Guenoun, Phys Rev. Lett. 91, 186101, 2003.
• Surface potential imaging of hair. Correlation with wetting at the nanometer scale, V. Dupres, T. Camesano, D. Langevin, A. Checco and P. Guenoun, Journal of Colloid Int. Sci. 269, 329 (2004).

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