
L. (Lorenzo) Botto
L. (Lorenzo) Botto
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I am interested in materials that are processed in the liquid state, and how we can use fluid mechanics to understand their behaviour.
Current areas of interest include:
- flows of carbon micro and nanomaterials (particularly graphene)
- wetting phenomena (wetting of textiles, fundamentals of elastocapillarity, solid-stabilised emulsions and foams)
- sedimentation of environmental flocs (for water engineering and ecology)
Research Profile
My expertise is multiphase fluid mechanics and transport phenomena. I am particularly attracted to problems at the interface between fluid dynamics and materials engineering, studied with the theoretical tools of mechanics and physico-chemical hydrodynamics.
Investigations in my group start from gathering data, using highly resolved simulations (both MD and continuum), experiments, or a combination of the two. Developing when possible a mathematical theory is the primary goal of much of what I do.
The main motivation of my current research is to help the world moving away from oil and gas. Towards this goal, I focus my recent research in the following areas:
- flow of slurries and dispersions of carbon nanomaterials , particularly graphene. These have use in electrodes and energy materials - liquid-phase exfoliation of layered and 2D materials - large-scale production of graphene powders for hydrogen or CO2 adsorption via spray methods - battery recycling via liquid-based processing
Publications
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2023
The effect of Navier slip on the rheology of a dilute two-dimensional suspension of plate-like particles
Catherine Kamal / L. Botto
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2022
Peeling under large bending deformations
Follower versus fixed loads. A unified approach for concentrated or distributed loads
Ettore Barbieri / Lorenzo Botto -
2022
Quantification of 3-dimensional structure and properties of flocculated natural suspended sediment
K. L. Spencer / J. A. Wheatland / S. J. Carr / A. J. Manning / A. J. Bushby / C. Gu / L. Botto / T. Lawrence
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2022
Simulation of interacting elastic sheets in shear flow
Insights into buckling, sliding, and reassembly of graphene nanosheets in sheared liquids
G. Salussolia / C. Kamal / J. Stafford / N. Pugno / L. Botto -
2022
TU Delft COVID-app
A tool to democratize CFD simulations for SARS-CoV-2 infection risk analysis
David Engler Faleiros / Wouter van den Bos / Lorenzo Botto / Fulvio Scarano -
Media
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2021-02-01
COVID-19 2021
Appeared in: Delta
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2020-07-07
COVID-19 2020
Appeared in: Delta
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2020-03-11
Researchers develop first model to guide large-scale production of ultrathin graphene
Appeared in: phys.org news