New Publication 🚨 : Saptorshi Ghosh shows how to use optimal control theory to control structure, dynamics and function of active materials using light signals. Check it out :[ @BrandeisMRSEC

New Publication 🚨 : Saptorshi Ghosh shows how to use optimal control theory to control structure, dynamics and function of active materials using light signals. Check it out : @BrandeisMRSEC

🚨Check out our new account on Blue sky : We will also be posting and doing outreach on the Blue sky platform going forward. Stay tuned !.

New Publication 🚨 : Tyukodi Botond explores how to choose design principles for synthesizing closed assemblies with the lowest complexity and highest degree of symmetry to enable high yielding but fast assembly of target structures. Check it out:

New Publication 🚨 : @LayneFrechette shows how active matter, which consumes energy to create persistent and directed motion, can be harnessed to create dynamic assemblies with tunable sizes, shapes, and motion. Check it out : @BrandeisMRSEC

RT @gmgrason: Liquid crystals, Klein bottles and dislocations at this week's @geompack webinar from Randy Kamien (Penn) on "The topological….

"Data-driven discovery of active nematic hydrodynamics", recent preprint from our lab by @joshiChaitanya3 , in collaboration with @dogiclab . @BrandeisMRSEC @BrandeisLS @BrandeisScience.

Our recent publication on activity-driven vesicle shape transformations by @mattsepeterson was featured on the @NatureComms Editors' Highlights for Applied Physics and Mathematics! .See other featured papers here:

Active nematics confined in vesicles? .Join Sarvesh talk at #apsmarch Chicago today to learn more about his research in collaboration with @mattsepeterson and @TU_Muenchen @NorthwesternU @UCSBPhysics. Tuesday, March 15, 2022, 5:36PM - 5:48PM.

RT @ThomasGFai: Then on Friday, @ylleksseG will present our joint work with @TheSquishyLab on modeling the transition from localized to ex….

#activematter.Computational and Data Driven Active Nematics.

#activematter .Shape fluctuations of fluidized vesicles driven by dilute active nematics. Instabilities of 3D dry active nematic liquid crystal.

#selfassembly #capsids.Capsids under compression. Optimization of non-equilibrium self-assembly protocols using Markov State Models.

#selfassembly #nanotubes.Multispecies tilings increase the accuracy in assembly of self-limited structures. Understanding the mechanism of self-limited assembly of tubules using Monte Carlo simulations.

#selfassembly #DNAorigami.Assembly kinetics of synthetic capsids made from DNA origami. Programmable self-assembly of nanotubes using DNA origami nanoparticles.

Check out #selfassembly and #activematter talks by our lab members and our collaborators in .@fradenlab and @TheRogersLab @APSMeetings ! Links in the following tweets (1/6) .@ApsDsoft @BrandeisMRSEC @BrandeisLS @BrandeisScience

RT @mattsepeterson: Our paper on activity-driven vesicle shape transformations was featured on the @NatureComms Editors' Highlights for App….

RT @gmgrason: How do identical self-assembling elements form finite-size structures much larger than themselves? Review with @HaganLab has….

Our latest publication on assembly of protein shells around many cargo molecules and flexible scaffolds. How properties of the scaffold, control the shell size, amount of encapsulated cargo, and assembly pathways? Read more here: @acsnano