Bottom-up self-assembly is a powerful approach to engineering at small scales. As Gregory Grason, W. Benjamin Rogers, and Michael Hagan illustrate, materials scientists use several strategies to formulate nanoscale components that can self-assemble into predetermined shapes with

Prof. Michael Hagan talks about spontaneous assembly as an engineering design principle in Physics Today (co-authored with Ben Rogers and @gmgrason ) : Teaching nanostructures to build themselves

Testing, testing...is this thing on? For anyone still out there, I offer a link to Michael & Sourav's new paper on frustration meets conformal mechanical metamembranes https://t.co/mY6jT08fT3 @BrandeisMRSEC

🔊Repost appreciated🔊Note that the application fees to the Fall 2025 UMass PSE Ph.D. program will be waived for anyone who registers & attends our info session! #PhD #Polymers #SoftMaterials

@UMassPSE @UMassAmherst is hosting Ph.D. program info sessions on October 24, 2024. Please register!😃 10:30-11:30am (ET) ( https://t.co/lZILb1DXYx) 7:30-8:30pm (ET) ( https://t.co/igoOgDrEGG) Application fees for the Fall 2025 PhD program will be waived if you register & attend!

Excited to hear our very own Dr. @Astro_Cady, @UMassPSE alum, interviewed by @rameswaram on @today_explained! https://t.co/CNeW2yEg8G #scienceinspace 👩‍🚀+🚀=🧪

Straining the bonds that hold misfits together - New @PhysRevE by Kyle describes theory of self-limitation vs. frustration escape in assemblies of curved colloidal particles https://t.co/oyVh49UGQZ @BrandeisMRSEC

Close packing of anisotropic filaments favors helical geometry. New work by @bgrnvll !

What a difference a plate makes! Check out Geunwoong's new paper in @softmatter, the latest from our collaboration with the Santore group @UMassPSE on the "intermezzo" behaviors of 2D fluid-solid composite vesicles https://t.co/wfkCNk2ETU

New preprint! In collaboration with @mike_dimitriyev and former student Caleb Anderson, we showed that depending on how you link the loops in a network of molecular chainmail, you get positive, negative, or flat Gaussian curvature. https://t.co/t9aWqwRVTr

Coming to @UMassPSE on Friday June 14, honoring Irem Bolukbasi. Looking forward to a special day of science and reflection....

What is the emergent mechanics of a 3D network of 1D liquids? New @PhysRevLett by @mike_dimitriyev finds generic non-affine collective deformations of self-assembled, bicontinuous mesophases https://t.co/guTyKZ6XmV

New paper with @BrandeisMRSEC, @HaganLab and @csantangelo314 demonstrates economical assembly of size-tailored, triply-periodic minimal surfaces via "inverted" Caspar-Klug design principles https://t.co/wqwkeCYXVH

H. Wan, G. Jeon, W. Xin, G. M. Grason, M. M. Santore, Flower-shaped 2D crystals grown in curved fluid vesicle membranes. Nat. Commun. 15, 1–10 (2024).

As for this guy....neither hide nor hair.

TO: UMass Soil Lab Much obliged for the heads up on this. @CAFE_UMass @CNS_UMass #squirrelotage

Interested in geometry, mechanics, fiberous materials, or MathArt? I'll be talking about our work (conducted with @gmgrason) on dense helical filaments today at APS March Meeting in session S34 (Knots and Tangles) at 9:48ct in room 102F!

6/6 ...and closing out #APSMarchMeeting, Fri. 1:54 (Z35:013) Nick Hackney "Soft Mechanisms of Escape in Geometrically Frustrated Assembly"

5/6 Thu. 4:48 (W32:008) Kyle Sullivan "Self-limitation in geometrically frustrated, deformable particle assemblies with finite attraction range"

4/6 Thu. 9:48 (S34:008) @bgrnvll "Geometry and mechanics of densely-packed helical filaments"