Teaching nanostructures to build themselves Bottom-up self-assembly is a powerful approach to engineering at small scales. Special strategies are needed to formulate components that assemble into predetermined shapes with precise sizes.

Prof. Michael Hagan talks about spontaneous assembly as an engineering design principle in Physics Today (co-Authored with W Benajmin Rogers and Gregory Grason) : Teaching nanostructures to build themselves physicstoday.aip.org/features/tea...

Pleased to announce my first paper as part of @haganlab.bsky.social and as co-first author @laynefrechette.bsky.social on using Langevin dynamics simulations to demonstrate how empty viral capsids can assemble more efficiently with the help of phase separated compartments.

🚨 Publication🚨: ACS Nano: @laynefrechette.bsky.social
and @n4rens.bsky.social use Langevin dynamics simulations to demonstrate how self-assembly of empty #ViralCapsidAssembly is modulated by liquid compartments formed by #PhaseSeparation. Check it out: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #BrandeisMRSEC

🚨Published 🚨 : Newton 2025 : doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... : @laynefrechette.bsky.social demonstrates how active noise can induce dynamic clustering of colloidal particles that has tunable characteristics. Check it out !

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: arxiv.org/abs/2411.03720 #BrandeisMRSEC #SelfAssembly

New Publication 🚨 : Layne Frechette 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 : arxiv.org/abs/2410.05555 #ActiveMatter #SelfAssembly #BrandeisMRSEC