The research is focused on soft materials, with particular emphasis on self- and directed assembly of polymers, liquid crystals and colloids. Our goals are aimed at understanding hierarchical organization and beyond equilibrium soft materials, using theory and computational modeling. The research is highly interdisciplinary and offers many venues for cross-fertilization in physics, material science, physical chemistry, and biology.
Research Projects
- Equilibrium Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles
- Liquid-Crystalline Block Polymers
- Solution Self-Assembly of Molecular Brushes
- Thermoresponsive Polymer Materials
- Self-Assembly of Peptide-Amphiphile Polymers
- Dynamic Self-Assembly of Colloidal Materials