Hagan Lab

🚨Published 🚨 : Newton 2025 : doi.org/10.1016/j.newt… : @LayneFrechette demonstrates how active noise can induce dynamic clustering of colloidal particles that has tunable characteristics. Check it out ! #ActiveSelfAssembly #BrandeisMRSEC #ActiveMatter

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 physicstoday.aip.org/features/teach…

Dr.Tyukodi Botond gets featured in phys.org for their work on exploiting symmetry principles to reduce the cost for high fidelity assembly ! Check it out : lnkd.in/g6VQm4PD #SelfAssembly #BrandeisMRSEC

⭐️Featured⭐️: [Pub PRX Dec2024] : Dr. Anthony Trubiano presents a Markov State Model approach to doing long duration simulations to make more accurate predictions of assembly thermodynamics while addressing kinetics. Check it out : doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe… #MultiMSM #BrandeisMRSEC

🚨 Publication🚨 : ACS Nano : @LayneFrechette and @naren48 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/ac… #BrandeisMRSEC

Now published in Newton ( Cell Press ) : doi.org/10.1016/j.newt…

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 : arxiv.org/abs/2410.05555 @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 :doi.org/10.1063/5.0244… [doi.org] @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 : urldefense.com/v3/__https://d…$ @BrandeisMRSEC

🚨Check out our new account on Blue sky : bsky.app/profile/haganl…. 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: arxiv.org/abs/2411.03720

Liquid crystals, Klein bottles and dislocations at this week's @geompack webinar from Randy Kamien (Penn) on "The topological origin of the Peierls-Nabarro barrier" Wed. (Apr. 6) 4:30 PM London time geompack.com/6th-april-2022…

"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! nature.com/articles/s4146… See other featured papers here: nature.com/collections/hj…

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 meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR22/…

Then on Friday, @ylleksseG will present our joint work with @TheSquishyLab on modeling the transition from localized to extended deposition in hard sphere packings, which may be understood in terms of the classical sandpile model. meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR22/…

#activematter Computational and Data Driven Active Nematics meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR22/…

#activematter Shape fluctuations of fluidized vesicles driven by dilute active nematics meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR22/… Instabilities of 3D dry active nematic liquid crystal meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR22/…

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