2018
March 27 2018
Congratulations to former Glotzer group member Eric Harper, who was selected to be an NRC Research Associate at AFRL!
February 20 2018
Simple Data and Workflow Management with the signac Framework
Carl S. Adorf, Paul M. Dodd, Vyas Ramasubramani, Sharon C. Glotzer
Journal of Computational Materials Science 146, 220-229 (2018).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2018.01.035
https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03543
The article highlights the open-source project’s main design philosophy, provides a little more background information on the implementation, and features some minimal examples on how to use signac and signac-flow. A rigorous performance benchmark demonstrates signac’s ability to handle even large data space sizes.
February 22 2017
Congratulations to Ben Swerdlow, Pengji Zhou, Luis Rivera-Rivera, Shannon Moran, and Will Zygmunt!
January 30 2018
Relevance of packing to colloidal self-assembly
Rose K. Cersonsky, Greg van Anders, Paul M. Dodd, and Sharon C. Glotzer
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 115 (7), 1439-1444 (2018).
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720139115
News article on phys.org:
Close-packing rules may not guide nanoparticle self-assembly after all
January 15 2018
Congrats to Rose Cersonsky and Shannon Moran, who both were awarded 2018 North Campus Deans’ Martin Luther King Spirit Awards!
2017
November 30 2017
Glotzer group research was featured on the cover of the “NNI Supplement to the President’s 2018 Budget”, an annual report for the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI).
November 14 2017
Congrats to Bryan VanSaders (“Structural Material Research” session, 3rd place) for his poster award at the Engineering Graduate Symposium!
October 29 2017
We will be presenting a HOOMD-blue, signac, and Freud tutorial as part of the Hands On With Molecular Simulation workshop at the Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The workshop will feature an excellent collection of topics of interest to researchers working in the field of molecular simulations.
The paper with the title Managing Data Spaces, Performing MD, and Analyzing Trajectories with Signac, HOOMD-Blue, and Freud will be presented by Joshua A. Anderson and Simon C. Adorf on Sunday, October 29th, 2017 10:40AM-12:00PM. If you plan to attend the meeting, make sure to also get tickets for this event! The early-bird registration ends September 18th.
October 19 2017
Congrats to Rose Cersonsky, who was awarded the Nonna L. Hamilton Student Service Award at the 41st Annual Symposium of the Macromolecular Science & Engineering Program!
October 13 2017
News article in The Michigan Engineering News Center:
Q&A with Sharon Glotzer
October 13 2017
News article in The Michigan Engineering News Center:
Making the rules
September 22 2017
Entropic Bonding in Nanoparticle and Colloidal Systems
Congratulations to Eric Harper!
September 15 2017
Virial coefficients and equations of state for hard-polyhedron fluids
M. Eric Irrgang, Michael Engel, Andrew J. Schultz, David A Kofke, and Sharon C Glotzer
Langmuir 33 (42), 11788–11796 (2017)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02384
September 11 2017
On the Form and Growth of Complex Crystals: The Case of Tsai-Type Clusters
Jean E. Taylor, Erin G. Teich, Pablo F. Damasceno, Yoav Kallus, Marjorie Senechal
Symmetry 9 (9), 188 (2017)
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sym9090188
August 11 2017
Tunable emergent structures and traveling waves in mixtures of passive and contact-triggered-active particles
M. Agrawal, I. R. Bruss, and S. C. Glotzer
Soft Matter, vol. online 11, Advance Article (2017)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7SM00888K
July 24 2017
Augmenting Primary and Secondary Education with Polymer Science and Engineering
Rose K. Cersonsky, Leanna L. Foster, Taeyong Ahn, Ryan J. Hall, Harry van der Laan, Timothy F. Scott
J. Chem. Educ. 94 (11), 1639–1646 (2017)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00805
July 19 2017
Congratulations to Shannon Moran (again!), who was selected as a winner of an ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational & Data Science Fellowship.
News article on insideHPC:
Announcing the SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowship Winners
June 22 2017
Congratulations to Shannon Moran, who was chosen to be a Point Scholar by the Point Foundation.
You can read more on Shannon’s profile on the Point Foundation’s website.
News article on Advocate:
Meet the Point Foundation’s Class of 2017
News article on PR Newswire:
Point Foundation Scholarships for 52 LGBTQ Students
June 15 2017
Congratulations to Sharon C. Glotzer who will be the new Anthony C. Lembke Department Chair, effective July 1.
News article in the Michigan Engineering News Center:
Sharon Glotzer named next Chemical Engineering chair
June 14 2017
Congratulations to James Proctor, who was awarded a 2017-2018 MICDE Fellowship.
Announcement on the MICDE website:
MICDE announces 2017-2018 Fellowship recipients
May 31 2017
Congratulations to Sangmin Lee, Bryan VanSaders, and Vyas Ramasubramani!
May 31 2017
Congratulations to PhD Candidates Yein Lim, Allen LaCour, and Alex Adams!
May 16 2017
Shape-driven solid–solid transitions in colloids
Chrisy Xiyu Du, Greg van Anders, Richmond S. Newman, Sharon C. Glotzer
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 114 (20), E3892–E3899 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1621348114
News article on phys.org:
Modeling morphology: Solid-solid phase transitions based on colloidal particle shape changes
May 12 2017
Outstanding Service (Award Sponsored by Andrew & Tiffany Ross and Yiping Lim & Edith Yates):
Shannon Moran and Vyas Ramasubramani, awarded at the ChE Graduate Symposium 2017.
“Shannon was recognized for her enthusiasm and dependable service, leadership, and community building. She has served the greater UM community by developing an engineering communications workshop. In the department, she was a co-chair for the 2017 Recruitment Weekends and serves as a Peer Mentor in the First Year Mentoring Program. Vyas was recognized for his energy, approachability, and community building skills. He has served the greater UM community through mentoring incoming students. Within the department, he served as a co-chair for the 2017 Recruitment Weekends, and serves as a Peer Mentor in the first Year Mentoring Program. Nominators said that Shannon and Vyas have taken the department by storm and have had a tremendous impact on the department during their first two years- individually and as a team. Congratulations, Shannon and Vyas!”
May 4 2017
Congratulations to Rose Cersonsky, whose presentation at the MRS Spring Meeting in Phoenix in April 2017 made 2nd place in the CMS Student Presentation Contest of the “Computer-Based Modeling and Experiment for the Design of Soft Materials” session.
April 5 2017
Shape and Symmetry Determine Two-Dimensional Melting Transitions of Hard Regular Polygons
Joshua A. Anderson, James Antonaglia, Jaime A. Millan, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
Phys. Rev. X 7, 021001 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.7.021001
April 4 2017
Congratulations to Shannon Moran for winning an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Congratulations to Chrisy Xiyu Du for winning a 2017-2018 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship!
March 8 2017
News article in Quanta Magazine:
‘Digital Alchemist’ Seeks Rules of Emergence
News article on Wired:
A ‘Digital Alchemist’ Unravels the Mysteries of Complexity
March 3 2017
Clathrate colloidal crystals
Haixin Lin, Sangmin Lee, Lin Sun, Matthew Spellings, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer, Chad A. Mirkin
Science 355 (6328), 931-935 (2017)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aal3919
News article on physicsworld.com:
Flash Physics: Intricate crystals made with DNA, laser harnesses Josephson effect, borophene has Dirac cones
News article on Michigan Engineering:
Most complex nanoparticle crystal ever made by design
YouTube video on Michigan Engineering:
LabLog | Nanoscale bipyramids self-assemble with DNA
Perspective article in Science:
Clathrates grow up
Dipak Samanta, Rafal Klajn, Science 355 (6328), 912 (2017)
January 31 2017
Sharon C. Glotzer has been elected a Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS), honoring her for her “groundbreaking work on computational description of nanoparticle self-organization phenomena leading to new classes of advanced materials”.
January 29 2017
Congratulations to Matthew Spellings, whose paper at the Annual AIChE Meeting in San Francisco in November 2016 was identified as “Best Presentation” of his session.
January 4 2017
News article on U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, ASCR (Advancing Science Through Computing) Discovery:
Molecular arrangements: A University of Michigan team uses high-performance computing at Oak Ridge to predict how crystals form
News article on Michigan Engineering:
A crystal ball for crystal formation
2016
December 6 2016
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Luis Rivera-Rivera!
November 11 2016
Congrats to Shannon Moran (Chemical Physics, 2nd place) and Rose Cersonsky (Materials Science and Engineering, 3rd place) for their poster awards at the Engineering Graduate Symposium!
Congrats also to Eric Harper (Silver Award) for his oral presentation award at the MSE Graduate Symposium!
September 26 2016
Quasicrystalline nanocrystal superlattice with partial matching rules
X. Ye, J. Chen, M. E. Irrgang, M. Engel, A. Dong, S. C. Glotzer, C. B. Murray
Nat. Mater. 16, 214–219 (2017)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat4759
News article on Michigan Engineering:
New rules for quasicrystals discovered
September 12 2016
Plastic Crystals and Chiral Phases of Regular Hard Polygon Systems
Congratulations to Wenbo Shen!
August 17 2016
Sharon C. Glotzer has been awarded the Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research and has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, through election by the Board of Directors of AIChE.
July 27 2016
Role of Short-Range Order and Hyperuniformity in the Formation of Band Gaps in Disordered Photonic Materials
L. S. Froufe-Pérez, M. Engel, P. F. Damasceno, N. Muller, J. Haberko, S. C. Glotzer, F. Scheffold
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 053902 (2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.053902
July 2016
In APS News: Chrisy Du co-coached the 2016 U.S. Physics Olympiad Team!
July 1 2016
Self-assembly of a space-tessellating structure in the binary system of hard tetrahedra and octahedra
A. T. Cadotte, J. Dshemuchadse, P. F. Damasceno, R. S. Newman, S. C. Glotzer
Soft Matter, Advance Article (2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6SM01180B
Soft Matter Cover:
May 18 2016
Congratulations to PhD Candidates Sangmin Lee, William Zygmunt, Shannon Moran, and Vyas Ramasubramani!
May 13 2016
Congratulations to Simon Adorf and Mayank Agrawal!
May 12 2016
Using depletion to control colloidal crystal assemblies of hard cuboctahedra
Andrew S. Karas, Jens Glaser, Sharon C. Glotzer
Soft Matter 12, 5199-5204 (2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6SM00620E
May 9 2016
Crystallization in Systems of Hard Polyhedra
Congratulations to Richmond Newman!
May 4 2016
Nucleation and clustering of metastable hard polyhedra fluids
Congratulations to Samanthule Nola!
April 20 2016
Sharon Glotzer participating in a panel at the Department of Energy’s National Lab Day on Capitol Hill on April 20, 2016.
April 15 2016
Congratulations to Matthew Spellings for winning a 2016-2017 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship!
Congratulations to Erin Teich for winning a 2016-2017 Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship!
Congratulations to Will Zygmunt and Ben Swerdlow for winning a 2016 National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Graduate Fellowship!
Congratulations to Shannon Moran for receiving an honorable mention for her application for an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
April 12 2016
The Glotzer Group is a designated NVIDIA GPU Research Center and now HOOMD-blue serves as one of the codes that NVIDIA used to benchmark their new datacenter GPU Tesla P100!
Find more information here: NVIDIA Tesla P100 – Unleashing Infinite Compute for the Modern Data Center.
March 4 2016
Scalable Metropolis Monte Carlo for simulation of hard shapes
Joshua A. Anderson, M. Eric Irrgang, Sharon C. Glotzer
Computer Physics Communications 204, 21–30 (2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2016.02.024
March 3 2016
Efficient neighbor list calculation for molecular simulation of colloidal systems using graphics processing units
Michael P. Howard, Joshua A. Anderson, Arash Nikoubashman, Sharon C. Glotzer, Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos
Computer Physics Communications 203, 45–52 (2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2016.02.003
February 22 2016
Biomimetic Hierarchical Assembly of Helical Supraparticles from Chiral Nanoparticles
Yunlong Zhou, Ryan L. Marson, Greg van Anders, Jian Zhu, Guanxiang Ma, Peter Ercius, Kai Sun, Bongjun Yeom, Sharon C. Glotzer, Nicholas A. Kotov
ACS Nano 10 (3), 3248–3256 (2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b05983
Article on nanotechweb.org:
Chiral nanoparticles self-assemble into superstructures
January 25 2016
Clusters of polyhedra in spherical confinement
Erin G. Teich, Greg van Anders, Daphne Klotsa, Julia Dshemuchadse, Sharon C. Glotzer
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 113 (6), E669–E678 (2016)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1524875113
Article on phys.org:
How particles pack in a confined space
January 15 2016
Thermodynamic and Structural Phase Behavior of Colloidal and Nanoparticle Systems
Congratulations to Eric Irrgang!
2015
December 18 2015
Congratulations to Rose Cersonsky!
December 8 2015
Congratulations to Jim Antonaglia!
October 9 2015
Controlling Chirality of Entropic Crystals
Pablo F. Damasceno, Andrew S. Karas, Benjamin A. Schultz, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 158303 (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.158303
October 7 2015
Metastable orientational order of colloidal discoids
Lilian C. Hsiao, Benjamin A. Schultz, Jens Glaser, Michael Engel, Megan E. Szakasits, Sharon C. Glotzer, Michael J. Solomon
Nature Communications 6, 8507 (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9507
September 24 2015
Digital Alchemy for Materials Design: Colloids and Beyond
Greg van Anders, Daphne Klotsa, Andrew S. Karas, Paul M. Dodd, Sharon C. Glotzer
ACS Nano 9 (10), 9542-9553 (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b04181
News article on Michigan News:
Nanotech: The new alchemy
September 9 2015
Congratulations to Yina Geng!
July 23 2015
Rational design of nanomaterials from assembly and reconfigurability of polymer-tethered nanoparticles
Ryan L. Marson, Trung Dac Nguyen, Sharon C. Glotzer
MRS Communications 5 (3), 397-406 (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/mrc.2015.54
July 9 2015
Shape control and compartmentalization in active colloidal cells
Matthew Spellings, Michael Engel, Daphne Klotsa, Syeda Sabrina, Aaron M. Drews, Nguyen H. P. Nguyen, Kyle J. M. Bishop, Sharon C. Glotzer
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (34), E4642–E4650 (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513361112
Article on Nature Physics:
Active colloids: Made to order
June 23 2015
Shape allophiles improve entropic assembly
Eric S. Harper, Ryan L. Marson, Joshua A. Anderson, Greg van Anders, Sharon C. Glotzer
Soft Matter 11 (37), 7250-7256 (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5SM01351H
Soft Matter Cover:
June 22 2015
A kirigami approach to engineering elasticity in nanocomposites through patterned defects
Terry C. Shyu, Pablo F. Damasceno, Paul M. Dodd, Aaron Lamoureux, Lizhi Xu, Matthew Shlian, Max Shtein, Sharon C. Glotzer, Nicholas A. Kotov
Nature Materials 14, 785-789 (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat4327
News article from Michigan Engineering:
Kirigami art could enable stretchable plasma screens
Article on Popular Science:
This Ancient Paper Art Makes Flexible, Super Strong Electronics
Article on Co.Design:
Japanese Paper-Cutting Is The Future Of Flexible, Bendable Gadgets
Article on Business Insider:
These stretchy batteries could make the next generation of wearables actually comfortable
Article on LiveScience:
Accordion-Like Conductors Could Spawn Flexible Display Screens
Article on Gizmodo:
Japanese Paper Art Could Lead to Bending and Folding Electronics
June 9 2015
Joshua A. Anderson
will be awarded the CoMSEF (Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum) Young Investigator Award during the 2015 AIChE Annual Meeting.
May 22 2015
Sharon Glotzer – Simons Investigator in Theoretical Physics since 2012
Mathematics and Physical Sciences Awardee Spotlight
May 21 2015
Sharon C. Glotzer
was named the John Werner Cahn Distinguished University Professor of Engineering, effective September 1, 2015.
The University Record – News for Faculty and Staff
May 20 2015
Congratulations to PhD Candidates Simon Adorf & Mayank Agrawal!
May 11 2015
Prediction and Design of Colloidal Matter Using Directional Entropic Forces
Congratulations to Khalid Ahmed!
May 8 2015
Using Directional Entropic Forces for Target Pattern Design
Congratulations to Pablo Damasceno!
May 6 2015
Congratulations to Andrew Karas!
May 5 2015
Binding kinetics of lock and key colloids
Laura Colón-Meléndez, Daniel J. Beltran-Villegas, Greg van Anders, Jun Liu, Matthew Spellings, Stefano Sacanna, David J. Pine, Sharon C. Glotzer, Ronald G. Larson, Michael J. Solomon
The Journal of Chemical Physics 142, 174909 (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4919299
April 29 2015
Tuning mesoscopic assembly behavior via nano building-block interactions and architecture
Congratulations to Ryan Marson!
April 18 2015
“Dark Energy, Alchemy, and Quantum Teleportation: Science Fiction or Ph.D. Research?”
James Antonaglia, Adam Katcher, and Jessica Muir
“Meddling with Matter: Self-Assembly and Designing Particles”
James Antonaglia
April 1 2015
Congratulations to Paul Dodd!
March 11 2015
Strong scaling of general-purpose molecular dynamics simulations on GPUs
Jens Glaser, Trung Dac Nguyen, Joshua A. Anderson, Pak Lui, Filippo Spiga, Jaime A. Millan, David C. Morse, Sharon C. Glotzer
Computer Physics Communications 192, 97–107 (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2015.02.028
February 18 2015
Symmetry Considerations for the Targeted Assembly of Entropically Stabilized Colloidal Crystals via Voronoi Particles
Benjamin A. Schultz, Pablo F. Damasceno, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
ACS Nano 9 (3), 2336–2344 (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn507490j
January 12 2015
Congratulations to Ben Schultz!
2014
December 19 2014
Effect of shape on the self-assembly of faceted patchy nanoplates with irregular shape into tiling patterns
Jaime A. Millan, Daniel Ortiz, Sharon C. Glotzer
Soft Matter 11, 1386–1396 (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C4SM01612B
December 9 2014
Congratulations to Andres Millan!
December 8 2014
Computational self-assembly of a one-component icosahedral quasicrystal
Michael Engel, Pablo F. Damasceno, Carolyn L. Phillips, Sharon C. Glotzer
Nature Materials 14, 109–116 (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat4152
News article from Michigan Engineering:
World’s most complex crystal simulated at U-Michigan
December 2 2014
Sharon C. Glotzer and Nicholas A. Kotov
Awarded during the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit
Awards Talk on MRS OnDemand
Interview with MRS TV:
November 10 2014
News article “Shape-shifting micro muscles will pump you up”
Video from Michigan Engineering:
September 23 2014
Understanding shape entropy through local dense packing
Greg van Anders, Daphne Klotsa, N. Khalid Ahmed, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (45), E4812–E4821 (2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1418159111
July 14 2014
Digital colloids: reconfigurable clusters as high information density elements
Carolyn L. Phillips, Eric Jankowski, Bhaskar Jyoti Krishnatreya, Kazem V. Edmond, Stefano Sacanna, David G. Grier, David J. Pine, Sharon C. Glotzer
Soft Matter 10, 7468–7479 (2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C4SM00796D
March 18 2014
Phase Behavior and Complex Crystal Structures of Self-Assembled Tethered Nanoparticle Telechelics
Ryan L. Marson, Carolyn L. Phillips, Joshua A. Anderson, Sharon C. Glotzer
Nano Letters 14 (4), 2071–2078 (2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl500236b
February 25 2014
Complexity in Surfaces of Densest Packings for Families of Polyhedra
Elizabeth R. Chen, Daphne Klotsa, Michael Engel, Pablo F. Damasceno, Sharon C. Glotzer
Physical Review X 4, 011024 (2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.011024
February 20 2014
Emergent Collective Phenomena in a Mixture of Hard Shapes through Active Rotation
Nguyen H. P. Nguyen, Daphne Klotsa, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
Physical Review Letters 112, 075701 (2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.075701
February 2 2014
Self-Assembly of Archimedean Tilings with Enthalpically and Entropically Patchy Polygons
Jaime A. Millan, Daniel Ortiz, Greg van Anders, Sharon C. Glotzer
ACS Nano 8 (3), 2918–2928 (2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn500147u
January 24 2014
Self-assembly of reconfigurable colloidal molecules
Daniel Ortiz, Kevin L. Kohlstedt, Trung Dac Nguyen, Sharon C. Glotzer
Soft Matter 10, 3541-3552 (2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C4SM00026A
