Designing Materials
Digital Alchemy for Materials Design: Colloids and Beyond,
ACS Nano 9(10), 9542-9553 (2015).
Entropically Patchy Particles: Engineering Valence through Shape Entropy
ACS Nano 8(1), 931-940 (2014).
Modeling Structures from Shapes
Self-assembly of a space-tessellating structure in the binary system of hard tetrahedra and octahedra,
Soft Matter 12 (34), 7073-7078 (2016).
Using depletion to control colloidal crystal assemblies of hard cuboctahedra,
Soft Matter 12, 5199-5204 (2016).
Clusters of polyhedra in spherical confinement,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(6), E669-E678 (2016).
Effect of shape on the self-assembly of faceted patchy nanoplates with irregular shape into tiling patterns,
Soft Matter 11(7), 1386-1396 (2015).
Shape allophiles improve entropic assembly,
Soft Matter 11(37), 7250-7256 (2015).
Rational design of nanomaterials from assembly and reconfigurability of polymer-tethered nanoparticles,
MRS Communications 5(03), 397-406 (2015).
Symmetry Considerations for the Targeted Assembly of Entropically Stabilized Colloidal Crystals via Voronoi Particles,
ACS Nano 9(3), 2336-2344 (2015).
Controlling Chirality of Entropic Crystals,
Physical Review Letters 115(15), 158303 (2015).
Active Matter
Tunable emergent structures and traveling waves in mixtures of passive and contact-triggered-active particles,
Soft Matter 11, Advance Article (2017).
Curvature-induced microswarming,
Soft Matter 13, 5117-5121 (2017).
Shape control and compartmentalization in active colloidal cells,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(34), E4642–E4650 (2015).
Phase Transitions
2D:
Shape and Symmetry Determine Two-Dimensional Melting Transitions of Hard Regular Polygons,
Phys. Rev. X 7, 021001 (2017).
3D:
Shape-driven solid–solid transitions in colloids,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 114 (20), E3892–E3899 (2017)
Modeling Experimental System
Clathrate colloidal crystals,
Science 355 (6328), 931-935 (2017).
Quasicrystalline nanocrystal superlattice with partial matching rules,
Nature Materials 16, 214–219 (2017).
Shape-dependent ordering of gold nanocrystals into large- scale superlattices,
Nature Communications 8, 14038 (2017).
Role of Short-Range Order and Hyperuniformity in the Formation of Band Gaps in Disordered Photonic Materials,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 053902 (2016).
Geometry induced sequence of nanoscale Frank–Kasper and quasicrystal mesophases in giant surfactants,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(50), 14195–14200 (2016).
Biomimetic Hierarchical Assembly of Helical Suprapartcles from Chiral Nanoparticles,
ACS Nano 10(3), 3248-3256 (2016).
A kirigami approach to engineering elasticity in nanocomposites through patterned defects,
Nature Materials 14(8), 785-789 (2015).
Coarsening dynamics of binary liquids with active rotation,
Soft Matter 11(43), 8409-8416 (2015).
Simultaneous Nano- and Microscale Control of Nanofibrous Microspheres Self-Assembled from Star-Shaped Polymers,
Advanced Materials 27(26), 3947–3952 (2015).
Binding kinetics of lock and key colloids,
The Journal of Chemical Physics 142(17), 174909 (2015).
Metastable orientational order of colloidal discoids,
Nature Communications 6, 8507 (2015).
Actuation of shape-memory colloidal fibres of Janus ellipsoids,
Nature Materials 14(1), 117-124 (2015).
Simulation Methods
GPU accelerated Discrete Element Method (DEM) Molecular Dynamics,
Journal of Computational Physics 344, 460-467 (2017).
Scalable Metropolis Monte Carlo for simulation of hard shapes,
Computer Physics Communications 204, 21-30 (2016).
A parallel algorithm for implicit depletant simulations,
The Journal of Chemical Physics 143(184110), 184110 (2015).
Strong scaling of general-purpose molecular dynamics simulations on GPUs,
Computer Physics Communications 192, 97-107 (2015).