Huang has defended his dissertation and has earned his Physics PhD! Huang gave a fantastic talk on all his varied works about assembly using experiments and simulation.
Return to March Meeting!
We just got back from the first in-person March Meeting since 2019, held in Chicago. Rogers lab members were able to share their recent results and see a lot of exciting talks from groups from all over. We were also excited to catch up with friends and colleagues at the meeting, like Pepijn Moerman from JHU and Christine Middleton from Physics Today!
The Origami Team’s Paper Appears in JPCM
Thomas, Daichi, and Huang’s recent work on understanding the balance between assembly complexity and target specificity is now out in the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-648X/ac47dd)! Congratulations!
Return to Brandeis MRSEC Winter School
It’s been a while since our MRSEC hosted a Winter School, so we are happy to have just gotten back from a great science getaway in Vermont. It was refreshing to hear about the amazing science going on in our MRSEC and to catch up with everyone in person! This is always a great event to hear from younger graduate students about their work in progress and to discuss the future work we hope to accomplish at Brandeis. Rogers Lab members Anjali, Daichi, and Thomas presented their work on liquid-liquid phase separation of DNA nanostars and self-assembling tubules from DNA origami colloids.
Alex's paper appears in PNAS
Alex’s first paper just appeared online in PNAS! Congrats, Alex!
Alex wins the SAMSUNG oral presentation award at the MRS meeting
Congrats to Alex Hensley on winning the SAMSUNG oral presentation award for his talk on engineering two-step protocols for making macroscopic single crystals from colloids at the Fall MRS meeting in Boston! Alex was introduced at the award ceremony with "and this award goes to Alex, who made colloidal crystals 10,000 times larger than the ones his PI made". A very well-deserved recognition—
Huang's paper appears in PNAS
Huang recently published his first article in PNAS! It uses new tools in colloid science and computer simulations to shed light on a physics puzzle that dates back 100+ years. Congratulations, Huang!
A collaborative NSF-funded project on programmable active matter
Our lab received a new grant from the National Science Foundation. We will work together with Wylie Ahmed (Cal State: Fullerton) and Jenny Rose (Syracuse) to develop active materials powered by enzymes.
