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H. Wan, G. Jeon, W. Xin, G. M. Grason, M. M. Santore, Flower-shaped 2D crystals grown in curved fluid vesicle membranes. Nat. Commun. 15, 1–10 (2024). dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

New paper with BrandeisMRSEC, Hagan Lab and @csantangelo314 demonstrates economical assembly of size-tailored, triply-periodic minimal surfaces via "inverted" Caspar-Klug design principles dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

What is the emergent mechanics of a 3D network of 1D liquids? New Physical Review Letters by @mike_dimitriyev finds generic non-affine collective deformations of self-assembled, bicontinuous mesophases journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

Coming to Polymer Science & Engineering Dept @ UMass Amherst on Friday June 14, honoring Irem Bolukbasi. Looking forward to a special day of science and reflection....

New preprint! In collaboration with @mike_dimitriyev and former student Caleb Anderson, we showed that depending on how you link the loops in a network of molecular chainmail, you get positive, negative, or flat Gaussian curvature. arxiv.org/html/2406.1359…

What a difference a plate makes! Check out Geunwoong's new paper in Soft Matter, the latest from our collaboration with the Santore group Polymer Science & Engineering Dept @ UMass Amherst on the "intermezzo" behaviors of 2D fluid-solid composite vesicles doi.org/10.1039/D4SM00…

Close packing of anisotropic filaments favors helical geometry. New work by Ben Greenvall !

Straining the bonds that hold misfits together - New Physical Review E by Kyle describes theory of self-limitation vs. frustration escape in assemblies of curved colloidal particles doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe… BrandeisMRSEC

Excited to hear our very own Dr. Cady Coleman, Polymer Science & Engineering Dept @ UMass Amherst alum, interviewed by sean on Today, Explained! vox.com/today-explaine… #scienceinspace 👩‍🚀+🚀=🧪

Polymer Science & Engineering Dept @ UMass Amherst UMass Amherst is hosting Ph.D. program info sessions on October 24, 2024. Please register!😃 10:30-11:30am (ET) (lu.ma/me0r1l56) 7:30-8:30pm (ET) (lu.ma/74esipzg) Application fees for the Fall 2025 PhD program will be waived if you register & attend!

🔊Repost appreciated🔊Note that the application fees to the Fall 2025 UMass PSE Ph.D. program will be waived for anyone who registers & attends our info session! #PhD #Polymers #SoftMaterials

Testing, testing...is this thing on? For anyone still out there, I offer a link to Michael & Sourav's new paper on frustration meets conformal mechanical metamembranes journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1… BrandeisMRSEC