Interested in geometry, mechanics, fiberous materials, or MathArt? I'll be talking about our work (conducted with Greg Grason) on dense helical filaments today at APS March Meeting in session S34 (Knots and Tangles) at 9:48ct in room 102F!

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