Engineering synthetic materials that mimic the remarkable complexity of living organisms is a fundamental challenge in science and technology. We studied the spatiotemporal patterns that emerge when ...

(Nanowerk News) Nematic materials, such as the liquid crystals in our displays, contain molecules that align themselves in parallel. When they are constructed from microtubules and kinesins, materials ...

Liquid Crystals (LC) are widely deployed in display technology and optical fibres. From smartphones in your pockets to large screen TVs, LCs are everywhere, as this special state of matter has been ...

Researchers from multiple academic institutions collaborated on a study published last month, in which they imaged and investigated systems of active liquid crystals in three dimensions and ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Three noticeable out-of-plane microtubule bundles are misaligned with the rest of the microtubules at the bottom left of the image. Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology Three noticeable ...

I am interested in self-organization in active matter, and have been working on phase separation and wetting in active systems. I have worked on a two-fluid model to model mixtures of active species, ...

Theoretical analysis of emergence of patterns in an initially homogenous ring of chemical oscillators exhibits a multitude of patterns. The chemical reactions are modeled by the Brusselator, which is ...

My group uses theoretical and computational methods to explore the emergent behavior of active and living matter. We are current investigating the effect of activity on liquid-liquid phase separation, ...