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Patchy Particles Design: From Floppy Modes to Sloppy Dimensions
Gregory Snyder, Chrisy Xiyu Du
Patchy particles have proven to be a prominent model for studying the self-assembly behavior of various systems, ranging from finite clusters to bulk crystal assemblies, and from s…
The Future of Artificial Intelligence and the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (AI+MPS)
Andrew Ferguson, Marisa LaFleur, Lars Ruthotto +97
This community paper developed out of the NSF Workshop on the Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Mathematical and Physics Sciences (MPS), which was held in March 2025 w…
A snapshot review on soft-materials assembly design utilizing machine learning methods
Maya M. Martirossyan, Hongjin Du, Julia Dshemuchadse +1
Since the surge of data in materials science research and the advancement in machine learning methods, an increasing number of researchers are introducing machine learning techniqu…
Proofreading mechanism for colloidal self-assembly
Qian-Ze Zhu, Chrisy Xiyu Du, Ella M. King +1
Designing components that can robustly self-assemble into structures with biological complexity is a grand challenge for material science. Proofreading and error correction is requ…
Programmable patchy particles for materials design
Ella M. King, Chrisy Xiyu Du, Qian-Ze Zhu +2
Direct design of complex functional materials would revolutionize technologies ranging from printable organs to novel clean energy devices. However, even incremental steps towards…
Programming Interactions in Magnetic Handshake Materials
Chrisy Xiyu Du, Hanyu Alice Zhang, Tanner Pearson +4
The ability to rapidly manufacture building blocks with specific binding interactions is a key aspect of programmable assembly. Recent developments in DNA nanotechnology and colloi…
FCC-to-BCC phase transitions in convex and concave hard particle systems
Duanduan Wan, Chrisy Xiyu Du, Greg van Anders +1
Particle shape plays an important role in the phase behavior of colloidal self-assembly. Recent progress in particle synthesis has made particles of polyhedral shapes and dimpled s…
Shape Driven Solid--Solid Transitions in Colloids
Chrisy Xiyu Du, Greg van Anders, Richmond S. Newman +1
Despite the fundamental importance of solid--solid transitions for metallurgy, ceramics, earth science, reconfigurable materials, and colloidal matter, the details of how materials…