Intracellular phase transitions

The conventional view of intracellular organization is focused on the cell’s use of membrane-bound, vesicle-like organelles to compartmentalize the cytoplasm. However, in addition to these…

Fuel cells

We are interested in understanding and predicting the spatio-temporal evolution of morphologies, deformation, and damage in multiphase, multicomponent materials for energy conversion and storage under…

Phase-field crystal models

One problem of long-standing interest to our group has to do with extending the time scales of atomic scale simulations. To this end, several years…

Lipid bilayer membranes

We have also worked on other soft matter systems, specifically, (1) self-organization and non-equilibrium dynamics in lipid bilayers, (2) molecular structure and properties of lipid…