Recent News

December 15, 2022

Yilong's latest work on the development of a global optimization method for discovering novel 2D binary nanoparticle superlattices assembled at fluid-fluid interfaces just got accepted for publication in Nature Communications.

October 20, 2022

Pranav and Sebastian's collaborative work with the Wang and Ke groups just got accepted for publication in Science Advances. In this work, they carried out coarse-grained MD simulations to predict the conformational behavior of a bistable dynamic device with encodable bonds.

October 8, 2022

Po-An's collaborative paper with the Cohen group just got accepted for publication in ACS Nano. In this work, Po-An used MD simulations to predict the assembly behavior of octahedral, polymer-grafted MOF particles trapped at an air-water interface. Congrats, Po-An!

July 20, 2022

Joshua's latest work that uncovers the mechanism of DNA translocation by the bacterial motor FtsK using a combination of long timescale molecular dynamics simulations, free energy calculations, and mutual information analyses just got accepted for publication in Nucleic Acids Journal. [...]

July 1, 2022

Dr. Sebastian Sensale accepts offer to join Cleveland State University as tenure-track Assistant Professor in their Department of Physics. Fantastic news and congratulations on this new exciting position, Sebastian!

May 24, 2022

Josh's collaborative paper with the Silva group at Duke just appeared in Cell Reports. In this work, Josh used docking calculations to predict for the first time two possible binding poses of the enzyme Rad6 responsible for K63-ubiquitination of ribosome, a key player in the oxidative [...]

April 19, 2022

Yilong's manuscript showing how trapping surface-functionalized faceted nanoparticles at fluid-fluid interfaces could be a viable strategy for assembling low-dimensional superstructures with controllable particle orientation got accepted for publication in ACS Nano.

April 6, 2022

Sebastian's and Pranav's manuscript on derivation of a new analytical theory for predicting the binding kinetics of harmonically confined random walkers, and application of the theory to maximize the communication speed of DNA walkers, just got accepted for publication in Physical Review E.

March 21, 2022

Marcello's poster titled "Modelling the Dynamic Self Assembly of DNA Nanostructures Using a Switchable Forcefield Coarse Grained Model" won the 2nd Best Poster Award at the APS DSOFT poster session. Congratulations, Marcello!!

February 19, 2022

Brian's latest work on uncovering the assembly pathway of ligand-grafted nanocubes just got accepted for publication in Nanoscale. Many congratulations, Brian!

December 6, 2021

Dr. Jiuling Wang, a former postdoc in the group, just joined the School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology as a tenure-track faculty. Wonderful news and congratulations on this new exciting position, Jiuling!

July 22, 2021

Chao-Min's collaborative work with the Zauscher and Ke labs on developing polymer brush-functionalized DNA origami structures just got accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie. Many congratulations, Chao-Min!

July 14, 2021

Brian's theoretical model elucidating how the twist-stretch coupling of double-stranded DNA can be exploited to create reconfigurable chiral assemblies of nanorods just got accepted for publication in ACS Nano. Wonderful news and many congratulations, Brian!

July 12, 2021

Marcello's review article entitled "Dynamic DNA nanotechnology: toward functional nanoscale devices" published in Nanoscale Horizons last year has won the "Nanoscale Horizons Outstanding Review 2020 [...]

June 18, 2021

Joshua's trilogy of papers elucidating the inner workings of a viral DNA packaging motor get highlighted by Duke's Pratt School of Engineering as well as various media outlets, including [...]

June 10, 2021

Joshua Pajak from Arya lab successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Many congratualations, Dr. Pajak!!

June 9, 2021

Jiuling's work on elucidating the atomistic mechanism underlying non-Arrhenius ion transport in the superionic conductor AgCrSe2 just got accepted for publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Many congratulations, Jiuling!

April 25, 2021

Joshua's heavy-duty computational work on elucidating the atomistic basis of force generation, DNA translocation, and inter-subunit coordination in the viral genome packaging motor phi28 just got accepted for publication in Nucleic Acids Research. Many congratulations to Josh!

March 25, 2021

Brian successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Many congratualations, Brian (or should we say Dr. Lee)!!

March 25, 2021

Gaurav has been promoted to Full Professor. Congratulations to him and his team (without whom this would not be possible)!

March 19, 2021

Joshua's work on elucidating the molecular mechanism by which viral DNA packaging motors couple ATP binding to DNA gripping, and ATP hydrolysis to DNA release just got accepted for publication in PNAS. Many congratulations, Josh!

March 10, 2021

Yilong's collaborative work with the Varghese lab on designing a soft robot that mimics the dragonfly just got accepted in Advanced Intelligent Systems. Many congratulations Yilong!

February 27, 2021

Our research work got featured on a Pratt story on how AI, machine learning, and computations are being deployed to accelerate the development of new high-performance materials. Writing New Recipes for High [...]

February 23, 2021

Joshua's collaborative paper with Morais and Jardine groups on the cryo-EM reconstruction of the DNA packaging motor of phage phi29 just got accepted for publication in Science Advances! Congrats, Josh!

January 22, 2021

Chao-Min's collaborative work with the Ke group on modeling  programmable transformations in DNA origami made of small modular dynamic units just got accepted for publication in JACS! Congrats to Chao-Min!