Recent News

July 14, 2021

Brian's paper accepted in ACS Nano

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 wins award

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" award from the journal. Congrats Marcello on this wonderful accomplishment!

June 18, 2021

Joshua's work get's highlighted

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 NSF News. Congrats Joshua!

June 10, 2021

Joshua defends his PhD thesis

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

June 9, 2021

Jiuling's new paper in ACS Applied Energy Materials

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 new publication in NAR

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 defends his PhD thesis

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

March 25, 2021

Gaurav promoted to Full Professor

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 gets accepted for publication in PNAS

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 paper in Advanced Intelligent Systems

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

Arya lab featured on a Pratt story on AI and computations

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-Performance Materials

February 23, 2021

Joshua's paper in Science Advances

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 paper in JACS

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!

November 20, 2020

Brian's work gets highlighted on Pratt news

Predicting Forces between Oddly Shaped Nanoparticles: Brian's work on developing the first-ever analytical model of the vdW interaction potential between faceted nanoparticles got highighted by Pratt Engineering news and various other popular science media outlets.  

October 30, 2020

Brian's new paper in Nanoscale Horizons

Brian's manuscript on developing the first-ever analytical model of the van der Waals interaction potential between faceted nanoparticles just got accepted for publication in Nanoscale Horizons. Many congratulations, Brian!