Recent News

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)!

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!

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!

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

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!

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!

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.  

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!

Chao-Min Huang and Sebastian Sensale join our research team

Dr. Chao-Min Huang and Dr. Sebastian Sensale join our lab as a Postdoctoral Fellows. Chao-Min obtained his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University working with Prof. Carlos Castro and Prof. Haijun Su. In his PhD, he developed a new CAD software for designing complex and…

Arya lab part of NSF-MRSEC center

Arya lab is now part of the NSF-funded materials research center at UCSD. He and his team will build computational tools for understanding, predicting, and designing nanoscale building blocks that dynamically assemble into complex mesoscale architectures with novel and emergent properties

Arya lab awarded a DOE grant

Arya lab along with the Tao and Ye labs at UC Merced and Emory have been awarded a DOE grant to develop new ways to steer the self-assembly pathways of complex hierarchical DNA structures through interfacial interactions.

NSF graduate research fellowship to Marcello

Many congratulations to Marcello DeLuca for getting awarded the prestigious NSF graduate research fellowship!

Jiuling's work gets accepted for publication in Nanoscale

Jiuling's work on kinetic assembly of binary systems of nanoparticles leading to fractal networks with diverse morphologies just got accepted for publication in Nanoscale. Congrats, Jiuling!

New collaborative paper in PNAS

Jiuling's collaborative paper with the Delaire group just got accepted for publication in PNAS! This work demonstrates for the first time that the ultralow thermal conductivity of the superionic conductor AgCrSe2 arises from strong phonon anharmonicity and disorder in the Ag sublattice…

Ze's work just got accepted for publication in NAR

Ze's work on elucidating the molecular-thermodynamic basis of salt-actuated reconfigurable DNA nanodevices just got accepted for publication in Nucleic Acids Research. Congrats, Ze!