Recent News

September 15, 2020

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…

July 20, 2020

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

May 25, 2020

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.

March 31, 2020

NSF graduate research fellowship to Marcello

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

February 15, 2020

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!

January 9, 2020

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. Many…

November 19, 2019

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!

October 29, 2019

Supercomputing award on Anton-2

Joshua's project on viral DNA packaging just got awarded 110,000 SUs on Anton-2, the world's fastest supercomputer for performing MD simulations. Congrats, Josh!!!

October 15, 2019

Marcello's review article gets accepted for publication

Marcello's review article mapping out the recent progress and continuing challenges in dynamic DNA nanotechnology just got accepted for publication in Nanoscale Horizons. Congrats, Marcello!

August 23, 2019

Review article accepted for publication

A review article that Gaurav co-wrote with Dario Meluzzi on computational approaches for inferring 3D conformations of chromatin from Hi-C data just got accepted for publication in Methods. Congrats!

August 20, 2019

Joshua's walker-B work just got accepted for publication

Joshua's new paper on functional dissection of a viral DNA packaging machine's Walker-B motif (in collaboration with Catalano, Feiss, and Smith labs) just got accepted for publication in JMB. Congrats, Josh!

August 16, 2019

Brian's new paper on nanoparticle assembly appears online

Brian's new paper elucidating the orientational phase behavior of polymer-grafted nanocubes just appeared online in Nanoscale! Congrats, Brian!

August 1, 2019

Another grant awarded to Arya lab

Arya lab is awarded the prestigious NSF DMREF grant to develop robotic nanodevices that can sense their microenvironment and to assemble the devices into larger systems capable of transmitting sensed signals or driving macroscopic collective behaviors. This work will be carried out in…

July 15, 2019

Arya lab is awarded an EFRI grant

Arya lab is awarded a prestigious Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) grant from NSF to develop DNA based nanodevices for chromatin targeting, visualization, and engineering (in collaboration with researchers at Ohio State, U Penn, and U Strasbourg).

June 1, 2019

Megan Ogle joins our lab

Megan Ogle joins our lab as a summer research volunteer through the REU program. She is currently a junior at UNC Charlotte, where she is pursuing a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering. She will work with Joshua on the viral DNA packaging project. Welcome to Duke!