We study nanoscale pattern formation, self-assembly and phase transformations using the tools and techniques of statistical mechanics. Our work includes the development of coarse-grained models designed to identify the effect on self-assembly of specific physical mechanisms, independent of the molecular origin of such mechanisms, as well as the development of multiscale models that treat molecular detail of specific experiments. Recent work includes the development of multiscale models to understand molecular self-assembly at surfaces, and the study of self-assembly of multicomponent structures “far” from equilibrium, where we lack predictive theoretical tools.
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