Experimental Soft & Active Matter Lab

We use high precision real-space imaging techniques to directly probe the emergent physics in soft and active matter systems.
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Selected Recent Publications

Colloidal heat engine in a viscoelastic bath, PRL 2023
Overcoming power-efficiency trade-off in a micro heat engine, Nat. Comm. 2023
Uncovering order in disordered systems, PNAS 2023
Surface strain mediated interaction in colloidal heteroepitaxy, PRL 2022
Melting on a sphere, PNAS 2022
Glassy dynamics of active granular elliposids, PRL 2022
Colloidal heat engine in engineered reservoirs, Nat. Comm. 2021
Stereo-selective interactions in chiral active ellipsoids, Sci. Adv. 2021
Devitrification of a colloidal glass, Nat. Phys. 2021
Colloidal liquids and glasses on a sphere, Nat. Comm. 2020
Cooperative dynamics in colloidal heteroepitaxy, Sci. Adv. 2020

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