Center for Complex Particle Systems (COMPASS)

Our Center establishes simple pathways to complex materials for a secure and healthy future of the nation and the world. 

By bridging the theory of graphs, physics of networks, and advances in artificial intelligence, we engineer materials as a complex system from heterogeneous interactive particles.  Advancing their design and manufacturing, we find transformative solutions for technological, medical and security challenges of today and tomorrow.

We make the complexity simple.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 2243104.

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