by COMPASS | Jun 26, 2026 | Center News
Nature often provides the best blueprint for innovation. Proteins, the molecular machines that power life, owe their remarkable abilities to precisely organized patterns on their surfaces. These intricate surface features allow proteins to fold, recognize one another,...
by COMPASS | Jun 8, 2026 | Awards, Center News
COMPASS is pleased to congratulate László Barabási on receiving the 2026 Euler Award, the highest recognition presented by the Network Science Society. Awarded annually, the Euler Award honors a network scientist whose research has fundamentally advanced the field...
by COMPASS | May 29, 2026 | Awards, Center News
COMPASS researcher Amaan Mohammad has received a Best Poster Award at the 249th ECS Meeting in Seattle for his presentation titled Aramid Nanofiber Binders for Sustainable Dry Cathodes. The award was presented as part of Symposium A03 and recognizes poster...
by COMPASS | May 15, 2026 | Center News
Graph curvature measures quantify disorder and complexity for self-assembled particle systems.NP assemblies can be viewed as a series of graphs or networks in which nodes represent NPs and edges represent strong interparticle interactions. ORC and AFRC can be found...
by COMPASS | Apr 22, 2026 | VetIN News
Andres Carrillo is a former USMC scout sniper that joined the VetIF program in 2025 as a computer science major at UIUC. Since then, he has been working to research the relationships between graph theory minimalism, network topology, and materials topography while...
