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Tiny Nano-Edges Unlock Big Advances in Programmable Nanomaterials
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,...
László Barabási Receives the 2026 Euler Award at NetSci’s 20th Anniversary Conference
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...
COMPASS Researcher Amaan Mohammad Receives Best Poster Award at the 249th ECS Meeting
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...
New Research from COMPASS Decodes the “Goldilocks Zone” of Nanoparticle Assemblies Using Graph Theory
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...
VetIF Fellow Andres Carrillo to Graduate an Join VetAP
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...
VetIF Fellow Recognized in the Lab and in the Field
Casey Chason, VetIF Fellow and member of the Velev Lab (NCState) and US Army Research Combat Engineer, recently received awards for his research and his contribution to operational excellence. In March 2026 he attended the TechConnect World Innovation Conference as an...
Congratulations to our fellows Jebril Thaxton and Olubukola Akinbami!
In Dec. 2025 they became the first of our fellows to graduate. Jebril has taken a PhD student appointment with the University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering with a focus on optics and photonics. He is also the recipient of the prestigious Rackham...
COMPASS Showcases Leadership in Complex Materials at APS Global Physics Summit
COMPASS: Center for Complex Particle Systems played a leading role at the APS Global Physics Summit, hosting two highly attended tutorials and contributing to a featured session on complex particles. Organized by Professors Xiaoming Mao and Nicholas Kotov, the...
COMPASS Represents Michigan Engineering at the President’s Symposium for Research Impact
COMPASS: Center for Complex Particle Systems was honored to represent the University of Michigan College of Engineering at this year’s President’s Symposium for Research Impact and Policy Leadership—an event that celebrates research driving meaningful change in...
Join Us in Celebrating Our Newest PhD: Dr. Jamadgni.
We are thrilled to celebrate Dhanush’s graduation from North Carolina State University, where he has been a cornerstone of Prof. Martin Thuo’s lab and a vital member of the COMPASS ecosystem. Dhanush’s doctoral research is a powerful example of the COMPASS...
Accelerating Protein–Protein Interaction Discovery with Graph Theory and Deep Learning
Center for Complex Particle Systems researchers have developed a faster, more accessible way to analyze protein–protein interactions (PPIs) by combining graph theory (GT) with deep learning (DL). Their newly published open-access study in Advanced Intelligent...
Unveiling the Invisible
Dr. Yash Boyjoo completed a research fellowship at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (USA), funded by the COMPASS–CERA program. Working with Junseo Lee in Prof. Qian Chen’s laboratory, he used state-of-the-art X‑ray tomography and electron microscopy to...