Congratulations to Dr. Ahyoung Kim, former member of our center, awarding the Inaugural Caltech-Kavli Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow! Her research aims to develop nanomaterials as wireless acoustic nanorobots for applications in bioelectric medicine and...

Dr. Samuel Chigome presented the collaboration with COMPASS as an powerful engine for advancement of entrepreneurship in advanced materials and technologies at the African entrepreneurial Universities conference in Nyeri, Kenya.  

Kody Whisnant and Alain Kadar have been awarded from 2024 BI Research Day! Congratulations!

A team of Prof. Kotov had a lot of fun kicking off the 'Complex Particle Design and Applications' session of the 2024 UMich Chemical Engineering Graduate Symposium, discussing the work in Kotov Lab to quantify the structural complexity of network materials using a...

The team of Prof. Lahann and Prof. Pena-Francesch have developed a flexible screen inspired by squids that can store and display encrypted images using magnetic fields instead of electronics. This innovative device allows images to be revealed publicly with a standard...

Assistant Professor Prashant Kumar, a part of COMPASS last year, has been recognized as a winner of the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (TR35) Asia-Pacific 2024 award. This prestigious honour celebrates the top 35 innovators under age 35 making a significant...

Polymer filtration films are used in water purification to separate impurities from drinking water. My research investigates how the films’ irregular architecture (i.e., structure and thickness) affects how well they work. Here, 3D renderings of polymer films resemble...

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Join us in congratulating our fearless leader on being named the prestigious ACS 2025 Peter Debye Award recipient! Prof. Sharon Glotzer is recognized for her innovative contributions to the theory, modeling, and simulation of colloidal particles for self-assembly.

The Foundations of Molecular Modeling & Simulation Conference recently awarded Prof. Sharon Glotzer the FOMMS Medal for her fundamental contributions to the development of computational methods for particle assembly. The FOMMS Medal is presented triannually to...