Network Materials and Graph-Based Descriptions of Material Properties

Presentations

• Illuminating Disorder—Optical Properties of Complex Plasmonic Assemblies

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Publication: T. Paul, A. M. Green, D. J. Milliron, and T. M. Truskett, Plasmon polaritons in disordered nanoparticle assemblies. ACS Photonics 12, 5682-5696 (2025)
  W. J. Chang, B. J. Roman, T. Paul, Z. Sakotic, P. Vora, K. Kim, D. Wasserman, T. M. Truskett, and D. J. Milliron, Ultrastrong coupling by assembling plasmonic metal oxide nanocrystals in open cavities. ACS Nano 19, 12332-12344 (2025)
  Z. M. Sherman, D. J. Milliron, and T. M. Truskett, Distribution of single-particle resonances determines plasmonic response of disordered nanoparticle ensembles, ACS Nano 18, 21347–21363 (2024)
  Z. M. Sherman, J. Kang, D. J. Milliron, and T. M. Truskett, Illuminating disorder: Optical properties of complex plasmonic assemblies, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 15, 6424–6434 (2024)

  Presenters

  • Thomas Truskett

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Thomas Truskett

    • University of Michigan

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• Decoding Collective Dynamics and Complexity in Nanoparticle Assemblies via Graph Theory

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Publication: Submitted as "Decoding Collective Dynamics and Complexity in Nanoparticle Assemblies via Graph Theory" to Science, currently In Revision

  Presenters

  • Jonas Hallstrom

    • University of Michigan- Ann Arbor

  Authors

  • Jonas Hallstrom

    • University of Michigan- Ann Arbor

  • Puquan Pan

  • Jayson Sia

  • Sangwok Bae

  • Chang Qian

  • Sindy Liu

  • Lehan Yao

  • Qian Chen

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Xiaoming Mao

    • University of Michigan

  • Paul Bogdan

    • University of Southern California

  • Nicholas Kotov

    • University of Michigan

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• Adaptive energy dissipation in disordered viscoelastic rod networks

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Niranjan Sarpangala

    • University of Pennsylvania

  Authors

  • Niranjan Sarpangala

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Eleni Katifori

    • University of Pennsylvania and Flatiron Institute

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• Topological Data Analysis of Emergent Networks in Dense Suspensions under Shear

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Abhishek Bathina

    • Georgetown

  Authors

  • Abhishek Bathina

    • Georgetown

  • Emanuela Gado

    • Georgetown University

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• Predicting and designing the rheology of disordered networks with geometric deep learning

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Jordan Shivers

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Jordan Shivers

    • University of Chicago

  • Aaron Dinner

    • University of Chicago

  • Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

    • University of Chicago

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• Creation of functional solids based on nanoparticle assemblies: When the whole is more, less, or different than the sum of its parts

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Stephanie Brock

    • Wayne State University

  Authors

  • Stephanie Brock

    • Wayne State University

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• Effect of Local Topological Changes on Resistance in Tunably-Disordered Networks

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Publication: ​​​​​​​Effect of Local Topological Changes on Resistance in Tunably-Disordered Networks — manuscript in preparation with Charles E. Maher and Katherine A. Newhall.

  Presenters

  • Chenxi Wang

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Authors

  • Chenxi Wang

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Katherine Newhall

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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• Self-Organization of Structured Fluids into Condensate Networks

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Hamed Almohammadi

    • University of Pennsylvania

  Authors

  • Hamed Almohammadi

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Arnold Mathijssen

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Chinedum Osuji

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Topological control of mechanical response in polymer networks

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Ahmet Burak Yildirim

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Ahmet Burak Yildirim

    • Northwestern University

  • Akash Arora

    • Dow Chemical Company

  • Dongchan Ahn

  • Sinan Keten

    • Northwestern University

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• Topological Mechanics of Entangled Networks

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:48 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17813

  Presenters

  • Juntao Huang

    • University of Delaware

  Authors

  • Juntao Huang

    • University of Delaware

  • Jiabin Liu

    • Michigan State University

  • Shaoting Lin

    • Michigan State University

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• Graph-Theoretical Analysis of Structural Evolution in Conducting Polymer Networks

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 3:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Itai Silber

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Han Zhang

    • University of Michigan

  • Itai Silber

    • University of Michigan

  • Sonu Sunny

  • Mohit Garg

  • Igor Zozoulenko

    • Linkoping University

  • Sarbani Ghosh

  • Nicholas Kotov

    • University of Michigan

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