Self and Directed Assembly: Engineering Colloidal Interactions II

Presentations

• Predicting the pathways of DNA origami folding with a new mesoscopic model

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:12 AM

  Publication: Part of this work was published in "M. DeLuca, D. Duke, T. Ye, M. Poirier, Y. Ke, C. Castro, and G. Arya, "Mechanism of DNA origami folding elucidated by mesoscopic simulations," Nat Commun 15, 3015 (2024)"

  Presenters

  • Daniel Duke

    • Duke University

  Authors

  • Daniel Duke

    • Duke University

  • Gaurav Arya

    • Duke University

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• Scaling law analysis of crystals on curved surfaces

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:12 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Gokul Nair

    • Rutgers University

  Authors

  • Gokul Nair

    • Rutgers University

  • Ian Tobasco

    • University of Illinois at Chicago

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• DNA Origami Crystals: Effects of Design Parameters on Self-Assembly Kinetics

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:24 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Olusotemidayo Oyedele

    • Chemical & Biological Engineering Princeton University

  Authors

  • Olusotemidayo Oyedele

    • Chemical & Biological Engineering Princeton University

  • Myeonggon Park

  • Benjamin Rogers

  • William Jacobs

    • Princeton University

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• How crystal complexity governs nucleation, growth, and habit formation in multicomponent crystallization of DNA origami

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Myeonggon Park

    • Brandeis University

  Authors

  • Myeonggon Park

    • Brandeis University

  • W. Benjamin Rogers

  • Thomas Videbæk

    • Brandeis University

  • William Jacobs

    • Princeton University

  • Olusotemidayo Oyedele

    • Chemical & Biological Engineering Princeton University

  • Manodeep Mondal

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• Kinetically Controlled Self-assembly via Reinforcement Learning

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Sanjib Paul

    • Colorado School of Mines

  Authors

  • Sanjib Paul

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Xun Tang

  • Alexander Pak

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• Self-assembly of triply-periodic minimal surfaces from DNA-origami colloids

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Madhurima Roy

    • Brandeis University

  Authors

  • Madhurima Roy

    • Brandeis University

  • Thomas Vidabaek

  • Gregory Grason

  • William Rogers

    • Brandeis University

  • Carlos Duque

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• Aggregation mechanism in DNA functionalized gold nanoparticles in multivalent and ionic liquid environment

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Publication: Submitted for publication.

  Presenters

  • Sunita Srivastava

    • Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay (IIT)

  Authors

  • Sunita Srivastava

    • Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay (IIT)

  • Anuj Chhabra

    • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

  • Sandip Mondal

  • Prabal Maiti

  • Yugang Zhang

  • Oleg Gang

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• Simulating Thermally-Driven Crystallization of Gold Nanoparticles Under a Temperature Cycle

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Kamakshi Subramanian

    • Wellesley College

  Authors

  • Kamakshi Subramanian

    • Wellesley College

  • Seungyeon Woo

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Theodore Hueckel

    • New York Univ NYU

  • Guillermo Hernandez-Mendoza

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Robert Macfarlane

  • Rachael Skye

    • Wellesley College

  • Erin Teich

    • Wellesley College

  • Alfredo Alexander-Katz

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Self-limiting assembly of curvature-frustrated, shell colloids

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Kyle Sullivan

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Authors

  • Kyle Sullivan

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Thomas Videbaek

    • Brandeis University

  • Madhurima Roy

    • Brandeis University

  • Mark Stevens

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Benjamin Rogers

  • Gregory Grason

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

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• Mobile DNA linkers mediate the multi-stage melting and valence hierarchy of emulsion droplets

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Publication: Christian Tanner, Lucas Sixdenier, Nicholas Judd, Jasna Brujic. Mobile DNA linkers mediate the multi-stage melting and valence hierarchy of emulsion droplets. In preparation.

  Presenters

  • Christian Tanner

    • New York University

  Authors

  • Christian Tanner

    • New York University

  • Lucas Sixdenier

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Nicolas Judd

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Jasna Brujic

    • New York University (NYU)

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• Self-limited filaments via programmable geometrically-frustrated assembly

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Thomas Videbaek

    • Brandeis University

  Authors

  • Thomas Videbaek

    • Brandeis University

  • Madhurima Roy

    • Brandeis University

  • Kyle Sullivan

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Gregory Grason

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • W. Benjamin Rogers

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