Self and Directed Assembly: Engineering Colloidal Interactions II

Presentations

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

  ORAL

  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 Holmes Duke

    • Duke University

  Authors

  • Daniel Holmes Duke

    • Duke University

  • Gaurav Arya

    • Duke University

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• Scaling law analysis of crystals on curved surfaces

  ORAL

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

  Presenters

  • Gokul G Nair

    • Rutgers University

  Authors

  • Gokul G Nair

    • Rutgers University

  • Ian Tobasco

    • University of Michigan

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

  ORAL

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

  Presenters

  • Olusotemidayo I Oyedele

    • Chemical & Biological Engineering Princeton University

  Authors

  • Olusotemidayo I Oyedele

    • Chemical & Biological Engineering Princeton University

  • Myeonggon Park

    • Brandeis University

  • William B Rogers

    • Brandeis University

  • William M Jacobs

    • Princeton University

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

  ORAL

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

  Presenters

  • Myeonggon Park

    • Brandeis University

  Authors

  • Myeonggon Park

    • Brandeis University

  • William B Rogers

    • Brandeis University

  • Thomas E Videbæk

    • Brandeis University

  • William M Jacobs

    • Princeton University

  • Olusotemidayo I Oyedele

    • Chemical & Biological Engineering Princeton University

  • Manodeep Mondal

    • Brandeis university

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• Kinetically Controlled Self-assembly via Reinforcement Learning

  ORAL

  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

    • Louisiana State University

  • Alexander J Pak

    • Colorado School of Mines

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

  ORAL

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

  Presenters

  • Madhurima Roy

    • Brandeis University

  Authors

  • Madhurima Roy

    • Brandeis University

  • Thomas Vidabaek

    • Brandeis University

  • Gregory M Grason

    • UMass Amherst

  • William B Rogers

    • Brandeis University

  • Carlos M Duque

    • UMass Amherst

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

  ORAL

  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

    • IISc

  • Prabal K Maiti

    • IISc

  • Yugang Zhang

    • BNL

  • Oleg Gang

    • BNL

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

  ORAL

  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 Alejandro Hernandez-Mendoza

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Robert J Macfarlane

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Rachael Skye

    • Wellesley College

  • Erin G Teich

    • Wellesley College

  • Alfredo Alexander-Katz

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

  ORAL

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

  Presenters

  • Kyle Thomas Sullivan

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Authors

  • Kyle Thomas Sullivan

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Thomas E Videbaek

    • Brandeis University

  • Madhurima Roy

    • Brandeis University

  • Mark J Stevens

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • William B Rogers

    • Brandeis University

  • Gregory M Grason

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

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

  ORAL

  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

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

  Presenters

  • Thomas E Videbaek

    • Brandeis University

  Authors

  • Thomas E Videbaek

    • Brandeis University

  • Madhurima Roy

    • Brandeis University

  • Kyle Thomas Sullivan

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Gregory M Grason

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • William B Rogers

    • Brandeis University

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