The 104th New England Complex Fluids Workshop at Brandeis was a wonderful experience to share science and catch up with colleagues! A huge thank you to the E Ink Corporation for helping the MRSEC sponsor this event!

Congrats to Brandeis MRSEC research scientist Thomas Videbæk and co-authors on their publication in PNAS! In it they examine how fluctuations in pairs of self-assembling nanoparticles can be used to predict larger-scale assembly outcomes. You can read their paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Brandeis MRSEC had a strong showing at the Gordon Research Conference on Soft Condensed Matter Physics this month! While we couldn't take pictures of the cutting-edge science, we could take pictures of the delicious food.

Everyone had a blast at the MRSEC field trip to Great Brook Farm State Park! We had a nice nature walk around Meadow Pond and devoured some scrumptious ice cream afterward 🍦

We are loving the new Tundra Cryo TEM in Brandeis' Electron Microscopy Center! MRSEC researchers are already using it to study the binding-angle flexibility of vertex-bound DNA-origami dimers.

Thank you to MRSEC member Annemarie Winters for her science outreach pizza talk at our local Waltham High School. She presented her research journey spanning soft matter physics, material science and tissue biophysics! #BrandeisMRSEC #Waltham

Applications are now open for Brandeis MRSEC's Introduction to Microfluidics Technology from June 9-13, 2025! This course will introduce you to the microfabrication technologies used to build microfluidic devices. Sign up here www.brandeis.edu/mrsec/events... #BrandeisMRSEC

New Publication 🚨 : Layne Frechette shows how active matter, which consumes energy to create persistent and directed motion, can be harnessed to create dynamic assemblies with tunable sizes, shapes, and motion. Check it out : arxiv.org/abs/2410.05555 #ActiveMatter #SelfAssembly #BrandeisMRSEC

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