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Science and Mathematics

Soft Matter Seminar: “Self-Assembly Models for Crystal Growth and Phase Transitions”

September 27, 2024 at 11:00am12:00pm EDT

Physics Building, 202

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The Syracuse University Department of Physics Soft Matter Group is pleased to welcome Julia Dshemuchadse, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University.

“Self-assembly models for crystal growth and phase transitions”

How can we make new materials and better understand how their underlying structures form? The direct observation of crystal growth and transitions remains supremely challenging, but gaining insight into these fundamental processes is central to our quest of creating materials in a rational and targeted way, connecting structure to functionality. We build self-assembly models, study how they react to perturbations on the particle and system levels, and investigate their impact on crystal growth and transformation pathways. We use simple coarse-grained models to gain systematic insights into the phenomena that lead to the crystallization of complex crystal structures, partial disorder, or magic-size assemblies, allowing us to derive the essential principles that govern the formation of materials’ structures. Our goal is to use these insights to find ways to tailor crystallization pathways and to create new functional materials. Our work promises to establish new pathways to materials design through simulations, which explicitly incorporate and explore phase transformation kinetics.

This event was published on September 23, 2024.


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