Welcome Kaijie
Kaijie Zhao joined the group as a PhD student. He will be conducting research on the self-assembly and phase transition of particle-based materials. Welcome!
Engel Lab
Kaijie Zhao joined the group as a PhD student. He will be conducting research on the self-assembly and phase transition of particle-based materials. Welcome!
We would like to announce the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics (KITP) conference entitled:
Structure Design and Emerging Phenomena in Nanoparticle Assemblies: What’s next?
Time: May 15-18, 2023
Location: University of California, Santa Barbara
Registration deadline: April 16, 2023
The conference aims to provide a coherent view of the current state of the field, bringing together researchers with different expertise and backgrounds. It should catalyze the development of new methods, both theoretical, computational and experimental, and define the basic science in this field.
More information can be found at: https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/nanoassembly-c23
The workshop organizers
Michael Engel, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Laura Na Liu, Universität Stuttgart
Monica Olvera, Northwestern University
Eran Rabani, University of California, Berkeley
Alex Travesset, Iowa State University
Navid Panchi joined the group as a PhD student. He will be conducting research on data driven methods for crystal structure analysis. Welcome!
Carlos Lange Bassani received a Humboldt Research Followship. The Humboldt Fellowship allows researchers from abroad in all disciplines to carry out their own long-term research project in collaboration with an academic host of their choice at a research institution in Germany.
The faculty of engineering highlighted the prestigous award with a Research Profile.
Congratulations!
Our lab will participate again at this year’s long night of science (open door to the university).
Visit us on south campus this Saturday, May 21 from 18h to 24h and learn about other activities at: https://nacht-der-wissenschaften.de/
Thanks to Navid Panchi, Federico Tomazic, and Nydia Varela-Rosales for javascript/html5 coding and the design of the demos!
Check out the simulation tool here:
Interactive Particle Simulations for LN ’22
We* are coordinating a program at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara in the period Mar 27, 2023 — May 19, 2023 on the topic nanoparticle assemblies. Applications can still be entered here:
Nanoparticle Assemblies: A New Form of Matter with Classical Structure and Quantum Function
*Coordinators: Michael Engel, Laura Na Liu, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Eran Rabani, and Alex Travesset
Materials whose elementary building blocks are nanoparticles with dimensions between a few and hundred nanometers, such as nanocrystals and colloids, instead of atoms or molecules, provide a new form of matter, with many properties, both in structure and function, that are not achievable with traditional materials. This raises a number of new fundamental questions such as:
The program will bring together scientists from diverse communities: physicists, chemists and material scientists in an effort to address the emerging fundamental questions and long-term prospects of this young field. It will develop collaborative efforts in the areas of programmable assembly, structure prediction, inverse methods, electronic properties and new functional materials, with the goal of becoming a reference for the exciting future ahead.
Carlos Lange Bassani joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. He will be conducting research on porous materials using multiscale simulation. Welcome!
On January 15, 2022 at 04:15h UTC (05:15h Berlin time CET), an M 5.8 volcanic eruption occurred on Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, an uninhabited volcanic island of the Tongan archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean. The eruption was one of the largest underwater volcanic eruption in decades. The explosion was so massive it sent shockwaves around the world.
More than half a day later, we measured the air pressure wave in Erlangen, first as a compression wave of amplitude 1.4 hPa at 20:32h CET and then as a decompression wave of amplitude -0.7 hPa at 02:32h CET. The second wave traveled in opposite direction and took a few hours longer to reach Erlangen.
Pretty awesome how our two simple barometric pressure sensors can clearly detect major volcanic events around the globe!
For the outreach event “Gscheid Schlau”, Navid Panchi, Nydia Varela Rosales, and Federico Tomazic developed an interactive applet that allows experiencing how chromatography works. Play with different parameters to improve separation efficiency!
Further information is found in the video here.
Check out the simulation tool here:
Chromatography Simulation Tool