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Many preprints can be found on arXiv.

Preprints / In Press

86. Carlos Lange Bassani, Michael Engel, Amadeu Sum
    Mesomorphology of Clathrate Hydrates from Molecular Ordering
    Journal of Chemical Physics XX, XX (2024)
    Highlighted in: Cover Article
85. Michael Engel
    Point Group Analysis in Particle Simulation Data
    arXiv:2106.14846, preprint (2021)

2024

84. Nydia Roxana Varela-Rosales, Michael Engel
    Tuning the Stability of a Model Quasicrystal and its Approximants with a Periodic Substrate
    Soft Matter 20, 2915-2925 (2024)

2023

83. Afshin Nabiyan, Aswathy Muttathukattil, Federico Tomazic, David Pretzel, Ulrich S. Schubert, Michael Engel, Felix H. Schacher
    Self-Assembly of Core-Shell Hybrid Nanoparticles by Directional Crystallization of Grafted Polymers
    ACS Nano 17, 21216-21226 (2023)
    Highlighted in: Cover Article and pro-physik
82. Chrameh Fru Mbah, Junwei Wang, Silvan Englisch, Praveen Bommineni, Nydia Roxana Varela-Rosales, Erdmann Spiecker, Nicolas Vogel, Michael Engel
    Early-Stage Bifurcation of Crystallization in a Sphere
    Nature Communications 14, 5299 (2023)
81. Yi Wang, Jun Chen, Ruipeng Li, Alexander Götz, Dominik Drobek, Thomas Przybilla, Sabine Hübner, Philipp Pelz, Lin Yang, Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri, Erdmann Spiecker, Michael Engel, Xingchen Ye
    Controlled Self-Assembly of Gold Nanotetrahedra into Quasicrystals and Complex Periodic Supracrystals
    Journal of the American Chemical Society 145, 17902 (2023)
    Highlighted in: Cover Article
80. Nydia Roxana Varela-Rosales, Angel Santarossa, Michael Engel, Thorsten Pöschel
    Granular Binary Mixtures Improve Energy Dissipation Efficiency of Granular Dampers
    Granular Matter 25, 49 (2023)

2022

79. Silvan Englisch, Junwei Wang, Lukas J. Roemling, Johannes Voß, Janis Wirth, Chrameh Fru Mbah, Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri, Michael Engel, Nicolas Vogel, Erdmann Spiecker
    Crystal Structure and Defect Analysis of Colloidal Supraparticles by Lab-Based X-ray Microscopy
    Microscopy and Microanalysis 28, 306-309 (2022)
78. Sandra Bueno, Alberto Leonardi, Nabojit Kar, Kaustav Chatterjee, Xun Zhan, Changqiang Chen, Zhiyu Wang, Michael Engel, Victor Fung, Sara Skrabalak
    Quinary, Senary, and Septenary High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticle Catalysts from Core@Shell Nanoparticles and the Significance of Intraparticle Heterogeneity
    ACS Nano 16, 18873-18885 (2022)
77. Junwei Wang, Yang Liu, Silvan Englisch, Thomas Przybilla, Chrameh F. Mbah, Eric S. A. Goerlitzer, Michael Engel, Erdmann Spiecker, Inhar Imaz, Daniel Maspoch, Nicolas Vogel
    Coloration in Supraparticles Assembled from Polyhedral Metal-Organic Framework Particles
    Angewandte Chemie 61, e202117455 (2022)
76. Alberto Leonardi, Reinhard Neder, Michael Engel
    Efficient Solution of Particle Shape Functions for the Analysis of Powder Total Scattering Data
    Journal of Applied Crystallography 55, 329 (2022)

2021

75. Yang Liu, Marco Klement, Yi Wang, Yaxu Zhong, Baixu Zhu, Jun Chen, Michael Engel, Xingchen Ye
    Macromolecular Ligand Engineering for Programmable Nanoprism Assembly
    Journal of the American Chemical Society 143, 16163-16172 (2021)
    Highlighted in: JACS Spotlights
74. Marco Klement, Sangmin Lee, Joshua A. Anderson, Michael Engel
    Newtonian Event-Chain Monte Carlo and Collision Prediction with Polyhedral Particles
    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 17, 4686-4696 (2021)
73. Julia Dshemuchadse, Pablo F. Damasceno, Carolyn L. Phillips, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Moving Beyond the Constraints of Chemistry via Crystal Structure Discovery with Isotropic Multiwell Pair Potentials
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, e2024034118 (2021)
    Highlighted in: PNAS Commentary
72. Michael Engel
    Complexity Far from Equilibrium
    Inference Review 6 (2021)
71. Christian Scholz, Anton Ldov, Thorsten Pöschel, Michael Engel, Hartmut Löwen
    Surfactants and Rotelles in Active Chiral Fluids
    Science Advances 7, abf8998 (2021)
    Highlighted in: FAU Research
70. Michael Engel
    INJAVIS — INteractive JAva VISualization
    Zenodo, 4639569 (2021)
    Highlighted in: More Information
69. Kwanghwi Je, Sangmin Lee, Erin G. Teich, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Entropic Formation of a Thermodynamically Stable Colloidal Quasicrystal with Negligible Phason Strain
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, e2011799118 (2021)

2020

68. Dmitri V. Talapin, Michael Engel, Paul Braun
    Functional Materials and Devices by Self-Assembly
    MRS Bulletin 45, 799-806 (2020)
    Highlighted in: Perspective for Special Issue
67. Junwei Wang, Umair Sultan, Eric S. A. Görlitzer, Chrameh F. Mbah, Michael Engel, Nicolas Vogel
    Structural Color of Colloidal Clusters as a Tool to Investigate Structure and Dynamics
    Advanced Functional Materials 30, 1907730 (2020)
    Highlighted in: Special Issue: Assembly of Materials Building Blocks into Integrated Complex Functional Systems
66. Lei Chen, Alberto Leonardi, Jun Chen, Muhan Cao, Na Li, Dong Su, Qiao Zhang, Michael Engel, Xingchen Ye
    Imaging the Kinetics of Anisotropic Dissolution of Bimetallic Core-Shell Nanocubes using Graphene Liquid Cells
    Nature Communications 11, 3041 (2020)
    Highlighted in: Cover of NHR@FAU Annual Report
65. Praveen K. Bommineni, Marco Klement, Michael Engel
    Spontaneous Crystallization in Systems of Binary Hard Sphere Colloids
    Physical Review Letters 124, 218003 (2020)
64. Jocelyn T. L. Gamler, Alberto Leonardi, Xiahan Sang, Kallum M. Koczkur, Raymond R. Unocic, Michael Engel, Sara E. Skrabalak
    Effect of Lattice Mismatch and Shell Thickness on Strain in Core@Shell Nanocrystals
    Nanoscale Advances 2, 1105-1114 (2020)

2019

63. Junwei Wang, Chrameh F. Mbah, Thomas Przybilla, Silvan Englisch, Erdmann Spiecker, Michael Engel, Nicholas Vogel
    Free Energy Landscape of Colloidal Clusters in Spherical Confinement
    ACS Nano 13, 9005-9015 (2019)
    Highlighted in: Cover Article
62. Sangmin Lee, Erin G. Teich, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Entropic Colloidal Crystallization Pathways via Fluid-Fluid Transitions
    and Multidimensional Pre-Nucleation Motifs
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, 14843-14851 (2019)
61. Michael Engel
    The Hunt for Natural Quasicrystals
    Physics Today 72, 56-57 (2019)
60. Marco Klement, Michael Engel
    Efficient Equilibration of Hard Spheres with Newtonian Event Chains
    Journal of Chemical Physics 150, 174108 (2019)
    Highlighted in: JCP Editors’ Pick
59. Jocelyn T. L. Gamler, Alberto Leonardi, Hannah M. Ashberry, Nicholas N. Daanen, Yaroslav Losovyj, Raymond R. Unocic, Michael Engel, Sara E. Skrabalak
    Achieving Highly Durable Random Alloy Nanocatalysts through Intermetallic Cores
    ACS Nano 13, 4008-4017 (2019)
58. Praveen K. Bommineni, Nydia Roxana Varela-Rosales, Marco Klement, Michael Engel
    Complex Crystals from Size-Disperse Spheres
    Physical Review Letters 122, 128005 (2019)
    Highlighted in: PRL Editors’ Suggestion and Nature Materials News and Views and phys.org
57. Wenbo Shen, James Antonaglia, Joshua A. Anderson, Michael Engel,Greg van Anders, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Symmetries in Hard Polygon Systems Determine Plastic Colloidal Crystal Mesophases in Two Dimensions
    Soft Matter 15, 2571-2579 (2019)

2018

56. Junwei Wang, Chrameh F. Mbah, Thomas Przybilla, Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri, Erdmann Spiecker, Michael Engel, Nicolas Vogel
    Magic Number Colloidal Clusters as Minimum Free Energy Structures
    Nature Communications 9, 5259 (2018)
    Highlighted in: FAU Research and Science et Vie
55. Daphne Klotsa, Elizabeth R. Chen, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Intermediate Crystalline Structures of Colloids in Shape Space
    Soft Matter 14, 8692-8697 (2018)
    Highlighted in: Inside Front Cover
54. Alberto Leonardi, Michael Engel
    Particle Shape Control via Etching of Core-Shell Nanocrystals
    ACS Nano 12, 9186-9195 (2018)
53. Christian Scholz, Michael Engel, Thorsten Pöschel
    Rotating Robots Move Collectively and Self-Organize
    Nature Communications 9, 931 (2018)
    Highlighted in: pro-physik.de and Nature Collection “Active Matter”
52. Yunlong Zhou, Pablo F. Damasceno, Bagganahalli S. Somashekar, Michael Engel, Falin Tian, Jian Zhu, Rui Huang, Kyle Johnson, Carl McIntyre, Kai Sun, Ming Yang, Peter F. Green, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Sharon C. Glotzer, Nicholas A. Kotov
    Unusual Multiscale Mechanics of Biomimetic Nanoparticle Hydrogels
    Nature Communications 9, 181 (2018)

2017

51. M. Eric Irrgang, Michael Engel, Andrew J. Schultz, David A. Kofke, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Virial Coefficients and Equations of State for Hard Polyhedron Fluids
    Langmuir 33, 11788–11796 (2017)
50. Luis S. Froufe-Perez, Michael Engel, Juan José Saenz, Frank Scheffold
    Band Gap Formation and Anderson Localization in Disordered Photonic Materials with Structural Correlations
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, 9570-9574 (2017)
    Highlighted in: Uni Fribourg Research Story
49. Pablo F. Damasceno, Sharon C. Glotzer, Michael Engel
    Non-Close-Packed Three-Dimensional Quasicrystals
    Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 29, 234005 (2017)
    Highlighted in: Special Issue Collection “Soft quasicrystals”
48. Joshua A. Anderson, James Antonaglia, Jamie A. Millan, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Shape and Symmetry Determine Two-Dimensional Melting Transitions of Hard Regular Polygons
    Physical Review X 7, 021001 (2017)
47. Haixin Lin, Sangmin Lee, Lin Sun, Matthew Spellings, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer, Chad A. Mirkin
    Clathrate Colloidal Crystals
    Science 355, 931-935 (2017)
    Highlighted in: Science Perspective and pro-physik.de and
    Cover of “National Nanotechnology Initiative”
46. Jianxiao Gong, Richmond S. Newman, Michael Engel, Man Zhao, Fenggang Bian, Sharon C. Glotzer, Zhiyong Tang
    Shape-Dependent Ordering of Gold Nanocrystals into Large-Scale Superlattices
    Nature Communications 8, 14038 (2017)
45. Xingchen Ye, Jun Chen, M. Eric Irrgang, Michael Engel, Angang Dong, Sharon C. Glotzer, Christopher B. Murray
    Quasicrystalline Nanocrystal Superlattice with Partial Matching Rules
    Nature Materials 16, 214-219 (2017)
    Highlighted in: PennNews

2016

44. Michael A. Boles, Michael Engel, Dmitri V. Talapin
    Self-Assembly of Colloidal Nanocrystals: From Intricate Structures to Functional Materials
    Chemical Reviews 116, 11220-11289 (2016)
43. Luis S. Froufe-Perez, Michael Engel, Pablo F. Damasceno, Nicolas Muller, Jakub Haberko, Sharon C. Glotzer, Frank Scheffold
    Role of Short-Range Order and Hyperuniformity in the Formation of Band Gaps in Disordered Photonic Materials
    Physical Review Letters 117, 053902 (2016)

2015

42. Pablo F. Damasceno, Andrew S. Karas, Benjamin A. Schultz, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Controlling Chirality of Entropic Crystals
    Physical Review Letters 115, 158303 (2015)
41. Lilian C. Hsiao, Benjamin A. Schultz, Jens Glaser, Michael Engel, Megan E. Szakasits, Sharon C. Glotzer, Michael J. Solomon
    Metastable Orientational Order of Colloidal Discoids
    Nature Communications 6, 8507 (2015)
40. Matthew Spellings, Michael Engel, Daphne Klotsa, Syeda Sabrina, Aaron M. Drews, Nguyen H. P. Nguyen, Kyle J. M. Bishop, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Shape Control and Compartmentalization in Active Colloidal Cells
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, E4642-E4650 (2015)
    Highlighted in: Nature Physics Research Highlights
39. Benjamin A. Schultz, Pablo F. Damasceno, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Symmetry Considerations for the Targeted Assembly of Entropically Stabilized Colloidal Crystals via Voronoi Particles
    ACS Nano 9, 2336-2344 (2015)
38. Michael Engel, Pablo F. Damasceno, Carolyn L. Phillips, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Computational Self-Assembly of a One-Component Icosahedral Quasicrystal
    Nature Materials 14, 109-116 (2015)
    Highlighted in: Nature Materials News and Views

2014

37. Greg van Anders, N. Khalid Ahmed, Daphne Klotsa, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Understanding Shape Entropy through Local Dense Packing
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, E4812-E4821 (2014)
    Highlighted in: Nature Materials News and Views
36. Kobi Barkan, Michael Engel, Ron Lifshitz
    Controlled Self-Assembly of Periodic and Aperiodic Cluster Crystals
    Physical Review Letters 113, 098304 (2014)
    Highlighted in: Hayadan.org.il
35. Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    News&Views: A Triangular Affair
    Nature Physics 10, 185-186 (2014)
34. Elizabeth R. Chen, Daphne Klotsa, Michael Engel, Pablo F. Damasceno, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Complexity in Surfaces of Densest Packings for Families of Polyhedra
    Physical Review X 4, 011024 (2014)
    Highlighted in: Physics Synopsis and IOP Physics World
33. Nguyen H. P. Nguyen, Daphne Klotsa, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Emergent Collective Phenomena in a Mixture of Hard Shapes through Active Rotation
    Physical Review Letters 112, 075701 (2014)
32. Greg van Anders, N. Khalid Ahmed, Ross Smith, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Entropically Patchy Particles: Engineering Valence through Shape Entropy
    ACS Nano 8, 931-940 (2014)

2013

31. Kaylie L. Young, Michelle L. Personick, Michael Engel, Pablo F. Damasceno, Stacey N. Barnaby, Reiner Bleher, Tao Li, Sharon C. Glotzer, Byeongdu Lee, Chad A. Mirkin
    A Directional Entropic Force Approach to Anisotropic Nanoparticle Assembly
    Angewandte Chemie 52, 13980-13984 (2013)
30. Xingchen Ye, Jamie A. Millan, Michael Engel, Jun Chen, Benjamin T. Diroll, Sharon C. Glotzer, Christopher B. Murray
    Shape Alloys of Nanorods and Nanospheres from Self-Assembly
    Nano Letters 13, 4980-4988 (2013)
29. Joshua A. Anderson, Eric Jankowski, Thomas L. Grubb, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Massively Parallel Monte Carlo for Many-Particle Simulations on GPUs
    Journal of Computational Physics 254, 27-38 (2013)
28. Amir Haji-Akbari, Elizabeth R. Chen, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Packing and Self-Assembly of Truncated Triangular Bipyramids
    Physical Review E 88, 012127 (2013)
27. Xingchen Ye, Jun Chen, Michael Engel, Jamie A. Millan, Wenbin Li, Liang Qi, Guozhong Xing, Joshua E. Collins, Cherie R. Kagan, Ju Li, Sharon C. Glotzer, Christopher B. Murray
    Competition of Shape and Interaction Patchiness for Self-Assembling Nanoplates
    Nature Chemistry 5, 466-473 (2013)
    Highlighted in: Cover Article and MRS Bulletin
26. Michael Engel, Joshua A. Anderson, Sharon C. Glotzer, Masaharu Isobe, Etienne P. Bernard, Werner Krauth
    Hard-Disk Equation of State: First-Order Liquid-Hexatic Transition in Two Dimensions with Three Simulation Methods
    Physical Review E 87, 042134 (2013)
    Highlighted in: CNRS Actualité and Physical Review E 25th Anniversary Milestone

2012

25. Alexander Kiselev, Michael Engel, Hans-Rainer Trebin
    Confirmation of the Random Tiling Hypothesis for a Decagonal Quasicrystal
    Physical Review Letters 109, 225502 (2012)
24. Pablo F. Damasceno, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Predictive Self-Assembly of Polyhedra into Complex Structures
    Science 337, 453-457 (2012)
    Highlighted in: Science Perspective and Scientific American and others
23. Pablo F. Damasceno, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Crystalline Assemblies and Densest Packings of a Family of Truncated Tetrahedra and the Role of Directional Entropic Forces
    ACS Nano 6, 609-614 (2012)
    Highlighted in: in Nano
22. Michael Engel
    Brennpunkt: Aus Schaum gebaut
    Physik Journal 6/2012, 24-25 (2012)

2011

21. Benjamin Frigan, Alejandro Santana, Michael Engel, Daniel Schopf, Hans-Rainer Trebin, Marek Mihalkovic
    Low-Temperature Structure of ξ’-Al-Pd-Mn Optimized by Ab Initio Methods
    Physical Review B 84, 184203 (2011)
20. Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Degenerate Quasicrystal of Hard Triangular Bipyramids
    Physical Review Letters 107, 215702 (2011)
    Highlighted in: Cover Article and IOP Physics World
19. Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Phase Diagram of Hard Tetrahedra
    Journal of Chemical Physics 135, 194101 (2011)
18. Michael Engel
    Entropic Stabilization of Tunable Planar Modulated Superstructures
    Physical Review Letters 106, 095504 (2011)
17. Sharon C. Glotzer, Michael Engel
    News&Views: Complex Order in Soft Matter
    Nature 471, 309-310 (2011)
16. Michael Engel, Johannes Roth, Hans-Rainer Trebin
    Eine unmögliche Entdeckung – Nobelpreis für Quasikristalle
    Physik Journal 12/2011, 31-34 (2011)
    Highlighted in: Cover Article

2010

15. Michael Engel, Masahiro Umezaki, Hans-Rainer Trebin, Takashi Odagaki
    Dynamics of Particle Flips in Two-Dimensional Quasicrystals
    Physical Review B 82, 134206 (2010)
14. Elizabeth R. Chen, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Dense Crystalline Dimer Packings of Regular Tetrahedra
    Discrete and Computational Geometry 44, 253-280 (2010)
    Highlighted in: New York Times and SIAM News and MDMV and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and others
13. Hansjörg Lipp, Michael Engel, Steffen Sonntag, Hans-Rainer Trebin
    Phason Dynamics in One-Dimensional Lattices
    Physical Review B 81, 064302 (2010)
12. Michael Engel
    Brennpunkt: Volle Packung
    Physik Journal 9/2010, 18-19 (2010)

2009

11. Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Aaaron S. Keys, Xiaoyu Zheng, Rolfe G. Petschek, Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Sharon C. Glotzer
    Disordered, Quasicrystalline and Crystalline Phases of Densely Packed Tetrahedra
    Nature 462, 773-777 (2009)
    Highlighted in: BBC Science Image
10. Hans-Rainer Trebin, Peter Brommer, Michael Engel, Franz Gähler, Stephen Hocker, Frohmut Rösch, Johannes Roth
    Simulating Structure and Physical Properties of Complex Metallic Alloys
    in: Esther Belin-Ferré (ed.)
    Properties and Applications of Complex Intermetallics, World Scientific, 291-330 (2009)

2008

9. Michael Engel, Hans-Rainer Trebin
   Structural Complexity in Monodisperse Systems of Isotropic Particles
   Zeitschrift für Kristallographie 223, 721-725 (2008)
8. Michael Engel, Hans-Rainer Trebin
   Stability of the Decagonal Quasicrystal in the Lennard-Jones-Gauss System
   Philosophical Magazine 88, 1959-1965 (2008)
7. Marc Heggen, Michael Engel, Sergij Balanetskyy, Michael Feuerbacher, Hans-Rainer Trebin
   Structural Variations in ε-Type Al-Mn-(Pd, Fe) Complex Metallic Alloy Phases
   Philosophical Magazine 88, 507-521 (2008)
6. Michael Engel
   Dynamics and Defects of Complex Crystals and Quasicrystals: Perspectives from Simple Model Systems
   Doctoral Thesis, Universität Stuttgart (2008)

2004 – 2007

5. Michael Engel, Hans-Rainer Trebin
   Self-Assembly of Monatomic Complex Crystals and Quasicrystals with a Double-Well Interaction Potential
   Physical Review Letters 98, 225505 (2007)
4. Michael Engel, Steffen Sonntag, Hansjörg Lipp, Hans-Rainer Trebin
   Structure Factors of Harmonic and Anharmonic Fibonacci Chains by Molecular Dynamics Simulations
   Physical Review B 75, 144203 (2007)
3. Michael Engel, Hans-Rainer Trebin
   Tiling Models for Metadislocations in AlPdMn Approximants
   Philosophical Magazine 86, 979-984 (2006)
2. Michael Engel, Hans-Rainer Trebin
   A Unified Projection formalism for the Al-Pd-Mn Quasicrystal Ξ-Approximants and their Metadislocations
   Philosophical Magazine 85, 2227-2247 (2005)
1. Michael Engel
   Zur Geometrie von Phasonen und Versetzungen in Quasikristallen und ihren Approximanten
   Diplomarbeit, Universität Stuttgart (2004)