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Many preprints can be found on arXiv.
Preprints / In Press
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Carlos L. Bassani, Michael Engel
Kinetically Trapped Nanocrystals with Symmetry-Preserving Shapes
arXiv:2410.09787 (2024) -
Michael Engel
Point Group Analysis in Particle Simulation Data
arXiv:2106.14846 (2021) -
Nydia Roxana Varela-Rosales, Michael Engel
Computational Self-Assembly of a Six-Fold Chiral Quasicrystal
Soft Matter xxx, xxx (2024)
2024
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Federico Tomazic, Aswathy Muttathukattil, Afshin Nabiyan, Felix Schacher, Michael Engel
Geometric Frustration Directs the Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles with Crystallized Ligand Bundles
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 128, 11258−11266 (2024) -
Chuqiao Shi, Zhihua Cheng, Alberto Leonardi, Yao Yang, Michael Engel, Matthew R. Jones, Yimo Han
Preserving Surface Strain in Nanocatalysts via Morphology Control
Science Advances 10, eadp378 (2024)
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Carlos L. Bassani, Greg van Anders, Uri Banin, Dmitry Baranov, Qian Chen, Marjolein Dijkstra, Michael S. Dimitriyev, Efi Efrati, Jordi Faraudo, Oleg Gang, Nicola Gaston, Ramin Golestanian, G. Ivan Guerrero-Garcia, Michael Gruenwald, Amir Haji-Akbari, Maria Ibáñez, Matthias Karg, Tobias Kraus, Byeongdu Lee, Reid C. Van Lehn, Robert J. Macfarlane, Bortolo M. Mognetti, Arash Nikoubashman, Saeed Osat, Oleg V. Prezhdo, Grant M. Rotskoff, Leonor Saiz, An-Chang Shi, Sara Skrabalak, Ivan I. Smalyukh, Mario Tagliazucchi, Dmitri V. Talapin, Alexei V. Tkachenko, Sergei Tretiak, David Vaknin, Asaph Widmer-Cooper, Gerard C.L. Wong, Xingchen Ye, Shan Zhou, Eran Rabani, Michael Engel, Alex Travesset
Nanocrystal Assemblies: Current Advances and Open Problems
ACS Nano 18, 14791-14840 (2024)
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Carlos Lange Bassani, Michael Engel, Amadeu K. Sum
Mesomorphology of Clathrate Hydrates from Molecular Ordering
The Journal of Chemical Physics 160, 190901 (2024)
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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
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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)
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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) -
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)
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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
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Sandra L.A. Bueno, Alberto Leonardi, Nabojit Kar, Kaustav Chatterjee, Xun Zhan, Changqiang Chen, Zhiyu Wang, Michael Engel, Victor Fung, Sara E. 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) -
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) -
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) -
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
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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)
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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) -
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)
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Christian Scholz, Anton Ldov, Thorsten Pöschel, Michael Engel, Hartmut Löwen
Surfactants and Rotelles in Active Chiral Fluids
Science Advances 7, abf8998 (2021)
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Michael Engel
INJAVIS — INteractive JAva VISualization
Zenodo 4639569 (2021)
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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
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Dmitri V. Talapin, Michael Engel, Paul Braun
Functional Materials and Devices by Self-Assembly
MRS Bulletin 45, 799-806 (2020)
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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)
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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)
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Praveen K. Bommineni, Marco Klement, Michael Engel
Spontaneous Crystallization in Systems of Binary Hard Sphere Colloids
Physical Review Letters 124, 218003 (2020) -
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
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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) -
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)
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Michael Engel
The Hunt for Natural Quasicrystals
Physics Today 72, 56-57 (2019) -
Marco Klement, Michael Engel
Efficient Equilibration of Hard Spheres with Newtonian Event Chains
The Journal of Chemical Physics 150, 174108 (2019) -
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) -
Praveen K. Bommineni, Nydia Roxana Varela-Rosales, Marco Klement, Michael Engel
Complex Crystals from Size-Disperse Spheres
Physical Review Letters 122, 128005 (2019)
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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
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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)
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Alberto Leonardi, Michael Engel
Particle Shape Control via Etching of Core-Shell Nanocrystals
ACS Nano 12, 9186-9195 (2018) -
Christian Scholz, Michael Engel, Thorsten Pöschel
Rotating Robots Move Collectively and Self-Organize
Nature Communications 9, 931 (2018)
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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) -
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
2017
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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) -
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) -
Pablo F. Damasceno, Sharon C. Glotzer, Michael Engel
Non-Close-Packed Three-Dimensional Quasicrystals
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 29, 234005 (2017)
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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) -
Haixin Lin, Sangmin Lee, Lin Sun, Matthew Spellings, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer, Chad A. Mirkin
Clathrate Colloidal Crystals
Science 355, 931-935 (2017)
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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)
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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)
2016
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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) -
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
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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) -
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) -
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)
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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) -
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
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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 -
Kobi Barkan, Michael Engel, Ron Lifshitz
Controlled Self-Assembly of Periodic and Aperiodic Cluster Crystals
Physical Review Letters 113, 098304 (2014)
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Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
News&Views: A Triangular Affair
Nature Physics 10, 185-186 (2014) -
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) -
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) -
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: APS Physics Synopsis
2013
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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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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)
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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: Physical Review E 25th Anniversary Milestone
2012
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Alexander Kiselev, Michael Engel, Hans-Rainer Trebin
Confirmation of the Random Tiling Hypothesis for a Decagonal Quasicrystal
Physical Review Letters 109, 225502 (2012) -
Pablo F. Damasceno, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
Predictive Self-Assembly of Polyhedra into Complex Structures
Science 337, 453-457 (2012)
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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
2011
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Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
Phase Diagram of Hard Tetrahedra
The Journal of Chemical Physics 135, 194101 (2011) -
Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
Degenerate Quasicrystal of Hard Triangular Bipyramids
Physical Review Letters 107, 215702 (2011)
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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) -
Sharon C. Glotzer, Michael Engel
News&Views: Complex Order in Soft Matter
Nature 471, 309-310 (2011) -
Michael Engel
Entropic Stabilization of Tunable Planar Modulated Superstructures
Physical Review Letters 106, 095504 (2011) -
Michael Engel, Johannes Roth, Hans-Rainer Trebin
Eine unmögliche Entdeckung
Physik Journal 10, 31-34 (2011)
Highlighted in: Cover Article
2010
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Michael Engel, Masahiro Umezaki, Hans-Rainer Trebin, Takashi Odagaki
Dynamics of Particle Flips in Two-Dimensional Quasicrystals
Physical Review B 82, 134206 (2010) -
Elizabeth R. Chen, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer
Dense Crystalline Dimer Packings of Regular Tetrahedra
Discrete and Computational Geometry 44, 253-280 (2010)
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Hansjörg Lipp, Michael Engel, Steffen Sonntag, Hans-Rainer Trebin
Phason Dynamics in One-Dimensional Lattices
Physical Review B 81, 064302 (2010)
2009
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Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Aaron 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)
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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
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Michael Engel, Hans-Rainer Trebin
Structural Complexity in Monodisperse Systems of Isotropic Particles
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie 223, 721-725 (2008) -
Michael Engel, Hans-Rainer Trebin
Stability of the Decagonal Quasicrystal in the Lennard-Jones-Gauss System
Philosophical Magazine 88, 1959-1965 (2008) -
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) -
Michael Engel
Dynamics and Defects of Complex Crystals and Quasicrystals: Perspectives from Simple Model Systems
Doctoral Thesis, Universität Stuttgart (2008)
2004 – 2007
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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) -
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) -
Michael Engel, Hans-Rainer Trebin
Tiling Models for Metadislocations in AlPdMn Approximants
Philosophical Magazine 86, 979-984 (2006) -
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) -
Michael Engel
Zur Geometrie von Phasonen und Versetzungen in Quasikristallen und ihren Approximanten
Diplomarbeit, Universität Stuttgart (2004)