how do living systems create resilient, tunable, active materials?
what are the design rules that govern their emergent properties?
how do active systems harness noise across scales for self-organization and multifunctionality?
These questions underlie our eclectic research program that broadly aims to discover the microscale mechanics and macromolecular dynamics in bio-inspired soft and active matter systems and biopolymer networks. We probe these systems across broad spatiotemporal scales and from steady-state to far from equilibrium by engineering novel optical tweezers, microscopy and image analysis techniques. Inspired by the complexity of biological cells and fluids, we also design entangled, crowded, heterogeneous, topologically-distinct, and non-equilibrium biopolymer composites to address critical questions in soft matter, active matter, and polymer physics.
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