Designing materials from nanoscale building blocks
We design materials from self-assembled nanoparticles to create new collective properties and functions.
By controlling how nanoscale building blocks organize, we explore how structure gives rise to emergent behavior, light–matter interaction, and responsive materials.
From disordered building blocks to ordered materials with emergent properties.
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Research
Assembly
Understanding how nanoparticles organize into ordered materials and how different assembly pathways lead to distinct structures.
Light–matter interaction
Designing microscale resonators that confine and amplify light, enabling lasing and sensing at extremely small scales.
Responsive materials
Creating hierarchical materials that adapt their structure and properties in response to external stimuli.
Why this matters
By linking structure to function across length scales, we aim to design materials with new capabilities for sensing, energy, and adaptive systems—where properties emerge from organization rather than individual components.
Join us
We are always interested in motivated students who enjoy hands-on work, open-ended problems, and building new materials from the ground up.
If you are interested, explore our research and get in touch.