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Welcome to the world of soft matter! Soft matter is an umbrella term for a variety of seemingly
disparate materials, which, for example, include liquid crystals, colloids and polymers, yet
sharing certain common features.
With expertise in computation and theory, our research is currently focused on optimally
designing soft advanced materials for addressing sustainability issues and devising strategies
for their scalable fabrication that exploits self-assembly routes for a range of building blocks,
from molecular to microscale. We are particularly interested in designing novel photonic, phononic,
mechanical and opto-electronic materials for sensing, lasing and energy harvesting.
We are also interested in developing fundamental understanding of
experimentally observed phenomena in soft materials. In the pursuit of developing soft advanced
materials by design, we develop, adapt and apply a variety of computational methods to investigate
the structures, phase behaviour and properties of soft matter, especially colloids and liquid crystals.
Please visit the Research section for more details.
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