News and Announcements
An Active Matter Workshop was held on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013.
It was held in Shapiro Science Center from 9:00am - 7:30pm.
Prof. A. Samadani hosted the workshop.
*****
Ye Zhang, 
postdoctoral fellow from Prof. Bing Xu's research group at Brandeis wins Materials Research Society Poster Award on Nov. 29, 2012. See more......
*****
Collaboration between Brandeis MRSEC and Robot Research Initiative (RRI) announced Aug. 10, 2012.
See article on the Science Blog or view here via pdf
*****
2008: The Brandeis Materials Research Laboratory was established by the award of a highly competitive $7.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to the University. Learn more.
*****
Upcoming Seminar(s)
click here
Upcoming Workshop(s)
click here
Upcoming Events
| See Calendar |
ANNOUNCEMENTS
-------------------------------------------
Announcement:
Announcement date: Nov. 15, 2011
Summer Courses 2012 announced
(Dogic Lab photo)
Application deadline: March 30, 2012
ENROLLMENT CLOSED
Note: These professional development
courses are sponsored by the Brandeis
MRSEC program. They do not count
towards university credit in any way.
Announcement:
BZ BOOTCAMP WORKSHOP
July 13, 2011
All day workshop took place July 13, 2011
Adobe Reader files are viewable with
Adobe Reader software. You can get
it free from: Adobe Online
Welcome
Advances in materials science and biology have become increasingly intertwined, with progress in one field influencing the other. The central theme of the Brandeis Materials Research Laboratory is the development of this relationship between biology and materials science using two complementary approaches.
In a “bottom-up” approach, we build on our expertise in the understanding of relatively simple material and chemical systems (liquid crystals, colloids, polymers, oscillating chemical reactions). We are exploring how the addition of constraints typically found in biology – confinement, crowding and local forces that compete with and sometimes frustrate long range order – leads to emergent properties, in the realms of structure and dynamics.
In a complementary “top-down” approach, we are studying functional cellular components, which are complex combinations of materials with specific constraints. We make qualitative and quantitative analyses of their structure and properties, and then deconstruct these “devices” by modifying or removing constraints, to understand just how the combination of materials and constraints leads to biological function.
A National Science Foundation sponsored Material Research Science and Engineering Center.