Ella King

Tuning Colloidal Reactions

Control over complex colloidal reactions with inverse designed components. Controlled disassembly of virus-like shells and, inspired by drug deliver applications, induced release of small particles trapped inside.

Inferring interaction potentials from stochastic particle trajectories

Novel method for extracting interactions from particle trajectories that does not assume particles are at equilibrium. Validated on experimental colloidal data interacting via depletion forces.

Scattered waves fuel emergent activity

Nonreciprocal wave-mediated interactions reveal a new form of activity that emerges as a collective property the system.

Programmable patchy particles for materials design

Computational design of anisotropic particle shapes that stabilize complex open lattices and enable self-limited assembly using automatic differentiation.

Proofreading mechanism for colloidal self-assembly

State-change based proofreading mechanism in colloidal particles undergoing self-assembly

Uncovering the mechanism for aggregation in repeat expanded RNA reveals a reentrant transition

Repeat expanded RNA, which is implicated in neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS, aggregates in vitro. Origin of this aggregation is presented, and a reentrant phase transition is observed as a result.

Correlation Tracking: Using simulations to interpolate highly correlated particle tracks

Introduces a particle tracking algorithm for correlated systems, such as dense suspensions or strongly interacting particles.

Designing self-assembling kinetics with differentiable statistical physics models

Inverse design of kinetic properties of self-assembled structures, including transition rates between small clusters and bulk crystallization rates.

Impact of Rigidity on Molecular Self-Assembly

The rigidity of diamondoid molecules, and the resulting decrease in configurational entropy, drives their unique assembly properties.