Welcome to the Complex Materials Theory Group home page! Our research group is based at Princeton University in the Department of Chemistry, the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, and the Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics. We also have affiliations with four other departments/programs: Physics, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Chemical Engineering, and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. We are generally interested in understanding the relationship between the macroscopic behavior of complex materials and their microstructures. Complex materials under study include heterogeneous materials (e.g., composites and porous media), colloids, liquids, glasses and crystals. This includes our current work on random particle packings in low dimensions (including M&Ms and ellipsoids), sphere packings in high dimensions, optimal multifunctional material design, and self-assembly theory. We are also engaged in a research program to model tumor growth.
The director of the group is Prof. Salvatore Torquato. The rest of the group consists of six graduate students and a senior scientist.
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