Nature research paper: Pattern recognition in the nucleation kinetics of non-equilibrium self-assembly go.nature.com/48GGtMb

1/7 Excited to share my last publication at Science Robotics using soft matter physics principles to combine soft, modular, and swarm robotics. We address the challenge of designing robotic systems capable of changing their shape and flexibility to adapt to various environments.

Wow, pretty cool idea for a potentially generic signature of lifen anywhere - simple argument based on kinetics vs equilibrium.

Hailed as "an achievement of humanistic inquiry" and "a triumph of scholarship," Assoc. Prof. Margareta Ingrid Christian's book "Objects in Air" has earned the Gordon J. Laing Award—the top honor by the UChicagoPress. ms.spr.ly/6019Y3rgN ms.spr.ly/6018Y3rg2

My latest for New Scientist is about how complex systems out of equilibrium can get things "right" even if they don't really have a sense of what "right" means as long as they're trying to go fast newscientist.com/article/243385…

That's great, congrats! Yogesh is a lot of fun to talk to!

The lecture notes on "Chemically Active Droplets" are now available on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2407.09859. Thanks again for the amazing Boulder Summer School students and the organizers Andela Saric, Gardel Lab, Shiladitya Banerjee, and Laboratory of Soft and Living Materials!