Happy to announce that Dr. Nan Xue, our lab alumnus, has just launched a new lab at NTU, Singapore!
Congrats on this new chapter of your career, Nan!
His lab will explore the exciting intersection of soft matter and living systems, and is actively recruiting two PhD students!
xlift.org/openings/
The Laboratory of Interfaces, Fracture, and Transport (LIFT) is a new research group started in January 2026 at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at Nanyang Technological Univer...
New preprint! 🧪
What happens when phase separation couples to a nematic transition? 🫧
By combining experiment and theory 🔬, we find some pretty wild ternary phase diagrams! 🌈
Congrats on this milestone, Sully!
Check it out here. arxiv.org/abs/2605.26338
Our second Cornell-era preprint is also out!
Kaarthik's paper discusses the gap between cellular and in vitro condensates. In cells, condensates are low-contrast (small partition coefficients), enabling a wide range of responses.
Congrats, Kaarthik and the team!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Alexandre’s manuscript, “Polymerization from Lipid Membranes,” is now published in Biomacromolecules!
Congratulations to Alexandre and the team!
The paper describes how to grow polymer brushes directly from one side of lipid bilayers by incorporating an ATRP initiator
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Happy to share our first preprints from work originating at Cornell!
Takumi's paper describes how small molecules shift phase equilibria of condensates by focusing on the dilute-phase response. It shows how metabolites may tune stability and material properties.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We examine various material properties of condensates and show they can be interpreted using critical phenomena theory, specifically the water–vapor transition. This universality enables predictions of condensate material properties and new experimental approaches for assessing cellular physiology.