Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Liang Lab
Led by Heyi Liang · Materials Science and Engineering
What we study
The Liang Lab uses computer models to study soft materials like gels and plastics. They explore how these materials flow and break, using simulations and experiments to design new materials for coatings, food, and microdevices.
What working here is like
- Computational
- No organisms (data only)
- Coding required
- Projects
- 3
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Soft Materials Yield in Real Time
Using X-ray and computer simulations, they study how charged particle movements in gels cause them to flow or break.
3D-Printed Nanolattice
They created strong, flexible copper-polymer lattices that could protect microdevices.
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Simulating Polymer Flow
They developed a model to predict how plastics like polystyrene behave under stress.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Hierarchical and cascading cooperative rearrangement regions in dense colloidal suspensions
2026 · Soft Matter
Uses deep learning to track how tiny bursts of motion happen in dense suspensions of tiny particles.
- Effect of ensemble averaging on Green–Kubo estimation of short-time stress relaxation modulus in all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of an unentangled polymer melt
2026 · The Journal of Chemical Physics
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- Impact of Threading State on the Mechanics of γ‐Cyclodextrin–Pyrene Gels
2026 · Angewandte Chemie
Builds gels from cyclodextrin and pyrene, showing how water content affects their structure and strength.
- Bridging microscopic dynamics and rheology in the yielding of charged colloidal suspensions
2025 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Combines experiments and simulations to study how charged particles move when a suspension yields.
- Inverse design of structural colours in polymeric films with crystallization-induced reversible thermochromism
2025 · Nature Communications
Creates a model to design colorful plastics by linking their molecular structure to their color.
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