Research

Giuntoli group description

"Soft materials are ubiquitous, from engineering applications to biological tissues, but their rational design remains challenging for their emergent phenomena across the scales giving rise to complex structure-property relationships, often in out-of-equilibrium conditions. Our group develops molecular dynamics and multiscale computational models to address this challenge. On one side, we focus on fundamental open questions in soft matter and polymer physics in complex environments where heterogeneities, confinement, and out-of-equilibrium phenomena play a major role. On the other side we use this fundamental knowledge to understand what ingredients are needed to design optimal, sustainable materials towards a better environment (such as materials used for the energy transition) or a better life (such as materials used for biomedical applications)."