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The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Harvard University supports world-class research, education, and outreach activities at the forefront of soft matter science through the auspices of the U.S. National Science Foundation.

This IRG is creating the fundamental knowledge required to guide the design, discovery, and development of architected microgels and vesicles with controlled composition, structure, and properties, including their ability to assemble/disassemble on demand. Our team’s research will advance biotechnology by creating architected soft matter for cell encapsulation, drug delivery, tissue engineering, and biofabrication using an automated manufacturing platform based on ultra-high throughput, droplet microfluidics.

This IRG is aimed at establishing new principles for the design of functional molecular and supramolecular materials via a multimodal approach that elucidates their complex phase transitions in three classes of functional materials will be studied: barocalorics, metal-organic frameworks (MOF), and proteins.