Professor Dragnea’s lab is interested in the physics and chemistry of mesoscale materials which have properties that are often very different from both bulk and single molecules, due to the dominance of interfacial effects (e.g. changes in the bulk melting temperature in confinement conditions) and/or coordinated collective behavior (e.g. virus-like particles). The group develops optical characterization methods and experimental models aimed at understanding phenomena in thermoplasmonics, room-temperature super-radiance, and virus mechanics and self-assembly.

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