Rational Design of Soft Hierarchical Materials with Responsive Functionalities: Machine learning Soft Matter to create Soft Machines

Project Information

SoftML

Grant agreement ID: 884902

DOI

10.3030/884902

EC signature date 12 May 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 30 June 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 499 918,75

EU contribution

€ 2 499 918,75

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

Kinetic Phase Diagram for Nucleation and Growth of Competing Crystal Polymorphs in Charged Colloids

Author(s): Gispen, Willem; Dijkstra, Marjolein; Sub Soft Condensed Matter; Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.098002

Intelligent soft matter: towards embodied intelligence

Author(s): Vladimir A. Baulin, Achille Giacometti, Dmitry A. Fedosov, Stephen Ebbens, Nydia R. Varela-Rosales, Neus Feliu, Mithun Chowdhury, Minghan Hu, Rudolf Füchslin, Marjolein Dijkstra, Matan Mussel, René van Roij, Dong Xie, Vassil Tzanov, Mengjie Zu, Samuel Hidalgo-Caballero, Ye Yuan, Luca Cocconi, Cheol-Min Ghim, Cécile Cottin-Bizonne, M. Carmen Miguel, Maria Jose Esplandiu, Juliane Simmchen, Wolfga
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 21, 2025, Page(s) 4129-4145, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d5sm00174a

Kinetic phase diagram for two-step nucleation in colloid–polymer mixtures

Author(s): Willem Gispen, Peter G. Bolhuis, Marjolein Dijkstra
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 162, 2025, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0251560

Flexible Colloidal Molecules with Directional Bonds and Controlled Flexibility

Author(s): Yogesh Shelke, Fabrizio Camerin, Susana Marín-Aguilar, Ruben W. Verweij, Marjolein Dijkstra, and Daniela J. Kraft
Published in: ACS Nano, 2023, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c00751

Real-Time In Situ Observation of CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanoplatelets Transforming into Nanosheets

Author(s): Aarya Prabhakaran, Zhiya Dang, Rohan Dhall, Fabrizio Camerin, Susana Marín-Aguilar, Balaji Dhanabalan, Andrea Castelli, Rosaria Brescia, Liberato Manna, Marjolein Dijkstra, Milena P Arciniegas
Published in: ACS Nano, 2023, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c02477

Steering self-organisation through confinement

Author(s): Araújo, Nuno A.M.; Janssen, Liesbeth M.C.; Barois, Thomas; Boffetta, Guido; Cohen, Itai; Corbetta, Alessandro; Dauchot, Olivier; Dijkstra, Marjolein; Durham, William M.; Dussutour, Audrey; Garnier, Simon; Gelderblom, Hanneke; Golestanian, Ramin; Isa, Lucio; Koenderink, Gijsje H.; Löwen, Hartmut; Metzler, Ralf; Polin, Marco; Royall, C. Patrick; Šarić, Anđela; Sengupta, Anupam; Sykes, Cécile;
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 7, 2023, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2sm01562e

Modeling the cholesteric pitch of apolar cellulose nanocrystal suspensions using a chiral hard-bundle model

Author(s): Chiappini, Massimiliano; Dussi, Simone; Frka-Petesic, Bruno; Vignolini, Silvia; Dijkstra, Marjolein; Sub Soft Condensed Matter; Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics
Published in: Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0076123

Structural diversity in three-dimensional self-assembly of nanoplatelets by spherical confinement

Author(s): Da Wang, Michiel Hermes, Stan Najmr, Nikos Tasios, Albert Grau-Carbonell, Yang Liu, Sara Bals, Marjolein Dijkstra, Christopher B Murray, Alfons van Blaaderen
Published in: Nature Communications, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33616-y

From predictive modelling to machine learning and reverse engineering of colloidal self-assembly.

Author(s): Dijkstra, Marjolein; Luijten, Erik; Sub Soft Condensed Matter; Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics
Published in: Nature Materials, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 1476-1122
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-021-01014-2

Curvature-directed anchoring and defect structure of colloidal smectic liquid crystals in confinement

Author(s): Ethan I L Jull, Gerardo Campos-Villalobos, Qianjing Tang, Marjolein Dijkstra, Lisa Tran
Published in: PNAS Nexus, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 470, ISSN 2752-6542
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae470

Machine learning many-body potentials for colloidal systems

Author(s): Gerardo Campos-Villalobosa), Emanuele Boattini, Laura Filion, Marjolein Dijkstrab
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0063377

Crystal Polymorph Selection Mechanism of Hard Spheres Hidden in the Fluid

Author(s): Willem Gispen; Gabriele M. Coli; Robin van Damme; C. Patrick Royall; Marjolein Dijkstra
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c02182

Splay-bend nematic phases of bent colloidal silica rods induced by polydispersity

Author(s): Ramakrishna Kotni, Albert Grau-Carbonell, Massimiliano Chiappini, Marjolein Dijkstra & Alfons van Blaaderen
Published in: Nature Communications, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34658-y

Machine-learning effective many-body potentials for anisotropic particles using orientation-dependent symmetry functions

Author(s): Campos-Villalobos, Gerardo; Giunta, Giuliana; Marín-Aguilar, Susana; Dijkstra, Marjolein; Sub Soft Condensed Matter; Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics
Published in: Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 4, 2022, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2207.06065

Exploiting anisotropic particle shape to electrostatically assemble colloidal molecules with high yield and purity

Author(s): Shelke, Yogesh; Marín-Aguilar, Susana; Camerin, Fabrizio; Dijkstra, Marjolein; Kraft, Daniela J.; Sub Soft Condensed Matter; Sub Physical and Colloid Chemistry; Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics
Published in: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 629(part A), 322 - 333, Issue 5, 2023, ISSN 1095-7103
Publisher: 2023
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.08.158

Dynamics of supercooled liquids from static averaged quantities using machine learning

Author(s): Simone Ciarella, Massimiliano Chiappini, Emanuele Boattini, Marjolein Dijkstra, Liesbeth MC Janssen
Published in: Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 2023, ISSN 2632-2153
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.1088/2632-2153/acc7e1

Shape-induced crystallization of binary DNA-functionalized nanocubes

Author(s): Y Zhang, G Giunta, H Liang, M Dijkstra
Published in: Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0148139

Guiding the self-assembly of colloidal diamond

Author(s): Marín-Aguilar, Susana; Camerin, Fabrizio; Dijkstra, Marjolein; Sub Soft Condensed Matter; Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics
Published in: Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0109377