Prof. Dr. Michael Engel

2025

• Bommineni PK., Wang J., Vogel N., Engel M.:
  Entropic Trapping of Hard Spheres in Spherical Confinement
  In: Physical Review Letters 134 (2025), Article No.: 198201
  ISSN: 0031-9007
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.198201
• Lange Bassani C., Engel M.:
  Kinetically Trapped Nanocrystals with Symmetry-Preserving Shapes
  In: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025)
  ISSN: 0002-7863
  DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c17157
• Varela Rosales N., Engel M.:
  Computational self-assembly of a six-fold chiral quasicrystal
  In: Soft Matter 21 (2025), p. 596-603
  ISSN: 1744-683X
  DOI: 10.1039/d4sm00933a
• Wang J., Martín González J., Römling L., Englisch S., Mbah Chrameh F., Bommineni PK., Spiecker E., Engel M., Vogel N.:
  Breakdown of Magic Numbers in Spherical Confinement
  In: ACS nano 19 (2025), p. 11702 – 11711
  ISSN: 1936-0851
  DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c11099

2024

• Han Y., Shi C., Cheng Z., Leonardi A., Zhao K., Yang Y., Engel M., Jones M.:
  Four-Dimensional Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (4D-STEM) for Catalytic Nanoparticles
  In: Microscopy and Microanalysis 30 (2024), p. 1105-
  ISSN: 1431-9276
  DOI: 10.1093/mam/ozae044.549
• Lange Bassani C., Engel M., Sum AK.:
  Mesomorphology of clathrate hydrates from molecular ordering
  In: Journal of Chemical Physics 160 (2024), Article No.: 190901
  ISSN: 0021-9606
  DOI: 10.1063/5.0200516
• Lange Bassani C., van Anders G., Banin U., Baranov D., Chen Q., Dijkstra M., Dimitriyev MS., Efrati E., Faraudo J., Gang O., Gaston N., Golestanian R., Guerrero-Garcia GI., Gruenwald M., Haji-Akbari A., Ibáñez M., Karg M., Kraus T., Lee B., Van Lehn RC., Macfarlane RJ., Mognetti BM., Nikoubashman A., Osat S., Prezhdo OV., Rotskoff GM., Saiz L., Shi AC., Skrabalak S., Smalyukh II., Tagliazucchi M., Talapin DV., Tkachenko AV., Tretiak S., Vaknin D., Widmer-Cooper A., Wong GC., Ye X., Zhou S., Rabani E., Engel M., Travesset A.:
  Nanocrystal Assemblies: Current Advances and Open Problems
  In: ACS nano (2024)
  ISSN: 1936-0851
  DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c10201
• Shi C., Cheng Z., Leonardi A., Yang Y., Engel M., Jones MR., Han Y.:
  Preserving surface strain in nanocatalysts via morphology control
  In: Science Advances 10 (2024), p. eadp3788-
  ISSN: 2375-2548
  DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp3788
• Tomazic F., Muttathukattil A., Nabiyan A., Schacher F., Engel M.:
  Geometric Frustration Directs the Self-assembly of Nanoparticles with Crystallized Ligand Bundles
  In: Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2024)
  ISSN: 1520-6106
  DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c04562
• Varela Rosales N., Engel M.:
  Tuning the stability of a model quasicrystal and its approximants with a periodic substrate
  In: Soft Matter (2024)
  ISSN: 1744-683X
  DOI: 10.1039/d4sm00191e

2023

• Mbah CF., Wang J., Englisch S., Bommineni PK., Varela Rosales N., Spiecker E., Vogel N., Engel M.:
  Early-stage bifurcation of crystallization in a sphere
  In: Nature Communications 14 (2023), Article No.: 5299
  ISSN: 2041-1723
  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41001-6
• Nabiyan A., Muttathukattil A., Tomazic F., Pretzel D., Schubert US., Engel M., Schacher FH.:
  Self-Assembly of Core-Shell Hybrid Nanoparticles by Directional Crystallization of Grafted Polymers
  In: ACS nano (2023)
  ISSN: 1936-0851
  DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c05461
• Pöschel T., Engel M.:
  Annual Report 2022 of the Institute for Multiscale Simulation
  (2023)
  DOI: 10.25593/open-fau-455
  (anderer)
• Varela Rosales N., Santarossa A., Engel M., Pöschel T.:
  Granular binary mixtures improve energy dissipation efficiency of granular dampers
  In: Granular Matter 25 (2023), Article No.: 49
  ISSN: 1434-7636
  DOI: 10.1007/s10035-023-01337-8
• Wang Y., Chen J., Li R., Götz A., Drobek D., Przybilla T., Hübner S., Pelz P., Yang L., Apeleo Zubiri B., Spiecker E., Engel M., Ye X.:
  Controlled Self-Assembly of Gold Nanotetrahedra into Quasicrystals and Complex Periodic Supracrystals
  In: Journal of the American Chemical Society 145 (2023), p. 17902-17911
  ISSN: 1520-5126
  DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c05299

2022

• Bueno SL., Leonardi A., Kar N., Chatterjee K., Zhan X., Chen C., Wang Z., Engel M., Fung V., Skrabalak SE.:
  Quinary, Senary, and Septenary High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticle Catalysts from Core@Shell Nanoparticles and the Significance of Intraparticle Heterogeneity
  In: ACS nano (2022)
  ISSN: 1936-0851
  DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c07787
• Englisch S., Wang J., Römling L., Voß J., Wirth J., Mbah Chrameh F., Apeleo Zubiri B., Engel M., Vogel N., Spiecker E.:
  Crystal Structure and Defect Analysis of Colloidal Supraparticles by Lab-Based X-ray Microscopy
  In: Microscopy and Microanalysis 28 (2022), p. 306-309
  ISSN: 1431-9276
  DOI: 10.1017/S1431927622002008
• Leonardi A., Neder R., Engel M.:
  Efficient solution of particle shape functions for the analysis of powder total scattering data
  In: Journal of Applied Crystallography 55 (2022), p. 329-339
  ISSN: 0021-8898
  DOI: 10.1107/S1600576722001261
• Wang J., Liu Y., Bleyer G., Peukert W., Görlitzer E., Englisch S., Przybilla T., Mbah Chrameh F., Engel M., Spiecker E., Imaz I., Maspoch D., Vogel N.:
  Coloration in Supraparticles Assembled from Polyhedral Metal-Organic Framework Particles
  In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2022)
  ISSN: 1433-7851
  DOI: 10.1002/anie.202117455

2021

• Dshemuchadse J., Damasceno PF., Phillips CL., Engel M., Glotzer SC.:
  Moving beyond the constraints of chemistry via crystal structure discovery with isotropic multiwell pair potentials
  In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (2021), Article No.: e2024034118
  ISSN: 0027-8424
  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2024034118
• Je K., Lee S., Teich EG., Engel M., Glotzer SC.:
  Entropic formation of a thermodynamically stable colloidal quasicrystal with negligible phason strain
  In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (2021), Article No.: e2011799118
  ISSN: 0027-8424
  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2011799118
• Klement M., Lee S., Anderson JA., Engel M.:
  Newtonian Event-Chain Monte Carlo and Collision Prediction with Polyhedral Particles
  In: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2021)
  ISSN: 1549-9618
  DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00311
• Leonardi A., Leoni M., Engel M.:
  Thermal disorder and mechanical anisotropy in nanocrystals
  In: ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA A-FOUNDATION AND ADVANCES, CHESTER: 2021
  DOI: 10.1107/s0108767321093570
• Liu Y., Klement M., Wang Y., Zhong Y., Zhu B., Chen J., Engel M., Ye X.:
  Macromolecular Ligand Engineering for Programmable Nanoprism Assembly
  In: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2021)
  ISSN: 1520-5126
  DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c07281
• Scholz C., Ldov A., Pöschel T., Engel M., Loewen H.:
  Surfactants and rotelles in active chiral fluids
  In: Science Advances 7 (2021)
  ISSN: 2375-2548
  DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf8998

2020

• Bommineni PK., Klement M., Engel M.:
  Spontaneous Crystallization in Systems of Binary Hard Sphere Colloids
  In: Physical Review Letters 124 (2020), Article No.: 218003
  ISSN: 0031-9007
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.218003
• Chen L., Leonardi A., Chen J., Cao M., Li N., Su D., Zhang Q., Engel M., Ye X.:
  Imaging the kinetics of anisotropic dissolution of bimetallic core–shell nanocubes using graphene liquid cells
  In: Nature Communications 11 (2020), Article No.: 3041
  ISSN: 2041-1723
  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16645-3
• Gamler JT., Leonardi A., Sang X., Koczkur KM., Unocic RR., Engel M., Skrabalak SE.:
  Effect of lattice mismatch and shell thickness on strain in core@shell nanocrystals
  In: Nanoscale Advances (2020)
  ISSN: 2516-0230
  DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00061B
• Talapin D., Engel M., Braun P.:
  Functional materials and devices by self-Assembly
  In: Mrs Bulletin 45 (2020), p. 799-806
  ISSN: 0883-7694
  DOI: 10.1557/mrs.2020.252
• Wang J., Sultan U., Görlitzer E., Mbah Chrameh F., Engel M., Vogel N.:
  Structural Color of Colloidal Clusters as a Tool to Investigate Structure and Dynamics
  In: Advanced Functional Materials (2020), Article No.: 1907730
  ISSN: 1616-301X
  DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201907730

2019

• Bommineni PK., Varela-Rosales NR., Klement M., Engel M.:
  Complex Crystals from Size-Disperse Spheres
  In: Physical Review Letters 122 (2019)
  ISSN: 0031-9007
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.128005
• Engel M.:
  The hunt for natural quasicrystals
  In: Physics Today 72 (2019), p. 56-57
  ISSN: 0031-9228
  DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.4228
• Gamler JT., Leonardi A., Ashberry HM., Daanen NN., Losovyj Y., Unocic RR., Engel M., Skrabalak SE.:
  Achieving Highly Durable Random Alloy Nanocatalysts through Intermetallic Cores
  In: ACS nano 13 (2019), p. 4008-4017
  ISSN: 1936-0851
  DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b08007
• Klement M., Engel M.:
  Efficient equilibration of hard spheres with Newtonian event chains
  In: Journal of Chemical Physics 150 (2019), Article No.: 174108
  ISSN: 0021-9606
  DOI: 10.1063/1.5090882
• Lee S., Teich EG., Engel M., Glotzer SC.:
  Entropic colloidal crystallization pathways via fluid–fluid transitions and multidimensional prenucleation motifs
  In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (2019), p. 14843-14851
  ISSN: 0027-8424
  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1905929116
• Shen W., Antonaglia J., Anderson JA., Engel M., Van Anders G., Glotzer SC.:
  Symmetries in hard polygon systems determine plastic colloidal crystal mesophases in two dimensions
  In: Soft Matter 15 (2019), p. 2571-2579
  ISSN: 1744-683X
  DOI: 10.1039/c9sm00016j
• Wang J., Mbah Chrameh F., Przybilla T., Englisch S., Spiecker E., Engel M., Vogel N.:
  Free Energy Landscape of Colloidal Clusters in Spherical Confinement
  In: Acs Nano (2019)
  ISSN: 1936-0851
  DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b03039

2018

• Klotsa D., Chen ER., Engel M., Glotzer SC.:
  Intermediate crystalline structures of colloids in shape space
  In: Soft Matter 14 (2018), p. 8692-8697
  ISSN: 1744-683X
  DOI: 10.1039/c8sm01573b
• Leonardi A., Engel M.:
  Particle Shape Control via Etching of Core@Shell Nanocrystals
  In: ACS nano 12 (2018), p. 9186-9195
  ISSN: 1936-0851
  DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b03759
• Scholz C., Engel M., Pöschel T.:
  Erratum: Publisher Correction: Rotating robots move collectively and self-organize (Nature communications (2018) 9 1 (931))
  In: Nature Communications 9 (2018), p. 1497-
  ISSN: 2041-1723
  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03873-x
• Scholz C., Engel M., Pöschel T.:
  Rotating robots move collectively and self-organize.
  In: Nature Communications 9 (2018), p. 931
  ISSN: 2041-1723
  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03154-7
• Wang J., Mbah Chrameh F., Przybilla T., Apeleo Zubiri B., Spiecker E., Engel M., Vogel N.:
  Magic number colloidal clusters as minimum free energy structures
  In: Nature Communications 9 (2018), Article No.: 5259
  ISSN: 2041-1723
  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07600-4
• Zhou Y., Damasceno PF., Somashekar BS., Engel M., Tian F., Zhu J., Huang R., Johnson K., Mcintyre C., Sun K., Yang M., Green PF., Ramamoorthy A., Glotzer SC., Kotov NA.:
  Unusual multiscale mechanics of biomimetic nanoparticle hydrogels
  In: Nature Communications 9 (2018), Article No.: 181
  ISSN: 2041-1723
  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02579-w

2017

• Anderson JA., Antonaglia J., Millan JA., Engel M., Glotzer SC.:
  Shape and Symmetry Determine Two-Dimensional Melting Transitions of Hard Regular Polygons
  In: Physical Review X 7 (2017), Article No.: 021001
  ISSN: 2160-3308
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.7.021001
• Damasceno PF., Glotzer SC., Engel M.:
  Non-close-packed three-dimensional quasicrystals
  In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 29 (2017), Article No.: 234005
  ISSN: 0953-8984
  DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/aa6cc1
• Froufe-Perez LS., Engel M., Jose Saenz J., Scheffold F.:
  Band gap formation and Anderson localization in disordered photonic materials with structural correlations
  In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (2017), p. 9570-9574
  ISSN: 0027-8424
  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1705130114
• Gong J., Newman RS., Engel M., Zhao M., Bian F., Glotzer SC., Tang Z.:
  Shape-dependent ordering of gold nanocrystals into large-scale superlattices
  In: Nature Communications 8 (2017), Article No.: 14038
  ISSN: 2041-1723
  DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14038
• Irrgang ME., Engel M., Schultz AJ., Kofke DA., Glotzer SC.:
  Virial Coefficients and Equations of State for Hard Polyhedron Fluids
  In: Langmuir 33 (2017), p. 11788-11796
  ISSN: 0743-7463
  DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02384
• Lin H., Lee S., Sun L., Spellings M., Engel M., Glotzer SC., Mirkin CA.:
  Clathrate colloidal crystals
  In: Science 355 (2017), p. 931-935
  ISSN: 0036-8075
  DOI: 10.1126/science.aal3919
• Ye X., Chen J., Irrgang ME., Engel M., Dong A., Glotzer SC., Murray CB.:
  Quasicrystalline nanocrystal superlattice with partial matching rules
  In: Nature Materials 16 (2017), p. 214-219
  ISSN: 1476-1122
  DOI: 10.1038/nmat4759

2016

• Anderson JA., Antonaglia J., Millan JA., Engel M., Glotzer SC.:
  Fluid-to-Solid Transition of Hard Regular Polygons
  In: ISRN Condensed Matter Physics (2016)
  ISSN: 2090-7397
• Engel M., Talapin DV., Boles MA.:
  Self-Assembly of Colloidal Nanocrystals: From Intricate Structures to Functional Materials
  In: Chemical Reviews 116 (2016), p. 11220–11289
  ISSN: 0009-2665
  DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00196
• Luis S. FP., Engel M., Damasceno PF., Muller N., Haberko J., Glotzer SC., Scheffold F.:
  Role of Short-Range Order and Hyperuniformity in the Formation of Band Gaps in Disordered Photonic Materials
  In: Physical Review Letters 117 (2016)
  ISSN: 0031-9007
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.053902
• Ye X., Chen J., Irrgang ME., Engel M., Dong A., Glotzer SC., Murray CB.:
  Quasicrystalline Nanocrystal Superlattice with Partial Matching Rules Xingchen Ye, Jun Chen, M. Eric Irrgang, Michael Engel, Angang Dong, Sharon C. Glotzer & Christopher B. Murray
  In: Nature Materials (2016)
  ISSN: 1476-1122
  DOI: 10.1038/nmat4759

2015

• Engel M.:
  Cabinet of curiosities: self-assembly of unusual crystal structures
  Aperiodic 2015 (Prag, 30. August 2015 – 4. September 2015)
• Engel M.:
  Packing and crystallization of hard shapes: from disks to tetrahedra
  Workshop on Crystals and Random Networks (Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI, 9. February 2015 – 13. February 2015)
• Engel M.:
  Quasicrystals on the computer: The role of complexity for crystal growth
  Workshop: Open Space between Heavy Fermions and Quasicrystals (Nagoya, 17. November 2015 – 19. November 2015)
• Engel M.:
  Simulation and modeling of self-assembly processes on the nanoscale and beyond
  EAM Symposium 2015 (Kloster Banz, Bad Staffelstein, 23. November 2015 – 25. November 2015)
• Engel M., Damasceno PF., Karas AS., Schultz BA., Glotzer SC.:
  Controlling Chirality of Entropic Crystals
  In: Physical Review Letters 115 (2015)
  ISSN: 0031-9007
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.158303
• Engel M., Hsiao LC., Schultz BA., Glaser J., Szakasits ME., Glotzer SC., Solomon MJ.:
  Metastable orientational order of colloidal discoids
  In: Nature Communications 6 (2015), Article No.: 8507
  ISSN: 2041-1723
  DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9507
• Engel M., Spellings M., Klotsa D., Sabrina S., Drews AM., Nguyen NH., Bishop KJM., Glotzer SC.:
  Shape control and compartmentalization in active colloidal cells
  In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112 (2015), p. E4642-E4650
  ISSN: 0027-8424
  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1513361112
• Schultz BA., Damasceno PF., Engel M., Glotzer SC.:
  Symmetry Considerations for the Targeted Assembly of Entropically Stabilized Colloidal Crystals via Voronoi Particles
  In: Acs Nano 9 (2015), p. 2336-2344
  ISSN: 1936-0851
  DOI: 10.1021/nn507490j

2014

• Engel M.:
  Beyond close packing: complex order with simple models
  Mini Stat Mech Meeting (Berkeley, California, 10. January 2014 – 12. January 2014)
• Engel M.:
  When and how can densest packings be achieved with nanoparticles?
  Workshop: Jam-Packed (Erlangen, 15. September 2014 – 18. September 2014)
• Engel M., Barkan K., Lifshitz R.:
  Controlled Self-Assembly of Periodic and Aperiodic Cluster Crystals
  In: Physical Review Letters 113 (2014)
  ISSN: 0031-9007
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.098304
• Engel M., Chen ER., Klotsa D., Damasceno PF., Glotzer SC.:
  Complexity in Surfaces of Densest Packings for Families of Polyhedra
  In: Physical Review X 4 (2014)
  ISSN: 2160-3308
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.011024
• Engel M., Damasceno PF., Glotzer SC., Philips CL.:
  Computational self-assembly of a one-component icosahedral quasicrystal
  In: Nature Materials 14 (2014), p. 109-116
  ISSN: 1476-4660
  DOI: 10.1038/nmat4152
• Engel M., Glotzer SC.:
  News & Views: A trinagular affair
  In: Nature Physics 10 (2014), p. 185-186
  ISSN: 1745-2473
• Engel M., Glotzer SC.:
  Soft matter: A triangular affair
  In: Nature Physics 10 (2014), p. 185-186
  ISSN: 1745-2473
  DOI: 10.1038/nphys2903
• Engel M., Nguyen NH., Klotsa D., Glotzer SC.:
  Emergent Collective Phenomena in a Mixture of Hard Shapes through Active Rotation
  In: Physical Review Letters 112 (2014)
  ISSN: 0031-9007
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.075701
• Engel M., van Anders G., Klotsa D., Ahmed NK., Glotzer SC.:
  Understanding shape entropy through local dense packing
  In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111 (2014), p. E4812-E4821
  ISSN: 0027-8424
  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1418159111
• Smith R., Ahmed NK., van Anders G., Engel M., Glotzer SC.:
  Entropically Patchy Particles: Engineering Valence through Shape Entropy
  In: Acs Nano 8 (2014), p. 931-940
  ISSN: 1936-0851
  DOI: 10.1021/nn4057353