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Welcome to the Torquato Group!

Professor Salvatore Torquato, Lewis Bernard Professor of Natural Sciences, is the Director of the Complex Materials Theory Group. Our research group is based at Princeton University in the Department of Chemistry, the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, and the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. We also have affiliations with three other departments/programs: Physics, Applied and Computational Mathematics, and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. Research work in the group is centered in statistical mechanics and soft condensed matter theory.

Our Research

Topics of current interest include unusual low-temperature states of matter, packing problems, structure and bulk properties of colloids, liquids, glasses, quasicrystals and crystals, hyperuniform disordered materials, novel photonic materials, discrete geometry, self-assembly theory, disordered heterogeneous materials, optimization in materials science, cancer modeling, and biophysics.

Biophysics

Maximally Dense/Densest Local Packings

Multiscale Order in the Primes

Hyperuniform Materials

New Duality Relations for Classical Ground States

Cancer Modeling

Unusual Ground States

Self Assembly Theory via Inverse Methods

Multifunctional Materials

High Dimensional Packings

  • the "Penny" model
  • a stealthy disordered hyperuniform ground-state configuration

Our People

  • 2018 Summer
  • 2016 Summer

Professor Salvatore Torquato

Dr. Frank Stillinger

Timothy Middlemas

Sayantan Dutta

Haina Wang

Charles Maher

Murray Skolnick

Recent Alumni

Zheng Ma

JaeUk Kim

Duyu Chen

Ge Zhang

Steven Atkinson

Recent Alumni

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Recent News From the Group

  • “Characterizing the hyperuniformity of ordered and disordered two-phase media” is Published in Physical Review E 19 Jan 2021
  • “Effective elastic wave characteristics of composite media” is Published in New Journal of Physics 30 Dec 2020
  • “Engineered disorder in photonics” is Published in Nature Reviews Materials 9 Dec 2020
  • “Nearest-neighbor functions for disordered stealthy hyperuniform manyparticle systems” is Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 28 Oct 2020
  • “Generation and structural characterization of Debye random media” is Published in Physical Review E 13 Oct 2020
  • “Sensitivity of Pair Statistics on Pair Potentials in Many-Body Systems” is published in The Journal of Chemical Physics 23 Sep 2020
  • “Predicting Permeability via Statistical Learning on Higher‐Order Microstructural Information” is published in Scientific Reports 17 Sep 2020
  • JaeUk Kim Successfully Defended His Thesis “Hyperuniformity of Point Patterns and Two-Phase Composite Media” 28 Aug 2020
  • Zheng Ma Successfully Defended His Thesis “Generation and Structural Characterization of Non-Hyperuniform and Hyperuniform Disordered Systems” 27 Aug 2020
  • “Optimized Large Hyperuniform Binary Colloidal Suspensions in Two Dimensions” is published in Physical Review Letters. 7 Aug 2020
  • “Minimal Statistical-Mechanical Model for Multihyperuniform Patterns in Avian Retina” is published in Physical Review E 15 Jul 2020
  • Charles Maher wins the 2020 Pickering Teaching Award. 28 May 2020
  • A popular account of the research linking elastodynamic and electromagentic wave phenomena can be found here. 21 Apr 2020
  • “Multifunctional Composites for Elastic and Electromagnetic Wave Propagation” is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 21 Apr 2020
  • “Predicting Transport Characteristics of Hyperuniform Porous Media via Rigorous Microstructure-Property Relations” is published in Advances in Water Resources 21 Apr 2020
  • Professor Salvatore Torquato has been selected as an “APS Outstanding Referee” in 2020 7 Apr 2020
  • “Realizable Hyperuniform and Nonhyperuniform Particle Configurations with Targeted Spectral Functions via Effective Pair Interactions” is published in Physical Review E 17 Mar 2020
  • “Cloaking the Underlying Long-Range Order of Randomly Perturbed Lattices” has been selected for an Editors’ Suggestion in Physical Review E 13 Mar 2020
  • “Cloaking the Underlying Long-Range Order of Randomly Perturbed Lattices” is published in Physical Review E 13 Mar 2020
  • “Hyperuniform Disordered Waveguides and Devices For Near Infrared Silicon Photonics” is published in Scientific Reports 31 Dec 2019

The Torquato Group • Salvatore Torquato • Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
Frick Chemistry Laboratory - Room 160 • Princeton, NJ 08544 • torquato@princeton.edu • phone: (609) 258-3341