Our Team
The Giuntoli group aims to be a diverse and fostering environment where team members learn and improve every day, in science and beyond. We are also part of the larger Micromechanics team.
Our Research
The foundation of our research is polymer and soft matter physics, which determines the structure-property relationships and functioning of man-made and natural soft materials. We use the knowledge gained from our fundamental research to design and opmize materials for a sustainable future and of biomedical relevance, and we develop new computational models to reach our goals.
Latest News
July 2023
Utku's first paper "Shear Thinning from Bond Orientation in Model Unentangled Bottlebrush Polymer Melts" is now published in Macromolecules. We look at how the orientation of polymer bonds gives rise to shear thinning in bottlebrushes of varying architecture.
July 2023
Andrea's proposal to study "Multiscale Emergence of Viscoelasticity in Heterogeneous Bottlebrush Elastomers" has be granted funding via the NWO-M scheme. Check our website for a new PhD opening in the team!
July 2023
A big applause to Ilija and Ties for successfully presenting their bachelor project. They made the entire group very proud, and we look forward to their future achievements! And thanks to Utku for the impeccable supervision!
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Recent Papers
November 14, 2022
T. C. Wu#, A. A. Granda#, K. Hotta, S. A. Yazdani, R. Pollice, J. Vestfrid, H. Hao, C. Lavigne, M. Seifrid, N. Angello, F. Bencheikh, J. E. Hein, M. Burke, C. Adachi, A. Aspuru-Guzik*
Adv. Mater. 2022, In Press.
November 10, 2022
C. Lavigne, G. d. P. Gomes#,*, R. Pollice#,*, A. Aspuru-Guzik*
Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 13857 - 13871.
October 14, 2022
M. Krenn*, Q. Ai, S. Barthel, N. Carson, A. Frei, N. C. Frey, P. Friederich, T. Gaudin, A. A. Gayle, K. M. Jablonka, R. F. Lameiro, D. Lemm, A. Lo, S. M. Moosavi, J. M. Nápoles-Duarte, A. Nigam, R. Pollice, K. Rajan, U. Schatzschneider, P. Schwaller, M. Skreta, B. Smit, F. Strieth-Kalthoff, C. Sun, G. Tom, G. F. von Rudorff, A. Wang, A. White, A. Young, R. Yu, A. Aspuru-Guzik*
Patterns 2022, 3, 100588.