August 2016 NSF proposal funded Our proposal on studying assembly of nanoparticles in polymer stacks, in collaboration with the Tao group, got accepted for funding by the CMMI program at NSF. July 2016 Dan wins study-abroad scholarship Dan is awarded the prestigious Southern California Studying Abroad scholarship, a merit-based scholarship to encourage outstanding Taiwanese students to pursue advanced studies in the United States. Many congratulations, Dan !! Gaurav's new review article Gaurav's didactic review on models for recovering the energy landscape of conformational transitions from single-molecule pulling experiments appears online in the journal Molecular Simulation as part of a special issue on Free Energy Simulations. It was quite a pleasant surprise to learn that Prof. Martin Karplus, the 2013 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, mentioned our work in the Preface of this issue. June 2016 SDSC grant awarded Our group is awarded computing time on the powerful XSEDE supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center for carrying out large-scale MD simulations of DNA- and polymer-based nanomaterials. May 2016 Gaurav heads east coast Gaurav leaves for Boston for a 2-month long sabbatical at the Broad Institute (collaboration between Harvard and MIT). April 2016 Sam's new paper Sam's paper on predicting the mechanical properties of organic semiconducting polymers using coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations gets accepted for publication in Macromolecules. Congratulations, Sam! March 2016 NIH proposal funded Our proposal on linking kinetics, subunit coordination, structure of the T4 DNA Packaging Motor in collaboration with the Smith and Chemla labs gets accepted for funding from the NIH R01 program. AFOSR proposal funded Our proposal on high-performance semiconducting elastomers, in collaboration with the Lipomi and Ong labs, gets accepted for funding from the Air Force. February 2016 Gi-Moon's new paper Gi-Moon's paper uncovering fundamental differences in the conformational free energy landscape of mononucleosomes and dinucleosomes gets accepted for publication in Physical Review E. Congratulations, Gi-Moon! Chai's new paper Chai's paper introducing a computational approach for extracting dynamical parameters of nanoparticle assembly from analysis of disjointed images of polymer-nanoparticle composites gets accepted for publication in Physical Review E. Congratulations, Chai! January 2016 Sam's new paper Sam's paper on metallic nanoislands on graphene in collaboration with the Lipomi lab gets accepted for publication in Nano Letters. Congratulations, Sam!