{"id":8,"date":"2017-06-21T17:50:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T21:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2021-06-19T22:51:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T02:51:52","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<h2>Soft Matter<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">We study the self assembly of different types of micro\/nanoscale building blocks using a variety of computational material design approaches.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-107\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig_softmat1.png\" alt=\"Self Assembly\" width=\"473\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig_softmat1.png 3669w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig_softmat1-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig_softmat1-768x359.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig_softmat1-1024x479.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig_softmat1-624x292.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-234  aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2020\/08\/Figure_FiniteSize-e1597714985149.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2020\/08\/Figure_FiniteSize-e1597714985149.png 3658w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2020\/08\/Figure_FiniteSize-e1597714985149-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2020\/08\/Figure_FiniteSize-e1597714985149-768x482.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2020\/08\/Figure_FiniteSize-e1597714985149-1024x642.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2020\/08\/Figure_FiniteSize-e1597714985149-624x391.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2>Polymer Networks and Nanocomposites<\/h2>\n<p>We study a wide variety of polymer materials, including cross-linked polymer networks and reinforced polymer composites. We develop novel computational and Machine Learning-based methods to design polymer materials with desired mechanical and thermal properties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-236 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2020\/08\/Image2_Modeling-polymers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2020\/08\/Image2_Modeling-polymers.png 3670w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2020\/08\/Image2_Modeling-polymers-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2020\/08\/Image2_Modeling-polymers-768x571.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2020\/08\/Image2_Modeling-polymers-1024x761.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2020\/08\/Image2_Modeling-polymers-624x464.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2>Phononics and Acoustic Metamaterials<\/h2>\n<p>Engineering<em>&nbsp;<\/em>phononic properties of materials and the phonon spectrum is an important challenge for controlling sound and heat waves. Our group investigates phononic behavior of metamaterials for applications such as waveguiding, acoustic filtering, and acoustic rectification.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-123\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig1phn.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig1phn.png 3831w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig1phn-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig1phn-768x495.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig1phn-1024x660.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig1phn-624x402.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2>Nanoscale Heat Transfer<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Our group focuses on understanding and solving fundamental challenges in nanoscale heat transfer such as heat transport across complex nanoscale interfaces, and thermal properties of hybrid organic-inorganic materials. Target applications include&nbsp;electronics, photonics, mircochip cooling, and energy storage devices.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-109\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig_heatnano1.png\" alt=\"Nanoscale Heat Transfer\" width=\"492\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig_heatnano1.png 2562w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig_heatnano1-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig_heatnano1-768x282.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig_heatnano1-1024x376.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/files\/2017\/06\/Fig_heatnano1-624x229.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soft Matter We study the self assembly of different types of micro\/nanoscale building blocks using a variety of computational material design approaches. Polymer Networks and Nanocomposites We study a wide variety of polymer materials, including cross-linked polymer networks and reinforced polymer composites. We develop novel computational and Machine Learning-based methods to design polymer materials with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/?page_id=8\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2111,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/zanjani-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}