Welcome to Prof. Haji-Akbari’s Computational Soft Matter Group at Yale University Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering. We are broadly interested in the application of modern theoretical and computational tools rooted in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to study the thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transitions in soft matter systems. Our particular focus is on crystallization and aggregation in colloidal, aqueous and biological systems. Examples include the ice formation in the atmosphere, desalination nanotechnology, colloidal self-assembly and protein folding and aggregation.
Research
Explore our current research projects in crystallization, desalination, membrane nanotechnology and protein dynamics.
Recent News
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- Conferences
Omar gives a talk at STMS!
His virtual presentation was titled “Ion transport in sub-nanometer pores: Secondary finite size effects and anomalous length dependance.”
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- Conferences
Arlind presented a poster at BPS Annual Meeting
His poster was titled “Effect of Environmental Perturbations on the Conformational Dynamics of Human gammaD-Crystallin.”
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- Publication
44. Robustness of Classical Nucleation Theory to Chemical Heterogeneity of Crystal Nucleating Substrates
Sulantay Vargas F., Hussain S., Haji-Akbari A. Crystal Growth & Design (2026)
