Materials Science & Engineering

Dr. Brady’s research interests are in the mechanical and transport properties of two-phase materials, especially complex fluids such as biological liquids, colloid dispersions, suspensions, porous media, active matter, etc. His research combines statistical and continuum mechanics to understand how macroscopic behavior emerges from microscale physics. He is the co-inventor of the Stokesian Dynamics technique for simulating the behavior of particles dispersed in a viscous fluid under a wide range of conditions. Recently, Dr. Brady discovered a new organizing principle for active matter known as...

Control of material processes at the level of atoms and electrons is a grand challenge of materials design. At the smallest length scales the placement of even a single atom or defect in the periodic arrangement can alter nanomaterial function. In my PhD at MIT I studied the growth and interfacing nanomaterials, using advanced microscopy techniques for creating and understanding atomically-precise nanostructures. As a Miller Fellow, I aim to add functionality – to understand how individual atoms and atomic-scale defects behave under applied electric or optical fields in nanoscale devices. By...