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Michael F. Hagan is affiliated with Brandeis University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. The scientist's work encompasses several subfields such as Condensed Matter Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Ecology, and Materials Chemistry.

The main areas of focus in their research include Micro and Nano Robotics, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence, Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization, Advanced Materials and Mechanics, Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials, and Protein Structure and Dynamics.

Michael F. Hagan has contributed extensively to a variety of scientific journals and publication venues. The most frequent venues where they have published include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Soft Matter
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Physical Review Letters

They have collaborated regularly with several co-authors, among whom are:

  • Aparna Baskaran (20 publications)
  • Seth Fraden (19 publications)
  • Gregory M. Grason (15 publications)
  • Farzaneh Mohajerani (14 publications)
  • W. Benjamin Rogers (13 publications)

Selected recent publications by Michael F. Hagan and collaborators include:

  • Programmable icosahedral shell system for virus trapping, 2021, Nature Materials
  • Equilibrium mechanisms of self-limiting assembly, 2021, Reviews of Modern Physics
  • Optimal Control of Active Nematics, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Two-step crystallization and solid-solid transitions in binary colloidal mixtures, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Geometrically programmed self-limited assembly of tubules using DNA origami colloids, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Structure and Dynamics of a Phase-Separating Active Colloidal Fluid

    Gabriel S. Redner;Michael F. Hagan;Aparna Baskaran

  • Origin of nanomechanical cantilever motion generated from biomolecular interactions.

    Guanghua Wu;Haifeng Ji;Karolyn Hansen;Thomas Thundat

  • Dynamic Pathways for Viral Capsid Assembly

    Michael F. Hagan;David Chandler

  • Mechanisms of virus assembly.

    Jason D. Perlmutter;Michael F. Hagan

  • Orientational order of motile defects in active nematics

    Stephen J. DeCamp;Gabriel S. Redner;Aparna Baskaran;Michael F. Hagan

  • Reconfigurable self-assembly through chiral control of interfacial tension

    Thomas Gibaud;Edward Barry;Mark J. Zakhary;Mir Henglin

  • Spontaneous segregation of self-propelled particles with different motilities

    Samuel R. McCandlish;Aparna Baskaran;Michael F. Hagan

  • Sitting at the Edge: How Biomolecules use Hydrophobicity to Tune Their Interactions and Function

    AmishJ. Patel;Patrick Varilly;Sumanth N. Jamadagni;Michael F. Hagan

  • Reentrant phase behavior in active colloids with attraction.

    Gabriel S. Redner;Aparna Baskaran;Michael F. Hagan

  • Programmable icosahedral shell system for virus trapping.

    Christian Sigl;Elena M Willner;Wouter Engelen;Jessica A Kretzmann

  • Nanomechanical Forces Generated by Surface Grafted DNA

    Michael F. Hagan;Arun Majumdar;Arup K. Chakraborty

  • The energy landscape of adenylate kinase during catalysis.

    S. Jordan Kerns;Roman V. Agafonov;Young Jin Cho;Francesco Pontiggia

  • Modeling Viral Capsid Assembly.

    Michael F. Hagan

  • Hybridization dynamics of surface immobilized DNA

    Michael F. Hagan;Arup K. Chakraborty

  • Understanding the Concentration Dependence of Viral Capsid Assembly Kinetics—the Origin of the Lag Time and Identifying the Critical Nucleus Size

    Michael F. Hagan;Oren M. Elrad

  • The role of collective motion in examples of coarsening and self-assembly.

    Stephen Whitelam;Stephen Whitelam;Stephen Whitelam;Edward H. Feng;Michael F. Hagan;Phillip L. Geissler;Phillip L. Geissler

  • Excitable Patterns in Active Nematics

    Luca Giomi;Luca Giomi;Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan;Bulbul Chakraborty;Michael Hagan

  • Atomistic understanding of kinetic pathways for single base-pair binding and unbinding in DNA

    Michael F. Hagan;Aaron R. Dinner;David Chandler;Arup K. Chakraborty

  • Mechanisms of kinetic trapping in self-assembly and phase transformation.

    Michael F. Hagan;Oren M. Elrad;Robert L. Jack

  • Equilibrium mechanisms of self-limiting assembly

    Michael F. Hagan;Gregory M. Grason

  • Flagellar dynamics of a connected chain of active, polar, Brownian particles

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  • Encapsulation of a polymer by an icosahedral virus

    Oren M Elrad;Michael F Hagan

  • Banding, excitability and chaos in active nematic suspensions

    L Giomi;L Mahadevan;B Chakraborty;M F Hagan

  • A theory for viral capsid assembly around electrostatic cores.

    Michael F. Hagan

Frequent Co-Authors

David Chandler
David Chandler University of California, Berkeley
Federico Toschi
Federico Toschi Eindhoven University of Technology
Phillip L. Geissler
Phillip L. Geissler University of California, Berkeley
Robert B. Meyer
Robert B. Meyer Brandeis University
Shekhar Garde
Shekhar Garde Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
John E. Lisman
John E. Lisman Brandeis University
Adam Zlotnick
Adam Zlotnick Indiana University
Vijay S. Pande
Vijay S. Pande Stanford University
Vincent M. Rotello
Vincent M. Rotello University of Massachusetts Amherst

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