Riggleman Computational Soft Matter Lab

The Riggleman Lab at the University of Pennsylvania develops and implements advanced molecular modeling techniques to study soft matter systems like polymers and glassy materials. We explore the dynamics and thermodynamics of these systems across a variety of time and length scales to help explain and predict experimental findings.

Recent Publications

The Role of Intra-molecular Relaxations on the Structure and Stability of vapor-Deposited Glasses

A. Zhang, A. Moore, H. Zhao, S. Govind, S. E. Wolf, Y. Jin, P. Walsh, R. A. Riggleman, Z. Fakhraai. J. Chem. Phys. (2022)

Effect of Graft Length and Matrix Molecular Weight on String Assembly of Aligned Nanoplates in a Lamellar Diblock Copolymer

C. Tabedzki, N. M. Krook, C. B. Murray, R. J. Composto, R. A. Riggleman. Macromolecules (2022)

Predicting the unobserved. A statistical mechanics framework for non-equilibrium material response with quantified uncertainty

S. Huang, I. R. Graham, R. A. Riggleman, P. E. Arratio, S. Fitzgerald, C. Reina. J. Mech. Phys. Solids (2022)

Role of Local Structure in the Enhanced Dynamics of Deformed Glasses

E. Yang, R. A. Riggleman. Phys. Rev. Lett. (2022)