Computational Soft Materials Design
We use molecular simulations and machine learning to design polymers and dynamic, soft materials.
The Taylor Lab is a computational soft materials research group in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia. We use molecular dynamics simulations and machine learning to study the structure and dynamics of polymeric materials for target applications as tissue-mimetic and recyclable soft materials. Specific systems of interest to the Taylor Lab include sustainable and bio-inspired polymer networks and nanoparticles such as dynamic covalent polymer networks, double network hydrogels, bottlebrush polymer networks, and peptide-based polyelectrolyte coacervates.