Affiliations:
• NSF Triangle Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)
• DOE EFRC Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation (CLSF)
• NCSU Center for High Performance Simulations (CHIPS)
• Nano@NCSU

Funding:
• National Science Foundation, Directorate of Engineering
• National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research
• US Department of Energy,Office of Basic Energy Sciences
• Renaissance Computing Institute

• Large scale molecular dynamics simulations of bio-organic and bio-inorganic interfaces;
• Molecular modeling of self-assembly and folding of DNA and RNA based materials;
• Molecular dynamics simulations of interactions between nanoparticles and biopolymers;
• Multiscale molecular modeling of polymer nanocomposites;
• Three-dimensional structure prediction of proteins and nucleic acids;
• Mechanisms of cellulose biosynthesis.

Recent News:

• We are organizing MRS Symposium A on "Modeling and Theory-Driven Design of Soft Materials" to be held on December 1-6, 2013 in Boston, MA . If you are interested in presenting or sponsoring please email Dr. Yingling.
• Congratulations to Jessica Nash who received NSF Graduate Fellowship in 2013 !
• Congratulations to Sak Sethaphong, who successfully defended his doctoral thesis in March 2013!
• Congratulations to Rakhee Pani, who successfully defended her doctoral thesis in October 2012!