A fundamental challenge of modern soft matter physics is to form structure that is not frozen in Place but instead reconfigures internally driven by energy throughput and adapts to its environment robustly. Predicated on super-resolution and other fluorescence imaging at the single-particle level, this talk describes quantitative studies of how this can happen. With Janus colloidal clusters, we show the powerful role of synchronized motion in self-assembly. In living cells, we find that transportation efficiency problems bear a provocative parallel with polymer chain   trajectories with their spatial extent, and with jammed matter in their time evolution. A picture emerges in which simple experiments, performed at single-particle and single-molecule resolution, can dissect macroscopic phenomena in ways that surprise.
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Steve Granick spent 30 years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, most recently as   the Racheff Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biophysics and Physics, Chemistry, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Presently he is Director of a blue-sky research center, the Center for Soft and Living Matter of the Institute of Basic Science, Korea, and Professor of Chemistry and Physics at UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology). He is recipient of the APS Polymer Physics Prize (2009) and the ACS Colloid and Surface Chemistry Prize (2013). He has published papers in journals of Science, Nature, Nature Materials, PRL, JACS, PNAS etc. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

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