Dr. Wang’s group has worked on the self-assembly of block copolymers under nano-confinement or directed by external fields, which has great potential applications in nanolithography and nano-patterning; stimuli-response of “smart” polymer brushes, which can be used as active nanostructures for chemical gates and biosensors; and polyelectrolyte layer-by-layer assembly, which has a wide variety of applications in industrial and biological processes such as surface modification and enzyme immobilization.

His group has also developed fast Monte Carlo simulations with soft potentials, which are a class of novel Monte Carlo simulation methodologies suitable for soft materials; and systematic and simulation-free coarse graining strategies, which are useful for multiscale modeling of polymeric systems. They are currently working on GPU-accelerated numerical calculations of advanced polymer theories.