The portfolio of techniques that we use can be applied to a variety of soft matter systems, with the aim of rationally designing new materials and functional nanostructures. Examples include modelling biomimetic nanopores, packing of nano-objects, aggregation of polymers and nanoparticles with various interactions, self-assembly on elastic manifolds, and particle arrangement in mechanical or thermal gradients.

• Azadbakht, B. Meadowcroft, T. Varkevisser, A. Šarić, D. Kraft, Wrapping pathways of anisotropic dumbbell particles by giant unilamellar vesicles, Nano Lett 23, 4267 (2023).
• I. Palaia, A. Paraschiv, V. Debets, C. Storm, A. Šarić, Durotaxis of Passive Nanoparticles on Elastic Membranes , ACS Nano 15, 15794 (2021).
• J. Forster, J. Krausser, M. Vuyyuru, B. Baum, A. Šarić, Exploring the Design Rules for Efficient Membrane-Reshaping Nanostructures , Phys Rev Lett, 125, 228101 (2020).
•  P. D. E. Fisher, Q. Shen, B. Akpinar, L. K. Davis, K. K. H. Chung, D. Baddeley, A. Šarić, T. J. Melia, B. W. Hoogenboom, C. Lin, C. P. Lusk, A Programmable DNA Origami Platform for Organizing Intrinsically Disordered Nucleoporins within Nanopore Confinement, ACS Nano12, 1502 (2018). (Highlight on the UCL website.)
• P. Wirnsberger, D. Fijan, R. A. Lightwood, A. Šarić, C. Dellago and D. Frenkel, Numerical evidence for thermally induced monopoles, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 114, 4911 (2017).
• A. Šarić and A. Cacciuto. Particle self-assembly on soft elastic shells. Soft Matter 7, 1874 (2011).
• A. Šarić, J. C. Pàmies, and A. Cacciuto. Effective elasticity of a flexible filament bound to a deformable cylindrical surface. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226101 (2010).