- Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
- Phone: 979-458-9134
- Email: msdim@tamu.edu
- Office: RDMC 236
- Research Website
Educational Background
- Ph.D, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology - 2017
- M.S., Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology - 2013
- B.A., Physics and Mathematics, Boston University - 2011
Research Interests
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- Soft matter theory and computation; focus on geometry-based models
- Polymer physics and nanoscale self-assembly
- Statistical mechanics and phase transitions of shape-morphing materials; nonlinear elasticity and buckling
- Mechanical metamaterials and soft composites; architected materials; fiber networks and textiles
Selected Publications
- Michael S. Dimitriyev, Abhiram Reddy, and Gregory M. Grason. "Medial packing, frustration and competing network phases in strongly-segregated block copolymers" (in press, Macromolecules 2023)
- Xueyan Feng, Michael S. Dimitriyev, Edwin L. Thomas. "Soft, malleable double diamond twin" PNAS 120 4 (2023)
- Abhiram Reddy, Michael S. Dimitriyev, Gregory M. Grason. "Medial packing and elastic asymmetry stabilize the double-gyroid in block copolymers" Nature Communications. 13, 2629 - (2022)
- Michael S. Dimitriyev, Gregory M. Grason. "End-exclusion zones in strongly stretched, molten polymer brushes of arbitrary shape" J. Chem. Phys. 155, 224901 (2021)
- Michael S. Dimitriyev, Ya-Wen Chang, Paul M. Goldbart, Alberto Fernández-Nieves. "Swelling thermodynamics and phase transitions of polymer gels" Nano Futures 3 042001 (2019)
- Ya-Wen Chang, Michael S. Dimitriyev, Anton Souslov, Svetoslav V. Nikolov, Samantha M. Marquez, Alexander Alexeev, Paul M. Goldbart, Alberto Fernández-Nieves. "Extreme thermodynamics with polymer gel tori: Harnessing thermodynamic instabilities to induce large-scale deformations" Phys. Rev. E Rapid Communications 98 020501(R) (2018)