Copp Lab/Soft Matter Photonics Lab, University of California, Irvine
The Copp Lab is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at UC Irvine within the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, composed of graduate and undergraduate students. The lab uses soft matter building blocks to build nanoscale materials that create or manipulate light. The lab's research focuses on how self-assembly of biomolecules and synthetic polymers can guide the formation of novel optical materials. Much of the lab's work incorporates machine learning and data mining for materials study and design.