Experimental Soft & Active Matter Lab
We use high-precision real-space imaging techniques to directly probe the physics of soft and active matter.
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Selected recent publications​​
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Shape-drive jamming-unjamming of cell-mimics, Nat. Comm. 2024​
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Colloidal heat engine in a viscoelastic bath, PRL 2023
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Overcoming power-efficiency trade-off in a micro heat engine, Nat. Comm. 2023​
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Uncovering order in disordered systems, PNAS 2023
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Surface strain mediated interactions in colloidal heteroepitaxy, PRL 2022
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Melting on a sphere, PNAS 2022
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Glassy dynamics of active granular ellipsoids, PRL 2022
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Colloidal heat engine in engineered reservoirs, Nat. Comm. 2021
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Stereo-selective interactions in chiral active ellipsoids, Sci. Adv. 2021
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Devitrification of a colloidal glass, Nat. Phys. 2021​
Funding
Media coverage of our research
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Cell-mimics chosen as Biomedical Picture of the Day (July 16th, 2024)
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Indian scientists crack 'cellular unjamming' puzzle - The Telegraph