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Colloidal Heteroepitaxy Science Adv. 6, Issue 10, eaay 8418 (2020)
Memory formation in a amorphous bubble raft Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 158001 (2019)
Evidence for growing static-order in a colloidal glass Nature Phys. 11, 403 (2015)
Colloidal Heteroepitaxy Science Adv. 6, Issue 10, eaay 8418 (2020)
Research Papers
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A shape-driven re-entrant jamming transition in confluent monolayers of synthetic cell-mimics
Pragya Arora, Souvik Sadhukhan, Saroj Kumar Nandi, Dapeng Bi, A K Sood, and Rajesh Ganapathy
(submitted 2024, arXiv)
Published
2023
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Harnessing viscoelasticity to suppress irreversibility build-up in a colloidal Stirling engine
Niloyendu Roy, A K Sood, and Rajesh Ganapathy
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238201 (2023)
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Overcoming Power-efficiency Tradeoff in a Micro Heat Engine by Engineered System-bath Interactions
Sudeesh Krishnamurthy, Rajesh Ganapathy and A K Sood
Nature Commun. 14, 6842 (2023)
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Soft Matter Roadmap
Jean-Louis Barrat, Emanuela Del Gado, Stefan U Egelhaaf, Xiaoming Mao, Marjolein Dijkstra, David J Pine, Sanat K Kumar, Kyle Bishop, Oleg Gang, Allie Obermeyer, Christine M Papadakis, Costantinos Tsitsilianis, Ivan I Smalyukh, Aurelie Hourlier-Fargette, Sebastien Andrieux, Wiebke Drenckhan, Norman Wagner, Ryan P Murphy, Eric R Weeks, Roberto Cerbino, Yilong Han, Luca Cipelletti, Laurence Ramos, Wilson CK Poon, James A Richards, Itai Cohen, Eric M Furst, Alshakim Nelson, Stephen L Craig, Rajesh Ganapathy, Ajay Kumar Sood, Francesco Sciortino, M Mungan, Srikanth Sastry, Colin Scheibner, Michel Fruchart, Vincenzo Vitelli, SA Ridout, M Stern, I Tah, G Zhang, Andrea J Liu, Chinedum O Osuji, Yuan Xu, Heather M Shewan, Jason Stokes, Matthias Merkel, Pierre Ronceray, Jean-François Rupprecht, Olga Matsarskaia, Frank Schreiber, Felix Roosen-Runge, Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam, Gijsje Koenderink, Rosa M Espinosa-Marzal, Joaquin Yus, Jiheon Kwon
J. Phys. Mater. (in press, 2023)
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Intermediate-range order governs dynamics in dense colloidal liquids
Navneet Singh, Zhen Zhang, A K Sood, Walter Kob, and Rajesh Ganapathy
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 120, e2300923120 (2023)
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Hierarchical Colloidal Self-Assembly on Lattice-Mismatched Moiré Patterns
Manodeep Mondal and Rajesh Ganapathy
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, 619 (2023)
2022
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Synergisitic Action in Colloidal Heat Engines Coupled by Non-conservative Flows
Sudeesh Krishnamurthy, Rajesh Ganapathy and A K Sood
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Direct Measurements of Surface Strain-mediated Lateral Interactions Between Adsorbates in Colloidal Heteroepitaxy
Manodeep Mondal and Rajesh Ganapathy
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 088003 (2022)
Highlighted as an Editor's Suggestion
Covered by Physics Magazine; see Synopsis - Colloids Reproduce Interatom Interactions on Surfaces by Katherine Wright
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Observation of Two-step Melting on a Sphere
Naveneet Singh, A K Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 119, e2206470119 (2022)
Structural Origin of Excitations in a Colloidal Glass Former
Divya Ganapathi, A K Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy
J. Chem. Phys. 156, 214502 (2022)
Motile Topological Defects Hinder Dynamical Arrest in Dense Liquids of Active Ellipsoids
Pragya Arora, A K Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 178002 (2022)
Highlighted as an Editor's Suggestion
Covered by Physics Magazine; see Synopsis - Defects Help 3D-Printed Particles Keep on Swirling by Katie McCormick
2021
Tuning the Performance of a Micrometer-sized Stirling engine Through Reservoir Engineering
Niloyendu Roy, Nathan Leroux, A K Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy
Nature Commun. 12, 4927 (2021)
Emergent Stereoselective Interactions and Self-recognition in Polar Chiral Active Ellipsoids
Pragya Arora, A K Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy
Science Adv. 7, Issue 9, eabd0331 (2021)
Structure Determines Where Crystallization Occurs in a Soft Colloidal Glass
Divya Ganapathi, Dibyashree Chakraborti, A K Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy
2020
Cooperatively Rearranging Regions Change Shape Near the Mode-coupling Crossover for Colloidal Liquids on a Sphere
Navneet Singh, A K Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy
Nature Commun. 11, 4967 (2020)
Role of Particle Orientational Order During Shear-thickening in Suspensions of Colloidal Rods
Vikram Rathee, Srishti Arora, Daniel Blair, Jeffrey S Urbach, A K Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy
Cooperative Particle Rearrangements Faciliate the Self-organised Growth of Colloidal Crystal Arrays on Strain-relief Patterns
Manodeep Mondal, Chandan K Mishra, Rajdeep Banerjee, Shobhana Narasimhan, A K Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy
Science Adv. 6, Issue 10, eaay 8418 (2020)
Featured as a banner on Science Advances webpage.
2019
Long-wavelength Fluctuations and Anomalous Dynamics in Two-dimensional Liquids
Yan-Wei Li, Chandan K Mishra, Zhao-Yan Sun, Kun Zhao, Thomas G. Mason, Rajesh Ganapathy and Massimo Pica Ciamarra
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116, 22977 (2019)
Strength of Mechanical Memories is Maximal at the Yield Point of a Soft Glass
Srimayee Mukherji, Nellima Kandula, A K Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy
Highhlighted as a Editor's Suggestion and featured as a cover of Apr 19th Issue
Covered by Johanna Miller in Physics Today - A raft of soap bubbles remembers its past
2018
Measurements of Growing Surface Tension of Amorphous-Amorphous Interfaces on Approaching the Colloidal Glass Transition
Divya Ganapathi, Hima K Nagamanasa, A K Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy
2017
Crystallization: Brought to the surface
Rajesh Ganapathy and AK Sood
News & Views
2016
Site-specific Colloidal Crystal Nucleation by Template-enhanced Particle Transport
Chandan K Mishra, AK Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy
A Micrometer-sized Engine Operating Between Bacterial Reservoirs
Suddesh Krishnamurthy, Subho Ghosh, Dipankar Chatterji, Rajesh Ganapathy and A K Sood
Influence of an amorphous wall on the distribution of localized excitations in a colloidal glass-forming liquid
Shreyas Gokhale, Hima K Nagamanasa, A K Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 7, 074013 (2016)
Deconstructing the Glass Transition Through Critical Experiments on Colloids
Shreyas Gokhale, A K Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy
Localized Excitations and the Morphology of Cooperatively Rearranging Regions in a Colloidal Glass-Forming Liquid
Shreyas Gokhale, Rajesh Ganapathy, Hima K Nagamanasa and A K Sood
Mechanical Properties of C60 Thin films at the Air-Water Interface
V Santhosh, R Voggu, P Chaturbedy, Rajesh Ganapathy and CNR Rao
2015
Viscoelastic Nature of Au Nanoparticle PDMS Nanocomposite Gels
Ritu Gupta, Hima K Nagamanasa, Rajesh Ganapathy and Giridhar U Kulkarni
Shape of Dynamical Heterogeneities and the Fractional Stokes-Einstein and Stokes-Einstein-Debye Relations in Suspensions of Colloidal Ellipsoids
Chandan K Mishra and Rajesh Ganapathy
Direct Measurements of Growing Amorphous Order and Non-monotonic Dynamic Correlations in a Colloidal Glass Former
Hima K Nagamanasa, Shreyas Gokhale, A K Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy
See News & Views by Eric Weeks
Also featured as the cover of Nature Physics May 2015
2014
Dynamical Facilitation Governs Glassy Dynamics in Suspensions of Colloidal Ellipsoids
Chandan K Mishra, Hima K Nagamanasa, Rajesh Ganapathy, A K Sood and Shreyas Gokhale
Growing Dynamical Facilitation on Approaching the Random Pinning Colloidal Glass Transition
Shreyas Gokhale, Hima K Nagamanasa, Rajesh Ganapathy and A K Sood
Experimental Signatures of a Non-Equilibrium Phase Transition Governing the Yielding of a Soft Glass
Hima K Nagamanasa, Shreyas Gokhale, A. K. Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy
2013
Grain Growth and Grain Boundary Dynamics in Colloidal Crystals
Shreyas Gokhale, Hima K Nagamanasa, Rajesh Ganapathy and A. K. Sood
Themed Issue on Emerging Investigators In Soft Matter
Entropy Driven Crystal Formation on Highly Strained Substrates
John R Savage, Stefan R Hopp, Rajesh Ganapathy, Sharon J Gerbode, Andreas Heuer and Itai Cohen
Two-Step Glass Transition Induced by Attractive Interactions in Quasi-two-dimensional Suspensions of Ellipsoidal Particles
Chandan K Mishra, Amritha Rangarajan and Rajesh Ganapathy
2012
Directional Grain Growth from Anisotropic Kinetic Roughening of Grain Boundaries in Sheared Colloidal Crystals
Shreyas Gokhale, Hima K Nagamanasa, V Santhosh, A K Sood, and Rajesh Ganapathy
2011
Confined Glassy Dynamics At Grain Boundaries In Colloidal Crystals
Hima K Nagamanasa, Shreyas Gokhale, Rajesh Ganapathy, and A K Sood
2010
Direct Measurements of Island Growth and Step-edge Barriers in Colloidal Epitaxy
Rajesh Ganapathy, Mark R. Buckley, Sharon Gerbode and Itai Cohen
Perspectives by Theodore L. Einstein and Timothy J. Stasevich, Science 327, 423 (2010)
2008
Spatiotemporal Nematodynamics in Wormlike Micelles En route to Rheochaos
Rajesh Ganapathy, Sayantan Majumdar and A K Sood
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Shear Induced Bands En route to Rheochaos
Rajesh Ganapathy, Sayantan Majumdar and A K Sood
Nonlinear Dynamics in the Flow of Wormlike Micelles: Regular and Chaotic Time-dependence of Stress, Normal Force and Nematic Ordering
Rajesh Ganapathy and A K Sood
2007
Interfacial Rheology of an Ultrathin Nanocrystalline Film Formed at the Liquid/Liquid Interface
R Krishnaswamy, S Majumdar, Rajesh Ganapathy, V V Agarwal, A K Sood, and C N R Rao
Structure of Mesh Phases in a Cationic Surfactant System with Strongly Bound Counterions
S K Ghosh, Rajesh Ganapathy, R Krishnaswamy, J Bellare, V A Raghunathan and A K Sood
Superdiffusion of Concentration in Wormlike Micelles
Rajesh Ganapathy, A K Sood and Sriram Ramaswamy
Granger Causality and Cross Recurrence Plots in Rheochaos
Rajesh Ganapathy, G. Rangarajan and A K Sood
2006
Tuning Rheochaos by Temperature in Wormlike Micelles
Rajesh Ganapathy and A K Sood
Order and Chaos in Soft Condensed Matter
A K Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy
Intermittency Route to Rheochaos in Wormlike Micelles with Flow-Concentration Coupling
Rajesh Ganapathy and A K Sood
Structure of poly (propyl ether imine) (PETIM) dendrimer from fully atomistic molecular Dynamics Simulation and by Small Angle X-ray scattering
Chandan Jana, G. Jayamurugan, Rajesh Ganapathy, Prabal K. Maiti, N. Jayaraman and A K Sood