Soft Matter and Bio-inspired Materials Research

Flow-induced periodic chiral structures in an achiral nematic liquid crystal.
Q Zhang, W Wang, S Zhou, R Zhang,I Bischofberger,
Nature Communications, 15, 7 [link]

The interaction of an oil droplet and a gas bubble rising in a quiescent fluid.
M Federle, A Das, V Mathai, R Zenit,
Int. J. Mult. Flow 171, 104682 [link]

Biofilms as self-shaping growing nematics , J Nijjer, C Li, M Kothari, T Henzel, Q Zhang, J Tai, S Zhou, Tal Cohen, S Zhang & J Yan, Nature Physics,  (2023), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02221-1 [link]

Consequences of Noncovalent Interfacial Contacts Between Nanoparticles and Giant Vesicles.
A Fernandez, J Krishna, F Anson, A D Dinsmore, S. Thayumanavan
Angewandte Chemie [link] 

Fluid-structure interactions of energy-harvesting membrane hydrofoils
V Mathai, GA Tzezana, A Das, KS Breuer
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 942 [link]

Adsorption of Hydrophilic Silica Nanoparticles at Oil-water Interfaces with Reversible Emulsion Stabilization by Ion Partitioning.
R K Keane, W Hong, W He, S Teale, R Bancroft, and A D Dinsmore
Langmuir, 38(9), pp.2821-2831. [link]

Aerosol transmission in passenger car cabins: Effects of ventilation configuration and driving speed.
V Mathai, A Das, K Breuer
Physics of Fluids, 34(2), p.021904. [link]

Consequences of Noncovalent Interfacial Contacts Between Nanoparticles and Giant Vesicles.
A Fernandez, J Krishna, F Anson, A D Dinsmore, S. Thayumanavan
Angewandte Chemie [link] 

Fluid-structure interactions of energy-harvesting membrane hydrofoils
V Mathai, GA Tzezana, A Das, KS Breuer
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 942 [link]

Adsorption of Hydrophilic Silica Nanoparticles at Oil-water Interfaces with Reversible Emulsion Stabilization by Ion Partitioning.
R K Keane, W Hong, W He, S Teale, R Bancroft, and A D Dinsmore
Langmuir, 38(9), pp.2821-2831. [link]

Aerosol transmission in passenger car cabins: Effects of ventilation configuration and driving speed.
V Mathai, A Das, K Breuer
Physics of Fluids, 34(2), p.021904. [link]

Stresses in thin sheets at fluid interfaces.
D Kumar, TP Russell, B Davidovitch, N Menon
Nature materials, 19(7), pp.690-693. [link]

The air we breathe in a car
V Mathai
Physics Today, 74(6), 66 [link]

Airflows inside passenger cars and implications for airborne disease transmission
V Mathai, A Das, JA Bailey, K Breuer
Science Advances, 7(1), p.eabe0166. [link]

Triggered Interactions between Nanoparticles and Lipid Membranes: Design Principles for Gel Formation or Disruption-and-Release.
R Cao, J Gao, S T Thayumanavan, and A D Dinsmore
Soft Matter (Communication), 17(30), pp.7069-7075. [link]

The buckling spectra of nanoparticle surfactant assemblies
J Forth, A Mariano, Y Chai, A Toor, J Hasnain, Y Jiang, W Feng, X Liu, P Geissler, N Menon, B Helms, P Ashby, T Russell
Nano letters, 21(17), pp.7116-7122.  [link]

Indentation of solid membranes on rigid substrates with van der Waals attraction.
B Davidovitch, F Guinea
Physical Review E, 103(4):043002.  [link]

Scale-invariant spins and tumbles in turbulence
V Mathai
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 926 [link]

Rucks and folds: delamination from a flat rigid substrate under uniaxial compression.
B Davidovitch, V Demery
The European Physical Journal E, 44(2), pp.1-12. [link]

Membrane remodeling by DNA origami nanorods: Experiments exploring the parameter space for vesicle remodeling
S E Zuraw-Weston, M Siavashpouri , M E Moustaka, T Gerling, H Dietz, S Fraden, A Ribbe and A D Dinsmore
Langmuir, 37(20), pp.6219-6231 [link]

Vesicle-based Gel via Polyelectrolyte-Induced Adhesion: Structure, Rheology, and Response.
R Cao, D Kumar, and A D Dinsmore
Langmuir, 37(5), pp.1714-1724. [link]

Nonlinear fluid damping of elastically mounted pitching wings in quiescent water
Y Zhu, V Mathai, K Breuer
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 923 [link]

Shapes of a filament on the surface of a bubble.
SG Prasath, J Marthelot, R Govindarajan, N Menon
Proc. Roy Soc. A, 477(2253), p.20210353. [link]

Water entry of spheres into a rotating liquid
L Yi, S Li, H Jiang, D Lohse, C Sun, V Mathai
Journal of fluid mechanics, 192 [link]

Wetting and wrapping of a floating droplet by a thin elastic filament
SG Prasath, J Marthelot, N Menon, R Govindarajan
Soft Matter, 17(6), pp.1497-1504. [link]

Bubbly and buoyant particle laden turbulent flows
V Mathai, D Lohse, C Sun
Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 11, pp.529-559. [link]

Mesoscale structure of wrinkle patterns and defect-proliferated liquid crystalline phases
O Tovkach, J Chen, MM Ripp, T Zhang, JD Paulsen, B Davidovitch
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(8), pp.3938-3943. [link]

Waves, algebraic growth, and clumping in sedimenting disk arrays.
R Chajwa, N Menon, S Ramaswamy, R Govindarajan
Physical Review X, 10(4), p.041016. [link]

Birth and decay of tensional wrinkles in hyperelastic sheets
A Panaitescu, M Xin, B Davidovitch, J Chopin, A Kudrolli
Physical Review E, 100(5), p.053003. [link]

Response of a Raft of Particles to a Local Indentation
W He, Y Sun, and A D Dinsmore
Soft Matter, 16(10), pp.2497-2505. [link]

Nonlinear modeling and characterization of ultrasoft silicone elastomers
A Das, KS Breuer, V Mathai
Applied Physics Letters, 116(20), p.203702 [link]

Experimental study of the heat transfer properties of self-sustained biphasic thermally driven turbulence.
Z Wang, V Mathai, C Sun
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 152, p.119515. [link]

Longer-lasting electron-based microscopy of single molecules in aqueous medium
H Wang, KH Nagamanasa, YJ Kim, OH Kwon, S Granick
ACS nano, 12(8), pp.8572-8578.

Longer-lasting electron-based microscopy of single molecules in aqueous medium
H Wang, KH Nagamanasa, YJ Kim, OH Kwon, S Granick
ACS nano, 12(8), pp.8572-8578.

Self-sustained biphasic catalytic particle turbulence
Z Wang*, V Mathai*, C Sun
Nature Communications, 10(1), pp.1-7

Nanoparticles Binding to Lipid Membranes: from Vesicle-based Gels to Vesicle Tubulation and Destruction
S Z Weston, D A Wood, I K. Torres, Y Lee, L W Z Jiang, G R Lazaro, S Wang, A A Rodal, M F Hagan, V M Rotello, and A D Dinsmore,
Nanoscale, 11(39), pp.18464-18474

Robustness of FCS (fluorescence correlation spectroscopy) with quenchers present.
HN Kandula, AY Jee, S Granick
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 123(46), pp.10184-10189.

Geometrically incompatible confinement of solids
B Davidovitch, Y Sun, GM Grason
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(5), pp.1483-1488.

Regimes of wrinkling in an indented floating elastic sheet
D Vella, B Davidovitch
Physical Review E, 98(1), p.013003.

Kepler orbits in pairs of disks settling in a viscous fluid
R Chajwa, N Menon, S Ramaswamy
Physical Review Letters, 122(22), p.224501

Dynamics of heavy and buoyant underwater pendulums
V Mathai, LAWM Loeffen, TTK Chan, S Wildeman
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 862 (2019): 348-363.

Final fate of a Leidenfrost droplet: Explosion or takeoff
S Lyu*, V Mathai*, Y Wang, B Sobac, P Colinet, D Lohse, C Sun
Science advances, 5(5), p.eaav8081

Convective heat transfer along ratchet surfaces in vertical natural convection
H Jiang, X Zhu, V Mathai, X Yang, R Verzicco, D Lohse, C Sun
Journal of fluid mechanics, 873 (2019): 1055-1071.

Statistics of rigid fibers in strongly sheared turbulence
D Bakhuis, V Mathai, RA Verschoof, R Ezeta, D Lohse, SG Huisman, C Sun
Physical review fluids, 4(7), p.072301.

Mixing induced by a bubble swarm rising through incident turbulence
E Almeras, V Mathai, C Sun, D Lohse
International journal of multiphase flow, 114, pp.316-322.

Recent progresses in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal research: elasticity, viscosity, defect structures, and living liquid crystals
S Zhou
Liquid Crystals Today, 27(4), pp.91-108.

Partial wetting of thin solid sheets under tension.
B Davidovitch, D Vella
Soft Matter, 14(24), pp.4913-4934.

Geometry-driven folding of a floating annular sheet.
JD Paulsen, V Demery, KB Toga, Z Qiu, TP Russell, B Davidovitch, N Menon
Physical review letters, 118(4), p.048004.

Water Permeability and Elastic Properties of an Archaea Inspired Lipid Synthesized by Click Chemistry.
G Leriche, A Manafirad, S Nguyen, N Bell, J P Patterson, S Thayumanavan, J Yang, A D Dinsmore, N C Gianneschi
Chem. Mater, 30(11), pp.3618-3622.

Wetting, Meniscus Structure, and Capillary Interactions of Microspheres Bound to a Cylindrical Liquid Interface.
P Kim, A D Dinsmore, D A Hoagland, T P Russell
Soft Matter, 14(11), pp.2131-2141.

Wax Spreading in Paper under Controlled Pressure and Temperature.
W Hong, J Zhou, M Kanungo, N Jia, A D Dinsmore
Langmuir, 34(1), pp.432-441.

Measurements of growing surface tension of amorphous‚Äìamorphous interfaces on approaching the colloidal glass transition.
D Ganapathi, KH Nagamanasa, AK Sood, R Ganapathy
Nature communications, 9(1), pp.1-8.

Dispersion of air bubbles in isotropic turbulence
V Mathai, SG Huisman, C Sun, D Lohse, M Bourgoin
Physical Review Letters, 121(5), p.054501

Flutter to tumble transition of buoyant spheres triggered by rotational inertia changes
V Mathai, X Zhu, C Sun, D Lohse
Nature Communications, 9(1), pp.1-7.

Experimental investigation of heat transport in homogeneous bubbly flow
B Gvozdic, EO Almeras, V Mathai, X Zhu, DPM van Gils, R Verzicco, D Lohse
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 845 (2018): 226-244

Transition to the ultimate regime in two-dimensional Rayleigh-Benard convection
X Zhu, V Mathai, RJAM Stevens, R Verzicco, D Lohse
Physical Review Letters, 120(14), p.144502.

Controlling heat transport and flow structures in thermal turbulence using ratchet surfaces
H Jiang, X Zhu, V Mathai, R Verzicco, D Lohse, C Sun
Physical Review Letters, 120(4), p.044501.

Finite-sized rigid spheres in turbulent Taylor-Couette flow: effect on the overall drag
D Bakhuis, RA Verschoof, V Mathai, SG Huisman, D Lohse, C Sun
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 850, pp.246-261.

Thickness dependence of the Young’s-modulus of polymer thin films
J Chang, KB Toga, JD Paulsen, N Menon, TP Russell
Macromolecules, 51(17), pp.6764-6770.

Solid-on-solid contact in a sphere-wall collision in a viscous fluid
SK Birwa, G Rajalakshmi, R Govindarajan, N Menon
Physical Review Fluids, 3(4), p.044302.

Wrapping with a splash: High-speed encapsulation with ultrathin sheets
D Kumar, JD Paulsen, TP Russell, N Menon
Science, 359(6377), pp.775-778.

Fine structure of the topological defect cores studied for disclinations in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
S Zhou, SV Shiyanovskii, HS Park, OD Lavrentovich
Nature communications, 8(1), pp.1-7.

Liquid-cell electron microscopy of adsorbed polymers
KH Nagamanasa, H Wang, S Granick
Advanced Materials, 29(41), p.1703555.

Geometry-driven folding of a floating annular sheet
JD Paulsen, V Demery, KB Toga, Z Qiu, TP Russell, B Davidovitch, N Menon
Physical review letters, 118(4), p.048004.

Mass and moment of inertia govern the transition in the dynamics and wakes of freely rising and falling cylinders.
V Mathai, X Zhu, C Sun, D Lohse
Physical Review Letters, 119(5), p.054501.

Indentation metrology of clamped, ultra-thin elastic sheets
D Vella, B Davidovitch
Soft Matter, 13(11), pp.2264-2278.

Confined Assemblies of Colloidal Particles with Soft Repulsive Interactions
G Wu, H Cho, D A Wood, A D Dinsmore, S Yang
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139(14), pp.5095-5101.

Deformation of the contact line around spherical particles bound at anisotropic fluid interfaces.
N Senbil, A D Dinsmore
Soft Matter, 13(44), pp.8234-8239.

Growing Surface Tension of Amorphous-Amorphous Interfaces on Approaching the Colloidal Glass Transition
D Ganapathi, HK Nagamanasa, AK Sood, R Ganapathy
arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.03442

Experimental investigation of the turbulence induced by a bubble swarm rising within incident turbulence
E Almeras, V Mathai, D Lohse, C Sun
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 825, pp.1091-1112.

Hemodynamic comparison of stent configurations used for aortoiliac occlusive disease
EG Jebbink, V Mathai, JT Boersen, C Sun, CH Slump, PCJM Goverde, M. Versluis, M.M Reijnen
Journal of vascular surgery, 66(1), pp.251-260.

Noise and diffusion of a vibrated self-propelled granular particle
L Walsh, CG Wagner, S Schlossberg, C Olson, A Baskaran, N Menon
Soft matter, 13(47), pp.8964-8968.

Dynamic states of swimming bacteria in a nematic liquid crystal cell with homeotropic alignment
S Zhou, O Tovkach, D Golovaty, A Sokolov, IS Aranson, OD Lavrentovich
New Journal of Physics, 19(5), p.055006.

Organic liquid-crystal devices based on ionic conductors
CH Yang, S Zhou, S Shian, DR Clarke, Z Suo
Materials Horizons, 4(6), pp.1102-1109.

Ionic-content dependence of viscoelasticity of the lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal sunset yellow
S Zhou
Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals, pp. 33-49. Springer, Cham, 2017.

Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals: From Viscoelastic Properties to Living Liquid Crystals
S Zhou
Springer International Publishing

Elasticity, viscosity, and orientational fluctuations of a lyotropic chromonic nematic liquid crystal disodium cromoglycate
S Zhou
Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals, pp. 51-75. Springer, Cham.

Localized excitations and the morphology of cooperatively rearranging regions in a colloidal glass-forming Liquid
S Gokhale, R Ganapathy, KH Nagamanasa, AK Sood
Physical review letters, 116(6), p.068305.

Curvature-induced stiffness and the spatial variation of wavelength in wrinkled sheets
JD Paulsen, E Hohlfeld, H King, J Huang, Z Qiu, TP Russell, N Menon, D Vella, B Davidovitch
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(5), pp.1144-1149.

Osmotically-Induced Tension and the Binding of N-BAR Protein to Lipid Vesicles
J B Hutchison, APKKK Mudiyanselage, R M Weis, A D Dinsmore
Soft Matter, 12(8), pp.2465-2472.

Microbubbles and microparticles are not faithful tracers of turbulent acceleration
V Mathai, E Calzavarini, J Brons, C Sun, D Lohse
Physical Review Letters, 117(2), p.024501.

Heterogeneity of Surface Potential in Contact Electrification under Ambient Conditions: a comparison of pre- and post-contact states.
AM Barnes, AD Dinsmore
J. Electrostatics, 81, pp.76-81.

Influence of an amorphous wall on the distribution of localized excitations in a colloidal glass-forming liquid
S Gokhale, KH Nagamanasa, AK Sood, R Ganapathy
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2016(7), p.074013.

Nanoparticle puzzles and research opportunities that go beyond state of the art
AY Jee, K Lou, HS Jang, KH Nagamanasa, S Granick
Faraday discussions, 186 (2016): 11-15.

Translational and rotational dynamics of a large buoyant sphere in turbulence
V Mathai, MWM Neut, EP van der Poel, C Sun
Experiments in Fluids, 57(4), pp.1-10.

Ordering and dynamics of vibrated hard squares
L Walsh, N Menon
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2016(8), p.083302.

Direct measurements of growing amorphous order and non-monotonic dynamic correlations in a colloidal glass-former
K Hima Nagamanasa, S Gokhale, AK Sood, R Ganapathy
Nature Physics, 11(5), pp.403-408.

Measured Capillary Forces on Spheres at Particle-Laden Interface.
W He, N Senbil, AD Dinsmore
Soft Matter, 11(25), pp.5087-5094.

Effect of Interface Shape on Advancing and Receding Fluid-Contact Angles around Spherical Particles
N Senbil, W He, V Demery, AD Dinsmore
Soft Matter (Communication), 11(25), pp.4999-5003.

Solid Particles Adsorbed on Capillary-Bridge-Shaped Fluid Polystyrene Surfaces.
K McEnnis, AD Dinsmore, TP Russell
Langmuir, 31(19), pp.5299-5305.

Light-Driven Reversible Alignment Switching of Liquid Crystals Enabled by Azo Thiol Grafted Gold Nanoparticles
C Xue, J Xiang, H Nemati, HK Bisoyi, K Gutierrez‚ÄêCuevas, L Wang, M Gao, S. Zhou, D.K. Yang, OD Lavrentovich, A Urbas
ChemPhysChem, 16(9), pp.1852-1856.

Individual behavior and pairwise interactions between microswimmers in anisotropic liquid
A Sokolov, S Zhou, OD Lavrentovich, IS Aranson
Physical Review E, 91(1), p.013009.

Living liquid crystals
S Zhou, A Sokolov, OD Lavrentovich, IS Aranson
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(4), pp.1265-1270.

Morphology-Dependent Electronic Properties in Cross-Linked (P3HT-b-P3MT) Block Copolymer Nanostructures
M Baghgar, A Barnes, E Pentzer, A Wise, B Hammer, T Emrick, AD Dinsmore, M Barnes
ACS Nano, 8(8), pp.8344-8349.

Dynamical facilitation governs glassy dynamics in suspensions of colloidal ellipsoids
CK Mishra, K Hima Nagamanasa, R Ganapathy, AK Sood, S Gokhale
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(43), pp.15362-15367.

Growing dynamical facilitation on approaching the random pinning colloidal glass transition
S Gokhale, K Hima Nagamanasa, R Ganapathy, AK Sood
Nature communications, 5(1), pp.1-7.

Direct observation of liquid crystals using cryo-TEM: Specimen preparation and low-dose imaging
M Gao, YK Kim, C Zhang, V Borshch, S Zhou, HS Park, A Jakli, OD Lavrentovich, MG Tamba, A Kohlmeier, GH Mehl
Microscopy research and technique, 77(10), pp.754-772.