Soft Matter @ ChE

2025

• Revisiting crosslinking density effects on pNIPAM microgel properties: size, electrophoretic mobility and transition temperatures, Syamjith KS, Shubhasmita Rout, and Alan Ranjit Jacob, JCP, 162 (2025) 184903  [here]

• lnvestigating the Influence of Hydrogel and Oleogel Ratios on Physico Chemical Characteristics, Microstructure, Rheology, and Texture of a Food Grade Bigel, Mohan Kavya, Varghese Priyanka, Alan Ranjit Jacob and P. Nisha, Biomacromolecules,  26 (2025) 2800-2810 [here] (Issue Cover)

2024

• Multilayer tape constructions for low-temperature vibration damping with tunable adhesion, Ganesan, Mahesh; Milliman, Henry W.  US Patent No. US 12,071,570 B2 (August 2024) [here]

• Synthesis and characterization of monolayer colloidal sheet, Santosh V. Daware, Ranajit Mondal, Mansi Kothari, Arindam Chowdhury, Amelia C. Y. Liu, Ranganathan Prabhakar and Guruswamy Kumaraswamy, Langmuir, 40 (2024), 23198–23208 [here] (Issue Cover)

2023

• Multilayer Tape, Milliman, Henry W; Meckler, Joseph, L; Ganesan, Mahesh; Johnson, Luke N. US Patent No. US 11,713,406 B2 (August 2023) [here]

• Partial Coverage Multilayer Damping Laminate, Milliman, Henry W; Ganesan, Mahesh. US Patent No 11,701,863 B2 (July 2023) [here]

• Physics of drying complex fluid drop: Flow field, pattern formation, and desiccation cracks, Ranajit Mondal, Hisay Lama, Kirti Chandra Sahu. Phys. Fluids 35, (2023) 061301 [here]

• Pectin emulsions and emulgels: Bridging the correlation between rheology and microstructure, M. Kavya, Alan R. Jacob, P. Nisha Food Hydrocoll. 143 (2023) 108868 [here]

• On the Nature of Flow Curve and Categorization of Thixotropic Yield Stress Materials, Tulika Bhattacharyya, Alan R. Jacob, George Petekidis, Yogesh M. Joshi, J. Rheol. 67 (2023) 461-477 [here] (Issue Cover)

• Compositional Design of Surface Oxides in Gallium–Indium Alloys, Zachary J. Farrell, Alan R. Jacob, Vi K. Truong, A. Elbourne, Wilson Kong, Lilian C. Hsiao, Micheal D Dickey, Christopher Tabor, Chem. of Matr., 35 (2023),964-975 [here] (Issue Cover)

2022

• Jamming of Nano-ellipsoids in a Micro-Sphere: A Quantitative Analysis of Packing Fraction by Small-angle Scattering, Avik Das, Ranajit Mondal, Debasis Sen, Jitendra Bahadur, Dillip K. Satapathy, and Madivala G. Basavaraj, Langmuir, 38 (2022), 3832–3843 [here]

• Materials Prepared by Freezing-Induced Self Assembly of Dispersed Solute: A Review, Ranajit Mondal and Guruswamy Kumaraswamy,  Mater. Adv., 3 (2022), 3041-3054 [here]

• Rheology of Candida albicans fungal biofilms, Joanne K. Beckwith, Mahesh Ganesan, Scott J. VanEpps, Anuj Kumar and Michael J. Solomon, J. Rheol, 66 (2022), 683 – 697 [here]

• Microstructure and elasticity of dilute gels of colloidal discoids, Pen-Kai Kao, Michael J. Solomon and Mahesh Ganesan, Soft Matter, 18 (2022), 1350 – 1363 (Journal cover) [here]

• Multilayer tapes, Joseph L Meckler, Henry W Milliman, Mahesh Ganesan and Luke N Johnson, European Patent No. EP 3 670 622 B1, March 30, 2022 [here]

• Multilayer tapes, Joseph L Meckler, Henry W Milliman, Mahesh Ganesan and Luke N Johnson, Japan Patent No. JP 7022118 B2, February 17, 2022 [here]

2021

• Jamming distance dictates colloidal shear thickening. Shravan Pradeep, Mohammad Nabizadeh, Alan R. Jacob, Safa Jamali, and Lilian C. Hsiao. PRL 127,15 (2021): 158002. 

• Printable homocomposite hydrogels with synergistically reinforced molecular-colloidal networks, Austin H. Williams, Sangchul Roh, Alan R. Jacob, Simeon D. Stoyanov, Lilian Hsiao, and Orlin D. Velev. Nat. Comm. 12 (1) (2021), 1-9.[here] 

• Yield stress behavior of colloidal gels with embedded active particles, Keara T. Saud, Mahesh Ganesan and Michael J. Solomon, J. Rheol, 65 (2021), 225 – 239 [here]

• Multilayer constrained-layer damping, Henry W Milliman and Mahesh Ganesan, US Patent No. US 11,059,264 B2, July 13, 2021 [here]

• Partial coverage multilayer damping laminate, Henry W Milliman and Mahesh Ganesan, US Patent App No. US 2021/0229400 A1, July 29, 2021 [here]

2020

• The Physics of Drying of Colloidal Dispersion: Pattern Formation and Desiccation Cracks, Hisay Lama and Ranajit Mondal, arXiv:2011.14029 (2020) [here]

• Patterning of Colloids into Spirals via Confined Drying, Ranajit Mondal and Madivala G. Basavaraj, Soft Matter, 16 (2020), 3753-3761 [here]

•  Dilatancy in dense suspensions of model hard-sphere-like colloids under shear and extensional flow, Ricardo J Andrade, Alan R. Jacob, Francisco Jose Galindo-Rosales, Laura Campo-Deaño, Qian Huang, Ole Hassager, and George Petekidis , J. Rheol., 64(2020), 1179-1196 [here]

2019

• Influence of The Drying Configuration on The Patterning of Ellipsoids- Concentric Rings and Concentric Cracks, Ranajit Mondal and Madivala G. Basavaraj, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 21 (2019), 20045-20054 [here]  

• Reply to Comment on Patterns in Drying Drops Dictated by Curvature-Driven Particle Transport, P. Logesh Kumar, Ranajit Mondal, Sumesh. P. Thampi, and Madivala G. Basavaraj, Langmuir, 35 (2019), 9991-9993 [here]

• Spray Drying of Colloidal Dispersions Containing Ellipsoids, Ranajit Mondal, Avik Das, Debasis Sen, Dillip K. Satapathy and Madivala G. Basavaraj, J. Colloid Interfacial Sci., 551 (2019), 242-250 [here]

• Interfacial rheology of gallium-based liquid metals,  Alan R. Jacob, Dishit Parekh, Michael D. Dickey, and  Lilian C Hsiao, Langmuir, 35 (2019), 11774-11783 [here]

• Rheological signatures of aging in hard sphere colloidal glasses,  Alan R. Jacob, Esmaeel Moghimi, and  George Petekidis, Phys. Fluids, 31 (2019), 087103[here] [Special Issue: Invited Contributions from Outstanding Early Career Researchers]

2018

• Patterns in Drying Drops Dictated by Curvature-Driven Particle Transport, Ranajit Mondal, Shivani Semwal, P. Logesh Kumar, Sumesh P. Thampi and Madivala G. Basavaraj, Langmuir, 34 (2018), 11473-11483 [here]

• Cracks in Dried Deposits of Hematite Ellipsoids: Interplay Between Magnetic and Hydrodynamic Torque, Hisay Lama, Ranajit Mondal, Madivala G. Basavaraj and Dillip K. Satapathy, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 510 (2018), 172-180 [here]

• Binary colloidal glasses under transient stress- and strain-controlled shear, Tatjana Sentjabrskaja, Jan Hendricks, Alan R. Jacob,  George Petekidis, Stefan U. Egelhaaf and  Marco Laurati, J. Rheol., 62( 2018), 149-159 [here]

2017

• Humidity affects the viscoelastic properties of supramolecular living polymers, Ameur Louhichi, Alan R. Jacob, Laurent Bouteiller and  Dimitris Vlassopoulos, J. Rheol., 61( 2017), 1173-1183[here] [Special Topic: Associating Polymers]

• Residual stresses in Colloidal Gels, Esmaeel Moghimi, Alan R. Jacob, and George Petekidis, Soft Matter, 13(2017), 7824-7833 [here](Issue Cover)

• Colloidal gels tuned by oscillatory shear, Esmaeel Moghimi, Alan R. Jacob, Nick Koumakis and George Petekidis, Soft Matter, 13(2017), 2371-2383 [here]

• High-density equilibrium phases of colloidal ellipsoids by application of optically enhanced, direct current electric fields, Mahesh Ganesan and Michael J. Solomon, Soft Matter, 13 (2017), 3768 – 3776 (Soft Matter Lectureship Themed Collection) [here] 

2016

• Start-up shear of concentrated colloidal hard spheres: Stresses, Dynamics and Structure, Nick Koumakis, Marco Laurati, Alan R. Jacob, Kevin J. Mutch, Ahmed Abdellali, Andrew B. Schofield, Stefan U. Egelhaaf, John F. Brady and George Petekidis, J. Rheol.,60( 2016),603-623[here] (Issue Cover)

• Associative and Entanglement Contribution to the Solution Rheology of a Bacterial Polysaccharide, Mahesh Ganesan, Steven Knier, John G. Younger and Michael J. Solomon, Macromolecules, 49(21) (2016), 8313 – 8321 [here]

• Extracellular DNA facilitates the formation of functional amyloids in Staphylococcus aureus biofilms, Kelly Schwartz, Mahesh Ganesan, Derek E Payne, M Brown, Michael J. Solomon and Blaise R. Boles, Molecular Microbiology, 99(1) (2016), 123 – 134 [here]

2015

• Convective Cage Release in model colloidal glasses, Alan R. Jacob,  Andreas S. Poulos, Sunhyung Kim, Jan Vermant and George Petekidis, PRL,115( 2015),218301[here]

• Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear (LAOS) in model colloidal suspensions and glasses :Frequency dependence, Andreas S. Poulos, Frederic Renou, Alan R. Jacob, Nick Koumakis and George Petekidis, Rheol. Acta, 54( 2015),715-724 [here]

• Artificial biofilms establish the role of matrix interactions in staphylococcal biofilm assembly and disassembly, Elizabeth J. Stewart*, Mahesh Ganesan*, John G. Younger and Michael J. Solomon, Scientific Reports, 5 (2015), 13081 (*co-first authors) [here] 

2014

• Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear of Supramolecular materials, Alan R. Jacob, Abhijit P. Deshpande and Laurent Bouteiller, J. Non-Newt. Fluid Mech., 206 (2014), 40–56 [here]

• Elasticity of microscale volumes of viscoelastic soft matter by cavitation rheometry, Leonid Pavlovsky, Mahesh Ganesan, John G. Younger and Michael J. Solomon, Appl. Phys. Lett., 105 (2014), 114105 [here]

• Direct Current Electric Field Assembly of Colloidal Crystals Displaying Reversible Structural Color, Aayush A. Shah, Mahesh Ganesan, Jennifer Jocz and Michael J. Solomon, ACS Nano, 8(8) (2014), 8095 – 8103 [here]

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2013

• Molar Mass, Entanglement and Associations of the Biofilm Polysaccharide of Staphylococcus epidermidis, Mahesh Ganesan, Elizabeth J. Stewart, Jacob Szafranski, Ashley E. Satorius, John G. Younger and Michael J. Solomon, Biomacromolecules, 14(5) (2013), 1474 – 1481 [here]

• Complement C5a Generation by Staphylococcal Biofilms, Ashley E. Satorius, Jacob Szafranski, Derek Pyne, Mahesh Ganesan, Michael J. Solomon and John G. Younger, Shock 39(4) (2013), 336 – 342 [here]