Publications
25. Mohd Ilyas Bhat, Prerna Sharma , T. G. Sitharam, and Tejas G. Murthy, "Force transmission during repose of flexible granular chains", Soft Matter, 19, 8493 (2023).
24. Ayantika Khanra, Leroy L. Jia, Noah P. Mitchell, Andrew Balchunas, Robert A. Pelcovits, Thomas R. Powers, Zvonimir Dogic and Prerna Sharma, "Controlling the shape and topology of two-component colloidal membranes", PNAS, 119, 32 e2204453119 (2022).
23. Palash S. Sarate, Tejas G. Murthy, Prerna Sharma, "Column to pile transition in quasi-static deposition of granular chains", Soft Matter 18, 2054 ( 2022).
22. Debasmita Mondal, Ameya G Prabhune, Sriram Ramaswamy, Prerna Sharma, "Strong confinement of active microalgae leads to inversion of vortex flow and enhanced mixing" eLife,10: e67663 (2021).
21. Sk Ashif Akram, Arbinda Behera, Prerna Sharma and Anirban Sain, "Chiral molecules on curved colloidal membranes" Soft Matter 16, 10310 (2020).
20. Joia M. Miller, Doug Hall, Joanna Robaszewski, Prerna Sharma, Michael F. Hagan, Gregory M. Grason, and Zvonimir Dogic, "All twist and no bend makes raft edges splay: Spontaneous curvature of domain edges in colloidal membranes" Science Advances, 6,31, eaba2331 (2020).
19. Debasmita Mondal, Ronojoy Adhikari, and Prerna Sharma, "Internal friction controls active ciliary oscillations near the instability threshold" Science Advances, 6, 33, eabb0503 (2020).
18. Sujeet Kumar Choudhary, Aparna Baskaran, and Prerna Sharma, "Reentrant Efficiency of Phototaxis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Cells" Biophysical Journal, 117, 8, 1508 (2019).
Press Coverage: https://phys.org/news/2019-11-simple-physics-algal-movement.html
17. M. Siavashpouri, Prerna Sharma, J. Fung, M. F. Hagan, and Zvonimir Dogic, "Structure, dynamics and phase behavior of short rod inclusions dissolved in a colloidal membrane" Soft Matter,15, 7033-7042 (2019).
16. A. J. Balchunas, R. A. Cabanas, M. J. Zakhary, T. Gibaud, S. Fraden, Prerna Sharma, M. F. Hagan, and Zvonimir Dogic, "Equation of state of colloidal membranes" Soft Matter 15, 6791-6802 (2019).
15. Joia M Milller, Chaitanya Joshi, Prerna Sharma, Aparna Baskaran, Gregory M Grason, Michael F Hagan, and Zvonimir Dogic “Conformational switching of chiral colloidal rafts regulates raft-raft attractions and repulsions” PNAS 116, 32, 15792 (2019).
14. Lachit Saikia and Prerna Sharma "Self assembly of cyclic polygon shaped fluid colloidal membranes through pinning" Soft Matter 14, 9959 (2018).
13. Prerna Sharma "Self-Assembly of Colloidal Particles" Resonance – Journal of Science Education 23, 3, 263 (2018).
12. Lachit Saikia, Tanmoy Sarkar, Meera Thomas, V. A. Raghunathan, Anirban Sain and Prerna Sharma "Curvature instability of chiral colloidal membranes on crystallization" Nature Communications 1160 (2017).
Press Coverage: https://researchmatters.in/news/desirable-wrinkles
11. T. Gibaud, C. N. Kaplan, Prerna Sharma, M. J. Zakhary, A. Ward, R. Oldenbourg, R. B. Meyer, R. D. Kamien, T. R. Powers, and Zvonimir Dogic "Achiral symmetry breaking and positive Gaussian modulus lead to scalloped colloidal membranes" PNAS 114, E3376 (2017).
10. Prerna Sharma, A. Ward, T. Gibaud, M. Hagan and Zvonimir Dogic "Hierarchical organization of chiral rafts in colloidal membranes" Nature 513, 77 (2014).
9. Zvonimir Dogic, Prerna Sharma and Mark Zakhary "Hypercomplex Liquid Crystals" Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics 5, 137 (2014).
8. Mark Zakhary, Prerna Sharma, A. Ward, S. Yardimici and Zvonimir Dogic "Geometrical edgeactants control interfacial bending rigidity of colloidal membranes" Soft Matter 9, 8306 (2013).
7. Prerna Sharma, P Aswathi, Anit Sane, Shankar Ghosh and S. Bhattacharya " Fragmentation of viscous fingers in porous media: A three dimensional video microscopic study " Soft Matter 8, 5791 (2012).
6. Prerna Sharma, P. Aswathi, Anit Sane, Shankar Ghosh, and S. Bhattacharya "Three-dimensional real-time imaging of bi-phasic flow through porous media" Review of scientific instruments 82, 113704 (2011).
5. Prerna Sharma, Shankar Ghosh, and S. Bhattacharya “A Nyquist analysis of glassy dynamics, aging and discrete basins of attraction in a small system”, The Journal of Chemical Physics 133, 144909 (2010).
4. A. Varshney, Prerna Sharma, A. Sane, Shankar Ghosh and S. Bhattacharya “Desorption to delamination:dynamics of a detachment in a thin film”, Physical Review Letters 105, 154301 (2010).
3. Prerna Sharma, Shankar Ghosh, and S. Bhattacharya “A high-precision study of hindered diffusion near a wall”, Applied Physics Letters 97, 104101 (2010).
2. Prerna Sharma, Shankar Ghosh, and S. Bhattacharya “Microrheology of a sticking transition”, Nature Physics 4, 960 (2008).
1. Shankar Ghosh, Prerna Sharma, and S. Bhattacharya, “Surface modes of a sessile water drop: An optical tweezer based study”, Review of Scientific Instruments 78, 115110 (2007).