Soft and Active Matter Group
@ IISER Tirupati
“The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world”
Lao-Tzu, 6th century BC.
Group news:
Dr. RK Pujala has been promoted to Associate Professor.
Dr. RK Pujala has been featured as Soft Matter Emerging Investigator!
Dr. Pujala is at University of Paris-Saclay as a Visiting Professor since 1st September 2023.
Our recent work on the effect of magnetic nanorods on the gelation and injectability of hydrogels is published in Soft Matter! Congratulations Surya!! (COVER PAGE Article)
An in-depth review on linear and nonlinear rheological characterization of Cellulose Nanocrystals and their applications is published in Journal of Molecular Liquids!
Our work on smart materials is published in The Journal of Chemical Physics (invited article for a special issue "Colloidal Gels")!
A study on nontrivial electrophoresis of silica rods is published in Soft Matter!
A new paper on the rheology of graphene oxide suspensions has been published in Materials Chemistry and Physics. This is a collaborative work with Dr. Pradip's group.
A new paper with Prof. Surajit Dhara's group has been published in Physical Review Applied.
Collaborative research with Dr. Jatish group at IISER Tirupati is published in Nanoscale (cover page article). https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/nr/d1nr08506a
Dr. Tapan Chandra Adhyapak (PI) and Dr. Ravi Kumar Pujala (Co-PI) have been awarded a Core Research Grant (CRG) of the SERB by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
Soft Matter: Young Investigators e-Meet 2021 (e-SMYIM 2021) 14 - 16 October, 2021 is organized by IISER Tirupati, IIT Bombay, and IISc Bangalore.
http://home.phy.iitb.ac.in/~smyim/index.html
Our recent work on Colloidal Cellulose Nanocrystals is published in "ACS Applied Nano Materials". Congratulations Catherine and Ganesh!
Our collaborative work on "Interactions of charged microrods in chiral nematic liquid crystals" is published in Phys. Rev. E .
Dr. Ravi Kumar Pujala has been awarded a Core Research Grant (CRG) of the SERB as Principal Investigator and Dr. Tapan Chandra Adhyapak (Co-PI) by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
Project title: Tailored microswimmers: tuning dynamics and non-equilibrium phase behavior
Selected as the journal Cover Page of Bulletin of Materials Science. (Special Issue on Soft Materials).
https://www.ias.ac.in/listing/articles/boms/043/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12034-020-02096-5
Dr Ravi Kumar Pujala is in the Panel of Scientists for the event "Meet the Scientists" on 9th August 2020, conducted by Agastya International Foundation.
Theme of Research:
- Studying physics of soft matter systems both passive and active systems
- Fabricate new mesostructured materials by self-assembly.
- The ultimate goal is to develop new functional soft materials with reconfigurable structures at the nano and meso-scales.
Visiting Address
Room No. 313, Department of Physics
IISER Tirupati
Opp Sree Rama Engineering College, Karakambadi Rd, Rami Reddy Nagar, Mangalam, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh 517507
