10. Hydraulic Optimization in Physarum Polycephalum: Pathfinding Beyond the Shortest Route, submitted, under review
Shankar P. Kharal, Mohib Mohibullah, Tori McDermott, Christopher J. Easley, and Jean Francois Louf
Research Areas: Complex Fluids, Living & Active system
9. Highly Interconnected Porous Bicontinuous Interfacially Jammed Emulsion Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Small Science , 2025, (pdf)
Aihik Banerjee, Anjana Khanal, Prince D. Okoro, Shankar P. Kharal, Kevin Dalsania, Baishali Kanjilal, Shiril B. Iragavarapu, Yiqing Chen, Janitha M. Unagolla, Huinan H. Liu, Joshua T. Morgan, Robert P. Hesketh, Arash Pezhouman, Reza Ardehali, Bahman Anvari, Martin F. Haase, Iman Noshadi
Research areas: Bijels & Tissue Engineering
8. Enhanced Interfacial Bonding of Graft Copolymers, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2025, (pdf)
Yawei Gao, Ajay Jayswal, Arit Das, Jan Michael Y Carrillo, Joshua T Damron, Christopher C Bowland, Zeyang Yu, Michael Toomey, Polyxeni P Angelopoulou, Shankar Kharal, Gamini Mendis, Holly Humphrey, Bobby G Sumpter, Logan T Kearney, Amit K Naskar
Research Areas: Polymer, coating and composite materials
7. Sensitization of 5XXX Series Aluminum Alloys explored with an adapted JMAK model for phase evolution and ultrasonics, CORROSION-The Journal of Science and Engineering, 2024 (pdf)
Shankar P. Kharal, Nicholas J. Jones, and Gabriella Petculescu
Research Areas: Acoustics & NDT Modelling
6. Unidirectional Freezing of polymer solution droplets, Langmuir, 2023 (pdf)
Shankar P. Kharal and Jean Francois Louf
Research Areas: Phase-separation, Polymers, Freezing
5. Nanostructured, Fluid Bicontinuous Gels for Continuous Flow Liquid-Liquid Extraction , Advanced Materials, 2022 (pdf)
Mohammad A. Khan, Alessio J. Sprockel, Katherine A. MacMillan, Meyer T. Alting, Shankar P. Kharal, Stephen B. Ansah, and Martin F. Haase
Research Areas: Bicontinuous Emulsions
4. Centrifugal Assembly of Helical Bijel Fibers for pH-Responsive Composite Hydrogels", Small, 2022 (pdf)
Shankar P. Kharal, Martin F. Haase
Research areas: Centrifugal Assembly & Bicontinuous Emulsion
(Highlighted in the special series- "Rising Stars" on the webpage of Advanced Materials)
3. Centrifugal assembly of bijel ropes via helical microfluidics, 2021, (PHD Thesis)
Shankar P. Kharal
Research areas: Bijels, microfluidic-twisting, and centrifugal-assembly
(Won the Elizabeth Slater Award award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Graduate Studies, 2022)
2. High-tensile strength composite bijels through microfluidic twisting, Advanced Functional Material, 2020 (pdf)
Shankar P. Kharal, Robert P. Hesketh, and Martin F. Haase
Research areas: Bicontinuous emulsions, Microfluidic-Twisting
Modeling sensitization dynamics in Aluminum alloys 5000 series, 2018 (MS Thesis)
Shankar P. Kharal
Research areas: Acoustics, RUS, PE
ACKNOWLEDGED:
2. Fabrication of Bijels via Solvent Transfer-Induced Phase Separation using Liquid-in-Liquid Printing, Small Structures, Saba Amirfattahi, Houman Honaryar, Zahra Niroobakhsh, 2024.
Hydrophilic modification of SLA 3D printed droplet generators by photochemical grafting, RSC Advances, Tristan W. Bacha, Dylan C. Manuguerra, Robert A. Marano and Joseph F. Stanzione III, 2021.
MANUSCRIPTS ON PREPARATION:
Shankar P. Kharal, and Jean Francois Louf, "Textured Frozen Polymer Droplets", on preparation
Shankar P. Kharal, "Polymeric fibers produced through precipitative phase separation for the adsorption of greenhouse gases and thermal insulation", on preparation
Shankar P. Kharal, "Advancing Sustainability: Diverse Applications of Pure Lignin Fibers and Particles", on preparation
Shankar P. Kharal, "Self-Propelling Lignin-Acetone Droplets Driven by Asymmetric Sideways Diffusion on Water Surface", on preparation
Shankar P. Kharal, "Polymeric hollow fibers produced through precipitative phase separation", on preparation