Publications

Year 2026

• Pradip K. Bera, Anh Q. Nguyen, Molly McCord, Dapeng Bi, and Jacob Notbohm

Shape-Independent Fluidization in Epithelial Cell Monolayers

arXiv:2603.05548 (physics), 2026

• Anh Q. Nguyen, Pradip K. Bera, Jacob Notbohm, and Dapeng Bi

Cell-Cell Adhesion as a Double-Edged Sword in Tissue Fluidity

arXiv:2603.04170 (physics), 2026

Year 2025

• Pradip K. Bera, Molly McCord, Jay Zhang, and Jacob Notbohm

Traction and stress control formation and motion of +1/2 topological defects in epithelial cell monolayers

Newton, 100231, 2025

• Abhishek Ghadai, Pradip Kumar Bera, and Sayantan Majumdar

Instability and stress fluctuations of a probe driven through a wormlike micellar fluid

J. Rheol. 69, 599, 2025

Year 2024

• Pradip K Bera, Grigori A Medvedev, James M Caruthers, and Mark D Ediger 

Structural relaxation time of a polymer glass during deformation 

Phys. Rev. Lett.  132 (20), 208101, 2024 

• Sachidananda Barik, Pradip K Bera, AK Sood, and Sayantan Majumdar 

Shear thickening of dilute suspensions of fractal silica aggregates 

JNNFM 328, 105246, 2024

Year 2023

• Abhishek Ghadai, Pradip Kumar Bera, and Sayantan Majumdar  

Origin of steady state stress fluctuations in a shear-thinning worm-like micellar system 

Phys. Fluids. 35 (6), 2023

Year 2021

• Pradip K Bera, Vikram Rathee, Rema Krishnaswamy, and AK Sood

Shear-induced ordering of Nanopores and instabilities in concentrated surfactant mesh phases 

Langmuir 37 (23), 6874-6886, 2021

Year 2020

• Pradip K Bera, Sayantan Majumdar, Guy Ouillon, Didier Sornette, and Ajay K Sood

Quantitative earthquake-like statistical properties of the flow of soft materials below yield stress  

Nat. commun. 11 (1), 9, 2020

• Pradip K Bera and Ajay K Sood

Motile dissenters disrupt the flocking of active granular matter  

Phys. Rev. E 101 (5), 052615, 2020

• Pradip K Bera, Ajoy K Kandar, Rema Krishnaswamy, Philippe Fontaine, Marianne Impéror-Clerc, Brigitte Pansu, Doru Constantin, Santanu Maiti, Milan K Sanyal, and Ajay K Sood 

Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction studies of lipid–peptide mixed monolayers during shear flow  

ACS omega 5 (24), 14555-14563, 2020

Year 2019

• Pradip K Bera, Ajoy K Kandar, Rema Krishnaswamy, and AK Sood

Experimental signatures of a nonequilibrium phase transition near the crossover point of a Langmuir monolayer 

J. Phys. Condens. Matter.  31 (50), 504004, 2019