Publications

• " Structure, dynamics and phase transitions in electric field assembled colloidal crystals and glasses, I. Barros, S. Ramachandran and I. Chakraborty, Soft Matter, 21, 1884 (2025).

• "Brownian motion of flexibly-linked colloidal rings", R. Verweij, J. Melio, I. Chakraborty, D.J. Kraft,

Physical Review E (Also editor's suggestion), 107, 034602 (2023).

• "Self-assembly dynamics of reconfigurable colloidal molecules", I. Chakraborty, D.J.G. Pearce, R.W. Verweij, S.C. Matysik, L. Giomi, D.J. Kraft, ACS Nano 16 (2), 2471-2480 (2022).

• "Conformation and diffusion of flexibly linked colloidal chains", R. W. Verweij, P. G. Moerman, L. PP Huijnen, N. EG Ligthart, I. Chakraborty, J. Groenewold, W. K. Kegel, A. van Blaaderen and D. J. Kraft,  Journal of Physics: Materials 4, 035002 (2021).

Before joining BITS-Goa:

• "Disorder-induced Fickian, yet non-Gaussian diffusion in heterogeneous media", I. Chakraborty and Y. Roichman, Physical Review Research 2, 022020(R) (2020).

• "­Nanoparticle mobility over a surface as a probe for weak transient disordered peptide-peptide interactions­ ", I. Chakraborty, G. Koren, R. Avinery, Y. Roichman and R. Beck, Nano Letters 19, 6524 (2019).

• "Non-linear field emission characteristics of Copper oxide nanorod mesh: Geometrical interpretation of a structurally heterogeneous emitter", S. Chatterjee , A. Pal, I. Mukherjee, I. Chakraborty and P. Ayyub, J Alloys Compounds 789, 1 (2019).

•  "Colloid supported lipid bilayers for self-assembly", M. Rinaldin, R. Verweij, I. Chakraborty and D. J. Kraft , Soft matter 15, 1345 (2019).

•  "Colloidal joints with Designed motion range and tunable joint flexibility", I. Chakraborty, C. van der Wel, V. Meester and D. J. Kraft , Nanoscale 9, 7814 (2017). 

• “The nature of the structural phase transition from the hexagonal (4H) phase to the cubic (3C) phase of Silver”, I. Chakraborty, S. N. Shirodkar, S. Gohil, U. V.  Waghmare and P. Ayyub, J. Phys.: Cond. Matter 26, 115405 (2014). 

• “A stable, quasi-2D modification of silver: Optical, electronic, vibrational and mechanical  properties,  and  first  principles  calculations”,  I.  Chakraborty,  S. N. Shirodkar, S. Gohil, U. V. Waghmare and P. Ayyub, J. Phys.: Cond. Matter 26, 025402 (2014). 

• “Clustered copper nanorod arrays: A new class of adhesive hydrophobic materials”, I. Chakraborty, N. Singh, S. Gohil, S. Ghosh and P. Ayyub, Soft Matter 9, 11513 (2013). 

• "Self-assembly of metal nanorod arrays into hierarchical clusters and evolution of their hydrophobic behaviour", I. Chakraborty, B. A. Chalke, S. Gohil and P. Ayyub,  AIP Conference proceedings 1536, 193 (2013 ).

• “Enhanced transport of relativistic electrons through nanochannels”, P. K. Singh, I. Chakraborty, G. Chatterjee, A. Adak, A. D. Lad, P. Brijesh, P. Ayyub, and G. R. Kumar, Physical Review special topics - Accelerators and Beams 16, 063401 (2013). 

• “Controlled clustering in metal nanorod arrays leads to strongly enhanced field emission characteristics”, I. Chakraborty and P. Ayyub, Nanotechnology 23, 015704 (2012). 

• “Field emission from hydrogen titanate nanotubes”, I. Chakraborty, S. Chatterjee and P. Ayyub, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 143106 (2011).  

• “Novel hexagonal polytypes of silver: growth, characterization and first principles calculations”, I. Chakraborty, D. Carvalho, S. N. Shirodkar, S. Lahiri, S. Bhattacharyya, R. Banerjee, U. Waghmare and P. Ayyub, J. Phys.: Cond. matter, 23, 325401 (2011). 

• “Highly enhanced hard X-ray emission from oriented metal nanorod arrays excited by intense femtosecond laser pulses”, S. Mondal, I. Chakraborty, S. Ahmad, D. Carvalho, P. Singh, A. D. Lad, V. Narayanan, P. Ayyub and G. R. Kumar, Physical Review B 83, 035408 (2011).