• Collective Phototaxis of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Cells 

      Choudhary, Sujeet Kumar
      Microorganisms are omnipresent in our life and the environment, such as microbes in the gut, spermatozoa in reproductive organs, algae and protozoa in the aquatic ecosystem, and bacterial colonization and infection. ...
    • Role of Friction in Microswimmer and Active Filament Motion 

      Mondal, Debasmita
      Friction is pervasive in all fields of science. It is the key factor that emerging technologies involving autonomous motion at micron scales such as micro-bots need to overcome in order to be efficient. They fall in the ...
    • Sculpting colloidal membranes through phase transformations 

      Saikia, Lachit
      Shaping macroscopic 2-D thin elastic sheets through differential strains in the system is a widely studied phenomenon applicable in diverse areas such as flexible electronics, origami and tissue growth. In contrast, at the ...