Publications

Journal+Conference publications: 26 + (1 under review)

Active Droplets Active Janus colloids Polymer Nanocomposites Misc
Physical Review Fluids (Accepted, Jul. 2026)

Motility and interfacial instability of confined chemically active droplets

Pawan Kumar, Sobiya Ashraf, Naveen Tiwari, Dipin Pillai, and Rahul Mangal

Physics of Fluids (2026)

Clustering Dynamics of SiO2-Pt Active Janus Colloids

Harishwar Raman, Aniket Shivhare, Amit Kumar, Madhav Penukonda, Pawan Kumar, Karnika Singh, Akash Choudhary and Rahul Mangal

Langmuir (2025)

Emergence of Order in Chemically Active Droplets: Temporal Dynamics and Collective Behavior

Sobiya Ashraf, Pawan Kumar, Prateek Dwivedi, Frédéric Blanc, Dipin Pillai and Rahul Mangal

Journal of Chemical Physics (2025)

Chemical interactions in active droplets

Prateek Dwivedi, Sobiya Ashraf, Pawan Kumar, Dipin Pillai and Rahul Mangal

ACS Applied Materials and Engineering (2025)

Tailoring coffee ring effect by chemically active Janus colloids

Karnika Singh, Pawan Kumar, Harishwar Raman, Hrithik Sharma and Rahul Mangal

Physical Review E (2024)

Motility and pair-wise interactions of chemically active droplets in 1-D confinement

Pawan Kumar, Prateek Dwivedi, Sobiya Ashraf, Dipin Pillai and Rahul Mangal

Langmuir (2024)

Pair-Interactions of active SiO2-Pt Janus Colloids: Chemically mediated Encounters

Karnika Singh, Harishwar Raman, Shwetabh Tripathi, Hrithik Sharma, Akash Choudhary and Rahul Mangal

Soft Matter (2023)

Mode switching of active droplets in macromolecular solutions

Prateek Dwivedi, Atishay Shrivastava, Dipin Pillai, and Rahul Mangal

Soft Matter (2023)

Deforming Active Droplets in Viscoelastic Media

Prateek Dwivedi, Atishay Shrivastava, Dipin Pillai, Naveen Tiwari, and Rahul Mangal

ACS Physical Chemistry Au (2023)

Dynamics of Active SiO2-Pt Janus Colloids in dilute Poly(Ethylene Oxide) solutions

Harishwar Raman, Sneham Das, Hrithik Sharma, Karnika Singh, Shruti Gupta and Rahul Mangal

Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science (2022)

Self-Propelled Swimming Droplets

Prateek Dwivedi, Dipin Pillai, and Rahul Mangal

ACS Applied Polymer Materials (2022)

Biomimetic Polymer Adhesives

Prateek Dwivedi, Karnika Singh, Kartik Chaudhary, and Rahul Mangal

Langmuir (2022)

Interaction of Active Janus Colloids with Tracers

Karnika Singh, A Yadav, Prateek Dwivedi, and Rahul Mangal

Physics of Fluids (2021)

Rheotaxis of Active Droplets

Prateek Dwivedi, Atishay Shrivastava, Dipin Pilai, and Rahul Mangal

Physics of Fluids (2021)

Solute Induced Jittery motion of self-propelled droplets

Prateek Dwivedi, Biswa Ranjan Si, Dipin Pilai, and Rahul Mangal

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2021)

Impurity-induced nematic-isotropic transition of liquid crystals

Pritam Kumar Jana, Julien Lam, Rahul Mangal, Mikko J Alava, Nagma Parveen and Lasse Laurson

ACS Applied Polymer Materials (2020)

Fabrication and Characterization of Porous Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Adhesives

Vinay Mohania, Tushar Deshpande, Yogesh Singh, Sandip Patil, Ashutosh Sharma and Rahul Mangal

Langmuir (2020)

Self-Propelled Janus Colloids in Shear Flow

Biswa Ranjan Si, Preet Patel, and Rahul Mangal

Physical Review Fluids (2019)

Instability Driven by shear thinning and elasticity in the flow of concentrated polymer solutions through microtubes

Bidhan Chandra, Rahul Mangal, Debopam Das and V. Shankar

Langmuir (2017)

Dynamics of nanoparticles in entangled polymer solutions

Pooja Nath, Rahul Mangal, F. F. Kohle, Snehashis Chodhury, Suresh Narayanan, Uli B. Wiesner and Lynden A. Archer

Langmuir (2017)

Active Janus Particles at Interfaces of Liquid Crystals

Rahul Mangal, Nayani Karthik, Young Ki Kim, Emre Bukusoglu, Ubaldo M. Cordova-Figuerora and Nicholas L. Abbott

Langmuir (2016)

Enthalpy-Driven Stabilization of Dispersions of Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles in High-Molecular-Weight Polymer Melts

Rahul Mangal, Pooja Nath, Mukuk Tikekar, Snehahis Choudhary, and Lynden A Archer

Macromolecules (2016)

Multiscale Dynamics of Polymers in Particle-Rich Nanocomposites.

Rahul Mangal, Yu Ho Wen, Snehasis Choudhary, and Lynden A Archer

Nature Communications (2015)

Phase stability and dynamics of entangled polymer nanoparticle composites

Rahul Mangal, Samanvaya Srivastava, and Lynden A Archer

Nature Communications (2015)

A highly reversible room-temperature lithium metal battery based on crosslinked hairy nanoparticles.

Snehashis Choudhary, Rahul Mangal, Akanksha Agrawal, and Lynden A Archer

Langmuir (2015)

Size-Dependent Particle Dynamics in Entangled Polymer Nanocomposites

Rahul Mangal, Samanvaya Srivastava, Suresh Narayanan, and Lynden A Archer

ACS MacroLetters (2015)

Hyperdiffusive Dynamics in Newtonian Nanoparticle Fluids

Samanvaya Srivastava, Praveen Agrwawal, Rahul Mangal, Don Koch, Suresh Narayanan, and Lynden A Archer

Macromolecules (2015)

Relaxation Dynamics of Nanoparticle-Tethered Polymer Chains

Sung A Kim, Rahul Mangal, and Lynden A Archer

Langmuir (2012)

Biomimetic Wet Adhesion of Viscoelastic Liquid Films Anchored on Micropatterned Elastic Substrates

Sandip Patil, Rahul Mangal, Abhinav Malasi and Ashutosh Sharma