Vivek/ Research

 

Soft Matter ODES (Soft Matter: Optics, Dynamics, Elasticity & Self-Assembly)

Research Interests:

Dynamics and pattern formation of complex fluids (soft matter), Polymer physics, Capillarity and wetting, Optics and photonics, Iridescent beetles and butterflies, Biophysics,  Colloidal (Gold) Dispersions, Rheology, Micro-fluidics, Breath figures and breath-figure-templated assembly, Jetting and capillary break-up of viscoelastic fluids, Liquid Crystals, Gels, Interfacial rheology, History of science & philosophy.