The broad areas in which the Group works are summarised below-

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Soft Matter-broadly speaking, includes everything wet, squishy, or floppy. For example, living cells, tissues, polymers, gels, liquid crystals, colloids, foams, and emulsions to name a few. Soft materials are easily modified by external stimuli and/or thermal fluctuations which makes them extremely valuable in fields as diverse as biomedical, materials design, and technological application.

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Physics of bio-inspired soft robots: In recent years, soft materials have become very popular in the design of the robotics world. It is inspired not only by new scientific paradigms (biomimetics, morphological computation, and others) but also by many application needs such as biomedical, and rescue operations, etc. In this work, we are interested in using the principles and theories of soft matter physics-based analytical frameworks to model soft robots.

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Active Matter - Molecular motors in the cytoskeleton, swarming birds, swarming bees, motile ants, algae and living cells are some examples of active systems. Active systems have self-propelled (so-called "active") components and often exhibit very interesting and fascinating behavior because they are intrinsically far from equilibrium. Active motion can be observed in many different ways such as flying, swimming, walking, running, or crawling.
 

Current research topics include the following problems-

•  Theoretical modeling of nature-inspired soft robots

• Charge regulation effects on a colloidal solution

• Liquid-liquid phase separation in biology

• Dynamics of segmented(active) worms

• Flow physics of micro-organisms

• Phase transitions in liquid crystals