Search Results - "Bandyopadhyay, Ranjini"
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Encapsulation of Hydrophobic Drugs in Pluronic F127 Micelles: Effects of Drug Hydrophobicity, Solution Temperature, and pH
Published in Langmuir (02-04-2013)“…Three drugs, ibuprofen, aspirin, and erythromycin, are encapsulated in spherical Pluronic F127 micelles. The shapes and the size distributions of the micelles…”
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Aggregation and stability of anisotropic charged clay colloids in aqueous medium in the presence of salt
Published in Faraday discussions (2016)“…Na-montmorillonite nanoclay is a colloid of layered mineral silicate. When dispersed in water, this mineral swells on absorption of water and exfoliates into…”
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Study of dynamical heterogeneities in colloidal nanoclay suspensions approaching dynamical arrest
Published in Scientific reports (14-08-2017)“…The dynamics of aqueous Laponite clay suspensions slow down with increasing sample waiting time ( t w ). This behavior, and the material fragility that…”
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Growth kinetics of interfacial patterns formed by the radial displacement of an aging viscoelastic suspension
Published in JCIS open (Amsterdam) (01-07-2023)“…When a soft glassy colloidal suspension is displaced by a Newtonian fluid in a radial Hele-Shaw geometry, the pattern morphology that develops at the interface…”
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Pattern selection in radial displacements of a confined aging viscoelastic fluid
Published in JCIS open (Amsterdam) (01-07-2022)“…Intricate fluid displacement patterns, arising from the unstable growth of interfacial perturbations, can be driven by fluid viscoelasticity and surface…”
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Observation of chaotic dynamics in dilute sheared aqueous solutions of CTAT
Published in Physical review letters (28-02-2000)“…The nonlinear flow behavior of a viscoelastic gel formed due to entangled, cylindrical micelles in aqueous solutions of the surfactant cetyl trimethylammonium…”
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Enhanced elasticity and soft glassy rheology of a smectic in a random porous environment
Published in Physical review letters (18-03-2005)“…We report studies of the frequency-dependent shear modulus, G(*)(omega) = G(')(omega) + iG('')(omega), of the liquid crystal octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB) confined…”
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Evaluation of the exfoliation and stability of Na-montmorillonite in aqueous dispersions
Published in Applied clay science (01-09-2015)“…In aqueous dispersion, Na-montmorillonite swells due to absorption of water and exfoliate into smaller entities, known as tactoids, with electric double layers…”
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Use of Ultrasound Attenuation Spectroscopy to Determine the Size Distribution of Clay Tactoids in Aqueous Suspensions
Published in Langmuir (15-10-2013)“…The dispersion processes of aqueous samples of clay are studied using ultrasound attenuation spectroscopy. The attenuation spectra that are acquired in the…”
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Correlating the drying kinetics and dried morphologies of aqueous colloidal gold droplets of different particle concentrations
Published in Colloids and surfaces. A, Physicochemical and engineering aspects (05-08-2022)“…The evaporation of a gold nanorod (Au-NR) dispersion droplet, containing residual surfactant, on a hydrophilic silicon substrate results in a coffee stain with…”
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Dichotomous behaviors of stress and dielectric relaxations in dense suspensions of swollen thermoreversible hydrogel microparticles
Published in Journal of colloid and interface science (15-01-2023)“…[Display omitted] While the mechanical disruption of microscopic structures in complex fluids by large shear flows has been studied extensively, the effects of…”
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Formation and rupture of Ca(2+) induced pectin biopolymer gels
Published in Soft matter (07-10-2014)“…When calcium salts are added to an aqueous solution of polysaccharide pectin, ionic cross-links form between pectin chains, giving rise to a gel network in…”
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Scaling behavior in the convection-driven Brazil nut effect
Published in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics (19-11-2012)“…The Brazil nut effect is the phenomenon in which a large intruder particle immersed in a vertically shaken bed of smaller particles rises to the top, even when…”
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Formation and development of distinct deposit patterns by drying Polyelectrolyte-stabilized colloidal droplets at different surfactant concentrations
Published in Journal of molecular liquids (01-12-2022)“…Schematic representation of a PSS stabilized gold nanorod dispersion droplet with residual PSS cast on a piranha treated silicon substrate (Left) and the…”
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Interfacial instabilities in confined displacements involving non-Newtonian fluids
Published in Europhysics letters (01-02-2024)“…Abstract The growth of interfacial instabilities during fluid displacements can be driven by gradients in pressure, viscosity and surface tension, and by…”
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Emergence of transient reverse fingers during radial displacement of a shear-thickening fluid
Published in Colloids and surfaces. A, Physicochemical and engineering aspects (05-04-2023)“…A highly sheared dense aqueous suspension of granular cornstarch particles displays rich nonlinear rheology. We had previously demonstrated the growth and…”
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Emergent patterns and stable interfaces during radial displacement of a viscoelastic fluid
Published in Colloids and surfaces. A, Physicochemical and engineering aspects (20-11-2021)“…The displacement of a more viscous fluid by a less viscous fluid renders the fluid-fluid interface unstable and leads to intricate patterns called viscous…”
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Influence of particle size on the thermoresponsive and rheological properties of aqueous poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) colloidal suspensions
Published in Bulletin of materials science (01-12-2020)“…Thermoresponsive poly( N -isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) particles of different sizes are synthesized by varying the concentration of sodium dodecyl sulphate…”
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Dynamic Light Scattering Study and DLVO Analysis of Physicochemical Interactions in Colloidal Suspensions of Charged Disks
Published in Langmuir (17-03-2015)“…The interparticle interactions in colloidal suspensions of charged disks of Laponite clay in water were investigated using dynamic light scattering (DLS) and…”
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Novel experimentally observed phenomena in soft matter
Published in Pramāṇa (01-07-2013)“…Soft materials such as colloidal suspensions, polymer solutions and liquid crystals are constituted by mesoscopic entities held together by weak forces. Their…”
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