Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar

Chandan Kumar

Department : Physics

Research Interests

● Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Physics
● Structural Glass Transition
● Microfluidics
● Dynamics and Self-assembly of Complex Colloids
● Instrumentation

Professional Summary

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Jan 2021 to present)
Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania (Jul 2017 – Dec 2020)

Publications

1. Manodeep Mondal, Chandan K. Mishra, R. Banerjee, S. Narasimhan, A. K. Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy, Self-organised Strain-relief Patterns as Templates for Guiding Crystal Growth in Colloidal Heteroepitaxy, Science Advances 6(10), eaay8418 (2020).
2. Chandan K. Mishra, X. Ma, P. Habdas, K. B. Aptowicz, and A. G. Yodh, Correlations Between Short- and Long-time Relaxation in Colloidal Supercooled Liquids and Glasses, Phys. Rev. E 100(2), 020603(R) (2019).
3. Y. Lia, Chandan K. Mishra, Z. Sun, K. Zhao, T. G. Mason, Rajesh Ganapathy, and M. P. Ciamarra, Long-wavelength fluctuations and anomalous dynamics in two-dimensional liquids, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116(46), 22977 (2019).
4. Chandan K. Mishra, A. K. Sood and Rajesh Ganapathy, Site-Specific Colloidal Crystal Nucleation by Template-enhanced Particle Transport, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 113(43), 12094 (2016).
5. Chandan K. Mishra and Rajesh Ganapathy, Shape of Dynamical Heterogeneities and Fractional Stokes-Einstein and Stokes-Einstein-Debye Relations in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Suspensions of Colloidal Ellipsoids, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 198302 (2015).
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