Photoelastic image of a hydrated soft granular particle

Rheological and photoelastic response of hydrated soft granular particles

Hayes, B., Chaudhuri, K., Hodgson, R., McMillan, B., Gans, R., Burke, H., McNamara, S., Chalklen, T., and Vriend, N. M.

Soft Matter 22(34), 5695–5706 (2026)

Crosslinked PDMS drop spreading on a surface

Spreading of Dynamically Crosslinked Polydimethylsiloxane Drops

Ko, K., Chaudhuri, K., Park, J., Wooh, S., Yavitt, B. M., and Pham, J. T.

Journal of Polymer Science 63(2), 514–521 (2025)

Schematic of dye penetrating a block copolymer coating with grafted fluorinated chains

Controlling Anti-Penetration Performance by Post-Grafting of Fluorinated Alkyl Chains onto Polystyrene-block-poly(vinyl methyl siloxane)

Zhang, Z., Chaudhuri, K., Kaefer, F., Malanoski, A. P., Page, K. A., Smieska, L. M., Pham, J. T., and Ober, C. K.

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 16(15), 19594–19604 (2024)

Confocal images of wetting ridges growing with time, viscosity and swelling ratio

Phase separation dynamics in wetting ridges of polymer surfaces swollen with oils of different viscosities

Cai, Z., Badr, R. G. M., Hauer, L., Chaudhuri, K., Skabeev, A., Schmid, F., and Pham, J. T.

Soft Matter 20(36), 7300–7312 (2024)

Schematic of confocal imaging of a dye drop penetrating a polymer coating

Visualizing Penetration of Fluorescent Dye through Polymer Coatings

Chaudhuri, K., Medhi, R., Zhang, Z., Cai, Z., Ober, C. K., and Pham, J. T.

Macromolecular Rapid Communications 44(20), 2300304 (2023)

Microparticle at a silicone oil and glycerol interface

Capillary detachment of a microparticle from a liquid–liquid interface

Rahat, S. A., Chaudhuri, K., and Pham, J. T.

Soft Matter 19(33), 6247–6254 (2023)

Electron-beam patterns in PMMA under water vapor and high vacuum

Effect of water vapor pressure on positive and negative tone electron-beam patterning of poly(methyl methacrylate)

Kumar, D., Chaudhuri, K., Brill, J. W., Pham, J. T., and Hastings, J. T.

Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B 41(1), 012604 (2023)

Fluorescence images of live and dead PC-12 and SH-SY5Y cells with mitochondria

Erodible thermogelling hydrogels for localized mitochondrial transplantation to the spinal cord

Patel, S. P., Michael, F. M., Arif Khan, M., Duggan, B., Wyse, S., Darby, D. R., Chaudhuri, K., Pham, J. T., Gollihue, J., DeRouchey, J. E., Sullivan, P. G., Dziubla, T. D., and Rabchevsky, A. G.

Mitochondrion 64, 145–155 (2022)

Glycerol drop on a polymer melt surface

Temperature-dependent soft wetting on amorphous, uncrosslinked polymer surfaces

Chaudhuri, K. and Pham, J. T.

Soft Matter 18(19), 3698–3704 (2022)

Extruded UHMWPE/HDPE blend strips at different processing rates

The effect of processing conditions on the rheological properties of blends of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene with high‐density polyethylene

Chaudhuri, K., Poddar, S., Pol, H., Lele, A., Mathur, A., Srinivasa Rao, G. S., and Jasra, R.

Polymer Engineering & Science 59(4), 821–829 (2019)

Cracked disentangled UHMWPE film in a dish

Judicious Reduction of Supported Ti Catalyst Enables Access to Disentangled Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene

Gote, R. P., Mandal, D., Patel, K., Chaudhuri, K., Vinod, C. P., Lele, A. K., and Chikkali, S. H.

Macromolecules 51(12), 4541–4552 (2018)

Presentations

2026
Granular Matter Gordon Research SeminarPresentation, Stonehill College MA
2026
"Photoelastic Particles"Program Seminar Talk, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) program "Soft Earth Geophysics", University of California, Santa Barbara CA
2025
"Designing Mercury-Free Photoelastic Particles"Oral Presentation, 96th Annual Meeting of the Society of Rheology, Santa Fe NM
2023
"Penetration of Fluorescent Dye through Polymer Coatings"Meet the Faculty and Post-Doc Candidate Poster Session and Oral Presentation, AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando FL
2023
"Characterizing Penetration of a Contaminant into Block Copolymer Coatings"Oral Presentation and Poster Session, APS March Meeting, Las Vegas NV
2022
"Temperature Dependent Soft Wetting of Polymer Melts"APS March Meeting, Chicago IL
2021
"Droplets on Polymer Melts"Illuminating Interfacial Mechanics Group, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN
2020
"Rheology of Blends of UHMWPE and HDPE"Oral Presentation for the Keerthi Sangoram Memorial Endowment Award in Engineering Sciences, CSIR-NCL, India
2017
"Blends of Disentangled UHMWPE and HDPE: Oscillatory & Extensional Rheology, and Optimized Processing Conditions for Dissolution"Oral Presentation, Annual Meeting of the Society of Rheology, Denver CO
2014
"Janus Particles at an Oil-Water Interface"Poster Presentation, Mumbai-Pune Soft Matter Research Symposium, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India
2013
"Chemically Anisotropic Microspheres at the Liquid-liquid Interface"Poster Session, SERB School & Symposium on Rheology of Complex Fluids: Advanced Computational Methods, IIT Delhi, India
2012
"Optimal Design of Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger Using Evolutionary Algorithms"Annual Session of Students' Chemical Engineering Congress (SCHEMCON), BITS Pilani, India