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Snigdha Thakur
Associate Professor
Academic Details
- Associate Professor (September 2017), Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.
- Assistant Professor (May 2011 - August 2017) Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.
- Post doc: Chemical Physics Theory Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
- PhD: (Soft-condensed Matter Physics), Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai – 600 036, India.
Research
- Soft Condensed Matter Physics: Liquid Crystal, Rheology of Micellar Solution, Chemically Propelled Nanomotors, Active polymers.
- Self-propulsion of micron and nanoscale objects in the low Reynolds number regime is commonly observed in biological systems. Examples include molecular motors that undergo conformational changes that lead to directed motion on filaments to carry out active transport tasks in the cell. Motivated from nature the design and application of micro- and nanoscale motors propelled by self-generated forces has sustained substantial interest in the scientific community in recent years. While the ability to design motors in varied geometries with unique properties is well established, the capacity to precisely control the placement and transport of objects at this length scale is much more limited. Such capabilities would be valuable for bottom-up assembly of superstructures and devices, targeted delivery of chemicals etc. We propose to develop methodologies for the controlled motion of a single and an ensemble of nanomotors. We have recently developed one such chemically propelled synthetic motor. We plan to investigate the collective dynamics of such self-propelled particles, which will help us understand the possible universal features of collective motion present at all length scales in nature. Another question we plan to answer is how do nanomotors move and respond to chemically active environments, and can the inhomogeneity in the environment be used to influence the dynamics of motors and possibly provide a way to control their motions?Our long term goal is to design and study the dynamics of a self-propelled polymer nanomotors.

Snigdha Thakur
Associate Professor
# | Authors | Title | Journals | Year |
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1 | Surabhi Jaiswal Marisol Ripoll Snigdha Thakur |
Diffusiophoretic Brownian Dynamics: Characterization of Hydrodynamic Effects for an Active Chemoattractive Polymer | Macromolecules | 2024 |
2 | Sandeep Kumar Ranjith Padinhateeri Snigdha Thakur |
Shear flow as a tool to distinguish microscopic activities of molecular machines in a chromatin loop | Soft Matter | 2024 |
3 | Namita Jain Snigdha Thakur |
Structure and Dynamics of Chemically Active Ring Polymers: Swelling to Collapse | Soft Matter | 2023 |
4 | Snigdha Thakur Soudamini Sahoo Manisha Jhajhria |
Activity induced non-monotonic aggregation in a mixture of chemically active and passive particles | Soft Materials | 2023 |
5 | Surabhi Jaiswal Soudamini Sahoo Snigdha Thakur |
Particle-based mesoscopic model for phase separation in a binary fluid mixture | Physical Review E | 2023 |
6 | Snigdha Thakur Sandeep Kumar |
Local Polar and Long-Range Isotropic Activity Assisted Swelling and Collapse Dynamics of an Active Ring Polymer | Macromolecules | 2023 |
7 | Arabinda Bera Soudamini Sahoo Snigdha Thakur Subir K Das |
Active particles in explicit solvent: Dynamics of clustering for alignment interaction | Physical Review E | 2022 |
8 | Snigdha Thakur Liyan Qiao Raymond Kapral |
Self-propelled motors in complex fluids and as constituents of active materials | Europhysics Letters | 2022 |
9 | Namita Jain Snigdha Thakur |
Cargo transportation using an active polymer | AIP Advances | 2022 |
10 | Namita Jain Snigdha Thakur |
Collapse Dynamics of Chemically Active Flexible Polymer | Macromolecules | 2022 |
11 | Prabha Chuphal Soudamini Sahoo Snigdha Thakur |
Effect of Poiseuille flow on the dynamics of active vesicle | Soft Materials | 2021 |
12 | Soudamini Sahoo Sunil Pratap Singh Snigdha Thakur |
Role of viscoelasticity on the dynamics and aggregation of chemically active spheredimers | Physics of Fluids | 2021 |
13 | Snigdha Thakur Ishwar Venugopal Prabha Chuphal |
Formation of self-propelling clusters starting from randomly dispersed Brownian particles | Bulletin of Material Science | 2020 |
14 | Snigdha Thakur Sunil Pratap Singh Soudamini Sahoo |
Enhanced self-propulsion of a sphere-dimer in viscoelastic fluid | Soft Matter | 2019 |
15 | Christin Puthur Prabha Chuphal Snigdha Thakur Auditya Sharma |
Colloidal chemotaxis and a biased random walk model with finite mean first-passage time | Europhysics Letters | 2019 |
16 | Snigdha Thakur Varun P Prabha Chuphal |
Dynamics of diffusiophoretic vesicle under external shear flow | J Chem Phys | 2019 |
17 | Dhruv Singh Shang Yik Reigh Snigdha Thakur Prabha Chuphal Tingting Yu Peer Fischer |
Chemical micromotors self-assemble and self-propel by spontaneous symmetry breaking | Chemical Communications | 2018 |
18 | Raymond Kapral Snigdha Thakur Prabha Chuphal Shang Yik Reigh |
Diffusiophoretically induced interactions between chemically active and inert particles | Soft Matter | 2018 |
19 | Snigdha Thakur Debarati Sarkar |
Spontaneous beating and synchronization of extensile active filament | The Journal of Chemical Physics | 2017 |
20 | Snigdha Thakur Debarati Sarkar |
Coarse-grained simulations of an active filament propelled by a self-generated solute gradient | Physical Review E | 2016 |
21 | Debarati Sarkar Abhishekamole B Snigdha Thakur |
Dynamics of Loop Formation in Active Chains | Macromol. Symp. | 2015 |
22 | Snigdha Thakur Sreeja K K Shivam Gupta |
Autonomous movement of a chemically powered vesicle | Physical Review E | 2015 |
23 | Debarati Sarkar Snigdha Thakur Yu-Guo Tao Raymond Kapral |
Ring closure dynamics for a chemically active polymer | Soft Matter | 2014 |
24 | Pavan K Aluri Sukanta Panda Manabendra Sharma Snigdha Thakur |
Anisotropic universe with anisotropic sources | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | 2013 |
25 | Snigdha Thakur Raymond Kapral |
Collective dynamics of self-propelled sphere-dimer motors | Physical Review E | 2012 |
26 | Raymond Kapral Jiang-Xing Chen Snigdha Thakur |
Interaction of a chemically-propelled nanomotor with a chemical wave | Angewandte Chemie International Edition | 2011 |
27 | Raymond Kapral Snigdha Thakur |
Dynamics of self-propelled nanomotors in a chemically active medium | The Journal of Chemical Physics | 2011 |
28 | Jiang-Xing Chen Jun-Wen Mao Snigdha Thakur Jiang-Rong Xu Fu-yang Liu |
Dynamical phase of driven colloidal systems with short-range attraction and long-range repulsion | The Journal of Chemical Physics | 2011 |
29 | Mohamed Laradji Abhijit P Deshpande Prathyusha K R Snigdha Thakur P. B. Sunil Kumar |
Shear Induced Ordering in Branched Living Polymer Solutions | Soft Matter | 2010 |
30 | Raymond Kapral Snigdha Thakur |
SelfÂpropelled nanodimer bound state pairs | The Journal of Chemical Physics | 2010 |
31 | P. B. Sunil Kumar Pramod A Pullarkat Snigdha Thakur |
Coarsening through Directed Droplet Coalescence in FluidÂFluid Phase Separation | Physical Review E | 2009 |
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