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We have a new paper to appear in ACS Photonics from our lab at IISER Pune Great effort by rahul chand Eksha & Diptabrata Paul We ask : How & why does directional rotation emerge in a optical trap of thermally active (smaller) + passive colloidal combinations? 1/n

Had 'enlightening' #outreach session with students of University Of Pune. #Optics demonstrations explaining interference, polarisation, and interactions of light with liquid crystals. Optica Student Chapter Advisor: G V Pavan Kumar, IISER Pune

The paper is online: Emergence of Directional Rotation in an Optothermally Activated Colloidal System | ACS Photonics pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… rahul chand Eksha & Diptabrata Paul

We have an arxiv preprint : We explore some dynamic regimes of optical matter driven by heat+light... arxiv.org/abs/2411.12488 rahul chand Ashutosh Shukla & Sneha Boby

We have a new preprint - Synchronized motion of gold nanoparticles in an optothermal trap The central circle indicates anchored gold nanoparticles stuck to the glass, & the 2 moving circles are gold colloids that are trapped synchronously due to the optothermal potential. 1/2

To wind up the year, we have a manuscript acceptance in ACS Photonics.. kudos to rahul chand and Ashutosh Shukla...super effort by them & thanks to the anonymous reviewers who made us think...

The final version of our paper is online ACS Photonics rahul chand and Ashutosh Shukla were very creative in setting up the experiments, and in the process of writing the paper, we learned interesting things... pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… IISER Pune

We have a new paper in Soft Matter Super effort by my group members rahul chand, Ashutosh Shukla and Sneha Boby IISER Pune 1/