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Mithun Chowdhury @LoSI IIT Bombay

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Mithun Chowdhury @LoSI IIT Bombay @mithunc-softint.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New paper out in @commsphys.nature.com Glassy polymer films swell over hours, but molecules inside move on seconds. Local diffusivity exceeds macroscopic transport. Why? Transient elastic cages. Macroscopic expansion needs collective cage rearrangements. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Mithun Chowdhury @LoSI IIT Bombay @mithunc-softint.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The more stressed a polymer film is, the harder it is to relax. Activation barriers are set by the stress itself — opposite to classical plasticity. New paper in PRL with a great team across IIT Bombay, ULB Brussels, Dartmouth & IIT Kanpur 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1103/k28h...
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Mithun Chowdhury @LoSI IIT Bombay @mithunc-softint.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Should your interests lie in polymer physics, you'll find the details in the description quite interesting. A cross journal collection in @natcomms.nature.com and @commsphys.nature.com
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Mithun Chowdhury @LoSI IIT Bombay @mithunc-softint.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Tetrapod nanoparticles impose entropic confinement on polymer chains, reducing viscosity in nanocomposites and enhancing molecular mobility. Using rheology, dewetting experiments, and molecular dynamics simulations, we demonstrate how they lower viscosity in long chain polymers.
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Mithun Chowdhury @LoSI IIT Bombay @mithunc-softint.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
While concrete tetrapod blocks invite the flow of small water molecules into their arms to protect shorelines, tetrapod nanoparticles in long-chain polymers create space that restricts polymer movement, promoting flow by inducing entropic frustration from chain packing.
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Mithun Chowdhury @LoSI IIT Bombay @mithunc-softint.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Glad to see the great team effort published @natcomms.nature.com nature.com/articles/s4146…
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Mithun Chowdhury @LoSI IIT Bombay @mithunc-softint.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
www.nature.com/commsphys/ed... Excited to take on a new role as a member of the Editorial Board for @commsphys.bsky.social Glad to contribute to this journal. I encourage everyone to explore its scope and stay tuned for cutting-edge research! #Polymer #Softmatter #Physics
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Editorial Board | Communications Physics
Editorial Board
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Mithun Chowdhury @LoSI IIT Bombay @mithunc-softint.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We made it to the journal cover of Macromolecules pubs.acs.org/toc/mamobx/58/6 @pubs.acs.org #MyACSCover Original article pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… having ferries wheel with your polymer physics 😀 dewetting in polymer enthalpically inverted bilayer.
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Macromolecules
The cover depicts the topographical features of nanoconfined, enthalpically inverted immiscible polymer bilayer thin films during dewetting, with both the top and bottom layers being probed simultaneously. This formation includes an internal flat rim, in addition to the typical dewetting hole geometry, highlighting the influence of polymer–substrate and polymer–polymer interfacial interactions. These interactions, combined with the bilayer's viscoelastic properties, are responsible for generating an elastic restoring force, contributing to such topographical features. View the article.
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Mithun Chowdhury @LoSI IIT Bombay @mithunc-softint.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
mchmater.wixsite.com/cmithun/grou... You will get full list of speakers and updates inthe link
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Workshop 13-14 January 2025 | cmithun
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Mithun Chowdhury @LoSI IIT Bombay @mithunc-softint.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
@iitbombay 13-14 Jan 2025. Glad to host it.
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