Full List of Publications:

1. Enhanced elasticity and soft glassy rheology of a smectic in a random, porous environment,
    Ranjini Bandyopadhyay, Dennis Liang, Ralph H. Colby, James L. Harden and Robert L. Leheny,
    Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. (2005).

2.  Effect of silica colloids on the rheology of viscoelastic gels formed by the surfactant cetyl trimethylammonium tosylate,
     R. Bandyopadhyay and A. K. Sood,
     Jl. Colloid and Interface Sci. 283, 585 (2005).

3.  Evolution of particle-scale dynamics in an aging clay suspension,
     R. Bandyopadhyay, D. Liang, H. Yardimci, M. A. Borthwick, S. G. J. Mochrie, J. L. Harden and R. L. Leheny,
     Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 228302 (2004).

4.  Rheological chaos in wormlike micelles and nematic hydrodynamics,
     Moumita Das, Ranjini Bandyopadhyay, Buddhapriya Chakraborty, Sriram Ramaswamy, Chandan Dasgupta and A. K. Sood,
     Chapter in Molecular Gels, edited by P. Terech and R. Weiss, (Kluwer Academic Press), 2004.

5.  Photon channeling in aqueous foams,
     A. S. Gittings, R. Bandyopadhyay and D. J. Durian,
     Europhys. Lett. 65, 414 (2004).

6.  Effect of screening of intermicellar interactions on the linear and nonlinear rheology of a viscoelastic gel,
     Ranjini Bandyopadhyay and A. K. Sood,
     Langmuir 19, 3121 (2003).

7.  Rheology of semi-dilute solutions of calf-thymus DNA,
    Ranjini Bandyopadhyay and A. K. Sood,
    Pramana - Jl. Physics, 68, 685 (2002).

8.  A dynamic light scattering study of the gelation of aqueous pectin solutions,
    Janaky Narayanan, Vinod Deotare, Ranjini Bandyopadhyay and A. K. Sood,
    Jl. Colloid and Interface Sci. 245, 267 (2002).

9.  Chaotic dynamics in shear-thickening surfactant solutions,
    R. Bandyopadhyay and A. K. Sood,
    Europhys. Lett. 56, 447 (2001).

10.Optical limiting in single-walled carbon nanotubes,
    S. R. Mishra, H. R. Rawat, S. C. Mehendale, K. C. Rustagi, Ranjini Bandyopadhyay, A. K. Sood, A. Govindaraj and C. N. R. Rao,
    Chem. Phys. Lett. 317, 510 (2000).

11.Dynamical behavior in the nonlinear rheology of surfactant solutions,
    Ranjini Bandyopadhyay and A. K. Sood,
    Statistical Physics, edited by H. E. Stanley and M. Tokuyama, (American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY) 519, 40 (2000).

12.Observation of chaotic dynamics in dilute, aqueous, sheared solutions of CTAT,
    Ranjini Bandyopadhyay, Geetha Basappa and A. K. Sood,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2022 (2000).

13. Linear and nonlinear rheology of wormlike micelles,
    A. K. Sood, Ranjini Bandyopadhyay and Geetha Basappa,
    Pramana - J. Physics 53, 223 (1999).


Manuscripts in preparation:

1.  Speckle visibility spectroscopy: a new dynamic light scattering technique to study the rapid dynamics of complex fluids,
    Ranjini Bandyopadhyay, Paul. K. Dixon and Douglas J. Durian,
    To be submitted to Rev. Sci. Instrum. (2005).


Conference Proceedings:

1.  Speckle visibility spectroscopy studies of multiply scattering colloidal suspensions,
    Ranjini Bandyopadhyay, P. K. Dixon and D. J. Durian,
    Bulletin of the American Physical Society 48 (1), 783 (2003).

2. Absorption optics of aqueous foams,
    Alexander S. Gittings, Ranjini Bandyopadhyay and Douglas J. Durian,
    Bulletin of the American Physical Society 48 (1), 219 (2003).

3. Absorption optics of aqueous foams,
    Ranjini Bandyopadhyay, Alex S. Gittings and Douglas J. Durian,
    NASA/CP-2002/211211 2, 160 (2002).

4. Flow behavior of a dilute, aqueous solution of CTAT,
    Ranjini Bandyopadhyay, Geetha Basappa and A. K. Sood,  
    Proceedings of the Solid State Physics Symposium (India) 42, 189 (2000).


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