Highlights of our Current Research
We use several experimental techniques to understand the strucuture, dynamics, rheology and stability of out-of-equilibrium soft materials. . One of our major motivations is to use soft systems as models to understand the physics of out-of-equilibrium hard condensed matter systems. Another is to put these extremely versatile materials to use in a variety of situations related to therapeutics, industry and day-to-day life. We use techniques such as static and dynamic light scattering, oscillatory and rotational rheology, ultrasound attentuation spectroscopy and electroacoustics, high-speed imaging and, more recently, optical tweezers for our studies. Ours is a very interdisciplinary field and we collaborate with engineers, physics and chemists, both theorists and experimentalists, here and abroad.