Appendix I - Publications PAPERS IN JOURNALS d imeric compounds 1 Nanoparticle induced d irector d istortion Kundu, Brindaban*; Pal, Santanu Kumar*; and d isorder in l iquid crystal-nanoparticle Kumar, Sandeep; Pratibha R; d ispersions Madhusudana NV Gupta, Meenal; Satpathy, Ipsita*; Roy, Arun; Physical Review E 82, 061703, 2010 Pratibha R 8 Liquid-crystal nanoscience: an emerging Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 352, avenue of soft self-assembly 292, 2010 Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Kumar, Sandeep 2 Photosensitive phasmid-l ike l iquid Chemical Society Reviews 40, 306, 2011 crystall ine materials with unusual 9 Enhancement of the d isplay parameters of mesomorphic behaviour 42 -pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl due to the Nagaveni, Nagendrappa Gowdru*; Gupta, d ispersion of functional ised gold nano Meenal; Roy, Arun; Prasad, Veena* particles Journal of Materials Chemistry 20, 9089, 2010 Pandey, Abhay S*; Dhar R*; Kumar, Sandeep; 3 Occurrence of transition between two polar Dabrowski R* orthogonal smectic phases in new Liquid Crystals 38, 115, 2011 homologous series of novel bent-core 10 The first examples of discotic l iquid compounds crystall ine gemini surfactants Radhika S; Sadashiva BK; Pratibha R Kumar, Sandeep; Gupta, Satyam Kumar Liquid Crystals 37, 417, 2010 Tetrahedron Letters 51, 5459, 2010 4 Critical behaviour at transitions from uniaxial 11 Stress-strain relation in the collapse of to biaxial phases in a smectic l iquid-crystal Langmuir monolayer of a d imer of d isk mixture shaped moiety Sasaki, Y*; Ema K*; Le KV*; Takezoe H*; Kumar, Bharat; Suresh KA; Gupta, Satyam Dhara, Surajit*; Sadashiva BK Kumar; Kumar, Sandeep Physical Review E 82, 011709, 2010 Journal of Chemical Physics 133, 044701, 2010 5 Stable amorphous blue phase of bent-core 12 Microemulsion phase as a medium for nematic l iquid crystals doped with a chiral electrodeposition of nickel and electron- material transfer study of ferrocyanide-ferricyanide Taushanoff, Stefanie*; Van Le, Khoa*; redox system Will iams, Jarrod*; Twieg, Robert J*; Ganesh V*; Lakshminarayanan V Sadashiva BK; Takezoe, Hideo*; Jakl i, Antal* Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 349, Journal of Materials Chemistry 20, 5893, 2010 300, 2010 6 Stress relaxation in aging soft colloidal 13 Enhanced electrocatalytic activity of Pd- glasses d ispersed3,4-polyethylened ioxythiophen Bandyopadhyay, Ranjini; Mohan, P Harsha; film Joshi, Yogesh M* Pandey, Rakesh K; Lakshminarayanan V Soft Matter 6, 1462, 2010 Journal of Physical Chemistry C 114, 8507, 7 Splay and bend elastic constants in the 2010 nematic phase of some d isulfide bridged 94 APPENDIX 14 Temperature- and electric-field-induced 23 Heat conduction in d isordered harmonic inverse Freedericksz transition in a lattices with energy-conserving noise nematogen with weak surface anchoring Dhar, Abhishek; Venkateshan K*; Kumar, Arun T*; Sathyanarayana P*; Sastry Lebowitz JL* VSS*; Takezoe, Hideo*; Madhusudana NV; Physical Review E 83, 021108, 2011 Dhara, Surajit* 24 Appl ication of importance sampl ing to the Physical Review E 82, 011701, 2010 computation of large deviations in 15 4-Decylphenyl 4-benzyloxy 3-methyl- nonequil ibrium processes benzoate Kundu, Anupam; Sabhapand it, Sanjib; Dhar, Arunkashi HK*; Palakshamurthy BS*; Abhishek Vahini,Vindu M*; Srinivasa HT; Physical Review E 83, 031119, 2011 Devarajegowda HC* 25 Heat conduction and phonon local isation in Acta Crystallographica E 66, 02126, 2010 d isordered harmonic crystals 16 4-Ethoxyphenyl 4-[(methoxycarbonyl)-oxy] Kundu, Anupam ; Chaudhuri, A*; Roy D*; benzoate Dhar, Abhishek; Lebowitz JL*; Spohn H* Srinivasa HT; Devarajegowda HC*; Europhysics Letters 90, 40001, 2010 Arunkashi HK*; Meenakshi TG* 26 Non-local Pancharatnam phase in two- Acta Crystallographica E 66, 03074, 2010 photon interferometry 17 The role of the Cytoskeleton in volume Mehta, Poonam; Samuel, Joseph; Sinha, regulation and beading transitions in PC12 Supurna neurites Physical Review A 82, 034102, 2010 Fernandez, Pablo*; Pullarkat, Pramod A 27 Interplay of energy dependent astrophysical Biophysical Journal 99, 3571, 2010 neutrino flavor ratios and new physics effects 18 Chiral symmetry breaking in crystals of Mehta, Poonam; Winter, Walter* achiral polymers Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Hatwalne, Yashodhan; Muthukumar M* Physics 03, 041, 2011 Physical Review Letters 105, 107801, 2010 28 Head-on infall of two compact objects: Third 19 Time autocorrelation function and Green- post-Newtonian energy flux Kubo formula: Study on a d isordered Mishra, Chandrakant; Iyer BR harmonic chain Physical Review D 82, 104005, 2010 Kundu, Anupam 29 Parametrized tests of post-Newtonian theory Physical Review E 82, 031131, 2010 using advanced LIGO and Einstein telescope 20 Polymer quantization of the free scalar field Mishra, Chandrakanth; Arun KG*; Iyer BR; and its classical l imit Sathyaprakash BS* Laddha, Alok; Varadarajan, Madhavan Physical Review D 82, 064010, 2010 Classical and Quantum Gravity 27, 175010, 30 Spherical harmonic modes of 5.5 post- 2010 Newtonian gravitational wave polarizations 21 Energy current magnification in coupled and associated factorized resummed oscillator loops waveforms for a particle in circular orbit Marathe, Rahul; Dhar, Abhishek; around a Schwarzschild black hole Jayannavar AM* Fujita, Ryuichi+; Iyer BR Physical Review E 82, 031117, 2010 Physical Review D 82, 044051, 2010 22 Linear-response formula for finite-frequency 31 AIGO : a southern hemisphere detector for thermal conductance of open systems the worldwide array of ground-based Dhar, Abhishek; Narayan, Onuttom*; Kundu, interferometric gravitational wave detectos Anupam; Saito, Keiji* Barriga P*; Blair DG*; Coward D*; Iyer BR; Physical Review E 83, 011101, 2011 and 41+ co-authors Classical and Quantum Gravity 27, 084005, 2010 95 32 Large deviations of heat flow in harmonic 42 Threshold nonl inear absorption in Zeeman chains transitions Kundu, Anupam; Sabhapand it, Sanjib; Dhar, Narayananan, Andal; Hazra, Abheera*; Abhishek Sandhya SN* J. Stat. Mech. P03007 (2011) Journal of Physics B 43, 215502, 2010 33 Hamiltonian constraint in polymer 43 Rubidium dimers in paraffin-coated cells parametrized field theory Acosta VM*; Jarmola A*; Windes D*; Laddha, Alok; Varadarajan, Madhavan Corsini E*; Ledbetter MP*; Karaulanov T*; Physical Review D 83, 025019, 2011 Auzinsh M*; Rangwala SA; Kimball, 34 Post-Newtonian factorized multipolar Jackson DF*; Budker D* waveforms for spinning, nonprecessing New Journal of Physics 12, 083054, 2010 black-hole binaries 44 Investigation of antirelaxation coatings for Pan, Yi*; Buonanno, Alessandra*; Fujita, alkal i-metal vapour cells using surface Ryuichi; Racine, Etienne*; Tagoshi, science techniques Hideyuki* Seltzer SJ*; Michalak DJ*; Donaldson MH*; Physical Review D 83, 064003, 2011 Balabas MV*; Rangwala SA; and 15+ co- 35 DECIGO and DECIGO pathfinder authors Ando, Masaki*; Fujita, Ryuichi+; et al Journal of Chemical Physics 133, 144703, 2010 Classical and Quantum Gravity 27, 084010, 45 Transverse laser cool ing of a thermal atomic 2010 beam of dysprosium 36 Competition between fold ing and Leefer N*; Cingoz A*; Gerber-Siff B*; aggregation in a model for protein solutions Sharma, Arijit; Torgerson JR; Budker D* Maiti M*; Rao, Madan; Sastry S* Physical Review A 81, 043427, 2010 European Physical Journal E 32, 217, 2010 46 Entanglement and nonclassical ity for 37 Nonaffine heterogeneities and droplet multimode rad iation-field states fluctuations in an equil ibrium crystall ine Ivan, Solomon J; Chaturved i S*; Ercolessi E*; sol id Marmo G*; Morand i G*; Mukunda N*; Das, Tamoghna*; Sengupta, Surajit*; Simon R* Rao, Madan Physical Review A 83, 032118, 2011 Physical Review E 82, 041115, 2010 47 Nonl inear optical studies on a new poly2- 38 On extend ing the quantum measure (biphenyl-4-yl)-5-[3,4-d idecyloxy-5-(1,3,4- Dowker, Fay*; Johnston, Steven*; Surya, oxad iazol-2-yl)thiophen-2-yl]-1,3,4- Sumati oxad iazole Journal of Physics A 43, 505305, 2010 Hegde PK*; Adhikari AV*; Manjunatha MG*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Phil ip, Reji 39 Quantum covers in quantum measure theory Materials Science Forum 659, 56, 2010 Surya, Sumati; Wallden, Petros Foundations of Physics 40, 585, 2010 48 Mixing does the magic: a rapid synthesis of high surface area noble metal nanosponges 40 Directional optical switch using interacting showing broadband nonl inear optical dark states response Narayanan, Andal; Madathil, Preethi Krishna, Katla Sai*; Sandeep, Suchand CS; Thekkile*; Manjappa, Manukumara* Phil ip, Reji; Eswaramoorthy, Muthusamy* Journal of the Optical Society of America A 27, ACS Nano 4, 2681, 2010 1778, 2010 49 Optical nonl inearity in NiFe2O4 nanoparticles 41 Tracking interacting dark states through Sridharan, Kishore ; Agarwal, Milan*; Phil ip, higher order absorption resonances Jacob*; Endo, Tamio*; Phil ip, Reji Madathil, Preethi Thekkile*; Manjappa, Transactions of the Materials Research Society Manukumara*; Narayananan, Andal of Japan 35, 159, 2010 European Physical Journal D 60, 389, 2010 96 APPENDIX 50 Synthesis, characterisation of N,N’-bis(2- 56 Mod ified collaborative coefficient: a new hydroxynaphthal idene) phenylene-1,2- measure for quantifying the degree of d iamine with M(II)(M = Ni, Zn and Fe) Schiff- research collaboration base complexes and their non-l inear optical Savanur, Kiran P; Srikanth R stud ies by z-scan technique Scientometrics, 84, 365, 2010 Sampath Kumar HC*; Bhat B Ramachandra*; 57 Complementarity in generic open quantum Rudresha BJ*; Ravindra R*; Phil ip, Reji systems Chemical Physics Letters