Meenu Prasher
28 posts
@PrasherM
Material Scientist
(1/6) 📢Excited to share our latest work in collaboration with @harshIITMandi's group at IIT Mandi on an artificial robotic system 🤖, in experiment and theory, mimicking run-and-tumble (RT) motion seen in microorganisms 🦠. 🧵⏬@Somnath73831947 @iitbombay arxiv.org/abs/2502.01257
Preprint alert 📣! We provide an experimental protocol to align clay nanotubes over the entire dried deposit in spite of huge size-polydispersity. Experiments by my postdoc Arun. In collaboration with @PrasherM. Supported by @iitbombay @IndiaDST arxiv.org/html/2505.0371…
Researchers at IIT Bombay are using robots to understand how animals find their way back home from unfamiliar places, a skill called homing, @purnima_sah_ reports trib.al/XXbwAlo
A programmable robot mimicked the general features of pigeons’ homing trajectories, providing new insights into the #physics of how these birds navigate home with such precision. 🐦 Home in on the paper: go.aps.org/3M2ILeL #AnimalBehavior #BioPhysics
EPJ E Highlight - Tuning the movement of a self-propelled robot to the physics of living matter bit.ly/3W5TOKl @EuroPhysSoc @EDPSciences @SIF_it @SFP_officiel @SpringerPhysics
First work from our lab. We show how to program self-propelled differential-wheeled robots to display active Brownian, run-and-tumble, and Brownian motion over a vast spectrum of tunable parameters. A fun collaboration with @harshIITMandi @arnabpa43305476. arxiv.org/abs/2306.06609
What determines nanorod self-assembly upon evaporation? Latest experiments from our lab on Halloysite nanotubes reveal that rods with an aspect ratio of 6.5 or higher must always exist in a highly aligned nematic state. In collaboration with @PrasherM arxiv.org/abs/2309.11323
2. Italy vs France (@researchremora)
