| Flocking at a distance in active granular matter N Kumar, H Soni, S Ramaswamy, AK Sood Nature Communications 5, 4688, 2014 | 307 | 2014 |
| Tunable structure and dynamics of active liquid crystals N Kumar, R Zhang, JJ de Pablo, ML Gardel Science Advances 4 (10), eaaat7779, 2018 | 186 | 2018 |
| Spatiotemporal control of liquid crystal structure and dynamics through activity patterning R Zhang, SA Redford, PV Ruijgrok, N Kumar, A Mozaffari, S Zemsky, ... Nature Materials 20 (6), 875-882, 2021 | 136* | 2021 |
| Interplay of structure, elasticity, and dynamics in actin-based nematic materials R Zhang*, N Kumar*, JL Ross, ML Gardel, JJ de Pablo, (*co-first authors) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (2), E124-E133, 2018 | 117 | 2018 |
| Symmetry properties of the large-deviation function of the velocity of a self-propelled polar particle N Kumar, S Ramaswamy, AK Sood Physics Review Letters 106 (11), 118001-118004, 2011 | 83 | 2011 |
| Trapping and sorting active particles: motility-induced condensation & smectic defects N Kumar, RK Gupta, H Soni, S Ramaswamy, AK Sood Physical Review E 99, 032605, 2019 | 58 | 2019 |
| Anisotropic isometric fluctuation relations in experiment and theory on a self-propelled rod N Kumar, H Soni, S Ramaswamy, AK Sood Physical Review E (Rapid Communication) 91 (3), 030102, 2015 | 35 | 2015 |
| Oscillatory settling in wormlike-micelle solutions: bursts and a long time scale N Kumar, S Majumdar, A Sood, R Govindarajan, S Ramaswamy, AK Sood Soft Matter 8 (16), 4310-4313, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
| Phases and excitations of active rod–bead mixtures: simulations and experiments H Soni, N Kumar, J Nambisan, RK Gupta, AK Sood, S Ramaswamy Soft Matter 16, 7210-7221, 2020 | 22 | 2020 |
| Programming tunable active dynamics in a self-propelled robot S Paramanick, A Pal, H Soni, N Kumar The European Physical Journal E 47 (5), 34, 2024 | 15 | 2024 |
| Uncovering Universal Characteristics of Homing Paths using Foraging Robots S Paramanick, A Biswas, H Soni, A Pal, N Kumar PRX Life 2 (3), 033007, 2024 | 9 | 2024 |
| Catapulting of topological defects through elasticity bands in active nematics N Kumar, R Zhang, SA Redford, JJ de Pablo, ML Gardel Soft Matter 18, 5271-5281, 2022 | 9 | 2022 |
| Quantifying nematic order in evaporation-driven self-assembly of Halloysite nanotubes: Nematic islands and the critical aspect ratio A Dadwal, M Prasher, P Sengupta, N Kumar Soft Matter 19, 9050-9058, 2023 | 1 | 2023 |
| Active Liquid Crystals with variable Elasticity N Kumar, R Zhang, J Ross, J de Pablo, M Gardel APS March Meeting Abstracts 2017, R14. 007, 2017 | 1 | 2017 |
| Spontaneous emergence of run-and-tumble-like dynamics in coupled self-propelled robots: experiment and theory S Paramanick, U Pardhi, H Soni, N Kumar arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.01257, 2025 | | 2025 |
| Emergence of run-and-tumble-like motion in active robots connected together with a rigid rod. S Paramanick, N Kumar Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Building active liquid crystals with tunable defect dynamics and variable elasticity N Kumar, R Zhang, J Ross, J De Pablo, M Gardel Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2018 | | 2018 |
| The static and dynamic behaviors of the topological defects in a nematic liquid crystal reveal its material characteristics R Zhang, T Yanagimachi, N Kumar, M Gardel, P Nealey, J de Pablo APS March Meeting Abstracts 2017, B17. 002, 2017 | | 2017 |
| Trapping and sorting active granular rods S Ramaswamy, N Kumar, H Soni, R Gupta, A Sood APS March Meeting Abstracts 2016, F34. 009, 2016 | | 2016 |
A. K. SoodProfessor of Physics, Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore , IndiaEmail verificata su physics.iisc.ernet.in