Self-oscillating polymer gel
Classical nucleation theory in model colloidal system
Phase transformation in liquid-crystal
Corrosion in solid material
Equilibrium phase transitions in model colloidal system
Ordering, Clustering in binary colloidal system
Out of equilibrium systems: self-organized criticality
Academics
1995, Secondary Examination (10), Assam Board of Secondary Education, India
1997, Higher Secondary Examination(10+2), Assam Higher Secondary Education Council, India
2000, B.Sc. in Physics Honors, Assam University, India, University Rank: 4th
2002, Postgraduate Diploma in Software Engineering, Rabindra Bharati University, India
2005, M.Sc. in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
2009, PhD in Physics from Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria
Work Experience
Jun. - Aug. 2006Junior Research Fellowat Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
Aug. - Nov. 2006Junior Research Fellowat Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
Feb.2010-Jan.2012Post-Doctoral Fellowat Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
Mar.2012-Feb.2014Post-Doctoral Research Associateat University of Pittsburgh, USA
Aug.2014-Jul.2015Assistant Professorof Physics, Lovely Professional University, India
Jul.2015-Till. DateAssistant Professorof Physics, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, India
Research Projects
Substrate mediated phase transition in two-dimensional liquid crystal systems (Sole PI), SERB, DST, India
SCI
Kadam Bhambari, Gurkirpal Singh, Neena Gupta, Debabrata Deb, Soumendu Jana - "Dispersion Managed Dissipative Solitons with Higher Order Nonlinearity and Frequency-Selective Feedback" ...... submitted to Opt Quant Electron (2017)
Debabrata Deb, O. Kuksenok, and Anna C. Balazs-"Using Light to Control the Interactions between Self-rotating Assemblies of Active Gels" ...... Polymer 55, 5924-5932 (2014), Impact Factor: 3.562
Olga Kuksenok, Debabrata Deb, Xin Yong and Anna C. Balazs- "Designing Biomimetic Reactive Polymer Gels" ...... Mater. Today 17, 486-493 (2014), Impact Factor: 14.107
B.J.Block, D. Deb, F. Schmitz, A. Statt, A. Troester, A. Winkler, T. Zykova-Timan, P. Virnau and K. Binder, "Computer simulation of heterogeneous nucleation of colloidal crystals at planar walls" ... Eur. Phys. J. SpecialTopics 223, 347-361 (2014), Impact Factor: 1.399
Debabrata Deb, O. Kuksenok, P. Dayal, and A. C. Balazs-"Forming self-rotating pinwheels from assemblies of oscillating polymer gels" ..... Mater. Horiz. 1, 125-132 (2014), Impact Factor: 9.095
Debabrata Deb, D. Wilms, A. Winkler, P. Virnau, and K. Binder - "Methods to compute pressure and wall tension in fluids containing hard particles", Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 23, 1240011 (2012), Impact Factor: 1.260
Debabrata Deb, A. Winkler, P.Virnau, and K. Binder --- "Simulation of fluid-solid coexistence in finite volumes: A method to study the properties of wall-attached crystalline nuclei".... J. Chem. Phys. 136, 134710 (2012), Impact Factor: 3.017
Debabrata Deb, A. Winkler, M. H. Yamani, M. Oettel, P. Virnau, and K. Binder-"Hard sphere fluids at a soft repulsive wall: A comparative study using Monte Carlo and density functional methods"...... J. Chem. Phys.134, 214706 (2011), Impact Factor: 3.017
D. Deb and H.H. von Grünberg - "Model colloidal system for island formation", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter,21, S3579-S3586, (2009) , Impact Factor: 2.332
D. Deb and H.H. von Grünberg - "Stabilizing a two dimensional colloidal solid by light induced substrates: pinning, depinning and the effect of disorder", Journal of Physics: Cond. Matter, 20, S3579-S3586, (2008), Impact Factor: 2.332
S. B. Santra and D. Deb - "Sandpile under rotational constraint", Indian Journal of Physics, 82, 295-302, (2008), Impact Factor: 1.337
S. B. Santra and S. R.Chanu and D. Deb - "Characteristics of deterministic and stochastic sandpile models in a rotational sandpile model", Physical Review E, 75, 041122-041131, (2007), Impact Factor: 2.288
Review Articles
Olga Kuksenok, Debabrata Deb, Pratyush Dayal and Anna C. Balazs, - "Modeling Chemo-Responsive Polymer Gels", Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 5, 35, (2014), Impact Factor: 8.676
O. Kuksenok, P. Dayal, A. Bhattacharya, V. V. Yashin, Debabrata Deb, I. C. Chen, K. J. van Vliet, A. C. Balazs - "Chemo-responsive, self-oscillating gels that undergo biomimetic communication" ...... Chem. Soc. Rev. 42, 7257 (2013), Impact Factor: 34.09
Book Chapters
Debabrata Deb, Olga Kuksenok, Pratyush Dayal, Anna C. Balazs, "Modeling photo-induced reconfiguration and directed motion of active gels", in Engineering of Chemical Complexity II, World Scientific (Singapore), (2014) DOI: 10.1142/9789814616133_0009.
Debabrata Deb, D. Wilms, A. Winkler, P. Virnau, and K. Binder- "Monte Carlo Simulation Studies of Interfacial Free Energies in Colloidal Suspensions".... NIC Symposium 2012-Proceedings, Page 235, ISBN 978-3-89336-758-0.
We use computational techniques to solve problems that are related to soft materials (such as colloids, liquid crystals, polymers etc.). We use classical statistical mechanics as the central tool for most of our work.
