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Publications
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2025
"Taming Anomalous Dewetting Dynamics in Enthalpically Inverted Polymer Bilayers" Sudeshna Dhar, Mithun Madhusudanan, Jotypriya Sarkar and Mithun Chowdhury*, Macromolecules, 2025 (accepted)
2024
"Relaxation and Entropy Generation in Dewetting Thin Glassy Polymer Films Trapped Far from Equilibrium" Mithun Madhusudanan and Mithun Chowdhury*, Journal of Polymer Science, 62, 22, 5052-5076
"Assessing activation quality through evaporative drying patterns of Zr-MOF (UiO-66) colloidal droplets" Salini Kar, Nandita Basu, Mostakim Sk, Mithun Chowdhury*, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 16, 26, 34326–34337, 2024
"Advancements in novel mechano-rheological probes for studying glassy dynamics in nanoconfined thin polymer films" Mithun Madhusudanan and Mithun Chowdhury*, ACS Polymers Au, 2024, DOI: 10.1021/acspolymersau.4c00022
"An entropy generation approach to the molecular recoiling stress relaxation in thin nonequilibrated polymer films" Mithun Madhusudanan, and Mithun Chowdhury*, J. Chem. Phys. 160, 014904, 2024
2023
"Roles of aqueous nonsolvents influencing dynamic stability of poly-(n-butyl methacrylate) thin films at biologically relevant temperatures" Jotypriya Sarkar, Mithun Madhusudanan, Chandni VC, Shilpa Choyal, Mithun Chowdhury*, Soft Matter, 19, 8193-8202, 2023
"Engineering linker defects in functionalized UiO-66 MOF nanoparticles for oil-in-water Pickering emulsion stabilization" Mostakim SK, Salini Kar, Jayant K Dewangan, Mithun Chowdhury*, Dalton Transactions, 52, 11886-11896, 2023
"Tuning the plasticization to decouple the effect of molecular recoiling stress from modulus and viscosity in dewetting thin polystyrene films" Mithun Madhusudanan, Jotypriya Sarkar, Sudeshna Dhar, Mithun Chowdhury* Macromolecules 56 (4), 1402-1409, 2023
2022
"Decoupling of glassy dynamics from viscosity in thin supported poly (n-butyl methacrylate) films" Mithun Chowdhury*, Xavier Monnier, Daniele Cangialosi, Rodney D Priestley, ACS Polymers Au, 2 (5), 333-340,2022
"Scaling mechanical instabilities in drying micellar droplets" Jayant K. Dewangan, Nandita Basu, Mithun Chowdhury*, Soft Matter,18, 4253-4264, 2022
"Cationic surfactant–directed structural control of NaCl crystals from evaporating sessile droplets" Jayant K. Dewangan, Nandita Basu, Mithun Chowdhury*, Soft Matter,18, 62-79, 2022, Outside back cover Soft Matter,18, 245-246, 2022
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2020
"In-situ measurement of bulk modulus and yield response of glassy thin films via confined layer compression" Owen Brazil, Johann de Silva, Mithun Chowdhury, Heedong Yoon, Gregory B. McKenna, Warren Oliver, Jason Kilpatrick, John B. Pethica, Graham L. W. Cross, Journal of Materials Research, 35 (6), 644-653 (2020)
2019
"Tunable Properties of MAPLE-Deposited Thin Films in the Presence of Suppressed Segmental Dynamics" Yucheng Wang, Kaichen Gu, Xavier Monnier, Hyuncheol Jeong, Mithun Chowdhury, Daniele Cangialosi, Yueh-Lin Loo, Rodney D Priestley, ACS Macro. Lett., 8, 1115 (2019)
2018
"Exploiting physical vapor deposition for morphological control in semi‐crystalline polymer films" Yucheng Wang, Hyuncheol Jeong, Mithun Chowdhury, Craig B Arnold, Rodney D Priestley, Polymer Crystallization,1:e10021 (2018)
“Twenty-First Century Advances in Fluorescence Techniques to Characterize Glass-Forming Polymers at the Nanoscale” Mary J. Burroughs*, Dane A. Christie, Laura A. G. Gray, Mithun Chowdhury, and Rodney D. Priestley* Macro. Chem. Phys., 219, 1700368 (2018)
“Tuning Morphology and Melting Temperature in Polyethylene Films by MAPLE” Hyuncheol Jeong, Mithun Chowdhury, Yucheng Wang, Melda Sezen-Edmonds, Yueh-Lin Loo, Richard A. Register, Craig B. Arnold, and Rodney D. Priestley* Macromolecules, 51 (2), 512-519 (2018)
"Engineered Exciton Diffusion Length Enhances Device Efficiency in Small Molecule Photovoltaics" Muhammad T Sajjad, Oskar Blaszczyk, Lethy Krishnan Jagadamma, Thomas J Roland, Mithun Chowdhury, Arvydas Ruseckas, Ifor DW Samuel Journal of Materials Chemistry A 6 (20), 9445-9450 (2018)
2017
“Spatially Distributed Rheological Properties in Confined Polymers by Noncontact Shear” Mithun Chowdhury, Yunlong Guo, Yucheng Wang, Weston L. Merling, Jayachandra H. Mangalara, David S. Simmons*, and Rodney D. Priestley* J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8, 1229 (2017)
“Tuning Crystalline Ordering by Annealing and Additives to Study its Effect on Exciton Diffusion in a Polyalkylthiophene Copolymer” Mithun Chowdhury, M. Tariq Sajjad, Victoria Savikhin, Noémie Hergué, Karina B. Sutija, Stefan D. Oosterhout, Michael F. Toney, Philippe Dubois, Arvydas Ruseckas and Ifor D. W. Samuel* Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 19, 12441-12451(2017)
“Effect of Annealing on Exciton Diffusion in a High Performance Small Molecule Organic Photovoltaic Material” Yun Long, Gordon J Hedley, Arvydas Ruseckas, Mithun Chowdhury, Thomas Roland, Luis A Serrano, Graeme Cooke, Ifor D W Samuel* ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 9(17), 14945–14952 (2017)
“Discrete Mobility on the Surface of Glasses” Mithun Chowdhury and Rodney D Priestley* Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A, 114(19), 4854-4856 (2017)
“Stratification and Two Glass-like Thermal Transitions in Aged Polymer Films” L. Pradipkanti, Mithun Chowdhury and Dillip K. Satapathy* Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.,19 (43), 29263-29270 (2017)
"Relaxing Nonequilibrated Polymers in Thin Films at Temperatures Slightly Above the Glass Transition" Mithun Chowdhury*, Samer Al Akhrass*, Falko Ziebert, Günter Reiter Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 55 (6), 515-523 (2017)
2016
“Solution-Processable Silicon Phthalocyanines in Electroluminescent and Photovoltaic Devices” Eli Zysman-Colman*, Sanjay S Ghosh, Guohua Xie, Shinto Varghese, Mithun Chowdhury, Nidhi Sharma, David B Cordes, Alexandra MZ Slawin, Ifor DW Samuel* ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 8 (14), 9247 (2016).
“Intrinsic Stresses in Thin Glassy Polymer Films Revealed by Crack formation” Mithun Chowdhury, Xiaoyuan Sheng, Falko Ziebert, Arnold C.-M. Yang, Alessandro Sepe, Ullrich Steiner* and Günter Reiter* Macromolecules 49 (23), 9060 (2016).
2012
“Segmental Relaxations have Macroscopic Consequences in Glassy Polymer Films” Mithun Chowdhury*, Paul Freyberg, Falko Ziebert, Arnold C.-M. Yang, Ullrich Steiner and Günter Reiter* Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 136102 (2012).
“Swelling with a Near-Ɵ Solvent as a Means to Modify the Properties of Polymer Thin Films” Andrew Clough, Mithun Chowdhury, Kaiwan Jahanshahi, Günter Reiter and Ophelia K. C. Tsui* Macromolecules 45 (15), 6196 (2012).
2010
“Aging of Thin Polymer Films Cast from a Near-Theta Solvent” Adam Raegen, Mithun Chowdhury, Christophe Calers, Alexander Schmatulla, Ullrich Steiner* and Günter Reiter* Phys. Rev.Lett. 105, 227801 (2010).