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His research encompasses a wide range of areas that spans the depth and the width of theoretical physical chemistry, chemical physics, biophysical chemistry and biophysics. His past research activity has lead to discoveries that includes:

  • Kinetics and structural fluctuations of the ribosome (2007).
  • Ion atmosphere of three-way RNA junction (2006).
  • Tight bounds for preferential interaction coefficient of RNA and DNA (2006).
  • Conformation order of random and evolved RNA sequences (2005).
  • Conformation order of random and evolved RNA sequences (2004).
  • Connection between intrinsic DNA bending and migration patterns of DNA in gels (2003).
  • Universality of relaxation time at crossover temperature in glass formers (2003).
  • Hydrodynamics of bent DNA in gels (2003).
  • Proton-disordered configurations of ice that does not satisfy “ice rule” (2002).
  • Debye-Waller factor of high resolution protein at low temperatures (2002).
  • Connection between fragility index and thermodynamics in glass-formers (2001).
  • Connection between glass transition, cross-over and Kauzmann temperatures in glass-formers (2000).
  • Connection between replica symmetry breaking, fragility index, and Moynihan-Narayanaswamy non-linear parameters of glass formers (2000).
  • Optical Kerr Effect of symmetric-top liquids (1999).
  • Free-energy landscape theory of bifurcation of alpha and secondary beta relaxation in glass formers (1999).
  • Anomalous migration of DNA oligomers in gels (1998).
  • DNA mobility characteristics in aqueous solution (1998).
  • Connection between number of counterions condensed at the ends of a long polymer and the number condensed on a short oligomer (1997).
  • Connection between strength of interactions between bubbles of hydrophobic gases and solubility parameter of Hilderbrandt (1997).
  • Connection between adsorption excess and counterion condensation (1996).
  • Connection between counterion condensation and Kosterlitz-Thouless transition (1996).    
  • Connection between relaxation dynamics in supercooled liquids and BCS theory of superconductivity (1994).
  • Nanometer size of cooperative “rearranging regions” at glass transition temperature (1994).
  • Inherent structures of polymeric glasses and possibility of “ideal” glass transition (1993).
  • “Line-liquids”  (1993).
  • Operator product expansion and low temperature singularity in glass formers (1990).
  • Renormalization group formulation of Adam-Gibbs configurational entropy theory (1991). 
  • Renormalization group description of chemical bonding (1991).
  • Real space density functional theory of melting (1991).
  • Elastic constants of icosahedral quasicrystal (1988).
  • Negative Poisson ratio of materials (1987).
  • Field theory description of Flory-Huggins theory of polymer solution (1987).
  • Stress relaxation in glasses (1986).
  • Real space density wave theory for freezing of simple liquids (1986).
  • Connection between elastic constant and direct correlation function (1985).
  • Inherent structure analysis of Stokes-Einstein relation for glass formers (1985).
  • Correlation length divergence of Tolman’s length (1985).
   
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