Ganga Prasath, S., Joel Marthelot, Rama Govindarajan, and Narayanan Menon. Shapes of a filament on the surface of a bubble. Proc. Roy Soc. A 477, 20210353 (2021).
Joe Forth, et al. “The Buckling Spectra of Nanoparticle Surfactant Assemblies.” Nano Letters 21, 7116-7122(2021).
Ganga Prasath, S., Joel Marthelot, Narayanan Menon, and Rama Govindarajan, Wetting and wrapping of a floating droplet by a thin elastic filament. Soft Matter (2021)
Rahul Chajwa, Narayanan Menon, Sriram Ramaswamy, and Rama Govindarajan Waves, Algebraic Growth, and Clumping in Sedimenting Disk Arrays Phys. Rev. X 10, 041016 (2020).
Deepak Kumar, Thomas P. Russell, Benny Davidovitch, Narayanan Menon. “Stresses in thin sheets at fluid interfaces.” 1-4, Nature Materials (2020).
Rahul Chajwa, Narayanan Menon, and Sriram Ramaswamy. “Kepler Orbits in Pairs of Disks Settling in a Viscous Fluid.” Physical Review Letters 122 224501 (2019).
Jooyoung Chang, Kamil B. Toga, Joseph D. Paulsen, Narayanan Menon, and Thomas P. Russell. Thickness Dependence of the Young’s Modulus of Polymer Thin Films.” Macromolecules 51 6764-6770 (2018).
Deepak Kumar, Joseph D. Paulsen, Thomas P. Russell, Narayanan Menon Wrapping with a splash: High-speed encapsulation with ultrathin sheets Science, 775-778 (2018).
Joseph Paulsen, V. Démery, K. B. Toga, Z. Qiu, T. P. Russell, B. Davidovitch, and N. Menon Geometry-Driven Folding of a Floating Annular Sheet, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 048004 (2017).
Sumit Kumar Birwa, G. Rajalakshmi, Rama Govindarajan, and Narayanan Menon. “Solid-on-solid contact in a sphere-wall collision in a viscous fluid.” Physical Review Fluids 3, (2018): 044302.
Lee Walsh, Caleb G. Wagner, Sarah Schlossberg, Christopher Olson, Aparna Baskaran, and Narayanan Menon. “Noise and diffusion of a vibrated self-propelled granular particle.” Soft Matter 13, (2017).
Lee Walsh and Narayanan Menon Ordering and dynamics of vibrated hard squares J. Stat. Mech. 083302 (2016)
Ganga Prasath, Joel Marthelot, Rama Govindarajan, and Narayanan Menon Relaxation of a highly deformed elastic filament at a fluid interface Phys. Rev. Fluids 1, 033903 (2016)
Joseph Paulsen, Démery, V., Santangelo, C. D., Russell, T. P., Davidovitch, B., & Menon, N. Optimal wrapping of liquid droplets with ultrathin sheets. Nature Materials. 14,1206–1209 (2015). Cover article in Nature Mat.
Anne Dominique Cambou, & Menon, N. Orientational ordering in crumpled elastic sheets. Europhysics Letters 112(1), 14003 (2015).
Joseph Paulsen, Hohlfeld, E., King, H., Huang, J., Qiu, Z., Russell, T. P., Menon, N., Davidovitch, B. Curvature-induced stiffness and the spatial variation of wavelength in wrinkled sheets. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. 201521520. (2016).
Vella, D., Huang, J., Menon, N., Russell, T. P., & Davidovitch, B. (2015). Indentation of ultrathin elastic films and the emergence of asymptotic isometry. Physical review letters, 114(1), 014301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.014301
Hunter King, Robert Schroll, Benny Davidovitch, Narayanan Menon, A sheet on a drop reveals wrinkling and crumpling as distinct symmetry-breaking instabilities Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. 109, 9716-9720 (2012). Cover article in PNAS
Anne Dominique Cambou, Narayanan Menon 3-dimensional structure of a sheet crumpled into a sphere, Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. 108, 14741-14745 (2011). Highlighted by Physics Today, New Scientist and Wired magazine.
Jiangshui Huang, Benny Davidovitch, Christian Santangelo, Thomas P. Russell, Narayanan Menon, A smooth cascade of wrinkles at the edge of a floating elastic film Phys Rev Lett 105, 083202 (2010). Highlighted paper, published with a Viewpoint in Physics
Vijay Narayan, Sriram Ramaswamy, Narayanan Menon Long-lived giant number fluctuations in a nonequilibrium nematic Science 317, 107 (2007). Published with an editorial Perspective; covered on NPR’s Science Friday
Jiangshui Huang, M. Juszkiewicz, W. H. de Jeu, E. Cerda, T.S. Emrick, Narayanan Menon, T. P. Russell Capillary wrinkling of floating thin films. Science 317, 650(2007). Published with an editorial Perspective; covered by Physics Today.
Win, Kyaw Zin, and Narayanan Menon. Glass transition of glycerol in the volume-temperature plane. Phys Rev E 73, 040501 (2006).
Klebert Feitosa, Narayanan Menon, A fluidized granular medium as an instance of the Fluctuation Theorem Phys. Rev Lett. 92, 164301 ( 2004)
Emily Longhi, Nalini Easwar, and Narayanan Menon. Large force fluctuations in a flowing granular medium. Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 045501 (2002).
Klebert Feitosa, Narayanan Menon, Breakdown of equipartition in a 2D binary vibrated granular gas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 198301 (2002).
Florence Rouyer, Narayanan Menon. Velocity fluctuations in a homogeneous 2D granular gas in steady state. Phys Rev Lett 85 3676 (2000).