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36.“Piezoelectric nanoribbons for monitoring cellular deformations”, Thanh D. Nguyen, Nikhil Deshmukh, John M. Nagarah, Tal Kramer, Prashant K. Purohit, Michael J. Berry, Michael C. McAlpine, To appear in Nature Nanotechnology, (2012).

35.“Competition between supercoils and toroids in single molecule DNA condensation”, David Argudo and Prashant K. Purohit, To appear in Biophysical Journal, (2012).

34.“Stochastic rate-dependent elasticity and failure of soft fibrous networks”, A. S. Abhilash, Prashant K. Purohit and Shailendra P. Joshi, Soft Matter 8, 7004-7016, (2012)..

33.“Biomechanical profiling of C.elegans motility”, Predrag Krajacic, Xiaoning Shen, Prashant K. Purohit, Paulo Arratia and Todd Lamitina, Genetics 191(3):1015-21,(2012).

32.“The dependence of DNA supercoiling on solution electrostatics”, David Argudo and Prashant K. Purohit, To appear in Acta Biomaterialia, (2012).

31.“Semiflexible filament networks viewed as fluctuating beam frames”, Tianxiang Su and Prashant K. Purohit, Soft Matter 8(17), 4664-4674, (2012).

30.“Phase boundaries as agents of structural change in macromolecules”, Ritwik Raj and Prashant K. Purohit, J. Mech. Phys. Solids 59, 2044-2069, (2011).

29.“Entropically driven mition of polymers in non-uniform nanochannels”, Tianxiang Su and Prashant K. Purohit, Phys. Rev. E 83, 061906 (11 pages), (2011).

28.“Fluctuating elastic filaments under distributed loads”, Tianxiang Su and Prashant K. Purohit, Molecular and Cellular Biomechanics 8(3), 215-232, (2011).

27.
“Enhanced piezoelectricity and stretchability in energy harvesting devices fabricated from buckled PZT ribbons”, Yi Qi, Jihoon Kim, Thanh D. Nguyen, Bozhena Lisko, Prashant K. Purohit, Michael C. McAlpine. Nano Letters, Nano Letters 11(3), 1331-1336, (2011). PDF . Publicity article

26.
“Transition between two regimes describing internal fluctuation of DNA in a nanochannel”
Tianxiang Su, Somes K. Das, Ming Xiao, Prashant K. Purohit, PLoS One Vol. 6, e16890, (2011).

25. “Protein unfolding accounts for the unusual mechanical behavior of fibrin networks”
Prashant K. Purohit, Rustem I. Litvinov, Andre E. X. Brown, Dennis E. Discher, John W. Weisel, Acta Biomaterialia 7, 2374-2382, (2011).

24.“Comparison of Brownian-dynamics-based estimates of polymer tension with direct force measurements”, Mark E. Arsenault, Prashant K. Purohit,  Yale E. Goldman, Henry Shuman, Haim H. Bau, Phys. Rev. E Vol. 82, 051923, (2010). PDF

23. “Moving interfaces in rod-like macromolecules”
Ritwik Raj, Prashant K. Purohit., Europhysics Letters 91, 28003, (2010).


22. “The Effects of Fluid Viscosity on the Kinematics and Material Properties of C. elegans Swimming at Low Reynolds Number”, J. Sznitman, X. Shen, Prashant K. Purohit, P.E. Arratia, Journal of Experimental Mechanics, Vol. 50, 1303-1311, (2010).

21. “Material Properties of Caenorhabditis elegans Swimming at Low Reynolds Number”,
J. Sznitman, Prashant K. Purohit, P. Krajacic, T. Lamitina and P. E. Arratia, Biophysical Journal, Vol. 98, 617-626, (2010).


20. “Thermomechanics of a heterogeneous fluctuating chain”,
Tianxiang Su, Prashant K. Purohit., J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 58, 164-186, (2010).


19. “Shape and energetics of DNA plectonemes”,
Prashant K. Purohit, Chapter in IUTAM book series, "IUTAM symposium on Cell, Molecular and Tissue Mechanics", Springer, ISBN 978-90-481-3347-5, (Editors: K. Garikipati and E.M. Arruda), (2010).


18.
“Multiscale mechanics of fibrin polymer: Gel stretching with protein unfolding and loss of water”
, Andre E. X. Brown, Rustem I, Litvinov, Dennis E. Discher, Prashant K. Purohit, John W. Weisel, Science Vol. 325. no. 5941, pp. 741 - 744, (2009).

17.
“Mechanics of forced unfolding of proteins”,

Tianxiang Su and Prashant K. Purohit, Acta Biomaterialia, 5, 1855-1863, (2009).

16. “Analytical and numerical solutions for shapes of quiescent 2D vesicles”,
Shravan Veerapaneni, Ritwik Raj, George Biros and Prashant K. Purohit, Intl. J. Nonlin. Mech.44, 257-262, (2009).

15. “Mechanics of heterogeneous fluctuating elastic rods”,
Tianxiang Su and Prashant K. Purohit, (8 pages, Proceedings of the ASME-IDETC 2009 conference, San Diego).


14. "The mechanics of short rod-like molecules in tension”,
Prashant K. Purohit, Mark E. Arsenault, Yale E. Goldman and Haim H. Bau, Intl. J. Nonlin. Mech., 43, 1056-1063, (2008).

13. "Plectoneme formation in twisted fluctuating rods",
Prashant K. Purohit, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 56, 1715-1729, (2008).

12. "Geometry of mediating protein affects the probability of loop formation in DNA",
Neeraj Agrawal, Ravi Radhakrishnan and Prashant K. Purohit, Biophys. J., 94(8), 3150-3158 (2008).

11. "Confinement and manipulation of actin filaments by electric fields",
Mark Arsenault, Hui Zhao, Prashant K. Purohit, Yale E. Goldman and Haim H. Bau, Biophys. J., 93(8), L42-L44, (2007).

10. "Effect of supercoiling on formation of protein mediated DNA loops",
Prashant K. Purohit and Philip C. Nelson, Phys. Rev. E, 74, 061907 (2006).

9. "The effect of genome length on ejection forces in bacteriophage lambda",
Paul Grayson, Alex Evilevitch, Mandar Inamdar, Prashant K. Purohit, William Gelbart, Charles Knobler and Rob Phillips, Virology, 348, 430-436 (2006).

8. "Forces during viral DNA packaging and ejection",
Prashant K. Purohit, Mandar Inamdar, Paul Grayson, Todd Squires, Jane Kondev and Rob Phillips, Biophys. J., 88, 851-866 (2005).

7. "Mechanics of DNA packaging in viruses",
Prashant K. Purohit, Jane Kondev and Rob Phillips, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 100(6), 3173-3178 (2003).

6. "Force steps during viral DNA packaging".
Prashant K. Purohit, Jane Kondev and Rob Phillips, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 51, 2239-2257 (2003).

5. "Mechanics of biological nanotechnology",
Rob Phillips, Prashant K. Purohitand Jane Kondev, chapter in Springer handbook of nanotechnology, Springer-Verlag, 693-727 (2003).

4. "Dynamics of strings made of phase transforming materials",
Prashant K. Purohit and Kaushik Bhattacharya, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 51, 393-424 (2003).

3.
"Mobility of twin and phase boundaries",
K. Bhattacharya, P. Purohit and B. Craciun, J. de Physique IV, 112, 163-166 (2003).

2. "On beams made of phase transforming materials",
Prashant K. Purohit and Kaushik Bhattacharya, Intl. J. of Solids Structures, 39, 3907-3929 (2002).

1. "Dynamics of strings made of phase transforming materials",
Prashant K. Purohit and Kaushik Bhattacharya,Proceedings of the 20th International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, (2001).

 
 
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