Personal Information

Dr. Pritam Kumar Roy

Assistant Professor
Department of Physics

Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur), JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (The University of Tokyo), Postdoctoral Fellow (Ariel University, Israel)

pritam.roy@curaj.ac.in

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Soft matter physics

Educational Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Physics (2013 – 2019), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
  • M.Sc.  in Physics (2010 – 2013), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
  • B.Sc. in Physics (2007 – 2010), North Bengal University, Raja Rammohanpur, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.

Work Experience

  • JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (May 2023 – May 2025), The University of Tokyo, Japan.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow (July 2019 – April 2023), Ariel University, Israel.

Grants and Awards

  • Received the JSPS KAKENHI Grant (2023)
  • Received the "FY2023 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan (Standard)" (2022)
  • Received the “Study in Israel” Fellowship for Outstanding Post-Doctoral Researchers from China and India, provided by the Planning & Budgeting Committee (PBC) of the Council for Higher Education (CHE), Israel (2020).
  • International travel grants from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, SCIENCE and ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD (SERB) (2018).
  • Awarded Department excellence grant  (2018).

Research focuses on solid–solid and liquid–solid interactions across different scales, aiming to bridge fundamental science with real-world applications.

Key areas include:

  1. Wetting and Surface Phenomena: Investigating wetting on real surfaces, superhydrophilic/superhydrophobic/oleophobic behaviors, and lubricant-infused slippery surfaces (LIS).
  2. Tunable Wetting: Controlling surface wetting using external stimuli such as electric and magnetic fields and mechanical stress.
  3. Liquid Marbles: Studying lab-in-a-marble systems, interfacial crystallization, and self-propulsion for microfluidic and biological applications.
  4. Soft Materials: Exploring elastic instabilities and mechanical responses in soft substrates.

 

S. No. Authors Title of Article Journal/Conference Details Journal/Conference Publication Year
1 Journal

List of Patents

  1. Meenaxi Sharma, Pritam Kumar Roy, Neha Bhatt, and Krishnacharya Khare, A nanocomposite coating composition and a method of preparing the same thereof. Indian Patent, 202511066308, filed July 11, 2025.
  2. Pritam Kumar Roy, Timothée Mouterde, Liquid marble processing equipment, sensing systems, and liquid marble processing methods. Japan Patent, J64681A1, filed June 20, 2024.

List of Book Chapters

  1. Pritam Kumar Roy, Shraga Shoval, Leonid A. Dombrovsky and Edward Bormashenko, Oscillatory Reversible Osmotic Growth of Sessile Saline Droplets on a Floating Polydimethylsiloxane Membrane, In Fluids and Surfaces (pp. 34–41). MDPI. Reprinted from: Fluids, 232, 6 (2021).

List of Publications

  1. Pritam Kumar Roy, Yui Takai, Rui Matsubara, Mizuki Tenjimbayashi, Timothée Mouterde, Hot Liquid Marbles, PNAS e2500619122, 120 (2025).
  2. Anfisa Ayalon, Fidaa El Zhalka, Alexander Rubowitz, Pritam Kumar Roy, Shraga Shoval, Irina Legchenkova, Edward Bormashenko, Interfacial behavior of intravitreally injected drugs simulated by models of the silicone oil filled eye, Surf. Innov. 1-9 (2024).
  3. Mizuki Tenjimbayashi, Timothée Mouterde, Pritam Kumar Roy, Koichiro Uto, Liquid Marble: Review of Recent Progress in Physical Properties, Formation Techniques, and Lab-in-a-Marble Applications in Microreactors and Biosensors, Nanoscale 18980-18998, 15 (2023).
  4. Pritam Kumar Roy, Shraga Shoval, Nir Shvalb, Leonid A Dombrovsky, Oleg Gendelman, Edward Bormashenko, Apple-like Shape of Freezing Paraffin Wax Droplets and Its Origin, Materials. 5514, 16 (2023)
  5. Pritam Kumar Roy, Shraga Shoval, Syuji Fujii and Edward Bormashenko, Interfacial crystallization in the polyhedral liquid marbles, J. Colloid Interface Sci. 685-694, 630 (2022).
  6. Pritam Kumar Roy, Bernard P Binks, Shraga Shoval, Leonid A. Dombrovsky and Edward Bormashenko, Hierarchical Liquid Marbles Formed Using Floating Hydrophobic Powder and Levitating Water Droplets, J. Colloid Interface Sci. 466-474, 626 (2022).
  7. Pritam Kumar Roy, Bernard P Binks, Shraga Shoval, Leonid A Dombrovsky and Edward Bormashenko, Levitating Clusters of Fluorinated Fumed Silica Nanoparticles Enable Manufacture of Liquid Marbles: Co-Occurrence of Interfacial, Thermal and Electrostatic Events, Colloids Surf. A. 129453, 649 (2022).
  8. Anfisa Ayalona, Alexander Rubowitza, Pritam Kumar Roy, Shraga Shoval, Irina Legchenkova and Edward Bormashenko, Interfacial behavior of intravitreally injected drugs simulated by models of the silicone oil filled eye, Surf. Innov. 1-7 (2022).
  9. Pritam Kumar Roy, Irina Legchenkova, Leonid A Dombrovsky, Vladimir Yu Levashov, Bernard P Binks, Nir Shvalb, Shraga Shoval, Viktor Valtsifer and Edward Bormashenko, Thermophoretic Levitation of Solid Particles at Atmospheric Pressure, Adv Powder Technol. 103497, 33 (2022).
  10. Pritam Kumar Roy, Shraga Shoval, Leonid A. Dombrovsky and Edward Bormashenko, Oscillatory Reversible Osmotic Growth of Sessile Saline Droplets on a Floating Polydimethylsiloxane Membrane, Fluids, 232, 6 (2021).
  11. Pritam Kumar Roy, Irina Legchenkova, Shraga Shoval, Leonid A. Dombrovsky and Edward Bormashenko, Osmotic evolution of composite liquid marbles, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 167-173, 592 (2021).
  12. Pritam Kumar Roy, Irina Legchenkova, Shraga Shoval and Edward Bormashenko, Interfacial Crystallization within Janus Saline Marbles, J. Phys. Chem.C, 14141420, 125 (2021).
  13. Edward Bormashenko, Pritam Kumar Roy, Shraga Shoval and Irina Legchenkova, Interfacial Crystallization within Liquid Marbles, Condens. Matter, 62, 5 (2020).
  14. Pritam Kumar Roy, Shraga Shoval, Mirit Sharabi and Edward Bormashenko, Soft lithography with liquid marbles, Colloids Surf. A, 125488, 607 (2020).
  15. Alexander Rubowitza, Anfisa Ayalona, Pritam Kumar Roy, Shraga Shoval, Irina Legchenkova and Edward Bormashenko, Study of wetting of the animal retinas by Water and organic liquids and its Implications for ophthalmology, Colloids Surf. B, 111265, 195 (2020).
  16. Pritam Kumar Roy, Bernard P. Binks, Syuji Fujii, Shraga Shoval and Edward Bormashenko, Composite Liquid Marbles as a Macroscopic Model System Representing Shedding of Enveloped Viruses, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 4279-4285, 11 (2020).
  17. Pritam Kumar Roy, Bernard P. Binks, Edward Bormashenko, Irina Legchenkova, Syuji Fujii and Shraga Shoval, Manufacture and Properties of Composite Liquid Marbles, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 35-41, 575 (2020).
  18. Pritam Kumar Roy, Mark Frenkel, Irina Legchenkova, Shraga Shoval, Bernard P. Binks and Edward Bormashenko, Liquid Marble-Induced Dewetting, J. Phys. Chem. C, 9345-9349, 124 (2020).
  19. Pritam Kumar Roy, Edward Bormashenko, Mark Frenkel, Irina Legchenkova and Shraga Shoval, Magnetic Field Induced Motion of Water Droplets and Bubbles on the Lubricant Coated Surface, Colloids Surf. A, 124773, 597 (2020).
  20. Meenaxi Sharma, Samrat Sohel Mondal, Pritam Kumar Roy and Krishnacharya Khare, Evaporation Dynamics of Pure and Binary Mixture Drops on Dry and Lubricant Coated Slippery Surfaces, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 244-253, 569 (2020).
  21. Pritam Kumar Roy, Sanjeev Kumar Ujjain, Sneha Dattatreya, Sumana Kumar, Reeta Pant and Krishnacharya Khare, Mechanically Tunable Single Component Soft Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Based Robust and Sticky Superhydrophobic Surfaces, Appl. Phys. A, 535, 125 (2019).
  22. Meenaxi Sharma, Pritam Kumar Roy, Jitesh Barman and Krishnacharya Khare, Mobility of Aqueous and Binary Mixture Drops on Lubricating Fluid-Coated Slippery Surfaces, Langmuir, 7672-7679, 35 (2019).
  23. Meenaxi Sharma, Pritam Kumar Roy, Reeta Pant and Krishnacharya Khare, Sink Dynamics of Aqueous Drops on Lubricating Fluid Coated Hydrophilic Surfaces, Colloids Surf. A, 377-382, 562 (2019).
  24. Jitesh Barman, Sumit Kumar Majumder, Pritam Kumar Roy, and Krishnacharya Khare, Tunable Superoleophobicity via Harnessing the Surface Chemistry of UV Responsive Titania Coatings, RSC Adv.,13253-13258, 8 (2018).
  25. Reeta Pant, Pritam Kumar Roy, Arun Kumar Nagarajan and Krishnacharya Khare, Slipperiness and stability of hydrophilic surfaces coated with a lubricating fluid, RSC Adv.,15002, 6 (2016).
  26. Pritam Kumar Roy, Sanjeev Kumar Ujjain, Sumana Kumar, Subhash Singha and Krishnacharya Khare, Uniting Superhydrophobic, Superoleophobic and Lubricant Infused Slippery Behavior on Copper Oxide Nano-structured Substrates, Sci. Rep., 35524, 6 (2016).
  27. Pritam Kumar Roy, Reeta Pant, Arun Kumar Nagarajan and Krishnacharya Khare, Mechanically Tunable Slippery Behavior on Soft Poly(dimethylsiloxane)-Based Anisotropic Wrinkles Infused with Lubricating Fluid, Langmuir.

Attended

  1. "Online NEP Orientation and Sensitization Programme" Organised by UGC-MMTTC, Central University of Rajasthan, from 1-10 Dec. 2025.
  2. Six Day National Level FDP Program on "Bridging Chemistry and Engineering through Advanced Secroscopic Techniques" organized by Paavai Engineering College (Autonomous), Namakkal Dist. Tamilnadu in Collaboration with A.C.T Academy, Kerala.
  3. APS DFD 2024, November 23-26 held at Salt lake city, US, Oral presentation on “Hot Liquid Marbles”.
  4. 61st Japan Heat Transfer Symposium 2024, May 29-31, held at Kobe, Japan, Oral presentation on “Self-propelling Leidenfrost Liquid marbles”.
  5. IUTAM Symposium Tokyo 2023, Decebmber 3-5 held at Tokyo, Japan, Poster Presentation on “Hot Liquid Marbles”.
  6. Thermal Engineering Conference 2023, October 14-15, held at Kobe, Japan, Oral presentation on “Self-propelling Leidenfrost Liquid marbles”.
  7. European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Spring Meeting 2018, June 18-22, 2018, held at Strasbourg, France, Poster Presented on “Isotropic and Anisotropic Surface Morphology Controlled Wetting and Slippery Phenomena”.
  8. Recent Trends in Condensed Matter Physics, October 31 - November 3, 2017, held at Bose Institute, India Poster presentation on “Surface Morphology Controlled Wetting and Slippery Phenomena”.
  9. Complex Fluids- CompFlu-2016, January 2-4, 2016, held at IISER Pune, India, Poster Presented on “Mechanical tunablity of superhydrophobicity and slippery behavior on PDMS based wrinkles”.
  10. 8th India Singapore Symposium in Condensed Matter Physics, February 25-27, 2015, held at IIT Kanpur, India, Poster Presented on “Mechanically tunable superhydrophobic and slippery surface based on PDMS wrinkles”.
  11. A cluster of topical meetings on Current Trends in Condensed Matter Physics, February 19-22, 2015, held in NISER Bhubaneswar, India, Oral presented on “Mechanical tunablity of superhydrophobicity and slippery behavior on PDMS based wrinkles”.