Liquid-Liquid phase separation (LLPS) has been shown as a primary mechanism in forming the bio-molecular condensates in cellular systems. Thus, LLPS is an important phenomenon in the cellular organization and aggregation of structures in a cell. We show that LLPS not only segregates and creates condensate droplets but can also “repair” them if they get damaged. The mechanism is shown in experimentally realizable liquid-film systems. It is demonstrated that repairing is an emergent property in the form of structural memory, which emerges in creating stable localized nanodroplets.

Biography

I did my PhD in Theoretical and Computational Physics jointly from IIT Delhi and JNU, New Delhi, India. After that, I was a postdoc at the International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), Bangalore, for almost 1.5 years. Subsequently, I was a visiting scientist at Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore. Then I moved to the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, for my next postdoc from August 2020 to April 2025. Since May 2025, I have been an assistant professor at Sino-Europe Complexity Science Center, Department of Mathematics, NUC, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. By training, I am a physicist; however,I am interested in all branches of Natural Sciences and their philosophy. My research interests include Physics of Complex and Active Matter Systems,Self-Organizing Phase-Ordering Systems,Disordered and Amorphous Materials,Continuum Physics,Theory of random Matrices,and Classical & Quantum Chaos. 

Inviter: Yu-Liang Jin