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Last published 2025
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Pradeep Kumar

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High Impact

Assistant Professor

Also affiliated: Boston University (2005–2010); University of Wisconsin–Madison (2016); Duquesne University (1993); St. Francis Xavier University (2005); Yeshiva University (2005); University of Mysore (2010); Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR) (2010); J.C. Bose University of Science & Technology, YMCA (2024); University of Duisburg-Essen (2016); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005); Rockefeller University (2007–2014); The University of Texas at Austin (2010)

32 h-index 89 pubs 4,354 cited

  • Temperature
  • Models, Chemical
  • Water
  • Surface Properties
  • Phase Transition
  • Computer Simulation
  • Models, Molecular
  • Pressure
  • Molecular Dynamics Simulation
  • Atmospheric Pressure
  • Escherichia coli
  • Models, Biological
  • Solutions
  • Thermodynamics
  • Nanostructures

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Pradeep Kumar's research investigates the thermodynamics, structure, and dynamics of water under various conditions, including confinement between hydrophobic plates and within nanofilms. His work explores phase transitions, particularly the liquid-liquid critical point of water, and its relationship to phenomena such as the Widom line and the breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein relation in supercooled water. Kumar also studies the glass transition in biomolecules and the origin and reduction of 1/f magnetic flux noise in superconducting devices.

Kumar has published extensively on these topics, with notable works addressing the tetrahedral entropy of water and the quantitative relationship between water's structure and its translational and orientational order. His research utilizes computer simulation, including molecular dynamics, to model these complex systems.

With an h-index of 32 and over 4,300 citations, Kumar is recognized as a highly cited researcher. He has a history of collaboration with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including P. M. Thibado, James M. Mangum, and Teguh Satria Amin.

Metrics

  • h-index: 32
  • Publications: 89
  • Citations: 4,354

Positions

  • Assistant Professor 2013–present
    University of Arkansas Fayetteville Physics ORCID

Selected Publications

  • Transient Thermal Energy Harvesting at a Single Temperature Using Nonlinearity (2025)
    Entropy 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Size-dependent ferroelectric-to-paraelectric sliding transformations and antipolar-to-ferroelectric topological phase transitions in binary homobilayers (2024)
    Physical Review Materials 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • (Invited) Harvesting Energy from Freestanding Graphene Thermal Fluctuations (2023)
    ECS Meeting Abstracts DOI OpenAlex
  • Charging capacitors from thermal fluctuations using diodes (2023)
    Physical review. E 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Freestanding graphene heat engine analyzed using stochastic thermodynamics (2023)
    AIP Advances 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Phases of active matter composed of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria near a hard surface (2022)
    Physical Review Fluids 15 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Pressure and temperature dependence of fluorescence anisotropy of green fluorescent protein (2022)
    RSC Advances 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Morphological Phenotypes, Cell Division, and Gene Expression of Escherichia coli under High Concentration of Sodium Sulfate (2022)
    Microorganisms 15 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Growth, Cell Division, and Gene Expression of Escherichia coli at Elevated Concentrations of Magnesium Sulfate: Implications for Habitability of Europa and Mars (2020)
    Microorganisms 17 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Theory of finite-temperature two-dimensional structural transformations in group-IV monochalcogenide monolayers (2020)
    Physical review. B./Physical review. B 28 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Fluctuation-induced current from freestanding graphene (2020)
    Physical review. E 43 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Solubility of Nitrogen in Methane, Ethane, and Mixtures of Methane and Ethane at Titan-Like Conditions: A Molecular Dynamics Study (2020)
    ACS Earth and Space Chemistry DOI OpenAlex
  • Evolution of elastic moduli through a two-dimensional structural transformation (2019)
    Physical review. B./Physical review. B 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of temperatures and high pressures on the growth and survivability of methanogens and stable carbon isotope fractionation: implications for deep subsurface life on Mars (2018)
    International Journal of Astrobiology 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Dynamics of phenotypic switching of bacterial cells with temporal fluctuations in pressure (2018)
    Physical review. E 9 citations DOI OpenAlex

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