Pradeep Kumar Source Confirmed

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Assistant Professor

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

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32 h-index 95 pubs 4,178 cited

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Biography and Research Information

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Pradeep Kumar's research investigates fundamental physical phenomena, with recent work focusing on energy harvesting and materials science. He has explored the principles of stochastic thermodynamics, analyzing systems such as freestanding graphene heat engines and transient thermal energy harvesting using nonlinearity. His work also extends to the behavior of materials at the nanoscale, including the study of size-dependent ferroelectric-to-paraelectric transformations and topological phase transitions in binary homobilayers.

Kumar's research group has also examined biological systems through a physics lens. This includes investigating the phases of active matter composed of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria and studying the pressure and temperature dependence of fluorescence anisotropy in green fluorescent protein. Additionally, his publications indicate an interest in microbial physiology, as evidenced by research on the morphological phenotypes, cell division, and gene expression of Escherichia coli under high concentrations of sodium sulfate.

With a scholarly output reflected in an h-index of 32 and over 4,000 citations across 95 publications, Kumar is recognized as a highly cited researcher. He actively collaborates with colleagues at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including P. M. Thibado, James M. Mangum, Teguh Satria Amin, and Ferdinand Harerimana, with whom he has co-authored multiple publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 32
  • Publications: 95
  • Citations: 4,178

Selected Publications

  • Transient Thermal Energy Harvesting at a Single Temperature Using Nonlinearity (2025) DOI
  • Size-dependent ferroelectric-to-paraelectric sliding transformations and antipolar-to-ferroelectric topological phase transitions in binary homobilayers (2024) DOI
  • (Invited) Harvesting Energy from Freestanding Graphene Thermal Fluctuations (2023) DOI
  • Charging capacitors from thermal fluctuations using diodes (2023) DOI
  • Freestanding graphene heat engine analyzed using stochastic thermodynamics (2023) DOI
  • Phases of active matter composed of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria near a hard surface (2022) DOI
  • Pressure and temperature dependence of fluorescence anisotropy of green fluorescent protein (2022) DOI
  • Morphological Phenotypes, Cell Division, and Gene Expression of Escherichia coli under High Concentration of Sodium Sulfate (2022) DOI

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