activity
20242026
collaborators

5 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Voltage dynamics of spherical membranes from single ion channel currents

Sirui Ning, Joshua B. Fernandes, Karthik Shekhar +1

Ion channels and pumps drive ion-selective currents through cell membranes at localized sites, yet a cell's electrical state is routinely summarized by a single transmembrane volta…

cond-mat.soft2026

Thickness effects in the electromechanical stability of charged biological membranes

Sirui Ning, Yannick A. D. Omar, Karthik Shekhar +1

Understanding how electric fields destabilize biological membranes is important for electroporation-based technologies and bioelectronic interfaces. However, theoretical descriptio…

cond-mat.soft2025

Electrochemical response of biological membranes to localized currents and external electric fields

Joshua B. Fernandes, Hyeongjoo Row, Kranthi K. Mandadapu +1

Electrochemical phenomena in biology often unfold in confined geometries where micrometer- to millimeter-scale domains coexist with nanometer-scale interfacial diffuse charge layer…

cond-mat.soft2025

Capacitive response of biological membranes

Jafar Farhadi, Joshua B. Fernandes, Karthik Shekhar +1

We present a minimal model to analyze the capacitive response of a biological membrane subjected to a step voltage via blocking electrodes. Through a perturbative analysis of the u…

cond-mat.soft2024

Odd Viscodiffusive Fluids

Alhad Deshpande, Cory Hargus, Karthik Shekhar +1

We introduce a theory of "odd viscodiffusive fluids," which exhibit three-dimensional odd transport phenomena through the coupling of viscous and diffusive transport. In these flui…