† indicates co-first authors / + indicates an undergraduate researcher / * indicates Datta as corresponding author

Submitted

Morphodynamics of surface-attached active drops
A. Martìnez-Calvo*, N. S. Wingreen*, S. S. Datta*
Research areas: Living & active systems, Complex fluids

Pattern formation by bacteria-phage interactions
A. Martìnez-Calvo*, N. S. Wingreen*, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Living & active systems

Microbial mutualism generates multistable and oscillatory growth dynamics
D. B. Amchin, A. Martínez-Calvo, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Living & active systems

On the growth and form of bacterial colonies
R. Porter†, C. Trenado-Yuste†, A. Martìnez-Calvo†, M. Su, N. S. Wingreen*, S. S. Datta*, K. C. Huang*
Research area: Living & active systems

Stagnation points at grain contacts generate an elastic flow instability in 3D porous media
E. Y. Chen, C. A. Browne, S. J. Haward, A. Q. Shen, and S. S. Datta*
Research area: Complex fluids

Navigating the maze of groundwater cleanup
C. A. Browne* and S. S. Datta*
Research area: Complex fluids

2025

Microbes get by with a little help from their friends, Nature Chemical Engineering
S. S. Datta*
Research areas: Living & active systems, Complex fluids

Morphogenesis of bacterial cables in polymeric environments, Science Advances
S. Gonzalez La Corte, C. A. Stevens, G. Cárcamo-Oyarce, K. Ribbeck, N. S. Wingreen*, and S. S. Datta*
Research areas: Living & active systems, Complex fluids
Video descriptions available on YouTube and at KITP

Interfacial morphodynamics of proliferating microbial communities, Physical Review X
A. Martìnez-Calvo†*, C. Trenado-Yuste†*, H. Lee, J. Gore, N. S. Wingreen*, S. S. Datta*
Research areas: Living & active systems, Complex fluids
Video descriptions available on YouTube and at KITP

Influence of fluid rheology on multistability in the unstable flow
of polymer solutions through pore constriction arrays, Journal of Rheology (in press)
E. Y. Chen and S. S. Datta*
Research area: Complex fluids

2024

Harnessing elastic instabilities for enhanced mixing and reaction kinetics in porous media, PNAS
C. A. Browne and S. S. Datta*
Research area: Complex fluids
Video description available on Cassyni

Life at low Reynolds number isn’t such a drag, Nature Chemical Engineering
S. S. Datta*
Research areas: Living & active systems, Complex fluids

Harnessing an elastic flow instability to improve the kinetic performance of chromatographic columns, J. Chromatography A
F. Gritti†*, E. Y. Chen†, and S. S. Datta*
Research area: Complex fluids

Influence of bacterial swimming and hydrodynamics on infection by phages, Soft Matter
C. Lohrmann*, C. Holm*, and S. S. Datta*
Research areas: Living & active systems, Complex fluids

Interplay between environmental yielding and dynamic forcing regulates bacterial growth, Biophysical Journal
A. M. Hancock and S. S. Datta*
Research areas: Living & active systems, Complex fluids

3D printing bacteria to study motility and growth in complex 3D porous media, J. Visualized Experiments
R. K. Bay*, A. M. Hancock, A. S. Dill-Macky†+, H. N. Luu†, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Living & active systems

Obstructed swelling and fracture of hydrogels, Soft Matter
A. Plummer†, C. Adkins†+, J-F Louf, A. Kosmrlj*, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Soft mechanics

Data-driven discovery of chemotactic migration of bacteria via coordinate-invariant machine learning, BMC Bioinformatics
Y. M. Psarellis, S. Lee, T. Bhattacharjee, S. S. Datta, J. M. Bello-Rivas, I. G. Kevrekidis
Research area: Living & active systems

Ribogreen fluorescent assay kinetics to measure ribonucleic acid loading into lipid nanoparticle carriers,
Advanced Materials Interfaces
N. Bizmark, S. Nayagam, D. Amelemah, D. Zhang,
S. S. Datta, R. D. Priestley, T. Colace, J. Wang, R. K. Prud’homme
Research area: Nanoscience

Soft matter physics of the ground beneath our feet, Soft Matter
A. Voigtlander, M. Houssais, K. A. Bacik, I. C. Bourg , J. C. Burton, K. E. Daniels, S. S. Datta, E. Del Gado, N. S. Deshpande, O. Devauchelle, B. Ferdowsi, R. Glade, L. Goehring, I. J. Hewitt, D. Jerolmack, R. Juanes, A. Kudrolli, C-Y Lai, E. Lio, C. Masteller, K. Nissanka, A. M. Rubin, H. A. Stone, J. Suckale, N. M. Vriend, J. S. Wettlaufer
Research areas: Living & active systems, Complex fluids

2023

Chemotactic motility-induced phase separation, Physical Review Letters
H. Zhao, A. Kosmrlj, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Living & active systems

Homogenizing fluid transport in stratified porous media using an elastic flow instability, J. Fluid Mechanics
C. A. Browne, R. B. Huang+, C. W. Zheng+, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Complex fluids

Fluid drainage in erodible porous media, Physical Review Research
J. Schneider, C. A. Browne, M. Slutzky, C. A. Quirk, D. B. Amchin, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Complex fluids

Active transport in complex environments, book chapter in Out-of-Equilibrium Soft Matter: Active Fluids
A. Martínez-Calvo, C. Trenado-Yuste, S. S. Datta*
Research areas: Living & active systems, Complex fluids

Flow-driven channelization in a particle-filled porous medium, Album of Porous Media Structure and Dynamics
N. Bizmark and S. S. Datta*
Research area: Complex fluids

Lab on a chip for a low carbon future, Lab on a Chip
S. S. Datta*, I. Battiato, M. Ferno, R. Juanes, S. Parsa, V. Prigiobbe, E. Santanach-Carreras, W. Song, S. L. Biswal, D. Sinton*
Research areas: Living & active systems, Complex fluids

Proliferating active matter, Nature Reviews Physics
O. Hallatschek, S. S. Datta, K. Drescher, J. Dunkel, J. Elgeti, B. Waclaw, N. S. Wingreen
Research area: Living & active systems

Tough and recyclable phase-separated supramolecular gels via a dehydration-hydration cycle, JACS Au
X. Xu, Y. I. Eatmon, K. S. S. Christie, A. L. McGaughey, N. Guillomaitre, S. S. Datta, Z. J. Ren, C. Arnold, R. D. Priestley
Research area: Soft mechanics

Liquid-liquid phase separation within fibrillar networks, Nature Communications
J. X. Liu, M. P. Haataja, A. Kosmrlj, S. S. Datta, C. B. Arnold, R. D. Priestley
Research area: Soft mechanics

An energy-optimization method to study gel-swelling in confinement, Soft Matter
C. Joshi, M. Q. Giso, J-F Louf, S. S. Datta, T. J. Atherton
Research area: Soft mechanics

Modeling the transition between localized and extended deposition in flow networks through packings of glass beads,
Physical Review Letters
G. Kelly, N. Bizmark, B. Chakraborty, S. S. Datta, T. G. Fai
Research area: Complex fluids

Mucin glycans maintain coexistence in oral microbial communities, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
C. M. Wu, K. M. Wheeler, G. Cárcamo-Oyarce, K. Aoki, A. McShane, S. S. Datta, J. L. Mark Welch, M. Tiemeyer, A. L. Griffen, K. Ribbeck
Research area: Living & active systems

Quick release anti-fouling hydrogels for solar-driven water purification, ACS Central Science
X. Xu, N. Guillomaitre, K. Christie, R. K. Bay, N. Bizmark, S. S. Datta, Z. J. Ren, R. D. Priestley
Research area: Soft mechanics

Deciphering biophysical principles for the design and application of complex bacterial communities,
PhD thesis, Princeton University
J. A. Moore-Ott

Coupled dynamics of colloids and immiscible fluids in porous media,
PhD thesis, Princeton University
J. Schneider

2022

Morphological instability and roughening of growing 3D bacterial colonies, PNAS
A. Martínez-Calvo†, T. Bhattacharjee†, R. K. Bay, H. N. Luu+, A. M. Hancock, N. S. Wingreen*, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Living & active systems
Video descriptions available on YouTube and at KITP

A biophysical threshold for biofilm formation, eLife
J. A. Ott, S. Chiu+, D. B. Amchin, T. Bhattacharjee, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Living & active systems

Influence of confinement on the spreading of bacterial populations, PLoS Computational Biology
D. B. Amchin, J. A. Ott, T. Bhattacharjee, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Living & active systems

Cellular sensing governs the stability of chemotactic fronts, Physical Review Letters
R. Alert*, A. Martínez-Calvo, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Living & active systems
Video description available on YouTube

Chemotactic smoothing of collective migration, eLife
T. Bhattacharjee†, D. B. Amchin†, R. Alert†, J. A. Ott, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Living & active systems
Video description available on YouTube

Perspectives on viscoelastic flow instabilities and elastic turbulence, Physical Review Fluids
S. S. Datta*, A. M. Ardekani, P. E. Arratia, A. N. Beris, I. Bischofberger, J. G. Eggers, J. Esteban Lopez-Aguilar, S. M. Fielding, A. Frishman, M. D. Graham, J. S. Guasto, S. J. Haward, S. Hormozi, G. H. McKinley, R. J. Poole, A. Morozov, V. Shankar, E. S. G. Shaqfeh, A. Q. Shen, H. Stark, V. Steinberg, G. Subramanian, H. A. Stone*
Research area: Complex fluids

Tuning morphologies and reactivities of hybrid organic-inorganic nanoparticles, ACS Nano
J. Schneider, J. Liu, V. Lee, R. K. Prud’homme, S. S. Datta, R. D. Priestley
Research area: Nanoscience

Chemorepellent-loaded nanocarriers promote localized interference of E. coli transport to inhibit biofilm formation,
ACS Applied Bio Materials
T. Kuper, L. Wang, R. K. Prud’homme, S. S. Datta, R. M. Ford
Research areas: Nanoscience, Living & active systems

The characteristics of time-dependent changes of coefficient of permeability for superabsorbent polymer-soil mixtures, Materials
J. Misiewicz, S. S. Datta, K. Lejcus, D. Marczak
Research area: Soft mechanics

Hysteresis in the thermally induced phase transition of cellulose ethers, Soft Matter
N. Bizmark, N. Caggiano, J. Liu, C. Arnold, R. K. Prud’homme, S. S. Datta, R. D. Priestley
Research area: Soft mechanics

Thermo-responsive polymers for water treatment and collection, Macromolecules
X. Xu, N. Bizmark, K. Christie, S. S. Datta, Z. J. Ren, R. D. Priestley
Research area: Soft mechanics

Elastic turbulence in porous media,
PhD thesis, Princeton University
C. A. Browne

Biophysical modeling of the growth and motion of bacterial populations,
PhD thesis, Princeton University
D. B. Amchin

2021

Elastic turbulence generates anomalous flow resistance in porous media, Science Advances
C. A. Browne and S. S. Datta*
Research area: Complex fluids
Video description available on Cassyni

Chemotactic migration of bacteria in porous media, Biophysical Journal
T. Bhattacharjee†, D. B. Amchin†, J. A. Ott, F. Kratz, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Living & active systems
Video description available on YouTube

Using colloidal deposition to mobilize immiscible fluids from porous media, Physical Review Fluids
J. Schneider, R. D. Priestley, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Complex fluids

Forced imbibition in stratified porous media: fluid dynamics and breakthrough saturation, Physical Review Fluids
N. B. Lu†, D. B. Amchin†, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Complex fluids

Under pressure: Hydrogel swelling in a granular medium, Science Advances
J-F Louf, N. B. Lu, M. G. O’Connell+, H-J Cho, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Soft mechanics
Video description available on YouTube

Poroelastic shape relaxation of hydrogel particles, Soft Matter
J-F Louf and S. S. Datta*
Research area: Soft mechanics

Scaling laws to predict humidity-induced swelling and stiffness in hydrogels, Soft Matter
Y. Gao, N. K. K. Chai, N. Garakani, S. S. Datta*, H. J. Cho*
Research area: Soft mechanics

Infection percolation: A dynamic network model of disease spreading, Frontiers in Physics
C. A. Browne†, D. B. Amchin†, J. A. Schneider†, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Living & active systems

A geometric criterion for the optimal spreading of active polymers in porous media, Nature Communications
C. Kurzthaler†, S. Mandal†, T. Bhattacharjee, H. Lowen, S. S. Datta, H. A. Stone
Research area: Living & active systems

Impact of confined geometries on hopping and trapping of motile bacteria in porous media, Physical Review E
L. J. Perez, T. Bhattacharjee, S. S. Datta, R. Parashar, N. Sund
Research area: Living & active systems

Numerical investigation of multistability in the unstable flow of a polymer solution through porous media, Physical Review Fluids
M. Kumar, S. Aramideh, C. A. Browne, S. S. Datta, A. Ardekani
Research area: Complex fluids

Bioinspired elastic hydrogel for solar-driven clean water purification, Advanced Materials
X. Xu, S. Ozden, N. Bizmark, C. B. Arnold, S. S. Datta, R. D. Priestley
Research area: Soft mechanics

Evolution of polymer colloid structure during precipitation and phase separation, JACS Au
J. Liu, N. Bizmark, D. Scott, R. A. Register, M. Haataja, S. S. Datta, C. B. Arnold, R. D. Priestley
Research area: Nanoscience

Reversible pH-driven flocculation of ionomer-coated nanoparticles for rapid filtration and concentration,
ACS Applied Nano Materials
K. D. Ristroph, J. A. Ott, L. A. Issah+, B K. Wilson, A. Kujovic+, M. Armstrong, S. S. Datta, R. K. Prud’homme
Research area: Nanoscience

Opportunities for soft matter research in space, Biological and Physical Sciences in Space,
Decadal Survey (2023-2032) conducted by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
S. S. Datta*

Multiphase flow in heterogeneous porous media,
PhD thesis, Princeton University
N. B. Lu

2020

Multi-scale dynamics of colloidal deposition and erosion in porous media, Science Advances
N. Bizmark, J. Schneider, R. D. Priestley, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Complex fluids

Bistability in the unstable flow of polymer solutions through pore constriction arrays, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
C. A. Browne, A. Shih+, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Complex fluids

Forced imbibition in stratified porous media, Physical Review Applied
N. B. Lu†, A. Pahlavan†, C. A. Browne, D. B. Amchin, H. A. Stone, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Complex fluids

Elastocapillary network model of inhalation, Physical Review Research
J-F Louf†, F. Kratz†, S. S. Datta*
Research areas: Living & active systems, Soft mechanics

In silico design enables the rapid production of surface-active colloidal amphiphiles, ACS Central Science
T. I. Morozova, V. E. Lee, N. Bizmark, S. S. Datta, R. K. Prud’homme, A. Nikoubashman, R. D. Priestley
Research area: Nanoscience

2019

Bacterial hopping and trapping in porous media, Nature Communications
T. Bhattacharjee and S. S. Datta*
Research area: Living & active systems
Video description available on YouTube

Confinement and activity regulate bacterial motion in porous media, Soft Matter
T. Bhattacharjee and S. S. Datta*
Research area: Living & active systems
Video description available on YouTube

Pore-scale flow characterization of polymer solutions in microfluidic porous media, Small
C. A. Browne, A. Shih+, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Complex fluids

Transport of Polymer Colloids in Porous Media, book chapter in Polymer Colloids from RSC Publishing
N. Bizmark, J. Schneider, E. K. De Jong+, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Complex fluids

Controlling capillary fingering using pore size gradients in disordered media, Physical Review Fluids
N. B. Lu, C. A. Browne, D. B. Amchin, J. K. Nunes, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Complex fluids

Scaling law for cracking in shrinkable granular packings, Physical Review Letters
H. J. Cho and S. S. Datta*
Research area: Soft mechanics

Crack formation and self-closing in shrinkable, granular packings, Soft Matter
H. J. Cho, N. B. Lu, M. P. Howard, R. A. Adams+, S. S. Datta*
Research area: Soft mechanics

Cooperative size sorting of deformable particles in porous media, Soft Matter
M. G. O’Connell†+, N. B. Lu†, C. A. Browne†, S. S. Datta*
Research areas: Complex fluids, Soft mechanics

High-molecular-weight polymers from dietary fiber drive aggregation of particulates in the murine small intestine, eLife
A. Preska Steinberg, S. S. Datta, T. Naragon, J. C. Rolando, S. R. Bogatyrev, R. F. Ismagilov
Research areas: Living & active systems, Complex fluids

2018

Adsorption and denaturation of structured polymeric nanoparticles at an interface, Nano Letters
C. Tian, J. Feng, H. J. Cho, S. S. Datta, R. K. Prud’homme
Research area: Nanoscience

Suppressing viscous fingering in structured porous media, PNAS
H. S. Rabbani, D. Or, Y. Liu, C-Y Lai, N. B. Lu, S. S. Datta, H. A. Stone, N. Shokri
Research area: Complex fluids

Microfluidic Model Porous Media: Fabrication and Applications, Small
A. Anbari, H-T Chien, S. S. Datta*, W. Deng, D. A. Weitz, J. Fan*
Research area: Complex fluids

2016

Polymers in the gut compress the colonic mucus hydrogel, PNAS
S. S. Datta, A. Preska Steinberg, R. F. Ismagilov
Research areas: Living & active systems, Complex fluids

2014

Individually addressable arrays of replica microbial cultures enabled by splitting SlipChips, Integrative Biology
L. Ma, S. S. Datta, M. A. Karymov, Q. Pan, S. Begolo, R. F. Ismagilov
Research area: Living & active systems

Fluid breakup during simultaneous two-phase flow through a three-dimensional porous medium, Physics of Fluids
S. S. Datta, J. B. Dupin, D. A. Weitz
Research area: Complex fluids

Mobilization of a trapped non-wetting fluid from a three-dimensional porous medium, Physics of Fluids
S. S. Datta, T. S. Ramakrishnan, D. A. Weitz
Research area: Complex fluids

Controlling the morphology of polyurea microcapsules using microfluidics, Langmuir
I. Polenz, S. S. Datta, D. A. Weitz
Research area: Complex fluids

Double emulsion templated solid microcapsules: mechanics and controlled release, Advanced Materials
S. S. Datta†, A. Abbaspourrad†, E. Amstad, J. Fan, S. H. Kim, M. Romanowsky, H. C. Shum, B. Sun, A. S. Utada, M. Windbergs, S. Zhou, D. A. Weitz
Research area: Soft mechanics

The microfluidic post-array device: high throughput production of single emulsion drops, Lab on a Chip
E. Amstad, S. S. Datta, D. A. Weitz
Research area: Complex fluids

2013

Spatial fluctuations of fluid velocities in flow through a three-dimensional porous medium, Physical Review Letters
S. S. Datta, H. Chiang+, T. S. Ramakrishnan, D. A. Weitz
Research area: Complex fluids

Drainage in a model stratified porous medium, EPL
S. S. Datta and D. A. Weitz
Research area: Complex fluids

Expansion and rupture of pH-responsive microcapsules, Materials Horizons
S. S. Datta†, A. Abbaspourrad†, D. A. Weitz
Research area: Soft mechanics

Controlling release from pH-responsive microcapsules, Langmuir
A. Abbaspourrad†, S. S. Datta†, D. A. Weitz
Research area: Soft mechanics

Microfluidic fabrication of stable gas-filled microcapsules for acoustic contrast enhancement, Langmuir
A. Abbaspourrad, W. J. Duncanson, N. Lebedeva, S. H. Kim, A. Zhushma, S. S. Datta, S. S. Sheiko, M. Rubinstein, D. A. Weitz
Research area: Soft mechanics

Ultra-thin shell double emulsion templated giant unilamellar lipid vesicles with controlled microdomain formation, Small
L. Arriaga, S. S. Datta, S. H. Kim, E. Amstad, F. Monroy, D. A. Weitz
Research area: Soft mechanics

Thermally switched release from nanoparticle colloidosomes, Advanced Functional Materials
S. Zhou†, J. Fan†, S. S. Datta, M. Guo, X. Guo, D. A. Weitz
Research area: Nanoscience

Visualizing multiphase flow and trapped fluid configurations in a model three-dimensional porous medium, AIChE J
A. T. Krummel†, S. S. Datta†, S. Munster, D. A. Weitz
Research area: Complex fluids

Getting out of a tight spot: physics of flow through porous materials, PhD thesis, Harvard University
S. S. Datta

2012

How does a porous shell collapse? Delayed buckling and guided folding of inhomogeneous capsules, Physical Review Letters
S. S. Datta, S-H Kim, J. Paulose, A. Abbaspourrad, D. R. Nelson, D. A. Weitz
Research area: Soft mechanics

2011

Rheology of attractive emulsions, Physical Review E
S. S. Datta, D. D. Gerrard+, T. S. Rhodes+, T. G. Mason, D. A. Weitz
Research area: Complex fluids

2010

Buckling and crumpling of nanoparticle-coated droplets, Langmuir
S. S. Datta, H. C. Shum, D. A. Weitz
Research area: Soft mechanics

Wetting and energetics in nanoparticle etching of graphene, Journal of Applied Physics
S. S. Datta*
Research area: Nanoscience

2009

Gate coupling to nanoscale electronics, Physical Review B
S. S. Datta, D. R. Strachan, A. T. Johnson
Research area: Nanoscience

Surface potentials and layer charge distributions in few-layer graphene, Nano Letters
S. S. Datta, D. R. Strachan, E. J. Mele, A. T. Johnson
Research area: Nanoscience

2008

Crystallographic etching of few-layer graphene, Nano Letters
S. S. Datta, D. R. Strachan, S. M. Khamis, A. T. Johnson
Research area: Nanoscience

Real-time TEM imaging of the formation of crystalline nanoscale gaps, Physical Review Letters
D. R. Strachan, D. E. Johnston, B. S. Guiton, S. S. Datta, P. K. Davies, D. A. Bonnell, A. T. Johnson
Research area: Nanoscience

2007

Functionalized carbon nanotubes for detecting viral proteins, Nano Letters
Y-B Zhang, M. Kanungo, A. J. Ho, P. Freimuth, D. van der Lelie, M. Chen, S. M. Khamis, S. S. Datta, A. T. Johnson, B. Panessa-Warren, J. A. Misewich, S. S. Wong
Research area: Nanoscience

Electrostatic force microscopy of nanofibers and carbon nanotubes: Quantitative analysis using theory and experiment,
Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings
S. S. Datta, C. Staii, N. J. Pinto, D. R. Strachan, A. T. Johnson
Research area: Nanoscience

Detection of viral proteins using human receptor functionalized carbon nanotubes,
Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings
M. Chen, S. M. Khamis, S. S. Datta, Y-B Zhang, M. Kanungo, A. J. Ho, P. Freimuth, D. van der Lelie, A. T. Johnson, J. A. Misewich, S. S. Wong
Research area: Nanoscience