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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Shekhar Garde is a researcher affiliated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States. Their academic contributions primarily focus on the fields of Physics and Astronomy, with a specialization in Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Additional subfields of study addressed in their work include Materials Chemistry, Food Science, and Condensed Matter Physics.

Their research explores several main topics including Protein Structure and Dynamics, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Material Dynamics and Properties, Proteins in Food Systems, Theoretical and Computational Physics, Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Steven M. Cramer, Imee Sinha, Henry S. Ashbaugh, Mayank Vats, and Camille Bilodeau.

Their research has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Nature Chemistry
  • Langmuir

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Shekhar Garde include:

  • Connecting Non-Gaussian Water Density Fluctuations to the Lengthscale Dependent Crossover in Hydrophobic Hydration, 2022, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Bridging Gaussian Density Fluctuations from Microscopic to Macroscopic Volumes: Applications to Non-Polar Solute Hydration Thermodynamics, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Comparative Analysis of Protein Surface Hydrophobicity Maps Determined by Sparse Sampling INDUS and Spatial Aggregation Propensity, 2023, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Sticky when dry, 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • The Role of Ligand-Ligand Interactions in Multimodal Ligand Conformational Equilibria and Surface Pattern Formation, 2020, Langmuir

In 2014, Shekhar Garde was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Osmotic water transport through carbon nanotube membranes

    Amrit Kalra;Shekhar Garde;Gerhard Hummer

  • Water in Nonpolar Confinement: From Nanotubes to Proteins and Beyond *

    Jayendran C. Rasaiah;Shekhar Garde;Gerhard Hummer

  • The pressure dependence of hydrophobic interactions is consistent with the observed pressure denaturation of proteins.

    Gerhard Hummer;Shekhar Garde;Shekhar Garde;Angel E. García;Michael E. Paulaitis

  • An information theory model of hydrophobic interactions.

    Gerhard Hummer;Shekhar Garde;Angel E. Garcia;Andrew Pohorille

  • Hydrophobic Effects on a Molecular Scale

    G. Hummer;S. Garde;A. E. García;M. E. Paulaitis

  • Characterizing hydrophobicity of interfaces by using cavity formation, solute binding, and water correlations

    Rahul Godawat;Sumanth N. Jamadagni;Shekhar Garde

  • New perspectives on hydrophobic effects

    G. Hummer;S. Garde;A.E. Garcı́a;L.R. Pratt

  • Hydrophobic hydration from small to large lengthscales: Understanding and manipulating the crossover.

    Sowmianarayanan Rajamani;Thomas M. Truskett;Shekhar Garde

  • How wetting and adhesion affect thermal conductance of a range of hydrophobic to hydrophilic aqueous interfaces.

    Natalia Shenogina;Rahul Godawat;Pawel Keblinski;Shekhar Garde

  • Origin of Entropy Convergence in Hydrophobic Hydration and Protein Folding.

    Shekhar Garde;Shekhar Garde;Gerhard Hummer;Angel E. García;Michael E. Paulaitis;Michael E. Paulaitis

  • Hydration of Enzyme in Nonaqueous Media Is Consistent with Solvent Dependence of Its Activity

    Lu Yang;Jonathan S. Dordick;Shekhar Garde

  • Hydrophobicity of Proteins and Interfaces: Insights from Density Fluctuations

    Sumanth N. Jamadagni;Rahul Godawat;Shekhar Garde

  • Mapping hydrophobicity at the nanoscale: Applications to heterogeneous surfaces and proteins

    Hari Acharya;Srivathsan Vembanur;Sumanth N. Jamadagni;Shekhar Garde

  • Sitting at the Edge: How Biomolecules use Hydrophobicity to Tune Their Interactions and Function

    AmishJ. Patel;Patrick Varilly;Sumanth N. Jamadagni;Michael F. Hagan

  • Salting-In and Salting-Out of Hydrophobic Solutes in Aqueous Salt Solutions

    Amrit Kalra;Nihal Tugcu;and Steven M. Cramer;Shekhar Garde

  • Size dependent ion hydration, its asymmetry, and convergence to macroscopic behavior.

    Sowmianarayanan Rajamani;Tuhin Ghosh;Shekhar Garde

  • Quantifying Water Density Fluctuations and Compressibility of Hydration Shells of Hydrophobic Solutes and Proteins

    Sapna Sarupria;Shekhar Garde

  • Extended surfaces modulate hydrophobic interactions of neighboring solutes

    Amish J. Patel;Patrick Varilly;Sumanth N. Jamadagni;Hari Acharya

  • Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Pressure Effects on Hydrophobic Interactions

    Tuhin Ghosh;and Angel E. García;Shekhar Garde

  • Osmolyte Trimethylamine-N-Oxide Does Not Affect the Strength of Hydrophobic Interactions: Origin of Osmolyte Compatibility

    Manoj V. Athawale;Jonathan S. Dordick;Shekhar Garde

  • Cavity Expulsion and Weak Dewetting of Hydrophobic Solutes in Water

    Gerhard Hummer;Shekhar Garde

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Hummer
Gerhard Hummer Max Planck Society
Angel E. Garcia
Angel E. Garcia Los Alamos National Laboratory
Lawrence R. Pratt
Lawrence R. Pratt Tulane University
Steven M. Cramer
Steven M. Cramer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sanat K. Kumar
Sanat K. Kumar Columbia University
David Chandler
David Chandler University of California, Berkeley
Pawel Keblinski
Pawel Keblinski Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jonathan S. Dordick
Jonathan S. Dordick Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Thomas M. Truskett
Thomas M. Truskett The University of Texas at Austin
Saroj K. Nayak
Saroj K. Nayak Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar

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