11 peer-reviewed journal articles, including six first-author research articles, plus one manuscript in preparation. 340+ citations, h-index 10, i10-index 10 (Google Scholar, September 2026).

BoltzMap: Probabilistic Backmapping of Coarse-grained Peptides with Normalizing Flows

Abhinaw Kumar, Sage Paschall, Jacob Monroe

In preparation 2026

Sizes, conformational fluctuations, and SAXS profiles for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins using SOP simulations and experiments

Mauro L. Mugnai, Debayan Chakraborty, Hung T. Nguyen, Farkhad Maksudov, Abhinaw Kumar, Wade Zeno, Jeanne C. Stachowiak, John E. Straub, D. Thirumalai

Protein Science 2025, 34 (4), e70067

Conformational fluctuations and phases in fused in sarcoma (FUS) low-complexity domain

D. Thirumalai, Abhinaw Kumar, Debayan Chakraborty, John E. Straub, Mauro L. Mugnai

Biopolymers 2024, 115 (2), e23558

Sequence Determines the Switch in the Fibril Forming Regions in the Low-Complexity FUS Protein and Its Variants

Abhinaw Kumar, Debayan Chakraborty, Mauro L. Mugnai, John E. Straub, D. Thirumalai

The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2021, 12 (37), 9026–9032 First author

Following the nucleation pathway from disordered liquid to gyroid mesophase

Maile Marriott, Laura Lupi, Abhinaw Kumar, Valeria Molinero

The Journal of Chemical Physics 2019, 150 (16), 164902

Assembly of Zeolitic Crystals From a Model of Mesogenic Patchy Nanoparticles

Abhinaw Kumar, Maryam Zare, Valeria Molinero

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2019, 123 (1), 971–978 First author

Could Mesophases Play a Role in the Nucleation and Polymorph Selection of Zeolites?

Abhinaw Kumar, Andrew H. Nguyen, Rita Okumu, Tricia D. Shepherd, Valeria Molinero

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2018, 140 (47), 16071–16086 First author

Two-Step to One-Step Nucleation of a Zeolite through a Metastable Gyroid Mesophase

Abhinaw Kumar, Valeria Molinero

The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2018, 9 (19), 5692–5697 First author ACS PRF 25th-Anniversary Collection (2025)

Why Is Gyroid More Difficult to Nucleate from Disordered Liquids than Lamellar and Hexagonal Mesophases?

Abhinaw Kumar, Valeria Molinero

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2018, 122 (17), 4758–4770 First author

Self-Assembly of Mesophases from Nanoparticles

Abhinaw Kumar, Valeria Molinero

The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2017, 8 (20), 5053–5058 First author ACS Most Read Physical Chemistry Articles, Oct 2017 Introduced the Kumar–Molinero model

Water-like Anomalies and Phase Behavior of a Pair Potential that Stabilizes Diamond

Andressa A. Bertolazzo, Abhinaw Kumar, Charusita Chakravarty, Valeria Molinero

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2016, 120 (8), 1649–1659

Characterization of Conformation and Interaction of Gene Delivery Vector Polyethylenimine with Phospholipid Bilayer at Different Protonation States

Chandan K. Choudhury, Abhinaw Kumar, Sudip Roy

Biomacromolecules 2013, 14 (10), 3759–3768 Based on BS–MS thesis research