2021
Vol 101, No 3 (2021): Emerging Trends in Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems
Complex interactions in a human population and the resulting contact network.
Vol 101, No 1 (2021): Cytoskeletal Mechanics and Motor Proteins
FtsZ filaments assembled on a supported lipid bilayer. Image courtesy: Dr. Senthil Arumugam, Monash University.
2020
Vol 100, No 4 (2020): Digital Health
The cover image of this issue was designed by Prof. Rudra Pratap for the digital health initiative of IISc. The sequence of 1s and 0s represent the binary code of ASCII values of “Digital Hospital @ Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore” repeated a few times.
Vol 100, No 3 (2020): Phenotypic Plasticity
Coverpage Description: Waddington landscape displaying the ability of phenotypes to switch among one
another (phenotypic plasticity) under varying conditions.
another (phenotypic plasticity) under varying conditions.
Vol 100, No 2 (2020): 5G and Beyond
The emerging landscape of a connected world. 5G and Beyond will be much more about enabling diverse services and applications than previous generations of cellular telephony. The picture is an imagination of the myriad applications that are possible when seamless and ubiquituous connectivity truly becomes a reality.
Vol 100, No 1 (2020): Hydrogen Bonding
Hydrogen has a valency of one and it was assumed that it could make only one bond. Latimer and Rodebush, while analyzing the liquid water, boldly suggested that H atom from one water molecule could interact with the oxygen in a neighboring molecule forming another bond! While identifying hydrogen bond in water and later in DNA was easy, understanding it has been not so easy. It led to various descriptions of a hydrogen bond, comparable to the ancient parable from India on the description of an elephant by six blind men. In this issue, there are 16 articles and they discuss various aspects of a hydrogen bond shown in the cover image.
2019
Vol 99, No 4 (2019): Transportation Research
Coverpage Description: Emerging Landscape of Urban Mobility.
Vol 99, No 3 (2019): Contemporary Biomaterials in Human Healthcare
Coverpage Description: Biomaterials-based biomedical engineering innovations for healthcare.
Vol 99, No 2 (2019): Recent Advances in Machine Learning
Coverpage Description: Machine learning is driven by understanding of human brain
Vol 99, No 1 (2019): Transport Processes in Droplets: Fundamentals to Applications
Coverpage Description: Primary and Secondary breakup of droplets in a high speed flow.
2018
Vol 98, No 4 (2018): The Puzzling Earth
Coverpage Description: Generalized geological and tectonic framework of southern Peninsular India. Figure compiled by Shan-Shan Li and M. Santosh.
Vol 98, No 3 (2018): Recent Advances in Structural Biology
Coverpage Description: The cover image is a collage of a few structures, maps and images of macromolecules discussed in this issue.
Vol 98, No 2 (2018): Microfluidics - Theory and Applications
Coverpage Description: The Yoga of Fluid Mechanics - Droplets splash, cascade and merge with a thin liquid film demonstrating the multiscale beauty of fluid mechanics.
Vol 98, No 1 (2018): Immunoengineering: from biologics to biomaterials
Coverpage Description: The cover image is a simplistic representation of the various immunoengineering technologies discussed in this issue.
2017
Vol 97, No 3 (2017): Computational Science and Engineering: Major Research/Impacting Topics
Computational Science and Engineering: Major Research/Impacting Topics
2016
Vol 96, No 4 (2016): Materials Electrochemistry, Electrochemical Processes and Systems
Description of the cover page:
An approach to solar driven hydrogen generation will be to couple an electrolyzer to a photovoltaic device for which it is imperative to design highly active, stable and inexpensive oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalysts with porous three-dimensional electrode architecture. Metallic interlayers within such composite electrode assemblies not only provide effective electron percolation pathways but also modulate the electronic structure of the active electrocatalysts.
Vol 96, No 3 (2016): Phase-Field Methods for Pattern-Formation
Description of the cover page: The cover page shows pattern-formation during a spinodal decomposition of binary alloy in 3D, two and three-phase cross-sections of three-dimensional directionally solidified microstructures, morphological instabilities during dendritic and two-phase colony formation and finally the break-up of a thin-film as a result of a mechanical instability. These are some of the mechanisms of microstructural evolution which have been modelled using the phase-field method, and a respective description of the different applicable models form a part of this review.
Vol 96, No 2 (2016): Transport in Mesoscopic Systems
The cover page shows a topological non-trivial state which maintains its chirality depending on clockwise or anti-clockwise twist. Once there is an edge or transition from non-trivial to trivial state new type of phases or excitations emerge. This issue gives a preview of those emergent fields in mesoscopic physics.
Vol 96, No 1 (2016): Advances in Flow Diagnostics
"The cover page photo is a collection of images of the flows/flows infront of test models recorded using different flow diagnostic techniques. The central image is the top view of Laboratory for Hypersonic and Shock waves Research (LHSR) at IISc, actively involved in flow diagnostics related research".
2015
Vol 95, No 4 (2015): Design Science: Theories, Methods and Tools
The cover page celebrates design science and some of its major milestones.