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.
Vol 95, No 3 (2015): Advances in Composite Materials for Structural Applications
The image shows various structural applications of composites.
Vol 95, No 1 (2015): Plant Volatiles: Chemistry, Ecology and Evolution
The cover depicts a figure from the article by Robert Junker and Amy Parachnowitsch in this issue. It illustrates how flower scent is a floral trait that must be considered together with other floral traits such as colour, morphology and flower nectar in their influenceon pollinator visits to flowers. Therefore flowers present multimodal signals that couldbe perceived by multiple sensory channels of the flower visitors.
Vol 95, No 2 (2015): Aspects on Crustal Evolution and Geochronology
Top: Super-continent Gondwana assembly 550 Million years ago (cf. article by M. Satish-Kumar, in this issue). Down (left to right): Highly deformed (folded) gneiss exposure near Bhavani, Tamil Nadu; Massive granite hill near Sankagiri, Tamil Nadu; An exposure of Banded Magnetite Quartzite near Salem, Tamil Nadu (more details can be found in the article by George and Sajeev in this issue).
2014
Vol 94, No 4 (2014): Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging
A depiction of the different acquisition and processing techniques in Magnetic ResonanceImaging and Spectroscopy.
Vol 94, No 3 (2014): (July - Sept. 2014) Fiber Optic Sensors and Applications
Fabrication of Sensitive Bio Sensors Using Etched Fiber Bragg Gratings (EFBGs) Coated WithSingle Walled Carbon Nano-Tubes (SWNTs) and Graphene Oxide (GO)Courtesy: S. Sridevi, K.S. Vasu, N. Jayaraman, S. Asokan and A.K. Sood“Optical bio-sensing devices based on etched fiber Bragg gratings coated with carbon nanotubesand graphene oxide along with a specific dendrimer ”, Sensors and Actuators B, vol. 195,pp. 150–155, 2014.
Vol 94, No 2 (2014): Cold Atom Quantum Emulators: From Condensed Matter to Field Theory to Optical Clocks (April - June 2014)
The coverpage photo is a collection of images that characterize the wide possibilities ofcold atom physics including generation of novel hamiltonians and realization of newphases both in equilibrium and non-equilibrium.
Vol 94, No 1 (2014): (Jan. -Mar. 2014) A special issue on "Crystals and Crystallography: From Koh-i-Noor to IYCr2014"
The article in 1944 by Sir C.V. Raman heralded crystallographic research in India and the images on front show the structural aspects of each review appearing in this issue entitled Koh-i-noor to IYCr2014.