Faculty Directory
Prof. Asish Pal
Scientist-F (Professor)
Development of supramolecular polymeric hydrogel based biomaterials for ECM mimick and tissue engineering, Mimicking environment for Bone and Muscle Cells, Peptide Hydrogels, Peptide Bioelectronics, Self-assembled Peptide and Polymeric Biomaterials, Functional Amyloids and Supramolecular Chemistry, Self-healing and Functional Nanomaterials, Bio-nanocomposite, Strain-stiffening hydrogels for Tissue Engineering, Mechano-responsive polymers and Chiroptical Polymeric Material, Hydrogels for Drug and Agrochemical Delivery We are looking for motivated students to join our team as PhD scholar as we have a number of exciting projects that will lead to high impact publications.
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Peptide-polymer Conjugates and Biomineralization for ECM Mimic and Tissue engineering: The development of synthetic biomimetic scaffolds that can provide cues for cell-matrix interfaces can dictate cell migration direction and stimulate tissue growth promises materials for next-generation artificial ECM mimetic biomatrix. In quest of designing such materials recently we developed organic-inorganic hybrid systems like peptide template bioglass materials which were utilised as self-healing bone tissue matrix for osteoblast cell growth. Currently, with our expertise in supramolecular chemistry, we are exploring the possibility of controlling mechanical insights such as dynamic mechanical stiffening and compression response of peptide-polymer conjugates as surrogate extracellular matrix materials for muscle regeneration and would healing.
Our contributions in the field:
1. N. Gupta et al. Chem. Mater. 2021, 33, 589–599.
2. J. Thomas, N. Gupta et al. ACS. Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2021, 7, 5798–5809.
3. J. P. Joseph et al. Chem. Mater. 2022, 34, 4364–4374.
4. D. Nath et al. Biomacromolecules. 2024, 25, 853-863.
5. N. A. Mavlankar et al. J. Mater. Chem. B 2024, 12, 8688-8701
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Living Supramolecular Polymerization in Out-of-equilibrium Peptide Self-assembly and Peptide Bioelectronics: Nature is a seamless designer to provide complex functional architectures through supramolecular polymerization guided by out-of-equilibrium mechanism. Self-assembly hitherto performed in the lab under thermodynamic control results in a precise single state owing to minimalized Gibb’s free energy. In contrast, kinetic control over the self-assembly pathway allows to trap some of the intermediates over the trail of the process.
Since 2015, we are trying to explore various method to kinetically control multi-step self-assembly using living supramolecular polymerization in our lab. Recently, we have been able to accomplish such pathway dependant self-assembly in amyloid inspired minimalistic peptide system to form 1D fiber, twisted bundle and 2D lamellar morphologies. Moreover, the nanostructures were precisely controlled in length and dimension via seeded supramolecular polymerization. Such functional systems were utilized for rendering a better mechanical strength control of resultant hydrogels, efficient MoS2 exfoliation, chiral self-sorting vs. co-assembly, organic catalysis etc. We are also establishing relations of peptide nanostructures and piezo responsive nature for eventual application in peptide bioelectronics in artificial skin.
Our reports in the field:
1. A. Singh et al. Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 10730—10733.
2. J. P. Joseph et al. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 11, 28213–28220.
3. D. Gupta et al. Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 18692-18700.
4. A. Singh et al. Nanoscale, 2021, 13, 13401-13409.
5. D. Gupta et al. Chem. Mater., 2022, 34, 4456-4470.
6. N. Mavlankar et al. ChemNanoMat, 2022, 8, e20220036.
7. D. Gupta et al. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2023, 15, 25110-25121.
8. Umesh et al. Langmuir., 2024, 40, 2754-2763.
9. N. Mavlankar et al. Small, 2025, 21, 2409176.
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Chiroptical Polymers: Development of chiral molecules on peptide and polymeric platforms that can be exploited for chiral sensing and recognition applications. Topochemical polymerization to chiral polydiacetylene are being used as an interesting platform to interact with metal nanoparticles for chiroptical amplifications. Achiral and chiral gold nanoparticles were incorporated in the chiral polymers and the stereoselective plasmonic interactions investigated, with the ultimate goal of designing next-generation organic–inorganic hybrid materials with large chiroptic effects for eventual application in sensing and metamaterials.
Our contributions in the field:
1. A. Maulik et al. Small, 2025, 21, 2504051.
2. J. P. Joseph et al. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 62, e2023067.
3. A. Maulik et al. New J. Chem., 2023, 47, 1657-1665.
4. B. Sharma et al. New J. Chem., 2018, 42, 6427-6432.
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Functional Polymer Self-assembly for Tuneable Nanostructures: Nature has an unprecedented handle over the conformation and dynamics of its macromolecular morphologies. One of such examples is the finite arrangement of amino acids in the living system into a spatial organization through chain folding that can carry out specific functions like enzymatic catalysis in an extremely efficient way. These intricate structure-activity relationships observed in biopolymers like proteins inspired us to design synthetic macromolecular architectures by bottom-up approach. Since 2017, we have designed a number of single-chain functional polymers using a variety of polymer synthesis protocols such as ATRP, RAFT etc. This polymers endowed stimuli-responsive chain collapse to form precisely controlled nanoparticles, which by mediation of thermo-responsive copolymers is exploited towards thermal homeostasis of drug release. Currently, we are looking at interesting convertible nanostructures from precisely controlled segmented block-copolymers for targeted drug delivery applications.
Additionally, photofixation of functional moieties in the polymer modulate the glass transition temperature and resultant chain flow behaviour that have been utilized in low viscosity polymer film self-healing, that is being considered for coating application. Further, tweaking such polymers anchored with paramagnetic nanoparticles we are exploring different self-healing mechanism.
Our contributions in the field:
1. J. P. Joseph et al. Soft Matter, 2020, 16, 2506-2515.
2. J. P. Joseph et al. Polym. Chem., 2021, 12, 1002-1013.
3. C. Miglani et al. RSC Advances, 2021, 11, 39376-39386.
4. C. Miglani et al. Chem. Commun., 2023, 59, 13195-13198.
5. C. Miglani et al. ACS Polym. Au, 2024, 4, 255-265.
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Hydrogels/Microgels for Drug/Agrochemical delivery and Antimicrobial applications: Hydrogels materials from amino acids, lipids, sugars and polymer possess a three-dimensional network structure with thermal and mechanical stability that can be utilized to retain water and drug molecules.
Recently, we started exploring this field including development of hydrogel beads that employs minimal water usage and sufficient fertilizers to grow a plant in semi-arid areas under adverse weather conditions and peptide-prodrug system to deliver drug via enzymatic degradation.
We also developed supramolecular metallohydrogel that could host Fenton reaction to generate ROS for mitigating bacterial infection toward alternative strategy to tackle antimicrobial resistance.
Recently, we are developing stimuli-responsive microgels for actuation, on demand drug delivery and photopharmacology applications.
Our report in the field:
1. J. P. Joseph RSC Advances, 2019, 9, 19819-19827.
2. M. Pradhan et al. Nanoscale, 2022, 14, 15079-15090.
3. Umesh et al. Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 13050-13060.
4. P. Agnihotri et al. Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 19254-19265.
Current Group Members
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PALLAVI SATISH CHAUBEY
Email: pallavi.ph24203@inst.ac.in
Reg. No.: PH24203
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MANISHA
Email: manisha.ph23234@inst.ac.in
Reg. No.: PH23234
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MS. GUNJAN
Email: gunjan.ph22240@inst.ac.in
Reg. No.: PH22240
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MR. VYSAKH C C
Email: vysakh.ph21238@inst.ac.in
Reg. No.: PH21238
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MS. JAHANVI RALHAN
Email: jahanvi.ph21207@inst.ac.in
Reg. No.: PH21207
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MR. DEBASISH NATH
Email: debasish.ph20259@inst.ac.in
Reg. No.: PH20259
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MS. ANTARLINA MAULIK
Email: antarlina.ph20202@inst.ac.in
Reg. No.: PH20202
Alumni
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RAHUL SAMANTA
Reg. No.: IN-2024/26
Designation: Intern Student
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
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MS. NIMISHA ATUL MAVLANKAR
Reg. No.: PH19215
Designation: PhD Scholar
Aug 2019 - Oct 2024
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MR.CHIRAG MIGLANI
Reg. No.: PH17229 (PDF at Arizona State University, USA)
Designation: PhD Scholar
Present Affiliation: PDF at Arizona State University, USA
Jan 2018 - Oct 2023
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DR. PRIYANSHI AGNIHOTRI
Reg. No.: NPDF-2201
Designation: Post Docs/RA
Dec 2022 - Sep 2024
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DR. UMESH
Reg. No.: RA-01-202150
Designation: Post Docs/RA
Oct 2022 - Oct 2023
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MALA THAPA
Reg. No.: RP962141
Designation: Post Docs/RA
Apr 2022 - Mar 2023
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DR. ANAND KUMAR AWASTHI
Reg. No.: RA-01-202138 (Now Scientific Officer at State Forensic Lab, MP)
Designation: Post Docs/RA
Apr 2022 - Aug 2022
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MS. DEEPIKA GUPTA
Reg. No.: PH16216
Designation: PhD Scholar
Aug 2016 - Jun 2022
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DR. ASHMEET SINGH
Reg. No.: PH14207 (Now in Baylor University, USA)
Designation: PhD Scholar
Aug 2014 - Oct 2020
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DR. JOJO P JOSEPH
Reg. No.: PH15211 (Now in SUNY, Buffalo, USA)
Designation: PhD Scholar
Aug 2015 - Jul 2021
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DR. NIDHI GUPTA
Reg. No.: PDF1902 (Sr. Scientist in CSIR-IITR, Lucknow)
Designation: Post Docs/RA
Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
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Role of Symmetry to Dictate Pathway-driven Self-assembly in Photoresponsive Peptide Amphiphiles , Jahanvi Ralhan, Gunjan Hooda, Debasish Nath, Asish Pal* , Chem. Eur. J. , 2025 , 31 , Accepted (IF = 3.9) , 10.1002/chem.202501288 -
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Control over Topochemical Photopolymerization and Photoisomerization in Azobenzene tethered Chiral Diacetylenes toward Tunable Molecular Packing and Conductivity , Antarlina Maulik, Vysakh C. Chandran, Ritobrata De, Debasish Nath, Jahanvi Ralhan, Soma Sil, Santanu K. Pal, Asish Pal* , Small , 2025 , 21 , 2504051 (IF =13.3) , 10.1002/smll.202504051 -
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Preparation, characterization, and biocompatibility assessment of Mn2+ doped graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide hydrothermally synthesized from Terminalia arjuna , Siddhartha Dan, Himanshu Ojha, Debasish Nath, Asish Pal, Mahesh Kumar Sah , Mater. Today. Commun. , 2025 , 46 , 112522 (IF =3.7) , 10.1016/j.mtcomm.2025.112522 -
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A combination of systemic mannitol and mannitol modified polyester nanoparticles for caveolae mediated gene delivery to the brain , Betsy Reshma Gilbert, Chirag Miglani, Arundhati Karmakar, Muneesh Pal, Vysakh C. Chandran, Sarika Gupta, Asish Pal, Munia Ganguli , Mol. Ther. Nucleic Acids , 2025 , 36 , 102480 (IF = 8.8) , 10.1016/j.omtn.2025.102480 -
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Festschrift issue of Nanoscale in honour of Santanu Bhattacharya , Asish Pal,* Praveen Kumar Vemula, Shyni Varghese , Nanoscale , 2025 , 17 , 613-615 (IF = 8.3) , 10.1039/D4NR90228A -
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Attenuation of Pathway Complexity in Arginine-Rich Peptide with Polydopamine , Nimisha A. Mavlankar, Anand K. Awasthi, Manas K. Pradhan, Yadu Chandran, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Aasheesh Srivastava, Asish Pal* , Small , 2025 , 21 , 2409176 (IF = 13.3) , 10.1002/smll.202409176 -
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Harnessing potential of avian eggshell membrane derived collagen hydrolysate for bone tissue regeneration , Aakriti Agarwal, Debasish Nath, Asish Pal, Mahesh Sah , Mol. Bio. Rep. , 2024 , 51 , 482 (IF =2.36) , 10.1007/s11033-024-09394-9 -
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Thermo-responsive Injectable Hydrogel to Mimic the Heat- and Strain-stiffening Behavior of Biopolymers towards Muscle Cells Proliferation , Debasish Nath, Jahanvi Ralhan, Jojo P. Joseph, Chirag Miglani, Asish Pal* , Biomacromolecules , 2024 , 25 , 853-863 (IF= 6.2) , 10.1021/acs.biomac.3c01018 -
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Biomimetic hydroxyapatite and strontium-doped derivatives from crab shells and their ingenious scaffold fabrication for bone tissue engineering , Saksham Handa, Debasish Nath, Asish Pal, Mahesh Kumar Sah , Mater. Today Commun. , 2024 , 108072 , 108072 (IF = 3.66) , 10.1016/j.mtcomm.2024.108072 -
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Thermo-chemical Cues Mediated Strategy to Control Peptide Self-assembly and Charge-transfer Complexation , Umesh, Jahanvi Ralhan, Vikas Kumar, Himanshu Bhatt, Debasish Nath, Nimisha A Mavlankar, Hirendra N. Ghosh,* Asish Pal* , Langmuir , 2024 , 40 , 2754–2763 (IF = 4.33) , 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03426 -
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Use of discarded corneo-scleral rims to create cornea-like tissue , Maryada Sharma, Subhpreet Kaur, Nimisha A. Mavlankar, Aloakananda Chanda, Parul Chawla Gupta, Uma Nahar Saikia, Jagat Ram, Asish Pal, Sanjay Mandal, Purnananda Guptasarma, Manni Luthra-Guptasarma , Mol. Bio. Rep. , 2024 , 51 , 391 (IF = 2.74) , 10.1007/s11033-024-09321-y -
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Sugar alcohol-modified polyester nanoparticles for gene delivery via selective caveolae-mediated endocytosis , Betsy Reshma G, Chrag Miglani, Asish Pal, Munia Ganguli , Nanoscale , 2024 , 16 , 4114-4124 (IF = 8.31) , 10.1039/D3NR05300H -
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Metal co-factors to enhance catalytic activity of short prion-derived peptide sequences , Nimisha A. Mavlankar, Antarlina Maulik, Asish Pal , Methods in Enzymology , 2024 , 697 , 473-498 (IF = 1.7) , 10.1016/bs.mie.2024.02.003 -
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Stimuli-responsive Control over Self-Assembled Nanostructures in Sequence-Specific Functional Block Copolymers , Chirag Miglani, Jahanvi Ralhan, Maqsuma Banoo, Debasish Nath, Soma Sil, Santanu Pal, Ujjal Gautam and Asish Pal* , ACS Polym Au (IF =3.9) , 2024 , 4 , 255-265 (IF= 3.9) , 10.1021/acspolymersau.4c00009 -
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Hydrogel based on Fe(II)-GMP demonstrates Tunable Emission, Self-healing Mechanical Strength and Fenton Chemistry mediated Notable Antibacterial Properties , Umesh, Vysakh C. Chandran, Pranay Saha,Debasish Nath, Sayan Bera, Santanu Bhattacharya,* Asish Pal* , Nanoscale , 2024 , 16 , 13050-13060 (IF= 8.3) , https://doi.org/10.1039/D4NR01011F -
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Maneuvering Mineralization of Self-assembled Peptide Nanofibers for Designing Mechanically-stiffened Self-healable Composites toward Bone-mimetic ECM , Nimisha A. Mavlankar, Debasish Nath, Yadu Chandran, Nidhi Gupta, Ashmeet Singh, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Asish Pal* , J. Mater. Chem. B , 2024 , 12 , 8688 - 8701 (IF = 6.1) , 10.1039/D4TB00810C -
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Design of Multi-responsive and Actuating Microgel toward On-demand Drug Release , Priyanshi Agnihotri, Divya Dheer, Anvi Sangwan, Vysakh Chandran, Nimisha A. Mavlankar, Gunjan Hooda, Debabrata Patra,* Asish Pal* , Nanoscale , 2024 , 16 , 19254-19265 (IF =8.3) , 10.1039/D4NR02728K -
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Topochemical Polymerization in Phenylalanine Anchored Chiral Diacetylenes for Chiroptical Properties and Tunable Thermo-, Halo-, Solvatochromism: , Antarlina Maulik, Chirag Miglani, Nimisha A. Mavlankar, Jojo P. Joseph, Vysakh C. Chandran, Asish Pal , New J. Chem. , 2023 , 47 , 1657-1665 (IF =3.92) , 10.1039/D2NJ05708E -
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Stimuli-responsive self-assembly-disassembly in peptide amphiphiles to endow block-co-fibers and tunable piezoelectric response: , Deepika Gupta, Varun Gupta, Debasish Nath, Chirag Miglani, Dipankar Mandal,* Asish Pal* , ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces , 2023 , 15 , 25110–25121 (IF = 10.3) , 10.1021/acsami.2c05469 -
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Tweaking of Peripheral Moieties in Catalytic Amyloid for Modulating Hydrogel Strength and Hydrolase Activity , Soumya Patra, Nimisha A Mavlankar, Lakshminarayan Ramesan, Ashmeet Singh, Asish Pal* , Chemistry , 2023 , 5 , 1190-1202 , 10.3390/chemistry5020080 -
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Stereoselective Plasmonic Interaction in Peptide-tethered Photopolymerizable Diacetylenes Doped with Chiral Gold Nanoparticles , Jojo P. Joseph, Chirag Miglani, Antarlina Maulik, Shema R. Abraham, Avisek Dutta, Alexander Baev, Paras N. Prasad*, Asish Pal* , Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. , 2023 , 62 , e20230671 (IF= 16.6) , 10.1002/anie.202306751 -
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Orthogonal Chain Collapse in Stimuli-responsive Di-block Polymers leading to Self-sorted Nanostructures , Chirag Miglani, Maqsuma Banoo, Debasish Nath, Jahanvi Ralhan, Soma Sil, Jojo P. Joseph, Santanu K. Pal, Ujjal Gautam,* Asish Pal* , Chem. Commun. , 2023 , 59 , 13195-13198 (IF = 4.9) , 10.1039/D3CC04029A -
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Amyloid-inspired Peptide Self-assembly/Disassembly as intervened by Gold Nanoparticles and Polydopamine Coating to Dictate Spatiotemporal Organization , Nimisha A. Mavlankar, Anand K Awasthi, Jahanvi Ralhan, Asish Pal* , ChemNanoMat , 2022 , 8 , e20220036 (IF = 3.8) , 10.1002/cnma.202200368 -
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Anion-responsive Self-assembled Hydrogels of Phenylalanine-TREN Conjugate Allow Sequential Release of Propranolol and Doxorubicin , Manas Kumar Pradhan, Deepika Gupta, Kavthekar Rupesh Namdev, Anjali, Chirag Miglani, Asish Pal,* Aasheesh Srivastava* , Nanoscale , 2022 , 14 , 15079-15090 (IF=8.3) , 10.1039/D2NR04320C -
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Oil-free eye drops containing Cyclosporine A/cyclodextrin/PVA supramolecular complex as a treatment modality for dry eye disease: , Pinal Chaudhari, Sumit Birangal, Nimisha Mavlankar, Asish Pal, Lakshmi Sruthi Mallela, Sanhita Roy, Arun K. Kodoth, Vivek Ghate, Madhanvan Napoorthiri, Shaila A. Lewis , Carbohydrate Polymers , 2022 , 297 , 120007 (IF = 10.7) , 10.1016/j.carbpol.2022.120007 -
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Unraveling On-demand Strain-Stiffening in Nanofibrous Peptide–Polymer Conjugates to Mimic Contractility in Actinomyosin Networks , Jojo P. Joseph, Nidhi Gupta, Chirag Miglani, Debasish Nath, Ashmeet Singh, Deepika Gupta, Asish Pal* , Chem. Mater. , 2022 , 34 , 4364-4374 (IF = 10.5) , 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c04301 -
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Photochemically Sequestered Off-Pathway Dormant States of Peptide Amphiphiles for Predictive On-Demand Piezoresponsive Nanostructures , Deepika Gupta, Ashish Bhatt, Varun Gupra,Chirag Miglani, Jojo P. Joseph, Jahanvi Ralhan,Dipankar Mandal*, Md. Ehesan Ali*, Asish Pal* , Chem Mater , 2022 , 34 , 4456-4470 (IF = 10.5) , 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00228 -
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Surface-Engineered Mucus Penetrating Nucleic Acid Delivery Systems with Cell Penetrating Peptides for the Lungs , Anupama Kumari, Simanti Pal, Betsy Resma G, Franklin P Mohny, Nidhi Gupta, Chirag Miglani, Bijay Pattnaik, Asish Pal*, Munia Ganguli* , Molecular Pharmaceutics , 2022 , 19 , 1309-1324 (IF = 5.36) , 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.1c00770 -
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Mechanical Integrity in Dynamic Interpenetrating Hydrogel Network of Supramolecular Peptide-Polysaccharide Supports Enhanced Chondrogenesis , Jijo Thomas,Nidhi Gupta,Jojo P. Joseph,Vianni Chopra,Asish Pal,* Deepa Ghosh* , ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. , 2021 , 7 , 5798–5809 (IF = 5.39) , 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c01120 -
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Modulation of Flexo-Rigid Balance in Photoresponsive Thymine Grafted Copolymers towards Designing Smart Healable Coating , Chirag Miglani, Jojo P. Joseph, Deepika Gupta, Ashmeet Singh, Asish Pal* , RSC Advances , 2021 , 11 , 39376 - 39386 (IF = 4.04) , 10.1039/D1RA07425C -
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Photothermally Switchable Peptide Nanostructures towards Modulating Catalytic Hydrolase Activity , Ashmeet Singh, Jojo P. Joseph, Deepika Gupta, Chirag Miglani, Nimisha A. Mavlankar, Asish Pal* , Nanoscale , 2021 , 13 , 13401-13409 (IF = 8.3) , 10.1039/D1NR03655F -
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Complexation of an Azo Dye by Cyclodextrins: A Potential Strategy for Water Purification , Anas Saifi, Jojo P. Joseph, Atul P. Singh, Asish Pal, Kamlesh Kumar , ACS Omega , 2021 , 6 , 4776-4782 (IF = 4.13) , 10.1021/acsomega.0c05684 -
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Delineating synchronized control of dynamic covalent and non-covalent interactions for polymer chain collapse towards cargo localization and delivery , Jojo P Joseph, Chirag Miglani, Aashish Bhatt, Debes Ray, Ashmeet Singh, Deepika Gupta, Md Ehesan Ali, Vinod K Aswal,* Asish Pal* , Polym. Chem. , 2021 , 12 , 1002 -1013 (IF = 5.36) , 10.1039/D0PY01551B -
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Pathway-Driven Peptide-Bioglass Nanocomposites as the Dynamic and Self-Healable Matrix , Nidhi Gupta, Ashmeet Singh, Namit Dey, Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay, Jojo P. Joseph, Deepika Gupta, Munia Ganguli,* Asish Pal* , Chem. Mater. , 2021 , 33 , 589-599 (IF = 10.5) , 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c03757 -
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Enzyme Responsive Chiral Self-sorting in Amyloid-inspired Minimalistic Peptide Amphiphiles , Deepika Gupta, Ranjan Sasmal, Ashmeet Singh, Jojo P. Joseph, Chirag Miglani, Sarit S. Agasti, Asish Pal* , Nanoscale , 2020 , 12 , 18692 - 18700 (IF =8.3) , 10.1039/D0NR04581K -
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Photoresponsive Chain Collapse in Flexo-rigid Functional Copolymer to Modulate Self-healing Behavior , Jojo P. Joseph, Chirag Miglani, Ashmeet Singh, Deepika Gupta, Asish Pal* , Soft Matter , 2020 , 16 , 2506-2515 (IF = 4.05) , 10.1039/D0SM00033G -
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Tandem Interplay of Host-guest Interaction and Photo-responsive Supramolecular Polymerization to 1D and 2D Functional Peptide Materials , Jojo P Joseph, Ashmeet Singh, Deepika Gupta, Chirag Miglani, Asish Pal* , ACS Applied Mater Interface , 2019 , 11 , 28213-28220 (IF = 10.3) , 10.1021/acsami.9b09690 -
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Supramolecular Gels from Sugar-linked Triazole Amphiphiles for Drug Entrapment and Release for Topical Application , Komal Sharma, Jojo P. Joseph, Adarsh Sahu, Narender Yadav, Mohit Tyagi, Ashmeet Singh, Asish Pal,* K. P. R. Kartha* , RSC Advances , 2019 , 9: , 19819 - 19827 (IF = 4.04) , 10.1039/C9RA02868D -
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Pathway Driven Self-assembly and Living Supramolecular Polymerization in Amyloid-inspired Peptide Amphiphile , Ashmeet Singh, Jojo P. Joseph, Deepika Gupta, Indranil Sarkar, Asish Pal* , Chem. Commun. , 2018 , 54 , 10730-10733 (IF = 6.0) , 10.1039/C8CC06266H -
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Chirality control to multi-stimuli responsive and self-healing supramolecular metallo-hydrogels: , Bhagwati Sarma, Ashmeet Singh, Tridib K. Sarma, Neha Sardana,* Asish Pal* , New J. Chem , 2018 , 42 , 6427-6432 (IF =3.92) , 10.1039/C8NJ00218E
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Self-healing materials from crystalline polymer composites: , Jojo P. Joseph, Ashmeet Singh, Asish Pal* , (2017) , 181-218 , Springer, Switzerland
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Self-synthesizing materials with narrow length distribution through living supramolecular polymerization: , Giulia Leonetti, Mathieu Colomb-Delsuc, Jasper van der Gucht, Sijbren Otto,Asish Pal , (2014) -
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Tuning the Properties of Photo-induced Hydrogels Obtained from Self-Replicating Peptide Fibers: , Jianwei Li, Mathieu Coulomb-Delsuc, Morteza Malakoutikhah, Sijbren Otto,Asish Pal , (2013) -
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Towards Out-of-equilibrium Self-assembly: , Jianwei Li, Sijbren Otto , (2012) -
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Enantiomeric compartments through self-sorting of rod-like micelles of chiral bisurea bolaamphiphiles: , Asish Pal,Rint P. Sijbesma , (2011) -
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Dynamic Hydrophobic Compartments through Self-sorting of Rod-like Micelles of Bisurea Bolaamphiphiles: , presentation in Dutch Polymer Days , (2010) -
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Delineating the Influence of Capping Agents on Metal Nanoparticle-Low Molecular Mass Gel composites: , Barbara, USA in Aug , (2007)
Professor (Scientist-F): Chemical Biology Unit, Institute of Nano Science & Technology, Sector 81, Mohali, Punjab (January 2021 to Present till date)
Associate Professor (Scientist-E): Chemical Biology Unit, Institute of Nano Science & Technology, Mohali, India (May 2015 to December 2020)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof. Sijbren Otto: Stratingh Institute of Chemistry, University of Groningen, The Netherlands (March 2012 to March 2015)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof. Rint P. Sijbesma: Molecular Science & Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (March 2009 to March 2012)
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Integrated PhD fellowship in 2001
CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET)
International Center for Materials Science (ICMS) Travel grant for Summer School on Polymeric and Self-assembled Gel at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
ECOST Action Young Researcher in April 2012 at Italy
Emerging Young Scientist Award for the year 2022 by Asian Polymer Association
DST-SERB International Travel Support to attend Gordon Research Conference at Switzerland on "Self-assembly and Supramolecular Chemistry" in May 2023.
Prestigious K. Kishore Memorial Award by the Society for Polymer Science in India (SPSI) on December 10-13, 2023
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Title: Stimuli-responsive collapse of tailored single chain functional polymer to diverse hierarchical nanostructures for catalysis and self-healing applications
PI: Prof. Asish Pal
Funding Amount: 39.96 Lakh
Tenure: 3 years
Funding Agency: SERB-ECR
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Title: SANS study to probe collapse of Single Chain Polymer into discrete Nanoparticles
PI: Prof. Asish Pal
Funding Amount: 1.35 lakh
Tenure: 3 years
Funding Agency: UGC-DAE-CSR
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Title: Development of advanced third generation matrix associated chondrocytes for cartilage repair
CO-PI: Prof. Asish Pal
Funding Amount: 174 Lakh
Tenure: 3 years
Funding Agency: DBT-Biocare
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Title: Design of Biomimetic Materials with Strain-stiffening Characteristics for Implication in Cellular Response
PI: Prof. Asish Pal
Funding Amount: 35.80 lakh
Tenure: 3 years
Funding Agency: SERB-CRG
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Title: Surface modification for better adhesion property between rubber and textiles
PI: Prof. Asish Pal
Funding Amount: 30 Lakh
Tenure: 1.5 years
Funding Agency: SRF Industrial Project
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Title: Biomineralized core-shell polymeric hydrogel beads for controlled fertilizer release and moisture retention under adverse weather conditions
PI: Prof. Asish Pal
Funding Amount: 44.10 Lakh
Tenure: 1.8 years
Funding Agency: BIRAC PACE
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Title: Lignin valorization via biomaterial development, depolymerisation and green technology
CO-PI: Prof. Asish Pal
Funding Amount: 3.43 Cr
Tenure: 3 yr
Funding Agency: DBT