The broad, essentially interdisciplinary research area of the group will focus on developing smart polymeric materials and elaborating new material properties with an eventual goal to understand stem cell-material interactions for biomedical applications. As a part of this research goal, the work will initially be directed towards developing stimuli responsive and self-healing polymers. Specifically, we shall look to harness the ubiquitous metal-ligand interactions present in marine biology- these interactions play a key role in the development of their hard and tough protective shells-to design stiff and tough synthetic elastomers.
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Strain sensing multi-stimuli responsive light emitting lanthanide-based tough and stretchable hydrogels with tunable luminescence and fast self-recovery using metal-ligand and hydrophobic interactions Panda P., Dutta A., Pal S., Ganguly D., Chattopadhyay S., Das N.C., Das R.K. By New Journal of Chemistry 47 5734-5750 (2023)
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DNA-Responsive Polyisocyanopeptide Hydrogels with Stress-Stiffening Capacity Deshpande S. R., Hammink R. , Das R. K., Nelissen F. , Blank K. G., Rowan A. E., Heus H. A. By Advanced Functional Materials 26 9075-9082 (2016)
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Intrinsically Freezing-Tolerant, Conductive, and Adhesive Proton Donor Acceptor Hydrogel for Multifunctional Applications Dutta A., Panda P. , Das A. , Ganguly D. , Chattopadhyay S. , Banerji P. , Pradhan D. , Das R. K. By ACS Applied Polymer Materials 4 7710-7722 (2022)
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Dynamic metal ligand cross-link promoted mechanically robust and pH responsive hydrogels for shape memory, programmable actuation and resistive sensing application Ghosh A., Panda P. , Ganguly D. , Chattopadhyay S. , Das R. K. By Journal of Applied Polymer Science 52483- (2022)
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From ultrastiff to soft materials: Exploiting dynamic metal ligand cross-links to access polymer hydrogels combining customized mechanical performance and tailorable functions by controlling hydrogel mechanics Dutta A., Ghosal K. , Sarkar K. , Pradhan D. , Das R. K. By Chemical Engineering Journal 419 129528- (2021)
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Engineering hydrophobically associated hydrogels with rapid self-recovery and tunable mechanical properties using metal-ligand interactions Panda P., Dutta A. , Ganguly D. , Chattopadhyay S. , Das R. K. By Journal of Applied Polymer Science - (2020)
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Dual Cross-Linked Hydrogels with High Strength, Toughness, and Rapid Self-Recovery Using Dynamic Metal Ligand Interactions Dutta A., Das R. K. By Macromolecular Materials and Engineering 304 - (2019)
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A Highly Stretchable, Tough, Self-Healing and Thermoprocessable Polyacrylamide-Chitosan Supramolecular Hydrogel Dutta A., Maity S. , Das R. K. By Macromolecular Materials and Engineering 303 - (2018)
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Injectable Biomimetic Hydrogels as Tools for Efficient T Cell Expansion and Delivery Weiden J., Voerman D. , Dolen Y. , Das R. K., Duffelen A. V., Hammink R. , Eggermont L. J., Rowan A. E., Tel J. , Figdor C. G. By Frontiers in Immunology 9 - (2018)
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Soluble polyimides with propeller shape triphenyl core for membrane based gas separation Dutta A., Bisoi S. , Mukherjee R. , Chatterjee R. , Das R. K., Banerjee S. By J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 135 46658- (2018)
Principal Investigator
- Developing stretchable, white light emitting and multi stimuli-responsive self-healable photoluminescent hydrogel materials and their applications in bio-inspired synergistic multi-color tunable fluorescence and shape changing actuation by combining aggregation induced emissive fluorophores with hydrophobic micellar core embedded lanthanide-sensitizer cross-links
- Emergent Phases in 2D Quantum Materials and Heterostructures
- Scalable Fabrication of Electronic Grade Two Dimensional Semiconductors and Heterostructures via Water-assisted One-pot CVD Technique
Ph. D. Students
Ashis Ghosh
Area of Research: Self-assembled hydrogels
Kartik Bar
Area of Research: Polymeric hydrogels
Pintu Maity
Area of Research: Polymer hydrogels
Prachishree Panda
Area of Research: Supramolecular hydrogels
Sangita Pandit
Area of Research: Stimuli responsive hydrogels
