Patents

1)  Optically Responsive and Mechanically tunable Colloid-in-Liquid Crystal Gels,

   by Nicholas L. Abbott, Ankit Agarwal, Santanu Kumar Pal, 

   US Patent # 20100062525 (March 11, 2010).

2)  A Novel Technique for Preparation of Liquid Crystal Droplets,

   by Santanu Kumar Pal, Sumyra Sidiq and IISER Mohali,

   Indian Patent Application No. 102/DEL/2015 (January 14, 2015).

Review Articles

1.  Tripheylene -based discotic liquid crystals: recent advances

      Santanu Kumar Pal, Shilpa Setia, B. S. Avinash and Sandeep Kumar. 

      Liq. Cryst. 2013, 40, 1769-1816, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2013.854418

2.  Liquid Crystal Biosensors: New Approaches

      Sumyra Sidiq and Santanu Kumar Pal 

      Proc. Indian Natn. Sci. Acad. 2016, 82, 75-98, DOI: 10.16943/ptinsa/2016/v82i1/48445

3.  Applications of liquid crystals in biosensing and organic light-emitting devices: future aspects   

      Shilpa Setia, Sumyra Sidiq, Joydip De, Ipsita Pani and Santanu Kumar Pal 

      Liq. Cryst. 2016, 43, 2009-2050, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2016.1213002

Collaborators 

1. Dr. Nicholas L. Abbott

John T. and Magdalen L. Sobota Professor, Hilldale Professor

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States.

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Area of interest: Interfacial phenomenon, colloid science, soft material, biomolecular interfaces, polymers, liquid crystals and surfactant, hydrophobic effect.

2. Dr. Sandeep Kumar

Professor & Coordinator

Department of Soft Condensed Matter

Raman Research Institute

C.V. Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore - 560 080

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Area of interest design: Synthesis and applications of novel liquid crystalline materials, synthesis and characterization of various zero-, one- and two-dimensional metallic, semiconducting and carbon nanoparticles

3. Dr. A. S. Achalkumar

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Guwahati - 781039, Assam, India

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Area of interest:  Liquid crystals, Functional Materials, Molecular Electronics, Self Assembly, Green Chemistry.

4. Dr. Arunika Mukhopadhyay

Associate Professor

Department of Biological Science

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali

Knowledge City, Sector 81, Manauli, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar,

Punjab,140306.

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Area of interest:  Characterization of porin proteins of Gram-negative pathogenic bacteria for host immunomodulatory roles and detailed immune cell signalling mechanisms.

5. Dr. Samrat Mukhopadhyay

 Associate Professor

Department of Biological Science

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali

Knowledge City, Sector 81, Manauli, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar,

Punjab,140306.

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Area of interest:  Protein Folding, Misfolding, Prion, and Amyloid Biology

6. Dr. Goutam Sheet

Assistant Professor

Department of Physical Science

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali

Knowledge City, Sector 81, Manauli, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar,

Punjab, 140306.

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Area of interest:  Investigation of materials with novel physical properties like superconductivity, ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism, multiferroicity etc. using scanning probe microscopy and transport spectroscopy at low temperatures and high magnetic fields.

7. Dr Kamalakannan Kailasam