Research Publications
Publications from IISER Mohali
From 2023
136. Organic electronic applications and charge transport mechanism in novel discotic liquid crystals
Dharmendra Pratap Singh, Asmita Shah, Indu Bala, Vadivel Marichandran, Santanu Kumar Pal, Abhishek Kumar Srivastava, Sandeep Kumar
Liquid Crystals 2023, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2023.2188616
137. Role of Intralayer Hydrogen Bonding in the Fast Crystallization of the Hydrazone-Linked Nanoporous Covalent Organic Framework for Catalytic Suzuki–Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reactions
Yogendra Nailwal, Matthew A Addicoat, Manisha Gaurav, Santanu Kumar Pal
ACS Applied Nano Materials 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.2c04652
136. Liquid Crystal Biosensors: A New Therapeutic Window to Point-of-Care Diagnostics
Ipsita Pani, Soma Sil, Santanu Kumar Pal
Langmuir 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02959
135. Light Modulated Reversible “On‐Off” Transformation of Arylazoheteroarene Based Discotics in Nematic Organization
Pravesh Kumar, Indu Bala, Ritobrata De, Santanu Kumar Pal, Sugumar Venkataramani
\Chemistry–A European Journal 2023, DOI: 10.1002/chem.202202876
134. Self-assembled discotics as molecular semiconductors
Ritobrata De, Santanu Kumar Pal
Chemical Communications 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2CC06763C
133. Deciphering pressure-induced nanoarchitectonics in a monolayer of heterocoronene-based discotics at air–water and air–solid interfaces
Nishant Kumar, Priyanka Priyadarshani Samal, Anwesha Mahapatra, Joydip De, Santanu Kumar Pal, Puneet Mishra, Alpana Nayak
Soft Matter 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2SM01317G
132. Oxadiazole-integrated heterocoronene discotics as ambipolar organic semiconductors
Ritobrata De, Joydip De, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Indu Bala, Upendra Kumar Pandey, Santanu Kumar Pal
Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2TC04144H
131. Observation of helical self-assembly in cyclic triphosphazene-based columnar liquid crystals bearing chiral mesogenic units
Shruti Rani, Vidhika Punjani, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Madhu Babu Kanakala, CV Yelamaggad, Santanu Kumar Pal
Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2TC03847A
From 2022
130. Electric-field-induced patterns in a hockey-stick nematic.
Jun Zhang, Ying Xiang, Xiaoyu Ding, Luguo Hao, Supreet Kaur, Golam Mohiuddin, Santanu Kumar Pal, Péter Salamon, Nándor Éber, Ágnes Buka
Journal of Molecular Liquids 2022, DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.120239
129. Imine-based highly polar achiral unsymmetrical four-ring bent shaped liquid crystals: Design, Synthesis and Characterization.
Varsha Jain, Golam Mohiuddin, Ajay Jain, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Santanu Kumar Pal
Journal of Molecular Structure 2022, DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2022.133496
128. Liquid crystals as signal transducers for sensing of analytes using aptamer as a recognition probe.
Manisha Devi, Ipsita Pani, Santanu Kumar Pal
Liquid Crystals Reviews 2022, DOI: 10.1080/21680396.2022.2053597
127. Label-Free Detection of Ochratoxin A Using Aptamer as Recognition Probe at Liquid Crystal-Aqueous Interface.
Manisha Devi, Kavyasree A, Ipsita Pani, Soma Sil and Santanu Kumar Pal
Front. Soft. Matter, 2022, DOI: 10.3389/frsfm.2022.835057
126. Discs to a ‘Bright’Future: Exploring Discotic Liquid Crystals in Organic Light Emitting Diodes in the Era of New‐Age Smart Materials
Ritobrata De, Sushil Sharma, Sanchita Sengupta, Santanu Kumar Pal
The Chemical Record 2022, DOI: 10.1002/tcr.202200056
125. Chemical and physical aspects of recent bent-shaped liquid crystals exhibiting chiral and achiral mesophases
Supreet Kaur, Vidhika Punjani, Neelam Yadav, Abinash Barthakur, Anshika Baghla, Surajit Dhara, Santanu Kumar Palal
Liq. Cryst. 2022, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2022.2028313
124. Luminescent Conjugated Microporous Polymers for Selective Sensing and Ultrafast Detection of Picric Acid
Yogendra Nailwal, Manisha Devi, Santanu Kumar Pal
ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.1c01905
123. Electroluminescent Aggregation-Induced Emission-Active Discotic Liquid Crystals Based on Alkoxy Cyanostilbene-Functionalized Benzenetricarboxamide with Ambipolar Charge Transport
Indu Bala, Harpreet Kaur, Madhusudan Maity, Rohit Ashok Kumar Yadav, Joydip De, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Jwo-Huei Jou, Upendra Kumar Pandey, Santanu Kumar Pal
ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.1c01251
122. Elucidating liquid crystal-aqueous interface for the study of cholesterol-mediated action of a β-barrel pore forming toxin.
Tarang Gupta, Anish Kumar Mondal, Ipsita Pani, Kausik Chattopadhyay, Santanu Kumar Pal
Soft Matter 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2SM00447J
121. Tailoring liquid crystals as vehicles for encapsulation and enzyme-triggered release.
Ipsita Pani, Yogendra Nailwal, Sukanya Dutta, Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Mater. Chem. B 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2TB00098A
120. Observation of “de Vries-like” properties in bent-core molecules.
Supreet Kaur, Abinash Barthakur, Golam Mohiuddin, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Surajit Dhara, Santanu Kumar Pal
Chem. Sci. 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D1SC06629C
119. Luminescent columnar discotics as highly efficient emitters in pure deep-blue OLEDs with an external quantum efficiency of 4.7%.
Joydip De, Ishan Sarkar, Rohit Ashok Kumar Yadav, Indu Bala, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Iram Siddiqui, Jwo-Huei Jou, Santanu Kumar Pal
Soft Matter 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D1SM01558C
From 2021
118. Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Achiral Unsymmetrical Four-ring based Hockey-stick Shaped Liquid Crystals: Structure-Property relationship.
Varsha Jain, Supreet Kaur, Golam Mohiuddin and Santanu Kumar Pal
Liq. Cryst. 2021, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2021.1949054
117. Hydrogen bond assisted anchoring transitions in nematic liquid crystals at the aqueous interface.
Rajib Nandi, Varsha Jain, Manisha Devi, Tarang Gupta and Santanu KumarPal
Colloids Surf, A Physicochem Eng Asp 2021, 625, 126952, DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2021.126952
116. Probing Nanoscale Lipid−Protein Interactions at the Interface of Liquid Crystal Droplets.
Ipsita Pani, Fidha Nazreen K. M., Monika Sharma and Santanu Kumar Pal
Nano Lett. 2021, 21, 4546-4553, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c05139
115. A Dual-Function Highly Crystalline Covalent Organic Framework for HCl Sensing and Visible-Light Heterogeneous Photocatalysis.
Yogendra Nailwal, A. D. Dinga Wonanke, Matthew A. Addicoat, and Santanu Kumar Pal
Macromolecules 2021, 54, 6595-6604, DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00574
114. Enabling efficient ambipolar charge carrier mobility in a H-bonded heptazine–triphenylene system forming segregated donor–acceptor columnar assemblies.
Indu Bala, Joydip De, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Upendra Kumar Pandey and Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021, 9, 8552-8561, DOI: 10.1039/d1tc01898a
113. Photo-Responsive behavior of Azobenzene Based Polar Hockey-Stick Shaped Liquid Crystals.
Supreet Kaur, Nazma Begum, Golam Mohiuddin and Santanu Kumar Pal
ChemPhysChem 2021, 22, 1361-1370, DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202100215
112. Molecular Engineering for the Development of a Discotic Nematic Mesophase and Solid-State Emitter in Deep-Blue OLEDs.
Joydip De, Rohit Ashok Kumar Yadav, Rahul Singh Yadav, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Mayank Joshi, Angshuman Roy Choudhury, Jayachandran Jayakumar, Jwo-Huei Jou, Chien-Hong Cheng, and Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Org. Chem. 2021, 86, 7256−7262, DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c00742
111. An electron-deficient tris(triazole)-based discotic liquid crystal that exhibits fast electron transport.
Shallu Dhingra, Indu Bala, Joydip De, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Upendra Kumar Pandey and Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021, 9, 5628, DOI: 10.1039/d1tc00866
From 2020
110. Luminescent Conductive Columnar π‑Gelators for Fe(II) Sensing and Bio-Imaging Applications.
Joydip De, Manisha Devi, Asmita Shah, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Indu Bala, Dharmendra Pratap Singh, Redouane Douali and Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Phys. Chem. B 2020, 124, 10257−10265, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c07052
109. High-performing D–p–A–p–D benzothiadiazole based hybrid local and charge-transfer emitters in solution-processed OLEDs.
Indu Bala, Rohit Ashok Kumar Yadav, Manisha Devi, Joydip De, Nitya Singh, Kamalakannan Kailasam, Jayachandran Jayakumar, Jwo-Huei Jou, Chien-Hong Cheng and Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8, 17009-17015, DOI: 10.1039/d0tc04080k
108. Differentiating Conformationally Distinct Alzheimer’s Amyloid‑β Oligomers Using Liquid Crystals.
Ipsita Pani, Priyanka Madhu, Najiya Najiya, Aayush Aayush, Samrat Mukhopadhyay and Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 9012-9018, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01867
107. AIE-active mechanoluminescent discotic liquid crystals for applications in OLEDs and bio-imaging.
Joydip De, Abdul Haseeb M. M., Rohit Ashok Kumar Yadav, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Indu Bala, Prateek Chawla, Kiran Kishore Kesavan, Jwo-Huei Jou and Santanu Kumar Pal
Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 14279-14282, DOI: 10.1039/d0cc05813k
106. Sucrose-mediated heat-stiffening microemulsion-based gel for enzyme entrapment and catalysis.
Akshi Deshwal, Himanshu Chitra, Madhusudan Maity, Santanu Kumar Pal and Subhabrata Maiti.
Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 10698--10701, DOI: 10.1039/d0cc04294c
105. Room Temperature Perylene Based Columnar Liquid Crystals as Solid-State Fluorescent Emitters in Solution-Processable Organic Light-Emitting Diodes.
Indu Bala, Nitya Singh, Rohit A. K. Yadav, Joydip De, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Dharmendra Pratap Singh, Deepak Kumar Dubey, Jwo-Huei, Redouane Douali and Santanu Kumar Pal.
J. Mater. Chem. C (Accepted Manuscript), DOI: 10.1039/D0TC02754E
104. Microrheology to probe smectic clusters in bent-core nematic liquid crystals.
Sathyanarayana Paladugu, Supreet Kaur, Golam Mohiuddin, Ravi Kumar Pujala, Santanu Kumar Pal and Surajit Dhara.
Soft Matter 2020, 16, 7556-7561, DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00796J
103. High Hole Mobility in Room Temperature Discotic Liquid Crystalline Tetrathienoanthracenes.
Indu Bala, Joydip De, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Harpreet Singh, Upendra Kumar Pandey, and Santanu Kumar Pal
Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 5629-5632, DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01226B
102. Chiral Bent‐shaped Molecules Exhibiting Unusually Wide Range of Blue Liquid Crystalline Phases and Multi Stimuli‐Responsive Behavior.
Vidhika Punjani, Golam Mohiuddin, Supreet Kaur, Angshuman Roy Choudhury, Sathyanarayana Paladugu, Surajit Dhara, Sharmistha Ghosh and Santanu Kumar Pal
Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 5859-5871, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201905707
101. Proton-Triggered Fluorescence Switching in Self-Exfoliated Ionic Covalent Organic Nanosheets for Applications in Selective Detection of Anions.
Harpreet Singh, Manisha Devi, Nityasagar Jena, Mohamed Musthafa Iqbal, Yogendra Nailwal, Abir De Sarkar, and Santanu Kumar Pal
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 13248-13255, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b20743
100. Design, Synthesis and Application of 2-Chloro-3-Nitrobenzoic Acid Based Three-Ring Bent-Core Molecules with a Terminal Halogen Moiety.
Varsha Jain, Golam Mohiuddin and Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Mol. Struct. 2020, 1202, 127383, DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2019.127383
From 2019
99. Photoswitchable Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystals with Methylated Azobenzene Wing Exhibiting Optic-Field-Enhanced Fréedericksz Transition Effect.
Nazma Begum, Supreet Kaur, Ying Xiang, Heng Yin, Golam Mohiuddin, Nandiraju V. S. Rao and Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 124, 874-885, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b09326
98. Surfactin Laden Aqueous-Liquid Crystal Interface Enabled Identification of Secondary Structure of Proteins.
Indu Verma, Swathy Lekshmy Valsala Selvakumar and Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 124, 1, 780-788, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b10275
97. High Hole Mobility and Efficient Ambipolar Charge Transport in Heterocoronene-based Ordered Columnar Discotics
Joydip De, Indu Bala, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Upendra Kumar Pandey and Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 18799-18805, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b09126
96. Structural organization and molecular self-assembly of a new class of polar and non-polar four-ring based bent-core molecules
Supreet Kaur, Golam Mohiuddin, Vidhika Punjani, Raj Kumar Khan, Sharmistha Ghosh, Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Mol. Liq. 2019, 295, 111687, DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2019.111687
95. Room-Temperature Columnar Liquid Crystalline Materials Based on Pyrazino[2,3-g]quinoxaline for Bright Green Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
Vinod Kumar Vishwakarma, Subrata Nath, Monika Gupta, Deepak Kumar Dubey, Sujith Sudheendran Swayamprabha, Jwo-Huei Jou, Santanu Kumar Pal, Achalkumar Ammathnadu Sudhakar
ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 2019, 1, 1959-1969, DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.9b00477
94. Liquid Crystal based Detection of Pb(II) Ions Using Spinach RNA as Recognition Probe
Indu Verma, Manisha Devi, Diksha Sharma, Rajib Nandi, Santanu Kumar Pal
Langmuir 2019, 35, 7816-7823, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b04018
93. Label-Free Imaging of Fibronectin Adsorption at Poly-(l-lysine)-Decorated Liquid Crystal Droplets
Indu Verma, Ipsita Pani, Diksha Sharma, Shiny Maity, Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123, 22, 13642-13650, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b01934
92. Structural Understanding, Photoswitchability and supergelation of a New Class of Four-Ring Based Bent Shaped Liquid Crystal
Nazma Begum, Supreet Kaur, Golam Mohiuddin, Rajib Nandi, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Nandiraju VS Rao, Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Phys. Chem. B 2019, 123, 4443-4451, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b01456
91. Polar Switching and Cybotctic Nematic Ordering in 1,3,4-Thiadiazole-Based Short Core Hockey Stick-Shaped Fluorescent Liquid Crystals
Sandip Kumar Saha, Golam Mohiuddin, Manoj Kumar Paul, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Raj Kumar Khan, Sharmistha Ghosh, Santanu Kumar Pal
ACS Omega 2019, 4, 7711-7722, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.9b00425
90. Room temperature discotic liquid crystalline triphenylene-pentaalkynylbenzene dyads as an emitter in blue OLEDs and their charge transfer complexes with ambipolar charge transport behaviour
Indu Bala, Wan-Yun Yang, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Joydip De, Rohit Ashok Kumar Yadav, Dharmendra Pratap Singh, Deepak Kumar Dubey, Jwo-Huei Jou, Redouane Douali and Santanu Kumar Pal *
J. Mater. Chem. C 2019, 7, 5724-5738, DOI: 10.1039/C9TC01178A
89. Ordering Transitions in Liquid Crystals Triggered by Bioactive Cyclic Amphiphiles: Potential Application in Label-Free Detection of Amyloidogenic Peptides
Indu Verma, Neelima Rajeev, Golam Mohiuddin, Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123, 11, 6526-6536, DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b11953
88. Room-Temperature Columnar Liquid Crystals as Efficient Pure Deep-Blue Emitters in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with an External Quantum Efficiency of 4.0%.
Joydip De, Wan-Yun Yang, Indu Bala, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Rohit Ashok Kumar Yadav, Deepak Kumar Dubey, Arjun Chowdhury, Jwo-Huei Jou and Santanu Kumar Pal
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 11, 8291-8300, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b18749
87. Protein triggered ordering transitions in poly (L-lysine)-coated liquid crystal emulsion droplets
Indu Verma, Sumyra Sidiq and Santanu Kumar Pal
Liquid Crystals 2019, 46, 1318-1326. DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2019.1577995
86. Gold nanoparticle-mediated signal amplification of liquid crystal biosensors for dopamine
Rajib Nandi, Lisha Loitongbam, Joydip De, Varsha Jain and Santanu Kumar Pal
Analyst 2019, 144, 1110-1114, DOI: 10.1039/C8AN02171F
85. Design of Aqueous-Liquid Crystal Interfaces To Monitor Protein Aggregation at Nanomolar Concentration
Ipsita Pani, Hema M. Swasthi, Samrat Mukhopadhyay and Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123, 1305-1312, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b10863
84. Reversibly photoswitchable alkoxy azobenzenes connected benzenetricarboxamide discotic liquid crystals with perpetual long range columnar assembly
Org. Biomol. Chem. 2019, 17, 1947-1954, DOI: 10.1039/C8OB01579A
(Featured in a "New Talent" themed issue)
From 2018
83. Blue Luminescent Organic Light Emitting Diode Devices of a New Class of Star-Shaped Columnar Mesogens Exhibiting π–π Driven Supergelation
Joydip De, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Sujith Sudheendran Swayamprabha, Deepak Kumar Dubey, Indu Bala, Ishan Sarkar, Gourab Dey, Jwo-Huei Jou, Subrata Ghosh and Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122, 23659-23674, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b05811
82. Deep‐Blue OLED Fabrication from Heptazine Columnar Liquid Crystal Based AIE‐Active Sky‐Blue Emitter
Indu Bala, Lee Ming, Rohit Ashok Kumar Yadav, Joydip De, Deepak Kumar Dubey, Sunil Kumar, Harpreet Singh, Jwo-Huei Jou, Kamalakannan Kailasam and Santanu Kumar Pal
ChemistrySelect 2018, 3, 7771 – 7777, DOI: 10.1002/slct.201801715
81. Scholl reaction of hexaphenylbenzenes with hexakis-alkoxy substituents
Shilpa Setia, Sandeep Kumar, Debashis Adhikari and Santanu Kumar Pal
Liq. Cryst, 2018, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2018.1508765
80. Influence of terminal halogen moieties on the phase structure of short-core achiral hockey-stick shaped mesogens: Design, synthesis and structure-property relationship
Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. 2018, 3, 839-852, DOI: 10.1039/C8ME00027A
79. Natural sunlight driven oxidative homocoupling of amines by truxene based conjugated microporous polymer
Venugopala Rao Battula, Harpreet Singh, Sunil Kumar, Indu Bala, Santanu Kumar Pal, Kamalakannan Kailasam
ACS Catalysis 2018, 8, 6751−6759, DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b00623
78. Hydrogen-bond mediated columnar liquid crystalline assemblies of C3-symmetric heptazine derivatives at ambient temperature
Indu Bala, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Sunil Kumar, Harpreet Singh, Joydip De, Neha Sharma, Kamalakannan Kailasam and Santanu Kumar Pal
Soft Matter, 2018,14, 6342-6352 DOI: 10.1039/C8SM00834E
77. Cybotactic nematic phase of achiral unsymmetrical bent-core liquid crystals – Quelling of polar ordering and the influence of terminal substituent moiety
Sourav Patranabish, Golam Mohiuddin, Nazma Begum, Atiqur R Laskar, Santanu Kumar Pal, Nandiraju VS Rao and Aloka Sinha
J. Mol. Liq. 2018, 257, 144-154, DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2018.02.097
76. Photo-responsive liquid crystals derived from azobenzene centered cholesterol-based tetramers
Monika Gupta, Vaibhav Pal and Santanu Kumar Pal
New J. Chem. 2018, 42, 8765-8772, DOI: 10.1039/C7NJ05142E
75. Observation of polar order and thermochromic behaviour in a chiral bent-core system exhibiting exotic mesophases due to superstructural frustration
Vidhika Punjani, Golam Mohiuddin, Supreet Kaur, Raj Kumar Khan, Sharmistha Ghosh and Santanu Kumar Pal
Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 3452-3455, DOI: 10.1039/C7CC08885J
74. Structure-property relationships in lath-shaped triads based on multialkynylbenzene
Monika Gupta and Santanu Kumar Pal
Liq. Cryst. 2018, 45, 1279-1286, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2018.1432084
73. Supramolecular self-assembly of thiol functionalized pentaalkynylbenzene-decorated gold nanoparticles exhibiting a room temperature discotic nematic liquid crystal phase
Monika Gupta, Subhransu Sekhar Mohapatra, Surajit Dhara and Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Mater. Chem. C 2018, 6, 2303-2310, DOI: 10.1039/C7TC05444K
72. Liquid crystal based sensing device using a smartphone
71. Room temperature columnar liquid crystalline self-assembly of acidochromic, luminescent, star-shaped molecules with cyanovinylene chromophores
70. Columnar self-assembly of luminescent bent-shaped hexacatenars with a central pyridine core connected with substituted 1,3,4-oxadiazole and thiadiazoles
New J. Chem. 2018, 42, 3781-3798,
From 2017
69. Poly(l-lysine)-Coated Liquid Crystal Droplets for Sensitive Detection of DNA and Their Applications in Controlled Release of Drug Molecules
Indu Verma, Sumyra Sidiq and Santanu Kumar Pal
ACS Omega 2017, 2 (11), 7936–7945,
68. Phase Behavior of a New Class of Anthraquinone-Based Discotic Liquid Crystals
Joydip De, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Indu Bala, Sandeep Kumar and Santanu Kumar Pal
Langmuir 2017, 33 (48), 13849–13860, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03031
67. A porous, crystalline truxene-based covalent organic framework and its application in humidity sensing
66. Heptazine: A new electron deficient fluorescent core for discotic liquid crystals
Indu Bala, Harpreet Singh, Venugopala Rao Battula, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Joydip de, Sunil Kumar, Kamalakannan Kailasam and Santanu Kumar Pal
Chem. Euro. J. 2017, 23(59), 14718-14722. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201703364
65. Tuning the self-assembly and photophysical properties of bi-1,3,4-Thiadiazole derivatives through electron donor-acceptor interactions and their application in OLEDs
Abhay Kumar Yadav, Balaram Pradhan, Hidayath Ulla, Subrata Nath, Joydip De, Santanu Kumar Pal, M. N. Satyanarayan and Achalkumar Ammathnadu Sudhakar
J. Mater. Chem. C 2017, 5, 9345-9358, DOI: 10.1039/C7TC01420A
64. Observation of disordered mesomorphism in three-ring-based highly polar bent-core molecules: Design, synthesis and characterisation
Golam Mohiuddin, Nazma Begum, Nandiraju V. S Rao, Supreet Kaur, Vidhika Punjani, Raj Kumar Khan, Sharmistha Ghosh and Santanu Kumar Pal
Liq. Cryst. 2017, 44(14-15), 2247-2258, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2017.1363917
63. TNF Induced Switching of Columnar Rectangular to Hexagonal Assemblies in a New Class of Triphenylene-Based Room Temperature Discotic Liquid Crystals
Monika Gupta, Santosh Prasad Gupta, and Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Phys. Chem. B 2017, 121, 36, 8593–8602, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b06737
62. Effect of regioisomerism on the mesomorphic and photophysical behavior of oxadiazole-based tris(N-salicylideneaniline)s: Synthesis and characterization
Suraj Kumar Pathak, Subrata Nath, Joydip De, Santanu Kumar Pal and Ammathnadu S. Achalkumara
New J. Chem. 2017, 41, 9908-9917, DOI: 10.1039/C7NJ01766A
61. Star-shaped π-Gelators based on Oxadiazole and Thiadiazoles: A Structure-property Correlation
Subrata Nath, Suraj Kumar Pathak, Joydip De, Santanu Kumar Pal and Ammathnadu S. Achalkumara
Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. 2017, 2, 478-489, DOI: 10.1039/C7ME00040E
60. Room temperature columnar nematic and soft crystalline columnar assemblies of a new series of perylene-centered disc tetramers
Indu Bala, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Joydip De, and Santanu Kumar Pal
Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 12767 –12778, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201702181
59. Highly Resolved Morphology of Room-Temperature Columnar Liquid Crystals derived from Triphenylene and Multialkynylbenzene Using Reconstructed Electron Density Maps
Santosh Prasad Gupta, Monika Gupta, and Santanu Kumar Pal
Chemistry Select 2017, 2, 6070 – 6077, DOI: 10.1002/slct.201701117
58. Liquid Crystal Unveiled Interactions between Melittin and Phospholipids at Aqueous-Liquid Crystal Interface
Dibyendu Das and Santanu Kumar Pal
Chemistry Select 2017, 2, 4779-4786, DOI: 10.1002/slct.201700604
57. Room-temperature oligomeric discotic nematic liquid crystals over a wide temperature range: Structure-property relationships
Monika Gupta, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Subhransu Sekhar Mohapatra, Surajit Dhara and Santanu Kumar Pal
Chem. Euro. J. 2017, 23, 10626-10631, DOI: 10.1002/chem.01578
56. Orthogonal smectic and nematic ordering in three-ring polar bent-core molecules with anti-parallel arrangement
Supreet Kaur; Vidhika Punjani; Golam Mohiuddin and Santanu Kumar Pal
New J. Chem. 2017, 41, 5403-5411, DOI: 10.1039/C7NJ00272F
55. Contrasting effects of heterocycle substitution and branched tails in the arms of star-shaped molecules
Suraj Kumar Pathak, Subrata Nath, Joydip De, Santanu Kumar Pal and Ammathnadu S. Achalkumar
New J. Chem. 2017, 41, 4680-4688, DOI: 10.1039/C7NJ00911A
54. Poly(l-lysine)-Coated Liquid Crystal Droplets for Cell-Based Sensing Applications
Sumyra Sidiq, G. V. R. Krishna Prasad, Arunika Mukhopadhaya and Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Phys. Chem. B 2017, 121(16), 4247-4256, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b00551
53. A new strategy towards the synthesis of a room-temperature discotic nematic liquid crystal employing triphenylene and pentaalkynylbenzene units
Monika Gupta, Santosh Prasad Gupta, M. V. Rasna, Debashis Adhikari, Surajit Dhara and Santanu Kumar Pal
Chem. Comm. 2017, 53, 3014-3017, DOI: 10.1039/C6CC09509G
52. Electroluminescent room temperature columnar liquid crystals based on bay-annulated perylene tetraesters
Ravindra Kumar Gupta,
J. Mater. Chem. C 2017, 5, 1767-1781, DOI: 10.1039/C6TC04166C
From 2016
51. Hexacatenars Exhibiting π-π Driven Supergelation, Aggregation Induced Blue Light Emission and Thermochromism
Suraj Kumar Pathak, Monika Gupta, Santanu Kumar Pal and Ammathnadu S. Achalkumar
Chemistry Select 2016, 1(16), 5107,
50. Multifunctional hexacatenar mesogen exhibiting supergelation, AIEE and its ability as a potential volatile acid senors
Balaram Pradhan, Monika Gupta, Santanu Kumar Pal and Ammathnadu S. Achalkumar
J. Mater. Chem. C 2016, 4(41), 9669-9673, DOI: 10.1039/C6TC03963D
49. Synthesis, Mesomorphism and Photoluminescence of a New Class of Anthracene-based Discotic Liquid Crystals
Joydip De, Shilpa Setia and Santanu Kumar Pal
Chemistry Select 2016, 1(16), 5075-5082, DOI: 10.1002/slct.201600717
48. Liquid-Crystalline Star-Shaped Supergelator Exhibiting Aggregation-Induced Blue Light Emission
Suraj Kumar Pathak, Balaram Pradhan, Monika Gupta, Santanu Kumar Pal and Achalkumar Ammathnadu Sudhakar
Langmuir 2016, 32(36), 9301-9312, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b02509
47. Applications of liquid crystals in biosensing and organic light-emitting devices: future aspects
Shilpa Setia, Sumyra Sidiq, Joydip De, Ipsita Pani & Santanu Kumar Pal
Liquid crystals 2016, 43, 2009-2050, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2016.1213002
46. Aromatic π-π Driven Supergelation, Aggregation Induced Blue Light Emission, Tunability of the Self-assembly and Emission in Star-shaped 1,2,4-Oxadiazole Derivatives
Suraj Kumar Pathak, Balaram Pradhan, Ravindra Kumar Gupta, Monika Gupta, Santanu Kumar Pal and Ammathnadu S. Achalkumar
J. Mater. Chem. C 2016, 4, 6546-6561, DOI: 10.1039/C6TC01939K
45. Star-shaped Fluorescent Liquid Crystals derived from s-triazine and 1,3,4-oxadiazole moieties
Balaram Pradhan, Suraj Kumar Pathak, Ravindra Kumar Gupta, Monika Gupta, Santanu Kumar Pal and Ammathnadu S. Achalkumar
J. Mater. Chem. C 2016, 4, 6117-6130, DOI: 10.1039/C6TC01260D
44. Unsymmetrically substituted room temperature discotic liquid crystals based on hexa–peri–hexabenzocoronene core
Shilpa Setia and Santanu Kumar Pal
Chemistry Select 2016, 1, 880-885, DOI: 10.1002/slct.201600107
43. Detection of creatinine using surface-driven ordering transitions of liquid crystals
Indu Verma and Santanu Kumar Pal
Liquid crystals 2016, 43, 1126-1134, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2016.1161092
42. Rod–disc oligomeric liquid crystal based on 4-cyanobiphenyl and truxene core.
Indu Bala and Santanu Kumar Pal
Liquid crystals 2016, 43, 963-971, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2016.1153733
41. Triphenylene-Based Room-Temperature Discotic Liquid Crystals: A New Class of Blue-Light-Emitting Materials with Long-Range Columnar Self Assembly
Monika Gupta and Santanu Kumar Pal
Langmuir 2016, 32, 1120-1126, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b03353
40. Bay-annulated Perylene Tetraesters: A New class of Discotic Liquid Crystals
Ravindra Kumar Gupta, Suraj Kumar Pathak, Balaram Pradhan, Monika Gupta, Santanu Kumar Pal and Achalkumar Ammathnadu Sudhakar
Chem. Phys. Chem. 2016, 17, 859-872, DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201501028
39. 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
From 2015
38. Design of bio-molecular interfaces using liquid crystals demonstrating endotoxin interactions with bacterial cell wall components
Dibyendu Das, Sumyra Sidiq and Santanu Kumar Pal
RSC Adv. 2015, 5, 66476-66486, DOI: 10.1039/C5RA09640E
37. Perylo[1, 12- b, c, d] Thiophene Tetraesters: A New Class of Luminescent Columnar Liquid Crystals
Ravindra Kumar Gupta, Balaram Pradhan, Suraj Kumar Pathak, Santanu Kumar Pal and Achalkumar Ammathnadu Sudhakar
Langmuir 2015, 31, 8092-8100, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b01187
36. pH-Driven Ordering Transitions in Liquid Crystal Induced by Conformational Changes of Cardiolipin
Sumyra Sidiq, Indu Verma and Santanu Kumar Pal
Langmuir 2015, 31, 4741-4751, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b00798
35. The first examples of room temperature liquid crystal dimers based on cholesterol and pentaalkynylbenzene
Monika Gupta and Santanu Kumar Pal
Liquid Crystals 2015, 42, 1250-1256, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2015.1036817
34. Three-Ring-Based Room-Temperature Bent-Core Nematic Compounds: Synthesis and Characterization
Golam Mohiuddin, Vidhika Punjani and Santanu Kumar Pal
Chem. Phys. Chem. 2015, 16, 2739-2744, DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201500435
33. A Simple Quantitative Method to Study Protein-Lipopolysaccharide Interactions by using Liquid Crystals
Dibyendu Das, Sumyra Sidiq and Santanu Kumar Pal
Chem. Phys. Chem. 2015, 16, 753-760, DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201402739
From 2014
32. A new pathway for the formation of radial nematic droplets within a lipid-laden aqueous-liquid crystal interface
Sumyra Sidiq, Dibyendu Das and Santanu Kumar Pal
RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 18889-18893, DOI: 10.1039/C3RA48044E
31. A room temperature discotic mesogenic dyad based- on triphenylene and pentaalkynylbenzene
Monika Gupta, Indu Bala and Santanu Kunar Pal
Tetrahedron Letters 2014, 55, 5836-5840, DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2014.08.091
30. Synthesis and characterization of novel azobenzene- based mesogens and their organization at the air-water and air- solid interfaces
Monika Gupta, Nishtha Agarwal, Ashima Arora, Sandeep Kumar, Bharat Kumar, Goutam Sheet and Santanu Kumar Pal
RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 41371-41377, DOI: 10.1039/C4RA05572A
From 2013
29. Colloid- in- liquid crystal gels that respond to biomolecular interactions
Ankit Agarwal, Sumyra Sidiq, Shilpa Setia, Emre Bukusoglu, Juan J de Pablo, Santanu Kumar Pal and Nicholas L Abbott
Small 2013, 9, 2785-2792, DOI: 10.1002/smll.201202869
28. Microwave-assisted synthesis of novel mixed tail rufigallol derivatives
Shilpa Setia, Akash Soni, Monika Gupta, Sumyra Sidiq and Santanu Kumar Pal
Liquid Crystals 2013, 40, 1364-1372, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2013.811550
27. New perylene- based non- conventional discotic liquid crystals
Satyam Kumar Gupta, Shilpa Setia, Sumyra Sidiq, Monika Gupta, Sandeep Kumar and Santanu Kumar Pal
RSC Adv. 2013, 3, 12060-12065, DOI: 10.1039/C3RA41186A
26. Triphenylene- based discotic liquid crystals: recent advances
Santanu Kumar Pal, Shilpa Setia, B.S. Avinash and Sandeep Kumar
Liquid Crystals 2013, 40, 1769-1816, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2013.854418
From 2012
25. A new visual test for p- quinone and its relevance to the biodiesel industry
Samrat Ghosh, Shilpa Setia, Sumyra Sidiq and Santanu Kumar Pal
Analytical Methods 2012, 4, 3542-3544, DOI: 10.1039/C2AY25591J
24. Microwave-assisted synthesis of novel oligomeric rod- disc hybrids
Shilpa Setia, Sumyra Sidiq and Santanu Kumar Pal
Tetrahedron Letters 2012, 53, 6446-6450, DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2012.09.058
23. Colloid- in- liquid crystal gels formed via spinodal decomposition
Emre Bukusoglu, Santanu Kumar Pal, Juan J. de Pablo and Nicholas L. Abbott
Soft matter 2014, 10, 1602-1610, DOI: 10.1039/C3SM51877A
22. Lipid-induced structural turnover of water droplets to liquid crystal droplets
Sumyra Sidiq and Santanu Kumar Pal
AIP Conference Proceedings 2014, 1591, 33-35, DOI: 10.1039/C3SM51877A
Publications before joining IISER Mohali
21. Synthesis and characterisation of novel alkoxycyanobiphenyl-substituted rufigallols
Santanu Kumar Pal and Sandeep Kumar
Liquid Crystals 2013, 40, 281-292, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2012.747112
20. Effects of Divalent Ligand Interactions on Surface-Induced Ordering of Liquid Crystals
Santanu Kumar Pal, Claribel Acevedo-Vélez, Jacob T. Hunter and Nicholas L. Abbott
Chem. Mater. 2010, 22, 5474-5482, DOI: 10.1021/cm1011058
19. Adsorbate-Induced Ordering Transitions of Nematic Liquid Crystals on Surfaces Decorated with Aluminum perchlorate Salts
Jacob T. Hunter, Santanu Kumar Pal and Nicholas L. Abbott.
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2010, 2, 1857-1865, DOI: 10.1021/am100165a
18. Splay and bend elastic constants in the nematic phase of some disulfide bridged dimeric compounds
Brindaban Kundu, Santanu Kumar Pal, Sandeep Kumar, R. Pratibha and N. V. Madhusudana
Phys. Rev. E 2010, 82, 061703, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.061703
17. Chemically responsive gels prepared from microspheres dispersed in liquid crystals
Santanu Kumar Pal, Ankit Agarwal and Nicholas L. Abbott
Small 2009, 5 (22), 2589-2596, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.200900961
16. Unusual odd-even effects depending on the monomer chain length in nematic liquid crystals made of rod-like dimers
Brindaban Kundu, Santanu Kumar Pal, Sandeep Kumar, R. Pratibha and N. V. Madhusudana.
EPL 2009, 85, 36002, DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/85/36002
15. Synthesis and Characterization of novel rod-disc oligomers
Santanu Kumar Pal, Sandeep Kumar and Jhumur Seth
Liquid Crystals 2008, 35, 521-525, DOI: 10.1080/02678290802051072
14. Green Chemistry Approach to the synthesis of Liquid Crystalline Materials
Sandeep Kumar, Hari Krishna Bisoyi and Santanu Kumar Pal
Mol. Crys. Liq. Cryst. 2008, 480, 287-294, DOI: 10.1080/15421400701826795
13. Novel conducting nanocomposites: synthesis of triphenylene-covered gold nanoparticles and their insertion into a columnar matrix
Sandeep Kumar, Santanu Kumar Pal, P. Suresh Kumar and V. Lakshminarayanan
Soft Matter 2007, 3, 896-900, DOI: 10.1039/B701380A
12. Films of Novel Mesogenic Molecules at Air−Water and Air−Solid Interfaces
Alpana Nayak, K. A. Suresh, Santanu Kumar Pal and Sandeep Kumar
J. Phys. Chem. B 2007, 111, 11157-11161, DOI: 10.1021/jp073196z
11. Synthesis of monohydroxy-functionalized triphenylene discotics: green chemistry approach
Santanu Kumar Pal, H. K. Bisoyi and Sandeep Kumar
Tetrahedron 2007, 63, 6874-6878, DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2007.04.058
10. Dispersion of Thiol Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles in Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Systems
P. Suresh Kumar, Santanu Kumar Pal, Sandeep Kumar and V. Lakshminarayanan
Langmuir 2007, 23, 3445-3449,, 2007, 23, 3445–3449. DOI: 10.1021/la063318z
9. Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of alkoxycyanobiphenyl thiols on gold surface using a lyotropic liquid crystalline medium
V. Ganesh, Santanu Kumar Pal, Sandeep Kumar and V. Lakshminarayanan
Electrochimica Acta 2007, 52, 2987-2997, DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2006.09.037
8. Phase transitions in novel disulphide-bridged alkoxycyanobiphenyl dimers
Santanu Kumar Pal, V. A. Raghunathan and Sandeep Kumar
Liq. Cryst. 2007, 34, 135-141, DOI: 10.1080/02678290601061280
7. Twist viscoelastic coefficient of novel thiol terminated alkoxy-cyanobiphenyl nematic liquid crystals
Amit K. Agarwal, K. A. Suresh, Santanu Kumar Pal and Sandeep Kumar
J. Chem. Phys. 2007, 126(16), 164901, DOI: 10.1063/1.2723741
6. Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of alkoxycyanobiphenyl thiols on gold—A study of electron transfer reaction using cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
V. Ganesh, Santanu Kumar Pal, Sandeep Kumar and V. Lakshminarayanan
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2006, 296, 195-203, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2005.08.051
5. Microwave-assisted synthesis of novel imidazolium-based ionic liquid crystalline dimers
Santanu Kumar Pal and Sandeep Kumar
Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 8993-8997, DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2006.09.167
4. Synthesis and characterization of novel imidazolium-based ionic discotic liquid crystals with a triphenylene moiety
Sandeep Kumar and Santanu Kumar Pal
Tetrahedron Lett. 2005, 46, 2607-2610, DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2005.02.100
3. Ionic discotic liquid crystals: synthesis and characterization of pyridinium bromides containing a triphenylene core
Sandeep Kumar and Santanu Kumar Pal
Tetrahedron Lett. 2005, 46, 4127-4130, DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2005.03.201
2. The first examples of terminally thiol-functionalize alkoxycyanobiphenyls
Sandeep Kumar and Santanu Kumar Pal
Liquid Crystals 2005, 32, 659-661, DOI: 10.1080/02678290500115773
1. Discotic-decorated gold nanoparticles
Sandeep Kumar, Santanu Kumar Pal and V. Lakshminarayanan.
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 2005, 434, 251, DOI: 10.1080/15421400590956261