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, 7556-7561DOI: 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, 874-885DOI: 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, 780-788DOI: 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, 18799-18805DOI: 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, 111687DOI: 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, 1959-1969DOI: 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, 7816-7823DOI: 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, 13642-13650DOI: 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, 1234443-4451DOI: 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, 7711-7722DOI: 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 BalaWan-Yun YangSantosh Prasad GuptaJoydip DeRohit Ashok Kumar YadavDharmendra Pratap SinghDeepak Kumar DubeyJwo-Huei JouRedouane 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, 6526-6536DOI: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, 1305-1312DOI: 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 – 7777DOI: 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. 2018257, 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. 201842, 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. 201854, 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 20172 (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 201733 (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 2017121, 36, 8593–8602DOI: 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. 201741, 9908-9917DOI: 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. 20172, 478-489DOI: 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. 201723, 12767 –12778DOI: 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. 201723, 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, DOI: 10.1002/slct.201600927

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 

45Star-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

44Unsymmetrically 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

42Rod–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

36pH-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                                   

             

35The 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                                                                         

34Three-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      

                    

33A 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

 

32A 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

24Microwave-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

 

21Synthesis 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


19Adsorbate-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

15Synthesis 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

11Synthesis 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

10Dispersion 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

8Phase 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

6Self-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

5Microwave-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

3Ionic 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