Publications

12. Effect of Water–DMSO Binary Solvent Mixture on the Behavior of an Intrinsically Disordered Protein, β-Casein   

Saurabh Rai*, Debanggana Shil, Bijan Kumar Paul* and Saptarshi Mukherjee*.

J. Phys. Chem. B 2025 (Just Accepted!).

11. Intracellular Sub-degree Temperature Sensing and Dynamics by Thermoresponsive Silver Nanoclusters as Molecular Probes   

Saurabh Rai, Sameeksha Agrawal and Saptarshi Mukherjee*.

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2025, 16, 9316−9324.

Featured as "ACS Editors' Choice"

10. Exploring the Electronic and Steric Effects of Hemilabile (P^ N) Ligands in Redox Gold Catalysis: Application to the Cross-Coupling Reaction of Aliphatic Amines with Aryl Iodides

Urvashi, Saurabh Rai, G Shukla, Nisha, Nitin T Patil*. Organic Letters 2025 

9. Cyclodextrin Derivatives as Modulators for Enhanced Drug Delivery from Niosome Membrane: A Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy and Isothermal Titration Calorimetry Approach

Saurabh Rai, Madhumita Mukherjee, Bijan Kumar Paul, and Saptarshi Mukherjee*. Langmuir 2025, 41(3), 1601-1613.

8. Photo-induced Formation and Intercluster Conversion of Thiol-templated Copper Nanocluster

Riya Gupta, Sameeksha Agrawal, Saurabh Rai, Jayasri Sarkar, Sweta Kumari, Debanggana Shil, and Saptarshi Mukherjee*. ACS Appl. Opt. Mater. 2024, 2, 1880–1890. 

7. Assemble-Disassemble-Reassemble Dynamics in Copper Nanocluster-Based Superstructures.

Sameeksha Agrawal, Saurabh Rai, Paritosh Mahato, Asif Ali and Saptarshi Mukherjee*. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2024, 15, 4880.

6. Deciphering the Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation Induced Modulation in the Structure, Dynamics, and Enzymatic Activity of an Ordered Protein β-Lactoglobulin. 

Saurabh Rai, Srikrishna Pramanik and Saptarshi Mukherjee* Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 3936 - 3948. 

2024 most popular chemical biology articles collection   

5. Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer in a Supramolecular Assembly of Luminescent Silver Nanoclusters and Cucurbit[8]uril Based Host-Guest System

Srikrishna Pramanik, Sree Chithra1, Saurabh Rai1, Sameeksha Agrawal, Debanggana Shil, and Saptarshi Mukherjee*. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2023, 30, 6608–6619. 

4. Solvent-Induced Modulation in the Optical Properties of Copper Nanoclusters and Revealing the Isomeric Effect of Templates

Paritosh Mahato, Amar S Thomas, Rahul Yadav, Saurabh Rai, Shashi Shekhar, and Saptarshi Mukherjee*. Chem. Asian J. 2023, 18, e202300442.

3. DNA Templated Modulation in the Photophysical Properties of a Fluorescent Molecular Rotor Auramine O by Varying DNA Composition. 

Srikrishna Pramanik, Paritosh Mahato, Ushasi Pramanik, Atanu Nandy, Laxmikanta Khamari, Shivam Shrivastava, Saurabh Rai and Saptarshi Mukherjee*. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2022, 126, 2658–2668. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c00172

2.  Macrocyclic Cavitand β-Cyclodextrin Inhibits the Alcohol-induced Trypsin Aggregation. 

Ushasi Pramanik, Laxmikanta Khamari, Saurabh Rai, Paritosh Mahato, Atanu Nandy, Rahul Yadav, Sameeksha Agrawal and Saptarshi Mukherjee*.  ChemPhysChem. 2022, 23, e202200155.

1. Tyrosine Templated Dual-Component Silver Nanomaterials Exhibit Photoluminescence and Versatile Anti-Microbial Properties Through ROS Generation. 

Subhajit Chakraborty, Preeti Sagarika, Saurabh Rai, Chandan Sahi and Saptarshi Mukherjee*. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 36938-36947.