Peer-Reviewed Journals

  1. Marwa H. Abdalmoneam, Nabanita Saikia,* Max Seel and Ravindra Pandey, Density Functional Studies on Stability and UV-Vis Absorption Properties of Au8 Complexes with Zwitterion Methionine, Tryptophan and Tryptophyl-Methionine Dipeptide (communicated).
  2. Mu Yang, Nabanita Saikia,* Rashmi Adhikari, Colina Dutta, Ravindra Pandey, and Ashutosh Tiwari,* Disruption of amyloid formation by acetylation of Aβ1-42 at Lysine 16, Sci. Rep. 2018 (under revision).
  3. Nabanita Saikia,* and Ravindra Pandey,* Atomistic Insights on Helical Wrapping and Unzipping of a PNA-DNA Duplex on Nanostructures as Revealed by Molecular Dynamics Simulations (communicated).
  4. Nabanita Saikia,* and Ravindra Pandey,* Peptide Nucleic Acid Functionalized Carbon and Boron Nitride Nanotubes: Mapping the Free-energy Landscape to Determine Dynamic Stability in Aqueous Solution, (under review).
  5. Tariq Jamil, Jacob R. Gissinger, Amanda Garley, Nabanita Saikia, Arun Upadhyay, Hendrik Heinz, Stabilization of Carbohydrate Hydrogels by Clay Minerals: Influence of pH, Surface Chemistry, and Electrolytes from the Molecular Scale (under review)
  6. Amanda Garley, Samuel Hoff, Nabanita Saikia, Sumanth Jamadagni, Arif Baig, Hendrik Heinz, Adsorption and Substitution of Metal Ions on Hydroxyapatite as a Function of Crystal Facet and Electrolyte pH, J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b02808. (IF: 4.536) [pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b02808]
  7. Nabanita Saikia,* and Ravindra Pandey,* Polarity-Induced Surface Recognition and Self-Assembly of Noncanonical DNA Nucleobases on Hexagonal Boron Nitride, J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122, 3915–3925. (IF: 4.536) [Link]
  8. Nabanita Saikia,* Floyd Johnson, Kevin Waters and Ravindra Pandey,* Dynamics of Self-Assembled Cytosine Nucleobases on Graphene, Nanotechnology 2018, 29, 195601. (IF: 3.441) [Link]
  9. Marwa H Abdalmoneam,* Kevin Waters, Nabanita Saikia,* and Ravindra Pandey, Amino acids conjugated gold clusters: Interaction of Au8 and Au20 clusters with Tryptophan and Alanine, J. Phys. Chem. C 2017, 121, 25585-25593. (IF: 4.536) [Link]
  10. Nabanita Saikia,* Kevin Waters, Shashi Karna and Ravindra Pandey,* Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Noncanonical Guanine Base-Pairs on Graphene, ACS Omega 2017, 2, 3457-3466. (IF: -) [Link]
  11. Nabanita Saikia,* Shashi Karna and Ravindra Pandey,* Theoretical Study of Gas and Solvent Phase Stability and Molecular Adsorption of Noncanonical Guanine Bases on Graphene, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2017, 19, 16819-16830. (IF: 4.123) [Link]
  12. Ujjal Saikia, Nabanita Saikia,* Kevin Waters, Ravindra Pandey,* Munima B. Sahariah, Electronic Properties of Acetaminophen Adsorbed on 2D Materials: A First Principles Density Functional Study, ChemistrySelect 2017, 2, 3613-3621. (IF: 1.505) [Link]
  13. Nabanita Saikia,* Maximilian Seel and Ravindra Pandey,* Stability and Electronic Properties of 2D Nanomaterials Conjugated with Pyrazinamide Chemotherapeutic-A First Principles Method, J. Phys. Chem. C 2016, 120, 20323–20332. (IF: 4.536) [Link]
  14. Nabanita Saikia, Sanchaita Rajkhowa and Ramesh C. Deka, Si doped single-wall carbon nanotubes interacting with isoniazid–a density functional and molecular docking study, RSC Adv. 2016, 6, 94651–94660. (IF: 3.108) [Link]
  15. Nabanita Saikia, Anupam N. Jha and Ramesh C. Deka, Molecular dynamics study on graphene-mediated pyrazinamide drug delivery onto the pncA protein, RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 24944–24954 (IF: 3.108) [Link]
  16. Nabanita Saikia and Ramesh C. Deka, Density functional study on noncovalent functionalization of pyrazinamide chemotherapeutic with graphene and its prototypes, New J. Chem. 2014, 38, 1116–1128 (IF: 3.277) [Link]
  17. Nabanita Saikia and Ramesh C. Deka, Adsorption of isoniazid and pyrazinamide drug molecules onto nitrogen doped single–wall carbon nanotubes: an ab initio study, Struct. Chem. 2014, 25, 593–605. (IF: 1.582) [Link]
  18. Nabanita Saikia, Anupam N. Jha and Ramesh C. Deka, Dynamics of Fullerene Mediated Heat Driven Release of Drug Molecules from Carbon Nanotubes, J. Phy Chem. Lett. 2013, 4, 4126–4132. (IF: 9.353) [Link]
  19. Nabanita Saikia and Ramesh C. Deka, Ab initio study on the noncovalent adsorption of camptothecin anticancer drug onto graphene, defect modified graphene and graphene oxide, J. Comp Aided Mol. Des. 2013, 27, 807–821. (IF: 3.028) [Link]
  20. Nabanita Saikia, Jyotirmoy Sarma, Jayanta M. Borah, S. Mahiuddin, Adsorption of 3, 4- dihydroxy benzoic acid onto hematite surface in aqueous medium: Importance of position of phenolic–OH groups and understanding of the same using catechol as an auxillary model, J. Colloid and Interface Sci. 2013, 398, 227–233 (IF: 3.368) [Link]
  21. Nabanita Saikia, Anupam N. Jha and Ramesh C. Deka, Interaction of pyrazinamide drug functionalized carbon and boron nitride nanotubes with pncA protein: a molecular dynamics and density functional approach, RSC Adv. 2013, 3,15102–15107. (IF: 3.108) [Link]
  22. Nabanita Saikia, Sanchaita Rajkhowa and Ramesh C. Deka, Density functional and molecular docking studies towards investigating the role of single-wall carbon nanotubes as nanocarrier for loading and delivery of pyrazinamide antitubercular drug onto pncA protein, J. Comput. Aided. Mol. Des. 2013, 27, 257–276. (IF: 3.028) [Link]
  23. Nabanita Saikia and Ramesh C. Deka, Density functional study on the adsorption of isoniazid drug onto pristine and B-doped single wall carbon nanotubes, J. Mol. Model. 2013, 19, 215–226. (IF: 1.425) [Link]
  24. Nabanita Saikia and Ramesh C. Deka, A comparison of the effect of nanotube chirality and electronic properties on the π–π interaction of single-wall carbon nanotubes with pyrazinamide antitubercular drug, Int. J. Quant. Chem. 2013, 113, 1272–1284. (IF: 2.184) [Link]
  25. Nabanita Saikia and Ramesh C. Deka, First principles study on the boron-nitrogen domains segregated within (5,5) and (8,0) single-wall carbon nanotubes: Formation energy, electronic structure and reactivity, Comput. Theor. Chem. 2012, 996, 11–20. (IF: 1.403) [Link]
  26. Konwarh, S. Pramanik, K. S. P. Devi, N. Saikia, R. Baruah, T. Maiti, R. C. Deka and N. Karak, Lycopene coupled ‘trifoliate’ polyaniline nanofibers as multi–functional biomaterial, J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 15062–15070. (IF: 6.626) [Link]
  27. Nabanita Saikia, Swapan K. Pati and Ramesh C. Deka, First principles calculation on the structure and electronic properties of BNNTs functionalized with isoniazid drug molecule, Appl.. Nanosci., 2012, 2, 389–400. (IF: NA) [Link]
  28. Nabanita Saikia and Ramesh C. Deka, Density functional calculations on adsorption of 2-methyl heptyl isonicotinate antitubercular drug onto functionalized carbon nanotube, Comput. Theor. Chem. 2011, 964, 257–261. (IF: 1.403) [Link]
  29. Nabanita Saikia and Ramesh C. Deka, Theoretical study on pyrazinamide adsorption onto covalently functionalized (5,5) metallic single-walled carbon nanotube, Chem. Phys. Lett. 2010, 500, 65–70. (IF: 1.860) [Link]