Publications

33.  Exploring Fmoc-Phe-OH Self-Assembly for the Development of Functional Soft Biomaterials   

Soumen Kuila, Laboni Ghosh and Jayanta Nanda*

Coord. Chem. Rev., 2025,  Accepted (ISSN NO.- 0010-8545, Impact Factor: 23.5, Cited: 00) Link

32. Engineering of Amyloid Mimicking Peptide Modulating Side-Chain Polarity of Aromatic Amino Acid Residues 

Pijush Singh, Sourav Bhowmik, Apurba K. Das, Jayanta Nanda and Jishu Naskar*

ChemBioChem, 2025,  00, e202500281 (ISSN NO.- 1439-7633, Impact Factor: 2.8, Cited: 01) Link

31.  Applications of chitosan as a wound dressing material: an updated review

Saurav Sarkar, Sreejan Manna, Piu Jana, Esha Das, Ranabir Sahu, Tarun Kumar Dua, Paramita Paul, Jayanta Nanda, Gouranga Nandi*, 

Int. J. Polym. Mater. Biomater., 2025,  Accepted (ISSN NO.-0091-4037, Impact Factor: 2.5, Cited: 01) Link

30. Pathway complexity of kinetically trapped dipeptide-based metastable state: supramolecular structural transformation and helicity tuning 

Soumen Kuila, Souvik Misra, Tukai Singha, Anamika Ghosh, Pijush Singh, Riya Saha, Debabani Ganguly, Paula Brandao, Biswarup Satpati,  and Jayanta Nanda*

Small, 2025, 2501718 (1-10)  (ISSN NO.- 1613-6829 , Impact Factor: 12.1, Cited: 02) Link

Selected as a Frontispiece - Link

29. Fmoc-conjugated dipeptide-based hydrogels and their pH-tuneable behaviour

Soumen Kuila, Souvik Misra, Riya Saha, Laboni Ghosh, Pijush Singh, Anamika Ghosh, Kolimi Prashanth Reddy, Subhradip Pandit, Debabani Ganguly, Pallab Datta, Samik Bindu, Gouranga Nandi, Suman Samai and Jayanta Nanda*

Soft Matter, 2025, 21, 1676-1685  (ISBN NO.- 1744-6848, Impact Factor: 2.8, Cited: 01) Link

28.  Supramolecular Gelation Based on Native Amino Acid Tyrosine and Its Charge-Transfer Complex Formation 

Pijush Singh, Manju Siyaram Yadav, Soumen Kuila, Amit Kumar Paul, Debes Ray, Souvik Misra, Jishu Naskar, Vinod Kumar Aswal and Jayanta Nanda*

Langmuir, 2025,  41, 3, 1639–1650  (ISSN NO- 1861-4728,  Impact Factor: 3.9, Cited: 04) Link

27. Supramolecular J- and H-aggregation of Naphthalimide-conjugated Dipeptide in Mixed-solvent Systems and Its Application in Cell Imaging

Soumen Kuila, Kolimi Prashanth Reddy, Shalini Dasgupta, Abhijit Bera, Moupriya Mukherjee, Goutam Pramanik, Pallab Datta, Jayanta Nanda* 

Chem. Asian J., 2024,  19, e202400755  (ISSN NO- 1861-4728,  Impact Factor: 3.3, Cited: 06) Link

Selected as a Cover Feature- Link

26. Cysteine-Based Dynamic Self-assembly and Their Importance in Origins of Life

Soumen Kuila* and Jayanta Nanda*

ChemSystemsChem, 2024, 6,  e202400022  (ISBN NO.- 2570-4206, Impact Factor: 3.1, Cited: 13) Link 

This article is part of Systems Chemistry Talents- Link 

25.  Phenylalanine-based fibrillar systems

Soumen Kuila, Sukantha Dey, Pijush Singh, Akash Shrivastava, and Jayanta Nanda* 

Chem. Commun., 2023, 59, 14509-14523. (ISBN NO.- 1359-7345, Impact Factor: 4.2, Cited: 10) Link 

This article is part of the themed collection: 2023 Emerging Investigators- Link 

24. Probing Molecular Chirality on the Self-Assembly and Gelation of Naphthalimide-Conjugated Dipeptides

Soumen Kuila, Ajeet Kumar Singh, Akash Shrivastava, Sukantha Dey, Tukai Singha, Lisa Roy, Biswarup Satpati, and Jayanta Nanda*  

J. Phys. Chem. B, 2023, 127, 4808-4819  (ISBN NO.- 1520-6106, Impact Factor: 2.9, Cited: 11) Link 

Part of “Early-Career and Emerging Researchers in Physical Chemistry Volume 2".-Link

23.  Tuning of Supramolecular Helicity of Peptide-based Gel-nanofibers

Souvik Misra, Pijush Singh, Ajeet Kumar Singh, Lisa Roy, Soumen Kuila, Sukantha Dey, Ajit K. Mahapatra, and Jayanta Nanda*  

J. Phys. Chem. B, 2022, 126, 10882–10892 (ISBN NO.- 1520-6106, Impact Factor: 2.9, Cited: 10) Link

22.  A practical and cost-effective approach to polysubstituted pyrimidine derivatives via DBU mediated redox isomerization of propargyl alcohol and subsequent N–C–N fragment condensation

Rimpa De, Utsav Sengupta, Antony Savarimuthu, Souvik Misra, Jayanta Nanda and  Mrinal K. Bera*, New. J. Chem., 2022, 46, 10603-10610  (ISSN 1369-9261, Impact Factor: 2.5, Cited: 07) Link

21. Single amino-acid-based self-assembled biomaterials with potent antimicrobial activity

Souvik Misra, Soumyajit Mukherjee, Anamika Ghosh, Pijush Singh, Sanjoy Mondal, Debes Ray, Gourab Bhattacharjee, Debabani Ganguly, Alok Ghosh, V. K. Aswal, Ajit K. Mahapatra, Biswarup Satpati, Jayanta Nanda* 

Chem. -Eur. J., 2021, 27, 16744-16753 (ISBN NO.- 0947-6539, Impact Factor: 3.7, Cited: 26) Link

20. Supramolecular antiparallel β-sheet formation by tetrapeptides based on amyloid sequence

Souvik Misra, Pijush Singh, Rabindra Nath Mahata, Paula Brandão, Subhasish Roy, Ajit K. Mahapatra and Jayanta Nanda* , J. Phys. Chem. B., 2021, 125, 4274-4285 (ISBN NO.- 1520-6106, Impact Factor: 2.9, Cited: 16) Link

19. Supramolecular assemblies of a 1,8-Naphthalimide conjugate and its aggregation-induced emission property

Souvik Misra, Pijush Singh, Ankita Das, Paula Brandão, Pathik Sahoo, Nayim Sepay, Gourab Bhattacharjee, Pallab Datta, Ajit K. Mahapatra, Biswarup Satpati and Jayanta Nanda* 

Mater. Adv., 2020, 1, 3532-3538 (ISSN NO.- 2633-5409, Impact Factor: 4.7, Cited: 26) Link

18. Self-assembling behaviour of a modified aromatic amino acid in competitive aqueous medium

Pijush Singh, Souvik Misra, Nayim Sepay, Sanjoy Mandal, Debes Ray, V. K. Aswal, Jayanta Nanda*

Soft Matter, 2020, 16, 6599-6607 (ISBN NO.- 1744-6848, Impact Factor: 2.8, Cited: 19) Link

17. DBU mediated rearrangement of secondary propargyl alcohols: A practical route chalcone derivatives

Rimpa De, Antony Savarimuthu, Tamal Ballav, Pijush Singh, Jayanta Nanda, Senthil Kumaran Rajendran, Avantika Hasija, Deepak Chopra and Mrinal K. Bera*

Synlett, 2020, 31, 1587-1592 (ISBN NO.- 0936-5214, Impact Factor: 1.4, Cited: 12) Link

16.   Supramolecular Hydrogel from an Oxidized By product of Tyrosine

Pijush Singh, Souvik Misra, Ankita Das, Subhasish Roy, Pallab Datta, Gourab Bhattacharjee, Biswarup Satpati and Jayanta Nanda*

ACS Applied Biomaterials, 2019, 2, 4881-4891 (ISSN No.- 2576-6422, Impact Factor: 4.7, Cited: 34) Link

15. Emergence of Native Peptide Sequences in Replication Networks

Jayanta Nanda¥, Boris Rubinov¥, Denis Ivnitski, Rakesh Mukherjee, Elina Shtelman, Yair Motro, Yifat Miller, Nathaniel Wagner, Rivka Cohen-Luria, and Gonen Ashkenasy*, [ ¥ indicating equal contribution] 

Nat. Commun., 2017, 8, 434 (ISBN No.- 2041-1723, Impact Factor: 16.6, Cited: 82) Link

14. The Strong Influence of Structure Polymorphism on the Conductivity of Peptide Fibrils

Denis Ivnitski, Amit Moran, Ohad Silberbush, Yoav Raz, Jayanta Nanda, Rivika Luria, Yifat Miller, Gonen Ashkenasy* and Nurit Ashkenasy*

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 9988-9992 (ISBN NO. -1433-7851, Impact Factor: 16.9, Cited: 60) Link

13.  Emergent Catalytic Behavior of Self-Assembled Low Molecular Weight Peptides

Marta Tena-Solsona, Jayanta Nanda, Santiago Díaz-Oltra, Agata Chotera, Gonen Ashkenasy* and Beatriu Escuder*

Chem.-Eur. J., 2016, 22, 6687-6692 (ISBN NO.- 0947-6539, Impact Factor: 3.7, Cited: 133) Link

12.   Peptide based hydrogels for cancer drug release: Modulation of stiffness, drug release and proteolytic stability of hydrogels by incorporating D-amino acid residue(s) 

Kingshuk Basu, Abhishek Baral, Shibaji Basak, Ashkan Dehsorkhi, Jayanta Nanda, Debmalya Bhunia, Surajit Ghosh, Valeria Castelletto, Ian W. Hamley and Arindam Banerjee*

Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 5045-5048 (ISBN NO.- 1359-7345,  Impact Factor: 4.2, Cited: 124) Link

11. Multi-stimuli responsive self-healing metallo-hydrogels: tuning of the gel recovery property

Shibaji Basak, Jayanta Nanda and Arindam Banerjee*

Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 2356-2359 (ISBN NO.- 1359-7345, Impact Factor: 4.2, Cited: 197) Link

10. A Gel Based Novel Trihybrid System Containing Nanofibers, Nanosheets and Nanoparticles: Modulation of Rheological Property and catalysis

Jayanta Nanda, Abhijit Biswas, Bimalendu Adhikari and Arindam Banerjee*

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 5041-5045 (ISBN NO. -1433-7851, Impact Factor: 16.9, Cited: 153) Link

09. Single Amino Acid Based Thixotropic Hydrogel Formation And pH-Dependent Morphological Change of Gel Nanofibers

 Jayanta Nanda, Abhijit Biswas and Arindam Banerjee*

Soft Matter, 2013, 9, 4198-4208 (ISBN NO.- 1744-6848, Impact Factor: 2.8, Cited: 173) Link  

Top Ten Most-Read Article in March, 2013- Link

08. Assembly of Naphthalenediimide Conjugated Peptides: Aggregation Induced Changes in Fluorescence

Shibaji Basak, Jayanta Nanda and Arindam Banerjee*

Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 6891-6893 (ISBN NO.- 1359-7345, Impact Factor: 4.2, Cited: 64) Link

07. β-Amino acid containing proteolytically stable dipeptide based hydrogels: encapsulation and sustained release of some important biomolecules at physiological pH and temperature

Jayanta Nanda and Arindam Banerjee*

Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 3380-3386 (ISBN NO.- 1744-6848, Impact Factor: 2.8, Cited: 114) Link

06. Formation of hybrid hydrogels consisting of tripeptide and different silver nanoparticle capped ligands: modulation of the mechanical strength of gel phase materials

Jayanta Nanda, Bimalendu Adhikari, Shibaji Basak and Arindam Banerjee*

J. Phys. Chem. B., 2012, 116, 12235-12244 (ISBN NO.- 1520-6106, Impact Factor: 2.9, Cited: 68) Link

05.   A new aromatic amino acid based organogel for oil spill recovery

Shibaji Basak, Jayanta Nanda and Arindam Banerjee*

J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 11658-11664 [ISBN NO.- 0959-9428, Impact Factor: 6.626 (Last impact factor), Cited: 266) Link

04. Pyrene-Containing Peptide-Based Fluorescent Organogels: Inclusion of Graphene into the Organogel

 Bimalendu Adhikari†, Jayanta Nanda† and Arindam Banerjee*, [†indicating equal contribution]

Chem. -Eur. J., 2011, 17, 11488-11496 (ISBN NO.- 0947-6539, Impact Factor: 3.7, Cited: 176) Link

03. Multicomponent Hydrogels from Enantiomeric Amino Acid Derivatives: Helical Nanofibers, Handedness and Self-Sorting

Bimalendu Adhikari, Jayanta Nanda and Arindam Banerjee* 

Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 8913-8922 (ISBN NO.- 1744-6848, Impact Factor: 2.8, Cited: 152) Link 

Top Ten Most-Read Article in August, 2011- Link

02. Organogels from Different Self-Assembling New Dendritic Peptides: Morphology, Rheology, and Structural Investigations

Goutam Palui, Ashesh Garai, Jayanta Nanda, Arun Kumar Nandi* and Arindam Banerjee*

J. Phys. Chem. B., 2010, 114, 1249-1256 (ISBN NO.- 1520-6106, Impact Factor: 2.9, Cited: 58) Link

01. Fabrication of Luminescent CdS Nanoparticles on Short-Peptide-Based Hydrogel Nanofibers: Tuning of Optoelectronic Properties

Goutam Palui, Jayanta Nanda, Sudipta Ray, and Arindam Banerjee*

Chem.-Eur. J., 2009, 15, 6902-6909 (ISBN NO.- 0947-6539, Impact Factor: 3.7, Cited: 106) Link