Publications

Sanat Karmakar, V. A. Raghunathan, A Cholesterol Induced Modulated Phase in Phospholipid Membranes. (2003) Phys. Rev. Lett., 91, 098102.

Sanat Karmakar, V. A. Raghunathan, and S. Mayor, Phase Behaviour of Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine-Cholesterol Membranes. (2005) J. Phys: Condens Matter, 17, S1177.

Sanat Karmakar, V. A. Raghunathan, Structure of Phospholipid-Cholesterol  Membranes: An X-ray Diffraction Study. (2005) Phys. Rev. E, 71, 061924.

Sanat Karmakar, B. R. Sarangi and V. A. Raghunathan, Phase Behaviour of   Lipid- Cholesterol Membranes. (2006) Solid State Comm. 139, 630.

Georg Pabst, Sabine Danner, Sanat Karmakar, Gunter Deutsch and V. A.     Raghunathan, On the    Propensity of Phosphatidylglycerols to Form Interdigitated Phase (2007) Biophys. J, 93, 51.

B. R. Sarangi, Sanat Karmakar and V. A. Raghunathan, Vol 12, Advances in Planar Bilayers and Liposome, edited by Ales Iglic Elsevier (2010).

Sanat Karmakar, Zeta potential and dynamic light scattering measurements of phospholipids vesicles. Proceedings of National conference on Laser and Advanced Materials, ISBN No: 978-81-922256-6-1 (2012).

Sanat Karmakar and V. A. Raghunathan, X-ray diffraction and confocal fluorescence microscopy studies on the effect of cholesterol on phospholipid membranes(2013) Physics express, 4:6 (2014)

Sanat Karmakar, Matrix formalism in paraxial optics, Journal of advanced studies, (2015), 1, 21.

Pabitra Maity, Baishakhi Saha, Gopinatha Suresh Kumar, Sanat Karamakar, Binding of alkali metal ions with negatively charged phospholipid membranes (2016) , Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1858, 706-714.

Amrita Basu, Pabitra Maity, Prasanta Karmakar and Sanat Karmakar,  Preparation of giant unilamellar vesicles from the large unilamellar vesicles: A model system of biological membranes (2016),  J. Surface. Sci. Technol., 32, 83-92. 

Somasri Hazra, Sudeshna Sircar, Tajkera Khatun, Moutishi Dutta Choudhury, Abhra Giri, Sanat Karmakar, Tapai Dutta, Shantanu Das and Sujata Tarafdar, Unstable crack propagation in Laponite gels: selection of sinusoidal mode in an electric field, (2016) RSC Adv, 6, 64297-64305.

Pabitra Maity, Baisakhi Saha, G. Suresh Kumar and Sanat Karmakar, Effect of counterions on the binding affinity of Na+ with the phospholipid membranes, (2016) RSC Adv., 6, 83916-83925.

Biswajit Roy, Sanat Karmakar, Abhra Giri and Sujata Tarafder, Pattern formation of drying lyotropic liquid crystalline droplet,  (2016) RSC Adv., 6, 112695-112703.

Achinta Sannigrahi, Pabitra Maity, Sanat Karmakar,  Krishnananda Chattopadhyay, The Interaction of KMP-11 With Phospholipid Membranes and Its Implications in Leishmaniasis: The Effects of Single Tryptophan Mutations and Cholesterol, J. Phys. Chem B (2017) 121, 1824-1834.

Biswajit Roy, Sanat Karmakar, Sujata Tarafder, Self assembled transparent conducting network of multi-walled carbon nanotubes formed by evaporation, To appear in Matterials Letters. (2017), 207, 86-88

Ujjal Kumar Sur, Abhijit Saha, Aparna Datta, Animesh Halder and Sanat Karmakar, Green synthesis of highly stable zinc sulphide nanostructures using high-energy gamma radiation, Bull. Mater. Sci DOI 10.1007/s12034-017-1408-y

Animesh Halder, Deepak Kumar Sinha, Sanat Karmakar, A lipophilic dye Nile Red as a probe to determine the phase state of lipid bilayer: Effect of cholesterol.  Spectrochemica Acta Part a: Molecular and Biomolecular spectroscopy (2018), 191, 104-110.

Sanat Karmakar, Pabitra Maity and Animesh Halder, Charge-driven Interaction of Antimicrobial Peptide NK-2 with Phospholipid Membranes,  ACS Omega (2017), 2, 8859-8867.

Ujjal Kumar Sur, Balaprasad Ankamwar, Sanat Karmakar, Animesh Halder, Pulak Das, Green synthesis of Silver nanoparticles using the plant extract of Shikakai and Reetha, Materials Today, Proceedings (2018), 5 , 2321-2329.

Subir Kumar Patla, Ruma Ray, K. Asokan and Sanat Karmakar, Investigation of ionic conduction in PEO-PVDF based blend of polymer electrolytes,  J. Appl. Phys (2018) , 123, 125102.

Sudeshna Sircar,  Moutushi Dutta Choudhury,   Sanat Karmakar, Tarafdar, Sujata; Tapati Dutta, Crack patterns in drying Laponite®- NaCl suspension : Role of the substrate and a static electric field, Langmuir (2018), 34 (22), 6502-6510. 

Pabitra Maity,  Baishakhi Saha,  Gopinatha Suresh Kumar and Sanat Karmakar, Effect of zwitterionic phospholipid on the interaction of cationic membranes with monovalent sodium salts,  Langmuir (2018), 34, 9810-9817.

Sanat Karmakar, Particle Size Distribution and Zeta Potential Based on Dynamic Light Scattering: Techniques to Characterise Stability and Surface distribution of Charged Colloids (Book Chapter, Recent Trends in Materials Physics and Chemistry edited by U. K. Sur) Publisher:  Studium Press(India)Pvt Ltd, , ISBN: 978-93-85046-32-2

Subir Kumar Patla, Ruma Ray, Sanat Karmakar, Shantanu Das, Sujata Tarafdar, Nano-filler induced ionic conductivity enhancement and relaxation property analysis of blend polymer electrolyte suing non -Debye electric field relaxation function, J. Phys. Chem C (2019), 123, 5188-5197.

A Sannigrahi, S Karmakar, J. Jawed, S. Majumdar, An Interplay between KMP-11 Induced Phase Alteration of Macrophage Membrane and Immune Suppression Defines the Molecular Mechanism of Leishmaniasis, Biophys. J. (2019) 116, 373 A.

Achinta Sannigrahi, Indrani Nandi, Sayantani Chall, Junaid Jibran Jawed, Animesh Halder, Subrata Majumdar, Sanat Karmakar, Krishnananda Chattopadhyay, Conformational switch driven membrane pore formation by Mycobacterium secretory protein MPT63 induces macrophage cell death, ACS Chem. Biol (2019), 14, 1601-16

Moutushi Dutta Choudhury, Saptarshi Das, Biswajit Roy, Subhamita Sengupta, SujataTarafdar, Sanat Karmakar, Salt Crystal Growth in Interacting Drops of a Complex Biopolymer: Statistical Characterization Using FESEM Images, Chem. Engg. Sc. (2019), 207, 1121-1139.

Sanat Karmakar, Pabitra Maity and Animesh Halder, Antimicrobial Peptide NK-2 as an Emerging Therapeutic Agent: A Study with Phospholipid Membranes,   Materials today:proceedings (2019), 18, 879-886. 

Animes Halder, Achinta Sannigrahi, Nayan De, Krishnananda Chattopadhyay, Sanat Karmakar, Kinetoplastid membrane protein 11 induces pores in anionic phospholipid membranes: Effect of cholesterol, Langmuir ( 2020), 36, 3522-3530.

Achinta Sannigrahi, Junaid,Jibran Jawed, Subrata Majumdar, Syamal Roy, Sanat Karmakar, Krishnananda Chattopadhyay, Protein induced membrane phase transition facilitates leishmania infection, BiorXiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.08.982454  

Amrita Basu, Prasanta Karmakar and Sanat Karmakar, Supported Planar Single and Multiple Bilayer Formation by DOPC Vesicle Rupture on Mica Substrate: A Mechanism as Revealed by Atomic Force Microscopy Study, J. Membrane. Biol (2020), 253, 205-219. 

  Achinta Sannigrahi, Sourav Chowdhury, Bidisha Das, Amrita Banerjee, Animesh Halder, Athi N. Naganathan, Sanat Karmakar,  Krishnananda Chattopadhyay, The metal cofactor zinc and interacting membranes modulate SOD1 conformation-aggregation landscape in an in vitro ALS Model, eLife (2021), 10, e61453.

Subir Kumar Patla, Anupa Roy Choudhury, Ruma Ray, Shantanu Das, Sanat Karmakar, Plasticizer ethylene carbonate facilitates new ion coordination site in blend polymer electrolyte: Dielectric relaxation through two-parameter Mittag-Leffler function,  AIP Adv (2020), 10(11), 115008.

Easha Biswas, Kalyan Kumar Banerjee, Sanat Karmakar, Sanmoy Karmakar, Tapan Kumar Pal, Preparation and Evaluation of Eprosartan Mesylate loaded PLGA Nanostructures , Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology (2022), 15(1) DOI: 10.52711/0974-360X.2022.00018

Animesh Halder and Sanat Karmakar, An evidence of pores in phopholipid membranes indiced by an antimicrobial peptide NK-2, Biophys. Chem (2022) 282, 106759.

Amar Ghosh, Sandip Kumar De, Subrata Mondal, Animesh Halder, Manas Barai, Kartik Chandra Guchhait, Priyanka Raul, Sanat Karmakar, Chandradipa Ghosh, Anuttam Patra, Amiya Kumar Panda, Dulal Senapati, Ujjal Kumar Sur Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles and its applications as sensor, catalyst, and antibacterial agent.   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2023.03.159 Materials today:proceedings (2023). 

Kalyan Kumar Banerjee, Pabitra Maity, Surajit Das and Sanat Karmakar, Effect of cholesterol on the ion-membrane interaction: Zeta potential and dynamic light scattering study, Chem. Phys. Lipids  (2023) 254, 105307.

Amrita Basu, Prasanta Karmakar and Sanat Karmakar, Nanomechanical properties of cholesterol-rich domains in mica-supported unsaturated lipid bilayer: an atomic force microscopy study, Bulletin of Materials Science (2023) , 46, 152. 

Sanat Karmakar, Surajit Das, Kalyan Kumar Banerjee, Interaction of antimicrobial peptides with model membranes: a perspective towards new antibiotics. (2024). Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top., https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-024-01105-6 

Sanat Karmakar, Surajit Das, Kalyan Kumar Banerjee, Antimicrobial peptides: Emerging materials for antibiotics, 2024, Modern Trends in Materials Science Research LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing pages 93-156 , ISBN No: 978-620-7-47260-4

Subir Kumar Patla, Ruma Ray, Asokan Kandasami, Sanat Karmakar, Enhancement of salt solubility in a PVDF‑PEO‑based solid blend polymer electrolyte by gamma irradiation: effects on ion dynamics and relaxation properties, Ionics ( 2024) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-024-05634-x

 Achinta Sannigrahi, Souradeepa Ghosh, Supratim Pradhan, Pulak Jana, Junaid Jibran Jawed, Subrata Majumdar, Syamal Roy, Sanat Karmakar, Budhaditya Mukherjee, Krishnananda Chattopadhyay, Leishmania protein KMP-11 modulates cholesterol transport and membrane fluidity to facilitate host cell invasion, EMBO reports (2024) 1-38 https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-024-00302-7.

Surajit Das, Rajeev Jain, Kalyan Kumar Banerjee, Krishnananda Chattopadhyay and Sanat Karmakar, Cholesterol-driven modulation of membrane-membrane interactions by an antimicrobial peptide, NK-2, in phospholipid vesicles,  Biochim. Biophys. Res. Comm (2024)741, 151021 

Kalyan Kumar Banerjee, Pabitra Maity, Surajit Das and Sanat Karmakar, Cholesterol modulates the interaction of sodium salt with negatively charged phospholipid membrane, Biophysical Chemistry (2025), 317, 107354.

Surajit Das, Rajeev Jain, Kalyan Kumar Banerjee, Pabitra Maity, Krishnananda Chattopadhyay and Sanat Karmakar, Cholesterol affects the pore formation and the membrane-membrane interaction induced by an antimicrobial peptide, NK-2, in phospholipid vesicles, J. Membrane Biol ( 2025),  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00232-025-00347-2.