Dr. Pankaj Bharmoria

Research Interests

• Biophysical studies on the effect of surface active ionic liquids on the conformation (denaturing/renaturing/stabilization) of transport and membrane proteins
• Exploration of low viscosity ionic liquid eutectic mixtures as solvents for electrochemistry, biopolymer processing and CO₂/SO₂absorption
• Protein dissolution and stability studies in native ionic liquids
• Construction of green and thermally stable enzyme-bioreactors in ionic liquids for high temperature bio-electronics, and bio-catalysis
• Fundamental studies on exceptional temperature dependent aqueous solubility of NaCl/Na2SO4inorganic salts for tannery waste separation

List of Publications

1. Krishnaiah Damarla, Pankaj Bharmoria, K. Srinivasa Rao, Praveen Singh Gehlot and Arvind Kumar*,Illuminating microemulsions: ionic liquid–CdS quantum dots hybrid materials as potential white light harvesting systems, Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 6320-6323
2. Praveen Singh Gehlot, K. Srinivasa Rao, Pankaj Bharmoria, Krishnaiah Damarla, Hariom Gupta, Markus Drechsler, and Arvind Kumar,Spontaneous Formation of Multi-Architecture Vesicles of [C8mim]Br + [Na]DBS in Aqueous Medium: Synergic Interplay of Electrostatic, Hydrophobic and pi-pi Stacking Interactions, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2015, Just Accepted Manuscript , DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b09850
3. Pankaj Bharmoria, Krishnaiah Damarla,Tushar J. Trivedi, Naved I Malek , Arvind Kumar, Reciprocal Binary Mixture of Protic/Aprotic 1 Ionic Liquids as Deep Eutectic Solvent: Physicochemical Behaviour and Application towards Agarose Processing,RSC Adv., 2015, DOI: 10.1039/C5RA22329F.
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5. Pankaj Bharmoria, Arvind Kumar, Unusually high thermal stability and peroxidase activity of cytochrome c in ionic liquid colloidal formulation†, chemcomm., 2015, accepted manuscript, doi:10.1039/c5cc05722a
6. Pankaj Bharmoria, Arvind Kumar, Thermodynamic investigations of protein's behaviour with ionic liquids in aqueous medium studied by isothermal titration calorimetry, Biochim. Biophys. Acta., 2015, accepted manuscript, doi:10. 1016/j.bbagen.2015.08.022
7. Arka Saha, Pankaj Bharmoria, Aniruddha Mondal, Subhash Chandra Ghosh, Sourindra Mahanty* Asit Baran Panda,* Generalized Synthesis and Evaluation of Formation Mechanism of Metal Oxide/Sulfide@C hollow spheres. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, accepted manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C5TA05613F.
8. K. Srinivasa Rao, Pankaj Bharmoria, Tushar J Trived, Arvind Kumar,* “Self-assembly of surface active ionic liquids in aqueous medium” for publishing in book ed. Ionic Liquid-Based Surfactant Science: Formulation, Characterization, and Applications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2015, Chapter 8, ISBN: 978-1-118-83419-0.
9. Pankaj Bharmoria, Tushar J Trivedi and Arvind Kumar,* Ionic Liquid Induced All-α to α+β Conformational Transition in Cytochrome c with Improved Peroxidase Activity in Aqueous Medium. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17, 10189-10199.
10. Utkarsh More, Zuber Vaid, Pankaj Bhamoria, Arvind Kumar, Naved I. Malek,* Effect of [Cnmim][Br] Based Ionic Liquids on the Aggregation Behavior of Tetradecyltrimethylammonium Bromide in Aqueous Medium. J Solution Chem., 2015, accepted, doi: 10.1007/s10953-015-0318-0.
11. Pankaj Bharmoria, K. Srinivasa Rao, Tushar J Trivedi, and Arvind Kumar,* Biamphiphilic Ionic Liquid Induced Folding Alterations in the Structure of Bovine Serum Albumin in Aqueous Medium, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2014, 118, 115-124.
12. Pankaj Bharmoria, Mohit J. Mehta, Imran Pancha, and Arvind Kumar,* Structural and Functional Stability of Cellulase in Aqueous-Biamphiphilic Ionic Liquid Surfactant Solution, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2014, 118, 9890-9899.
13. Pankaj Bharmoria, Praveen Singh Gehlot, Hariom Gupta, and Arvind Kumar* Temperature Dependent Solubility Transition of Na2SO₄in Water and Effect of NaCl Therein: Solutions Structures and Salt water Dynamics, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2014, 118, 12734-12742.
14. Pankaj Bharmoria, Vaneet, Parampaul Kaur Banipal, Arvind Kumar,* Tejwant Singh Kang,* Modulation of Micellization Behavior of Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide (CTAB) by Organic Anions in Low Concentration Regime. J Solution Chem., 2014 , 1-18
15. Raman Kamboj, Pankaj Bharmoria, Vinay Chauhan, Sukhprit Singh,* Arvind Kumar, Venus Singh Mithu, and Tejwant Singh Kang*, Micellization Behavior of Morpholinium-Based Amide-Functionalized Ionic Liquids in Aqueous Media, Langmuir, 2014, 30, 9920-9930.
16. Raman Kamboj, Pankaj Bharmoria, Vinay Chauhan, Gurbir Singh, Arvind Kumar, Sukhprit Singh,*and Tejwant Singh Kang*. Effect of Cationic Head Group on the Micellization Behavior of new Amide Functionalized Surface Active Ionic Liquids. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, 16, 26040-26050.
17. Pankaj Bharmoria, Tejwant Singh, Arvind Kumar,* Complexation of Chitosan with Surfactant like Ionic Liquids: Molecular Interactions and Preparation of Chitosan Nanoparticles. J Colloid Interface Sci., 2013, 407, 361-369.
18. Pankaj Bharmoria, Arvind Kumar,* Interactional Behaviour of Surface Active Ionic Liquids with Gelling Biopolymer Agarose in Aqueous Medium. RSC Adv. 2013, 3, 19600-19608.
19. Pankaj Bharmoria, Hariom Gupta, V. P. Mohandas, Pushpito K. Ghosh,* and Arvind Kumar,* Temperature Invariance of NaCl Solubility in Water: Inferences from Salt-Water Cluster Behavior of NaCl, KCl, and NH₄Cl. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2012, 116, 11712-11719.
20. Tejwant Singh, Pankaj Bharmoria, Masa-aki Morikawa, Nobuo Kimizuka,*Arvind Kumar*, Ionic Liquids Induced Structural Changes of Bovine Serum Albumin in Aqueous Media: A Detailed Physicochemical and Spectroscopic Study. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2012, 116, 11924-11935.
21. Tushar J. Trivedi, Pankaj Bharmoria, Tejwant Singh, and Arvind Kumar,* Temperature Dependence of Physical Properties of Amino Acid Ionic Liquid Surfactants. J. Chem. Eng. Data, 2012, 57, 317-323.

Contact

Email: pankajbharmoria@gmail.com, pankajb@csmcri.org

Phone: +91-9428667391