Publications

36. Krishna KM, A.; Ashy, Gupta, M.* Controlled Harnessing of Azobenzene Photoswitches in Neat States through Modulated Self-Assembled Mesogenic Nanostructures. Advanced Sustainable Systems 2025, 9, 2500017.

35. Ashy; Banerjee, K.; Gupta, M.* Enhancing Solar Thermal Fuel Efficiency through Dopant-Mediated Structural Modifications in Triphenylene-Based Mesogenic Matrices. ACS Applied Energy Materials 2025, 8, 259-266.

34. Ashy; Gupta, M.* Photoresponsive ionic liquid crystals. Journal of Molecular Liquids 2025, 419, 126740. 

33. Gupta, M.*, Ashy. Solar Thermal Energy Storage Systems Based on Discotic Nematic Liquid Crystals That Can Efficiently Charge and Discharge below 0 °C. Advanced Energy Materials 2024, 14, 2303854. 

32. Gupta, M.*; Krishna KM, A.; Sony, S.; Dhingra, S. Visible-light Responsive Ionic Columnar Self-Assemblies Exhibiting Fast Photothermal Energy Conversion at Room-temperature. Advanced Functional Materials 2024, 34, 2409245.

31. Gupta, M.*; Ashy, Krishna KM, A. Sunlight Driven E-Z Isomerization of Liquid Crystals based on Hexahydroxytriphenylene Nano-templates for Enhanced Solid-state Solar Thermal Energy Storage. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2024, 12, 27373-27380. 

30. Krishna KM, A.; Gupta, M.* Room-temperature Columnar Tetragonal Self-assemblies based on Benzenetricarboxamide and Di-ortho Substituted Azobenzene. ChemPhotoChem 2024, 8, e202400144.

29. Krishna KM, A.; Sony, S.; Dhingra, S.; Gupta, M.* Visible-Light Responsive Azobenzene and Cholesterol Based Liquid Crystals as Efficient Solid-State Solar–Thermal Fuels. ACS Materials Letters 2023, 5, 3248-3254.  

28. Gupta, M.*; Krishna KM, A.; Sony, S.; Dhingra, S.; Shah, A.; Singh, D. P. First examples of room-temperature discotic nematic liquid crystals exhibiting ambipolar charge carrier mobilities. Chemical Communications 2023, 59, 10652-10655. 

27. Rani, S.; Gupta, S. P.; Gupta, M.; Pal, S. K.* Color-tunable photoluminescent discotic liquid crystal based on perylene-pentaalkynylbenzene triad. J. Mol. Liq. 2023, 385, 122202.

26. Uchida, J.; Soberats, B.; Gupta, M.; Kato, T.* Advanced Functional Liquid Crystals. Adv. Mater. 2022, 34, 2270171 (Also featured as Inside Front Cover). 

25. Kato, T.*; Gupta, M.; Yamaguchi, D.; Gan, K. P.; Nakayama, M. Supramolecular Association and Nanostructure Formation of Liquid Crystals and Polymers for New Functional Materials. Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2021, 94, 357-376.

24. Gupta, M.; Suzuki, Y.; Sakamoto, T.; Yoshio, M.; Torii, S.; Katayama, H.*; Kato, T.* Polymerizable Photocleavable Columnar Liquid Crystals for Nanoporous Water Treatment Membranes. ACS Macro Lett. 2019, 8, 1303-1308.

23. Kumar KR, S.; Gupta, M.; Sakamoto, T.; Kato, T.* Thermotropic Columnar Liquid Crystals Based on Wedge-Shaped Phenylphosphonic Acids. Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2019,  92, 1450-1452.

22. Vishwakarma, V. K.; Nath, S.; Gupta, M.; Dubey, D. K.; Swayamprabha, S. S.; Jou, J.-H.; Pal, S. K.; Sudhakar, A. A.* Room-Temperature Columnar Liquid Crystalline Materials Based on Pyrazino[2,3-g]quinoxaline for Bright Green Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 2019, 1, 1959-1969.

21.  Gupta, M.; Mohapatra, S. S.; Dhara, S.; Pal, S. K.* Supramolecular self-assembly of thiol functionalized pentaalkynylbenzene-decorated gold nanoparticles exhibiting a room temperature discotic nematic liquid crystal phase. J. Mater. Chem. C 2018, 6, 2303-2310.

20. Gupta, M.; Pal, V.; Pal, S. K.* Photo-responsive liquid crystals derived from azobenzene centered cholesterol-based tetramers. New J. Chem. 2018, 42, 8765-8772.

19. Gupta, M.; Pal, S. K.* Structure–property relationships in lath-shaped triads based on multialkynylbenzene. Liq. Cryst. 2018, 45, 1279-1286.

18. Gupta, M.; Gupta, S. P.; Rasna, M. V.; Adhikari, D.; Dhara, S.; Pal, S. K.* A new strategy towards the synthesis of a room-temperature discotic nematic liquid crystal employing triphenylene and pentaalkynylbenzene units. Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 3014-3017. (Also featured as Inside Back Cover).

17. Gupta, M.; Gupta, S. P.; Mohapatra, S. S.; Dhara, S.; Pal, S. K.* Room-Temperature Oligomeric Discotic Nematic Liquid Crystals over a Wide Temperature Range: Structure–Property Relationships. Chem. Eur. J. 2017,  23, 10626-10631.

16. Gupta, M.; Prasad, S. P.; Pal, S. K.* TNF Induced Switching of Columnar Rectangular to Hexagonal Assemblies in a New Class of Triphenylene-Based Room Temperature Discotic Liquid Crystals. J. Phys. Chem. B 2017, 121, 8593-8602.

15. Gupta, R. K.; Das, D.; Gupta, M.; Pal, S. K.; Iyer, P. K.; Achalkumar, A. S.* Electroluminescent room temperature columnar liquid crystals based on bay-annulated perylene tetraesters. J. Mater. Chem. C 2017, 5, 1767-1781.

14. Gupta, S. K.; Gupta, M.; Pal, S. K.* Highly Resolved Morphology of Room-Temperature Columnar Liquid Crystals Derived from Triphenylene and Multialkynylbenzene Using Reconstructed Electron Density Maps. ChemistrySelect 2017, 2, 6070-6077.

13. Gupta, M.; Pal, S. K.* Triphenylene-Based Room-Temperature Discotic Liquid Crystals: A New Class of Blue-Light-Emitting Materials with Long-Range Columnar Self-Assembly. Langmuir 2016, 32, 1120-1126.

12. Pradhan, B.; Gupta, M.; Pal, S. K.; Achalkumar, A. S.* Multifunctional hexacatenar mesogen exhibiting supergelation, AIEE and its ability as a potential volatile acid sensor. J. Mater. Chem. C 2016, 94, 9669-9673.

11. Pathak, S. K.; Gupta, M.; Pal, S. K.; Achalkumar, A. S.* Hexacatenars Exhibiting π-π Driven Supergelation, Aggregation Induced Blue Light Emission and Thermochromism. ChemistrySelect  2016, 1, 5107-5120.

10. Pathak, S. K.; Pradhan, B.; Gupta, M.; Pal, S. K.; Sudhakar, A. A.* Liquid-Crystalline Star-Shaped Supergelator Exhibiting Aggregation-Induced Blue Light Emission. Langmuir 2016, 32, 9301-9312.

9. Pradhan, B.; Pathak, S. K.; Gupta, R. K.; Gupta, M.; Pal, S. K.; Achalkumar, A. S.* Star-shaped fluorescent liquid crystals derived from s-triazine and 1,3,4-oxadiazole moieties. J. Mater. Chem. C 2016,  4, 6117-6130.

8. Pathak, S. K.; Pradhan, B.; Gupta, R. K.; Gupta, M.; Pal, S. K.; Achalkumar, A. S.* Aromatic π–π driven supergelation, aggregation induced emission and columnar self-assembly of star-shaped 1,2,4-oxadiazole derivatives. J. Mater. Chem. C 2016, 64, 6546-6561.

7. Gupta, R. K.; Pathak, S. K.; Pradhan, B.; Gupta, M.; Pal, S. K.; Sudhakar, A. A.* Bay-Annulated Perylene Tetraesters: A New Class of Discotic Liquid Crystals” ChemPhysChem 2016, 17, 859-872.

6. Gupta, M.; Pal, S. K.* The first examples of room temperature liquid crystal dimers based on cholesterol and pentaalkynylbenzene. Liq. Cryst. 2015, 42, 1250-1256.

5. Gupta, R. K.; Pradhan, B.; Pathak, S. K.; Gupta, M.; Pal, S. K.; Sudhakar, A. A.* Perylo[1,12-b,c,d] Thiophene Tetraesters: A New Class of Luminescent Columnar Liquid Crystals. Langmuir 2015, 31, 8092 -8100.

4. Gupta, M.; Agarwal, N.; Arora, A.; Kumar, S.; Kumar, B.; Sheet, G.; Pal, S. K.* Synthesis and characterization of novel azobenzene-based mesogens and their organization at the air–water and air–solid interfaces. RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 41371-41377. 

3. Gupta, M.; Bala, I.; Pal, S. K.* A room temperature discotic mesogenic dyad based-on triphenylene and pentaalkynylbenzene. Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 5836-5840.

2. Setia, S.; Soni, A.; Gupta, M.; Sidiq, S.; Pal, S. K.* Microwave-assisted synthesis of novel mixed tail rufigallol derivatives. Liq. Cryst. 2013, 40, 1364-1372. 

1. Gupta, S. K.; Setia, S.; Sidiq, S.; Gupta, M.; Kumar, S.; Pal, S. K.* New perylene based non-conventional discotic liquid crystals. RSC Adv. 2013, 3, 12060-12065.