Nitin Gupta, Rohan Kulkarni, Arya R Naik, Koushik Viswanathan and Aloke Kumar. Bacterial bio-cementation can repair space bricks. Front. Space Technol., Sec. Advanced Space Engineering, 6 (2025).  DOI-10.3389/frspt.2025.1550526

Swati Dubey, Shubhanshu Shukla, Nitin Gupta, Rashmi Dixit, Punyasloke Bhadury, and Aloke Kumar. Effect of perchlorate on biocementation capable bacteria and Martian bricks. bioRxiv (2025), DOI - 10.1101/2025.02.24.639804 

Nitin Gupta, Aloke Kumar, and Koushik Viswanathan. Biopolymers can be used for consolidation of lunar and Martian regoliths. bioRxiv (2025),  DOI-10.1101/2025.01.03.631200 

Nitin Gupta, Vineet Dawara, Aloke Kumar, and Koushik Viswanathan. Liquid state sintering enhances consolidation in basalt-rich lunar regolith. Advances in Space Research, 74, 1693–1705 (2024). DOI - 10.1016/j.asr.2024.05.024 

Nitin Gupta, Vineet Dawara, Aloke Kumar, and Koushik Viswanathan. Synthetic space bricks from lunar and martian regolith via sintering. Advances in Space Research, 74, 3902–3915 (2024). DOI - 10.1016/j.asr.2024.06.045 

Rashmi Dikshit, Nitin Gupta, and Aloke Kumar. Microbial endeavours towards extra-terrestrial settlements. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 103(3):839–855, 2023. DOI - 10.1007/s41745-023-00383-8 

Vineet Dawara, Nitin Gupta, Arjun Dey, Aloke Kumar, and Koushik Viswanathan. Pore–microcrack interaction governs failure in bioconsolidated space bricks. Ceramics International, 48(23):35874–35882, 2022. DOI - 10.1016/j.ceramint.2022.09.013 

Rashmi Dikshit, Nitin Gupta, Arjun Dey, Koushik Viswanathan, and Aloke Kumar. Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation can consolidate martian and lunar regolith simulants. PlosONE, 17(4):e0266415, 2022. DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0266415 

Rashmi Dikshit, Arjun Dey, Nitin Gupta, Sarath Chandra Varma, I Venugopal, Koushik Viswanathan, and Aloke Kumar. Space bricks: From LSS to machinable structures via MICP. Ceramics International, 47(10):14892–14898, 2021. DOI - 10.1016/j.ceramint.2020.07.309 

Aloke Kumar, Rashmi Dikshit, Nitin Gupta, Animesh Jain, Arjun Dey, Anuj Nandi, I Venugopal, Koushik Viswanathan, N Sridhara, and A Rajendra. Bacterial growth induced biocementation technology, ‘SpaceBrick’-a proposal for experiment at microgravity and planetary environments. bioRxiv, pages 2020–01, 2020. DOI - 10.1101/2020.01.22.914853 

Oral presentation in “International Conference on Sintering 2023,” held at Nagaragawa Convention Center, Gifu, Japan, from August 27-31, 2023.

Short oral presentation and Poster in “The 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM - 2024),” held at EXCO (congress venue), Daegu, Korea, from August 25-30, 2024.

Oral Presentation at "Asian Microgravity Symposium - 2024," held at IIT Madras, Chennai, from December 1-6, 2024.

Poster presentation at "CNRS Groupement de recherche “Interaction, Désordre, Elasticité” (GDR IDE)," held at Sete, France, from September 7-10, 2025.