Research Area: Smart Organic Materials

Dineshkumar Bharathidasan, C. Maity*. Supramolecularly Crosslinked Self-Healable Polymer Hydrogels for Adaptive Energy Dissipation and Fragile-System Protection. Aggregate, 2026, Accepted.

Dineshkumar Bharathidasan, C. Maity*. Self-assembly of Tyrosine Scaffolds in Aqueous Media: Complex Molecular Architectures from Simple Building Blocks. Chem. Rec. 2025, e202500005. (https://doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202500005).

Dineshkumar Bharathidasan, C. Maity*. Organelle-Specific Smart Supramolecular Materials for Bioimaging and Theranostics Application. Top. Curr. Chem., 2025, 383,1. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s41061-024-00483-8).

Dineshkumar Bharathidasan, A. S.Salvi, S. Bose, C. Maity*. Biochemical Signal-Induced Supramolecular Hydrogelation for Structured Free-Standing Soft Material Formation. Macromol. Biosci., 2024, 24, 2400419. (https://doi.org/10.1002/mabi.202400419).

Patent Applications: 202541024986, 202541103988, 202641018722 & 202641075006.

Damini Jagankar, C. Maity*. Catalytic reduction of nitroarenes enabled by in-situ formed silver nanoparticles within a hydrogel matrix. Synlett, 2026. (https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2877-3007)

Damini Jagankar,# N. Das,# C. Maity*, Sustainable rewritable paper enabled by colored aqueous inks for writing, painting, and printing applications. EcoMat. 2026, 8, e70067. [#equal contribution]. (https://doi.org/10.1002/eom2.70067)

Damini Jagankar, G. Manohar, P. Srivastava, C. Maity*. Facile Room-temperature One-pot Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles-embedded Hydrogel for Recyclable Dye Degradation and Antimicrobial Applications. Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2026, 13, 861-878 (https://doi.org/10.1039/D5EN00722D) 

Damini Jagankar, N. Das, A. Mukherjee, C. Maity*. Room-temperature synthesis of silver-based nanoparticle-embedded hydrogel material via catalytic crosslinking for recyclable dye degradation applications. RSC Adv., 2025, 15, 34068-34078. (doi.org/10.1039/D5RA03595C )

J. Mahapatra, S. Ghosh Dastidar, Damini Jagankar, N. Roy, J. Sharma, A. Mukherjee, C. Maity, T. K Panda, S. S. Mal. Catalytic Synthesis of Xanthene and Unprecedented Evolution of Naphthopyrans Using Heteropoly Acid‐Tantalum (V) Oxide Hybrid Composite as Promoter. ChemSelect., 2025, 10, e202406059. (doi.org/10.1002/slct.202406059)  

Patent Applications: 202441040131, 202441040132, 202541006381, 202541009943. 

Rohan Gharad, C. Maity*. Supramolecular vesicles as nanoreactors enable green synthesis of ultrasmall silver oxide nanoparticles for visible-light photocatalysis. Nanoscale Adv., 2026, accepted.

Rohan Gharad, C. Maity*. Self-assembly-driven esterase mimetic behavior of a naphthalenediimide amphiphile in aqueous media. ChemCatChem., 2025, 17, e00882. (https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202500882)

Patent Applications: 202441074954, 202541024277

Patent granted: 591164

Patent Applications: 202441040132 

Divya Chauhan, P. Annamalai, A. Sinha,  C. Maity*. Light-switchable Enzyme-mimetic Organocatalysis in water via Supramolecular Assembly . Commun. Chem., 2026. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-026-02117-0) 

Divya Chauhan, C. Maity*. Fueling dissipative self-assembly with non-invasive energy inputs. Coord. Chem. Rev., 2026, 562, 2, 217958. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2026.217958)

Divya Chauhan, C. Maity*. Light responsive single amino acid-based supramolecular hydrogel for photo-controlled vitamin release. Mater. Adv., 2026, 7, 175-186 (https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MA00736D)

Patent Applications: 202541039265, 202641027728 

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