Major Research Contributions

1) Invented an approach to fabricate self-moisturizing contact lens using capillary flow (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2022.102842) and IP application file number: 202241007514)

2) Created the first paper-based plasmonic droplet assay that uses Raman spectroscopy based analytical platforms (Applied Surface Science, 571, 15188 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.151188) and IP application number: 202241030933

3) Developed a method for producing oleophilic, superhydrophobic, and superhemophobic articles and uses thereof IP application number: 202241019987

4) Developed a broadband optical pH sensor using upconverison luminescence of an optically trapped single-particle Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 9, 8606-8614 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TC00792K

5) Developed a microfluidic device with tapered sidewall electrodes for efficient ternary blood cells (WBCs, RBCs and PLTs) separation , Measurement Science and Technology, 32, 115106 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6501/ac0f24

6) Developed first time a wavelength independent thermophoretic trapping and aseembly setup using candle soot, Colloids and Surface A : Physiochemical and Engineering aspects, 616, 126357 (2021)

7) Demonstrated the potential of glycogen nanoparticles as potential corrosion inhibitors, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 182, 2117-2129 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.05.185

8) Developed superhydrophobic SERS substrates via in-situ Reduction of Ag on femtosecond laser-written hierarchical Surfaces, Sensors and Actuators B:Chemical, 272, 485-493 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2018.05.155,

9) Developed a temperature controlled open microfluidic platforms ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 9(33), 28046-28054 (2017) DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b07451

10) Developed the world’s first photochemical trapping and tweezing system using photoswitching of azobenzene derivate Ang. Chem. Int. Edition, 52, 7291-7295 (2013) (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201302111