05/2021: New research on ''Sugar functionalization of silks with pathway-controlled substitution and properties'' published in Advanced Biology.
01/2021: New research on 'Chitosan particle assisted fenton reaction on silk hydrogels' published in Biomacromolecules. Congratulations Jaewon.
12/2020: Mini-review on 'Photo-crosslinked silk fibroin for 3D printing' is now published in Polymers.
06/2020: Many congratulations to my undergrads (Isabel and Marc) and high school students (Shreyas, Boyang, Nina) for their first research publication in Biomaterial Science.
06/2020: New research article on ''Silk degumming time controls horseradish peroxidase-catalyzed hydrogel properties'' is now published in Biomaterial Science.
06/2020: New research article on Synthesis and characterization of silk ionomers for layer-by-layer electrostatic deposition on individual mammalian cells'' is now published in Biomacromolecules.
04/2020: New research article on 'Divergent Self-Assembly Pathways to Hierarchically Organized Networks of Isopeptide-Modified Discotics under Kinetic Control ' published in 'ACS Nano'.
03/2020: New research article on 'Spontaneous aminolytic cyclization and self‐assembly of dipeptide methyl esters in water' just published in 'ChemSysChem'.
01/2020: New research article on 'Kinetic Evolution in Metal‐Dependent Self‐Assembly of Peptide–Terpyridine Conjugates just published in 'Macromol. Rapid. Comm'.
08/2019: New research article on 'Electrostatic driven self-sorting and nanostructure speciation in self-assembling tetrapeptide' just published in 'Nanoscale'. (Link)
08/2019: Marc finishes his summer undergraduate research training on 'chemical modifications on silk biomaterials'.
08/2019: Three high school students (Shreyas, Nina and Boyang) join me and Jaewon Choi as part of "TUBERS' programme for an exciting two weeks of summer research on Silk hydrogels. Welcome.
05/2019: Marc joined as a summer undergraduate student with Prof. Kaplan's group. He will be working with me for next three months on Silk based biomaterials and their different surface modification chemistries. Welcome Marc.
12/2018: New collaborative research paper with Prof. William Philip Laboratory in Notre Dame on' High-affinity detection and capture of heavy metal contaminants using block polymer composite membranes' just published in 'ACS Central Science'. (Link)
11/2018: New research paper on 'Aromatic identity, electronic substitution, and sequence in amphiphilic tripeptide self-assembly ' with Prof. Webber got published in 'Soft Matter'.
10/2018: Dr. Sahoo officially joined Prof. David Kaplan Research Laboratory in the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University.
09/2018: Dr. Sahoo accepted an offer to join Prof. David Kaplan Research Laboratory as Research Associate from October 2018.
03/2018: Review paper with Prof. Webber 'Injectable network biomaterials via molecular or colloidal self-assembly' got published in 'Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews'.
03/2018: Review article with Prof. Webber titled 'Immunoengineering with supramolecular peptide biomaterials' got published in 'Journal of Indian Institute of Science'.
01/2018: Research paper on 'Biocatalytic self-assembly on magnetic nanoparticles' got published in 'ACS Applied Matter and Interfaces'.
08/2017: Research paper on 'Pathway dependent gold nanoparticle formation by biocatalytic self-assembly' got published in 'Nanoscale'.
08/2017: Research publications on co-operative,ion-sensitive self-assembly of tripeptide hydrogels got published in 'Chemical Communications'.
05/2017: Dr. Sahoo's first corresponding research paper got published in 'Angewandte Chemie International Edition'. In this paper titled ' Biocatalytic Self-assembly Cascades' we demonstrated distinct supramolecular structures can be accessed from a single pool of precursors that serve as substrates for connceted biocatalytic pathways, where the product of first enzymatic reaction is consumed by second one and vice versa.
05/2017: First research paper with Prof. Matt Webber from University of Notre Dame, USA got published in 'Biomaterial Science'- In this paper, we demonstrated sequence-specific morphological diversity of tripeptides and their application as biomaterials.
02/2017: Research on 'Defect functionalisation' got published in European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry.
11/2016: Dr. Sahoo joined Prof. Matt Webber's research group in Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in University of Notre Dame USA.
06/2016: Paper on 'Dynamic surfaces for the study of mesenchymal stem cell growth through adhesion regulation' in collaboration with Prof. Matt Dalby of Glasgow University is published in ACS Nano.
05/2016: Review on 'Applying Biomaterials for control of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Fate' is out in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.
03/2016: Paper on ' Analysis of enzyme responsive peptide surfaces by Raman spectroscopy' is published in Chemical Communications.
03/2016: Dr. Sahoo joined Prof. Ulijn's reseach group in Advanced Science Research centre (ASRC) in New York as a Guest Scientist for 2 months.