Major Achievements

Selected Publications:

  1. P A Parvathy, Ajisafe V. Ayobami, Ashok M Raichur, Sushanta K. Sahoo* Methacrylated alkali lignin grafted p(Nipam-co-AAc) copolymeric hydrogels: tuning the mechanical and stimuli-responsive properties, Int. J. Bio.Macromol., 2021 (Accepted)

  2. PA Parvathy, Sushanta K. Sahoo*, Hydrophobic, moisture resistant and biorenewable paper coating derived from castor oil based epoxy methyl ricinoleate with repulpable potential, Org. Coatings, 158, 10634, 2021.

  3. Raji V Nair, Parvathy R Chandran, A. Peer Mohamed, Saju Pillai*, Sulphur-doped Graphene Quantum Dot Based Fluorescent Turn-on Aptasensor for Selective and Ultrasensitive Detection of Omethoate, Analytica Chimica Acta, 1181, 338893, 2021.

  4. Meghana Thomas, Parvathy R Chandran, Vipin V. V., A. Peer Mohamed, Peter Kingshott, Saju Pillai*, Core-shell based responsive colloidal photonic crystals for facile, rapid, visual detection of acetone, Reactive & Functional Polymers, 158, 104779, 2021. (Perspective Article)

  5. C.V.S. Rosely, A.M. Joseph, A. Leuteritz and E. Bhoje Gowd*- Phytic Acid Modified Boron Nitride Nanosheets as Sustainable Multifunctional Nanofiller for Enhanced Properties of Poly(?-lactide) ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 8, 1868-1878, 2020

  6. Kallayi Nabeela, Reny Thankam Thomas, A P Mohamed and Saju Pillai*, Nanocellulose-Silver Ensembles for Ultrasensitive SERS: An Investigation on the Role of Nanocellulose Fibers in the Generation of High-Density Hotspots, Applied Materials Today, 20, 100672, 2020.

  7. Deepthi, R.B. Amal Raj, V.R. Rajeev, K.N.N. Unni, and E. Bhoje Gowd* – Directed Assembly of Hierarchical Supramolecular Block Copolymers: A Strategy to Create Donor-Acceptor Charge Transfer Stacks. Macromolecules, 52, 2889-2899, 2019.

  8. R.Raghavendra kumar, K.I.Suresh* Effect of Amphiphilic Polymer Modified Graphene surfactant on the thermal, viscoelastic, and tensile properties of nitrile latex Nanocomposit J. Macromol.Sci., Part B, Physics 58(4), 489-504, 2019.

  9. Deepu Mohanan, N.B Sumina, Reny Thankam Thomas, A. P. Mohamed, U. S. Hareesh, Alok K Ray, Saju Pillai*, Cucurbit[7]uril encapsulated dye-sensitized enhanced solar photocatalysis using positively charged sheet-like anatase TiO2 mesocrystals, Applied Surface Science, 488, 911, 2019.

  10. Sushanta K. Sahoo*, Vinay Khandelwal, Gaurav Manik Synthesis and characterization of low viscous and highly acrylated epoxidized methyl ester based green adhesives derived from linseed oil. J. Adhes. Adhesives, 89, 174-177, 2019.

  11. N. Rajender; Prabhakara Rao D, R. R. Nayak, K. I. Suresh* Amphiphilic Comb-like Polymer Modified Graphene Oxide and its Nanocomposite with Polystyrene via Emulsion Polymerization” Colloid Polym. Sci. 296, 133-144, 2018.

  12. A. M. Joseph, B. Nagendra, P. Shaiju, K.P. Surendran* and E. Bhoje Gowd* Aerogels of Hierarchically Porous Syndiotactic Polystyrene with Dielectric Constant Near to Air. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 6, 360-368, 2018.

  13. N. Rajender, K.I. Suresh, B. Sreedhar, Comb-like polymer Graphene Nanocomposites with improved Adhesion properties via Surface initiated atom transfer radical polymerization, J Appl. Polym. Sci. 135, 43885.(doi: 10.1002/APP.45885, 2018.

  14. S. Nagarajan and E. Bhoje Gowd* Star-Shaped Poly (?-lactide) with a Dipyridamole Core: Role of Polymer Chain Packing on Induced Circular Dichroism and Photophysical Properties of Dipyridamole. Macromolecules, 50, 5261-5270, 2017.

  15. Nabeela Kallayi, Reny Thomas, Kaustabh Kumar Maiti, K.G.K. Warrier, Saju Pillai*, TEMPO-Oxidized Nanocellulose Fiber-Directed Stable Aqueous Suspension of Plasmonic Flower-like Silver Nanoconstructs for Ultra-Trace Detection of Analytes, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 8 (43), 29242, 2016.

  16. B. Nagendra, K. Mohan and E. Bhoje Gowd* Polypropylene/Layered Double Hydroxide (LDH) Nanocomposites: Influence of LDH Particle Size on the Crystallization Behavior of Polypropylene. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 7, 12399-12410, 2015.

  17. K.I. Suresh*, M.G.Harikrishnan, Effect of Cardanol Diol on the Synthesis, Film Formation and properties of Aqueous PU dispersions, Journal of Coatings Technology & Research –11 (4), 619-629, 2014.

  18. K.I. Suresh*, Rigid polyurethane foams from cardanol: Synthesis, structural characterization and evaluation of the polyol and foam properties. ACS-Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 1, 232-242, 2013.

Awards/Recognitions

Dr. Bhoje E. Gowd

  • Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK (2020)

  • Member, Editorial Advisory Board of SPE Polymers (Published by Wiley) Pioneering Investigator by RSC Polymer Chemistry (2019)

  • Professor Kaushal Kishore Memorial Award of The Society for Polymer Science, (2018)

  • Raman Research Fellowship, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, (2018)

  • Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Medal (2016)

Dr. Saju Pillai

  • Technology Award 2021(Certificate of Merit) under the category of ‘Physical Science including Engineering’ for the development of fluorescent materials for security printing and anti-counterfeiting applications (Team Award)

  • Award for S&T Innovations for Rural Development (CAIRD) for 2020 for the utilization of various agro-residues for the development of biodegradable products as an alternative to single-use plastics (Team Award)

  • Guest Associate Editor, Frontiers in Chemistry (2020 – till date)

  • Novozymes & Holck-Larsen Foundation Mobility Scholarship, Denmark (2016-17)

Dr. Sushanta Kumar Sahoo

  • CSIR Award for S&T Innovations for Rural Development (CAIRD) for 2020for the utilization of various agro-residues for the development of biodegradable products as an alternative to single-use plastics (Team Award)

  • Guest Editor in Lecture notes in Mechanical Engineering, Proceedings, Springer, 2020

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