IITKGP

Rajat Kumar Das

Ph.D., Indian institute of Science, Bangalore 560012

Associate Professor

Materials Science Centre

rajat@matsc.iitkgp.ac.in

Responsibilities

  • Assistant Warden, Patel Hall

Research Areas

  • Self-healing hydrogels
The broad, essentially interdisciplinary research area of the group will focus on developing smart polymeric materials and elaborating new material properties with an eventual goal to understand stem cell-material interactions for biomedical applications. As a part of this research goal, the work will initially be directed towards developing stimuli responsive and self-healing polymers. Specifically, we shall look to harness the ubiquitous metal-ligand interactions present in marine biology- these interactions play a key role in the development of their hard and tough protective shells-to design stiff and tough synthetic elastomers.
  • Designing dynamic metal-coordinated hydrophobically associated mechanically robust and stretchable hydrogels for versatile, multifunctional applications in strain sensing, actuation and flexible supercapacitors Ghosh A., Pandit S. , Kumar S. , Ganguly D. , Chattopadhyay S. , Pradhan D. , Das R. K. By Chemical Engineering Journal 475 146160- (2023)
  • Harnessing cell-material interaction to control cell fate: design principle of advanced functional hydrogel materials Das R. K. By Journal of Chemical Sciences 129 1807-1816 (2017)
  • Harnessing cell-material interaction to control cell fate: design principle of advanced functional hydrogel materials Das R. K. By Journal of Chemical Sciences 129 1807-1816 (2017)
  • Strain sensing multi-stimuli responsive light emitting lanthanide-based tough and stretchable hydrogels with tunable luminescence and fast self-recovery using metal-ligand and hydrophobic interactions Panda P., Dutta A., Pal S., Ganguly D., Chattopadhyay S., Das N.C., Das R.K. By New Journal of Chemistry 47 5734-5750 (2023)
  • Dynamic metal ligand cross-link promoted mechanically robust and pH responsive hydrogels for shape memory, programmable actuation and resistive sensing application Ghosh A., Panda P. , Ganguly D. , Chattopadhyay S. , Das R. K. By Journal of Applied Polymer Science 52483- (2022)
  • Intrinsically Freezing-Tolerant, Conductive, and Adhesive Proton Donor Acceptor Hydrogel for Multifunctional Applications Dutta A., Panda P. , Das A. , Ganguly D. , Chattopadhyay S. , Banerji P. , Pradhan D. , Das R. K. By ACS Applied Polymer Materials 4 7710-7722 (2022)
  • From ultrastiff to soft materials: Exploiting dynamic metal ligand cross-links to access polymer hydrogels combining customized mechanical performance and tailorable functions by controlling hydrogel mechanics Dutta A., Ghosal K. , Sarkar K. , Pradhan D. , Das R. K. By Chemical Engineering Journal 419 129528- (2021)
  • Engineering hydrophobically associated hydrogels with rapid self-recovery and tunable mechanical properties using metal-ligand interactions Panda P., Dutta A. , Ganguly D. , Chattopadhyay S. , Das R. K. By Journal of Applied Polymer Science - (2020)
  • Engineering hydrophobically associated hydrogels with rapid self-recovery and tunable mechanical properties using metal-ligand interactions Panda P., Dutta A. , Ganguly D. , Chattopadhyay S. , Das R. K. By Journal of Applied Polymer Science - (2020)
  • Dual Cross-Linked Hydrogels with High Strength, Toughness, and Rapid Self-Recovery Using Dynamic Metal Ligand Interactions Dutta A., Das R. K. By Macromolecular Materials and Engineering 304 - (2019)

Principal Investigator

  • Developing stretchable, white light emitting and multi stimuli-responsive self-healable photoluminescent hydrogel materials and their applications in bio-inspired synergistic multi-color tunable fluorescence and shape changing actuation by combining aggregation induced emissive fluorophores with hydrophobic micellar core embedded lanthanide-sensitizer cross-links
  • Emergent Phases in 2D Quantum Materials and Heterostructures

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Scalable Fabrication of Electronic Grade Two Dimensional Semiconductors and Heterostructures via Water-assisted One-pot CVD Technique Department of Science and Technology

Ph. D. Students

Ashis Ghosh

Area of Research: Self-assembled hydrogels

Kartik Bar

Area of Research: Polymeric hydrogels

Pintu Maity

Area of Research: Polymer hydrogels

Sangita Pandit

Area of Research: Stimuli responsive hydrogels