Maity Lab

23/04/2026

👩‍🔬Divya's review article titled "Fueling Dissipative Self-assembly with Non-invasive Energy Inputs" is published in Coordination Chemistry Reviews.
Congratulations Divya Chouhan for bringing CCR to the group! 🥳

Find out mote at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2026.217958 🧪

'MatSE Lab

09/04/2026

🥼 Our work on "Sustainable Rewritable Paper Enabled by Colored Aqueous Inks for Writing, Painting, and Printing Applications" is published in EcoMat by Wiley!
Congratulations to Damini Jagankar and Nikita Das. 👏🌟

Find out more at:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eom2.70067

22/03/2026

📢 Late post📢
Divya Chouhan gets another patent filed.
Her work on "Method for visible-light induced patternable single amino acid-based hydrogel system with time - dependent self-erasure" is filed as a patent application.
Congratulations, Divya!🥼🧪

05/03/2026

📢 Divya Chouhan gets featured in RSC's collection highlighting "Women in Material Science" on the ocassion of International Women's Day, 2026. 🎊


https://blogs.rsc.org/jm/2026/03/04/celebrating-international-womens-day-2026-women-in-materials-science/?doing_wp_cron=1772699120.6058480739593505859375

19/02/2026

🎊 Our recent publication on "Facile room-temperature one-pot synthesis of a gold nanoparticle-embedded hydrogel for recyclable dye degradation and antimicrobial applications" gets featured as Inside Back cover.
Congratulations Damini Jagankar! 🧪🥼
https://doi.org/10.1039/D6EN90010K

02/02/2026

🥼 Damini's manuscript on "Facile room-temperature one-pot synthesis of a gold nanoparticle-embedded hydrogel for recyclable dye degradation and antimicrobial applications" finds place in Environmental Science: Nano!
Congratulations Damini! Keep going.🎊
Congrats to all involved!

Find out more at:
https://doi.org/10.1039/D5EN00722D

29/01/2026

The first inside back cover of Materials Advances in 2026, is now out!

"A light responsive single amino acid-based supramolecular hydrogel for photo-controlled vitamin release" by Divya Chauhan and Chandan Maity

🔗https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2026/ma/d5ma00736d

18/01/2026

Divya's Research Article and "Art-piece" is featured on Inside Back Cover in Materials Advances. Congratulations Divya Chouhan on your first! 🧪
https://doi.org/10.1039/D6MA90004F

26/12/2025

As we approach a new year with new hopes, opportunities and creative insights, it's time to take a quick look at 2025, and appreciate the growth it had in store for us!
👉Our lab turns "four"! 🎊
👉We get seven peer-reviewed publications, two accepted manuscripts, one journal cover art (with two in the pipeline), and eight patent applications in this year.
👉A best poster prize for Damini and an oral presentation award for Nikita.
👉Nikita attends the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meet 2025.

To a great year spent and the exciting developments ahead!

04/12/2025

📢Highlights from IC-HEIAC organised by the department of Chemistry at VIT, Vellore. 📢

Dr. Maity delivers a talk on a few recent findings from lab, ending with a short trailer on how the developed soft materials could have great potential in biomedical applications 🧫⚗️

In addition, we had Nikita's talk on "Alginate based Smart Materials" which brought a Best Oral Presentation award home.🏅 Congratulations!

04/12/2025

Nikita's manuscript on "Catalytically Controlled Formation of Coumarin-based Hydrogelator Enables Colorimetric Ferrous Ion detection in Sol and Hydrogel" is published in Communication Chemistry. Congratulations Nikita! (https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-025-01760-3)

📢"Behind the paper" at: https://go.nature.com/48ja7bw

Hydrogel-based platforms are promising candidates for sensing and therapeutic applications, but synthetic approaches to hydrogels that preserve the integrity and activity of the embedded sensing components are limited. Here, the authors report a method for the in situ strategy in which two non-assem...