
Motion Powered by Supramolecular Assembly

Patra Research Lab
(50) Mondal, K., Singh, D., Bera, S., Mahapatra, R., Sangwan, R., Tiwari, N. and Patra, D. "Programmable dendritic systems for active fluidics and motility" Chem. Commun. 2026, 62, 8678-8681. https://doi.org/10.1039/D6CC00898D

(49) Mahapatra, R.; Sangwan, A.; Singh, D.; Patra, D. "Programming Self-Powered Motion via ‘Host-Guest’ Recognition" Chem. Commun. 2026, 62, 3989-4003. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CC05602K

(48) Yadav, M.; Sangwan, A.; Mahapatra, R.; Bhardwaj, N.; Mondal, K.; Patra, D. "Enzyme-Instructed Interfacial Jamming of Pillar[5]arenes for Macroscopic Signal Amplification" Langmuir 2025, 41, 12345-12356. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c03984

(47) Agnihotri, P.; Dheer, D.; Sangwan, A.; Chandran, V. C.; Mavlankar, N. A.; Hooda, G.; Patra, D.; Pal, A. "Design of Multi-Responsive and Actuating Microgels toward On-Demand Drug Release" Nanoscale 2024, 16, 12345-12356. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4NR02728K

(46) Mahapatra, R.; Das, S.; Gill, A. K.; Singh, D.; Sangwan, A.; Ghosh, K.; Patra, D. "Sculpting Liquid Metal Stabilized Interfaces: A Gateway for Liquid Electronics" Nanoscale 2024, 16, 12345-12356. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4NR01836B

(45) Agashe, C.; Saroha, A.; Agasti, S. S.; Patra, D. "Supramolecular Modulation of Fluid Flow in a Self-Powered Enzyme Micropump" Langmuir 2024, 40, 12345-12356. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03958

(44) Agashe, C.; Roy, R.; Koner, A. L.; Patra, D. “AIE‐Switching and Enantioselective Reactivity at Jammed Liquid-Liquid Interface” Advanced Optical Materials 2024, 12, 2303034. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202303034

(43) Alam, M.; Sangwan, R.; Agashe, C.; Gill, A. K.; Patra, D. "Autonomous Macroscopic Signal Deciphering the Geometric Self-Sorting of Pillar[n]arenes" Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 6174-6177. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CC01372C

(42) Mishra, H. K.; Gill, A. K.; Gupta, V.; Malik, P.; Sinha, T. K.; Patra, D.; Mandal, D. "All-Organic Aqueous Processable Piezo-Phototronic Ink for Strain-Modulated Photoresponse" Adv. Mater. Technol. 2023, 8, 2201350. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202201350


(41) Alam, M.; Agashe, C.; Gill, A. K.; Varshney, R.; Tiwari, N.; Patra, D. "Discrimination of enantiomer and constitutional by self-generated microscopic fluid flow " Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 434-437.

(40) Ahmed, I.; Biswas, R.; Singh, H.; Patil, R. A.; Varshney, R.; Patra, D.; Ma, Y.; Haldar, K. K. "Green synthesis of hybrid papain/Ni3(PO4)2 rods electrocatalyst for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction". New J. Chem., 2022,46, 20572-20579 doi.org/10.1039/D2NJ04043C

(39) Gill, A. K.; Shah, S.; Yadav, P.; Shanavas, P.; Neelakandan, P. P.; Patra, D.; “Visible-light Activated ROS Generator Multilayer Film for Antibacterial Coatings". J. Mater. Chem. B, 2022, 10, 9869-9877.

(38) Agashe, C.; Alam, M.; Gill, A. K.; Varshney, R.; Joseph, J.; Tiwari, N.; Patra, D. "Flow-Based Detection of Micropollutants Using Pillar[5]arene Multilayer Film" ChemNanoMat 2023, 9, e202200277. https://doi.org/10.1002/cnma.202200277

(37) Alam, M.; Gill, A. K.; Varshney, R.; Miglani, C.; Tiwari, N.; Patra, D. “Polymer Multilayer Films Regulate Macroscopic Fluid Flow and Power Microfluidic Device via Supramolecular Interaction” Soft Matter 2022, 18, 5605-5614.

(36) Agashe, C.; Varshney, R.; Sangwan, R.; Gill, A. K.; Alam, M.; Patra, D. “Anisotropic Compartmentalization of Liquid-Liquid Interface using Dynamic Imine Chemistry” Langmuir 2022, 38, 8296-8303.

(35) Deshwal, A.; Gill, A. K.; Nain, S.; Patra, D.; Maiti, S. "Inhibitory effect of nucleotides on acetylcholine esterase activity and its microflow-based actuation in blood plasma" Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 3501-3504.

(34) Varshney, R; Gill, A. K.; Alam, M.; Agashe, C.; Patra, D. "Fluid Actuation and Buoyancy Driven Oscillation by Enzyme Immobilized Microfluidic Microcapsules" Lab Chip 2021, 21, 4352-4356.

(33) Varshney, R; Agashe, C.; Gill, A. K.; Alam, M; Joseph, R.; Patra, D. "Modulation of Liquid Structure and Controlling Molecular Diffusion using Supramolecular Constructs" Chem. Commun. 2021, 57, 10604-10607.

(32) Gill. A. K; Varshney, R.; Alam, M.; Agashe, C.; Patra, D. "Maneuvering Fluid Motion and Flow-Induced Detection of Toxins by Enzyme Multilayer Films" ACS Appl. Bio. Mater. 2021, 4, 6203-6208.

(31) Alam, M.; Varshney, R.; Agashe, C.; Gill. A. K.; Patra, D. "Valveless Flow reversal by a pH responsive micropump" Chem. Commun. 2021, 57, 4584-4587.

(30) Varshney, R.; Alam, M.; Agashe, C.; Joseph, R.; Patra, D. "Pillar[5]arene Microcapsules Turn on Fluid Flow in Presence of Paraquat" Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 9284.

(29) Varshney, R.; Kumar, S.; Ghosh, K.; Patra, D. “Fabrication of Dual Catalytic Microcapsules by Mesoporous Graphitic Carbon Nitride (mpg-C3N4) Nanoparticles-Enzyme Conjugates Stabilized Emulsions” New J. Chem. 2020, 44, 3097.

(28) Gill, A. K.; Riyajuddin, S.; Alam, M.; Ghosh, K.; Patra, D. “Mussel-inspired UV protective organic coatings via layer-by-layer assembly” Eur. Polym. J. 2020, 124, 109455.

(27) Varshney, R.; Sharma, S.; Prakash, B.; Laha, B. P.; Patra, D. “One-Step Fabrication of Enzyme-Immobilized Reusable Polymerized Microcapsules from Microfluidic Droplets” ACS Omega, 2019, 4, 13790-13794.

(26) Saddiqi, N, H.; Patra, D.; Seeger, S. “Room‐Temperature Synthesis of Germanium Oxide Nanofilaments and Their Potential Use as Luminescent Self‐Cleaning Surfaces” ChemPhysChem 2019, 20, 538-544.

(25) Saddiqi, N.†; Patra, D. †; Seeger, S. “Hydroxyapatite biomineralization on functionalized silicone nanofilaments” Colloid Interface Sci. Commun., 2017, 16, 1-5. (†authors contribute equally)

(24) Artus, G.; O. Sandro.; Patra, D.; Seeger, S. “Directed in situ shaping of complex nano- and microstructures during chemical synthesis” Macromol. Rapid Commun., 2017, 38, 4.

Before Joining INST
(23) Patra, D.; Vangal, P.; Cain, A. C.; Cho, C.; Regev, O.; Grunlan, J. C. “Inorganic Nanoparticle Thin Film that Suppresses Flammability of Polyurethane with only a Single electrostatically-Assembled Bilayers” ACS Appl. Mater. Interface, 2014, 6, 16903-16908.

(22) Patra, D. †; Sengupta, S. †; Rivera, I. O. †; Agrawal, A.; Dey, K. K.; Shklyaev, S.; Mallouk, T. E.; Sen A. “Self-powered Enzyme Micropumps” Nat. Chem., 2014, 6, 415-422. (†authors contribute equally).

(21) Davidi, I.; Patra, D.; Hermida-Merino, D.; Portale, G.; Rotello, V. M.; Raviv, U.; Shenhar, R. “Hierarchical Structures of Polystyrene-block-poly(2-vinyl pyridine)/Palladium-Pincer Surfactants: Effect of the Weak Surfactant-Polymer Interactions on the Morphological Behavior” Macromolecules, 2014, 47, 5774-5783.

(20) Sengupta, S.; Spiering, M.; Dey, K.; Duan, W.; Patra, D.; Butler, P.; Astumian, R. D.; Benkovic, S.; Sen, A. “DNA Polymerase as a Molecular Motor and Pump” ACS Nano, 2014, 8, 2410-2418.

(19) Patra, D.; Zhang, H.; Sengupta, S.; Sen, A. “Dual Stimuli-Responsive, Rechargeable Micropump via Host-Guest Interactions” ACS Nano, 2013, 7, 7674-7679.

(18) Patra, D.; Sengupta, S.; Duan, W.; Zhang, H.; Pavlick, R.; Sen, A. “Intelligent, Self-Powered Delivery Systems” Nanoscale, 2013, 5, 1273-1283.

(17) Jeong, Y.; Patra, D.; Sanyal, A.; Rotello V. M. “Fabrication of Stable Nanoparticle-Based Colloidal Microcapsules” Curr. Org. Chem., 2013, 17, 49-57.
(16) Xi, Y.; Pham, J. T.; Subramani, C.; Creran, B.; Yeh, Y. C.; Du, K.; Patra, D.; Miranda, O. M.; Crosby A. J.; Rotello, V. M. “Direct Patterning of Engineered Ionic Gold Nanoparticles via Nanoimprint Lithography” Adv. Mater., 2012, 24, 6330-6334.

(15) Abul-Kashem, M. M.; Patra, D.; Perlich, J.; Buffet, A.; Roth, S. V.; Rotello, V. M.; Muller-Buschbaum, P. “ Two- and Three-dimensional Network of Nanoparticles via Polymer-Mediated Self-Assembly” ACS Macro Lett., 2012, 1, 396-399.

(14) Rana, S.; Xi, Y. †; Patra, D. †; Moyano, D. F.; Miranda, O. R.; Hussain, I.; Rotello, V. M.; “Control of Surface Tension at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces Using Nanoparticles and Nanoparticle-Protein Complexes” Langmuir, 2012, 28, 2023–2027 († authors contribute equally).

(13) Yeh, Y. C.; Patra, D.; Yan, B.; Saha, K.; Miranda, O. M.; Kim, C. K.; Rotello, V. M. “ Synthesis of Cationic Quantum Dots via a Two-step Ligand Exchange Process” Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 3069-3071.

(12) Patra, D.; Sanyal, A.; Rotello, V. M. “Colloidal Microcapsule: A Self-assembly Approach at Liquid-Liquid interface” Chem. Asian. J., 2010, 5, 2442-2453.
(11) Patra, D.; Malvankar, N.; Chin, E.; Tuominen, M.; Gu, Z.; Rotello, V. M. “Fabrication of Conductive Microcapsules via Self-assembly and Crosslinking of Gold Nanowires at Liquid-Liquid Interface” Small, 2010, 6, 1402-1405.

(10) Patra, D.; Ozdemir, F.; Miranda, O. R.; Samanta, B.; Sanyal, A.; Rotello, V. M. "Formation and Size Tuning of Colloidal Microcapsules via Host-Guest Molecular Recognition at the Liquid-Liquid Interface" Langmuir, 2009, 25, 13852–13854.

(9) Patra, D.; Pagliuca, C.; Subramani, C.; Samanta, B.; Agasti, S. S.; Zainalabdeen, N.; Caldwell, S. T.; Cooke, G.; Rotello, V. M. "Molecular Recognition at the Liquid–Liquid Interface of Colloidal Microcapsules" Chem. Comm., 2009, 28, 4248-4250.

(8) Park, M.H.; Duan, X.; Ofir, Y.; Creran, B.; Patra, D.; Ling, Y. X.; Huskens, J.; Rotello, V. M. “Chemically Directed Immobilization of Nanoparticles onto Gold Substrates for Orthogonal Assembly Using Dithiocarbamate Bond Formaion” ACS Appl. Mater. Interface, 2010, 2, 795-799.

(7) Subramani, C.; Ofir, Y.; Patra, D.; Jordan, B. J.; Moran, I. W.; Park, M.-H.; Carter, K. R.; Rotello, V. M. "Nanoimprinted Polyethyleneimine: A Multimodal Template for Nanoparticle Assembly and Immobilization" Adv. Funct. Mater., 2009, 19, 2937 - 2942.

(6) Samanta,B.; Yang, X.-C.; Ofir, Y.; Park, M.-H.; Patra, D.; Agasti, S. S.; Miranda, O. R.; Mo, Z.-H.; Rotello, V. M. "Catalytic Microcapsules Assembled from Enzyme-Nanoparticle Conjugates at Oil-Water Interfaces" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2009, 48, 5341–5344.

(5) Samanta, B.; Patra, D.; Subramani, C.; Ofir, Y.; Yesilbag, G.; Sanyal, A.; Rotello, V.M. "Stable Magnetic Colloidosomes via “Click” Mediated Crosslinking of Nanoparticles at Water-oil Interfaces" Small, 2009, 5, 685-688.

(4) Samanta, B.; Ofir, Y.; Patra, D.; Rotello, V. M. "Self-assembly of Fluorocarbon-coated FePt Nanoparticles for Controlling Structure and Wettability of Surfaces" Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1247–1250.

(3) Jordan, B. J.; Ofir, Y.; Patra, D.; Caldwell, S. T.; Kennedy, A.; Joubanian, S.; Rabani, G.; Cooke, G.; Rotello, V. M. "Controlled Self-Assembly of Organic Nanowires and Platelets Using Dipolar and Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions" Small, 2008, 4, 2074-2078.

(2) Arumugam, P.; Patra, D.; Samanta, B.; Agasti, S. S.; Subramani, C.; Rotello, V. M. "Self-Assembly and Cross-linking of FePt Nanoparticles at Planar and Colloidal Liquid-Liquid Interfaces" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 10046-10047.

(1) Xu, H.; Hong, R.; Wang, X.; Arvizo, R.; You, C-C; Samanta, B.; Patra, D.; Tuominen, M. T.; Rotello, V. M. "Controlled Formation of Patterned Gold Films via Site-Selective Deposition of Nanoparticles onto Polymer-Templated Surfaces" Adv. Mater., 2007, 19, 1383-1386.
