Research Area

Organic Synthesis and Functional Organic Materials

• Organic Transformation
• Optical Materials for Fluorescence Imaging
• Organic Materials for OLED Application
• Organic and Inorganic Materials for Electronic Fabrication
• Long-Range Emissive Organic Dyes

Research Interests

Using organic synthesis as a key tool, our research group is deeply involved in designing and developing various organic molecular and macromolecular functional materials for diverse applications spanning from biological imaging, OLED, electronic fabrication and so on. While applied organic synthesis is one of our main focuses, we are also involved in understanding the various aspects of molecular reactivity and specialized organic transformations. Various aspects of our current research activities include:

• Design and development of molecular and macromolecular organic materials.
• Organic materials for OLED application
• Design and development of organic and organic-inorganic hybrid photoresists
• Long-range emissive dyes for fluorescence imaging
• Organic transformations
• Fundamental aspects of molecular materials
• Process development for industrially important chemicals
• Design and development of anti-reflective coating materials

Representative Publications

• Bidisha Biswas, Surbhi Dogra, Gourab Dey, Arul N. Murugan, Prosenjit Mondal, Subrata Ghosh. "Near-infrared emissive cyanine probes for selective visualization of the physiological and pathophysiological modulation of albumin levels." Journal of Materials Chemistry B 2022, 10, 3657 -3666.
• S. Nandi, L. Khillare, Mohamad G. Moinuddin, S. Kumar, M. Chauhan, S. K. Sharma, S. Ghosh, K. E. Gonsalves. "Macrocycle Network-Aided Nanopatterning of Inorganic Resists on Silicon." ACS Applied Nano Materials 2022, 5, 10268−10279.
• Iswar Chandra Mondal, Maksym Galkin, Shubham Sharma, Prof. N. Arul Murugan, Prof. Dmytro A. Yushchenko, Dr. Khyati Girdhar, Dr. Anirban Karmakar, Prof. Prosenjit Mondal, Dr. Pankaj Gaur, Subrata Ghosh. "Organosulfur/Selenium-Based Highly Fluorogenic Molecular Probes for Live-Cell Nucleolus Imaging." Chemistry: An Asian Journal, 2022, 17, e202101281.
• Deepak Kumar Dubey, Diksha Thakur, Rohit Ashok Kumar Yadav, Mangey Ram Nagar, Tzu-Wei Liang, Subrata Ghosh, Jwo-Huei Jou. "High-Throughput Virtual Screening of Host Materials and Rational Device Engineering for Highly Efficient Solution-Processed Organic Light-Emitting Diodes." ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2021, 13, 26204 – 26217.
• Diksha Thakur, Mangey Ram Nagar, Anju Tomar, Deepak Kumar Dubey, Sunil Kumar, Sujith Sudheendran Swayamprabha, Subrata Banik, Jwo-Huei Jou, Subrata Ghosh. "Through Positional Isomerism: Impact of Molecular Composition on Enhanced Triplet Harvest for Solution-Processed OLED Efficiency Improvement." ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2021, 3, 2317–2332.

Recent Publications

• Nakka Nagaraju, Dushyant Kushavah, Sunil Kumar, Rajeev Ray, Diksha Gambhir, Subrata Ghosh, Suman Kalyan Pal. "Through Structural Isomerism: Positional Effect of Alkyne Functionality on Molecular Optical Properties." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 24 (2022) 3303 - 3311.
• Mangey Ram Nagar, Abhijeet Choudhury, Daiva Tavgeniene, Raminta Beresneviciute, Dovydas Blazevicius, Vygintas Jankauskas, Krishan Kumar, Subrata Banik, Subrata Ghosh, Saulius Grigalevicius, Jwo-Huei Jou. "Solution-processable phenothiazine and phenoxazine substituted fluorene cored nanotextured hole transporting materials for achieving high-efficiency OLEDs." Journal of Materials Chemistry C 10 (2022) 3593-3608.
• Gayatri Batra, Shubham Sharma, Kush Kaushik, Chethana Rao, Pawan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Subrata Ghosh, Deep Jariwala, Eric A Stach, Aditya Yadav, Chayan Kanti Nandi. "Structural and Spectroscopic Characterization of Pyrene Derived Carbon Nano Dots: A Single-Particle Level Analysis." Nanoscale 14 (2022) 3568-3578.
• Pankaj Gaur, Maksym Galkin, Andrii Kurochka, Subrata Ghosh, Dmytro A. Yushchenko, Volodymyr V. Shvadchak. "Fluorescent Probe for Selective Imaging of α-Synuclein Fibrils in Living Cells." ACS Chemical Neuroscience 12 (2021) 1293–1298.
• Krishan Kumar, Kiran Kishore Kesavan, Diksha Thakur, Subrata Banik, Jayachandran Jayakumar, Chien-Hong Cheng, Jwo-Huei Jou, Subrata Ghosh. "Functional Pyrene–Pyridine-Integrated Hole-Transporting Materials for Solution-Processed OLEDs with Reduced Efficiency Roll-Off." ACS Omega 6 (2021) 10515–10526.