Research: Soft-matter physics; active matter systems; mechanobiology
Current Group Members (From the Department of Physics)
Olivia VincentPhD Studentjoined 2022
Athira KPhD Studentjoined 2023
Najma NazrinPhD Studentjoined 2026
Publications (With IIT Palakkad affiliation)
Photoinduced morphological transformation in azobenzene-cored hybrid peptides Navdeep Singh Thayat, Hanuman Singh, Sameer Dhawan, Janeesh M. George, Bibhu Ranjan Sarangi, and V. Haridas Chemical Communications (2026) · DOI
Cellular mechanosensing on a cell-scale stiffness gradient substrate Indrajit Bhattacharjee, Gautam V. Soni, and Bibhu Ranjan Sarangi Soft Matter (2026) · DOI
Curvature-dependent dynamics of a bacterium confined in a giant unilamellar vesicle Olivia Vincent, Aparna Sreekumari, Manoj Gopalakrishnan, Vishwas V. Vasisht, and Bibhu Ranjan Sarangi Physical Review E (2025) · DOI
p-Cymene-Ru(II)-organometallic conjugates based on 'V-shaped' 4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide Tröger's base scaffolds: Synthesis, photophysics, bioimaging, and BSA/HSA binding studies Binduja Mohan, Anna Jose, Indrajit Bhattacharjee, Saravanan Raju, Mannanthara Kunhumon Noushija, Mintu Porel, Bibhu Ranjan Sarangi, Sankarasekaran Shanmugaraju Dalton Transactions (2025) · DOI
Mapping the L-tryptophan Capped Copper Nanocluster Mediated Binding and Targeted pH-Responsive Release of Doxorubicin via Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) Anna Sebastian, Kavya Pandarathodi, Indrajit Bhattacharjee, Abhishek Singh Shekhawat, Bibhu Ranjan Sarangi, Supratik Sen Mojumdar Materials Advances (2025) · DOI
Wearable threads for monitoring sanitizer quality using dye displacement assay Pratham Joshi, Akhiya Shinde, Sukanya Sudhiram, Bibhu Ranjan Sarangi, and Naresh Kumar Mani RSC Advances (2024) · DOI
Diffusion mediated rigidity-gradient hydrogel substrate for cellular mechanosensing I. Bhattacharjee, S. Sudhiram, M. Nithya, B. Kumar, and Bibhu Ranjan Sarangi The European Physical Journal Special Topics (2024) · DOI
Kinetics of Nisin-Induced Pore Formation in Giant Unilamellar Vesicles Nithya M, Olivia Vincent, Bibhu Ranjan Sarangi, and Bharat Kumar Langmuir (2023) · DOI
Rapid Detection of Ag(I) via Size-Induced Photoluminescence Quenching of Biocompatible Green-Emitting, l-Tryptophan-Scaffolded Copper Nanoclusters Aarya, Telna Thomas, Bibhu Ranjan Sarangi, and Supratik Sen Mojumdar ACS Omega (2023) · DOI
Lysozyme protected copper nano-cluster: A photo-switch for the selective sensing of Fe2+ Anna Sebastian, Aarya, Bibhu Ranjan Sarangi, and Supratik Sen Mojumdar Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry (2023) · DOI