Research: Soft-matter physics; active matter systems; mechanobiology
Current Group Members
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