Welcome to Smart Materials Lab!!!
at the Department of Nanoscience and Technology, University of Calicut. We focus on developing photosensitive nanomaterials for applications in stimuli-induced assemblies, light-emitting gadgets, bioimaging, sensing, and therapeutics. Some of our broad areas of interest include atomically precise gold and silver nanoclusters, gold nanoparticles, up-conversion nanoparticles, anisotropic nanosystems, perovskite quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, and fullerenes. We do various experiments to synthesize and analyze the functionally modified nanoprobes to understand their intriguing properties.
Research Team
with Padma Shri Prof. T. Pradeep and Prof. M. K. Jayaraj (Hon. Vice Chancellor of UOC)
News and Highlights
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Hearty Congratulations to Dr. Hasna P. P. for receiving the Chief Minister’s Nava Kerala Post Doctoral Fellowship. Welcome to Smart Materials Lab!!!
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Hearty Congratulations !!! Rival and team for the new publication in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (IF-17.873).
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Excited to share that the work published in Small is among the most downloaded papers. Congratulations to all !!!
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Mymoona has won the Best Paper Award (Oral-First) for her paper entitled “Electrochemically Enabled Pt Decoration on Thiolated Gold Nanoclusters for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction” in “National Science Day competitions-2023” held at CSIR-CECRI. Hearty Congratulations to Mymoona !!!
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Lakshmi has won the Best Paper Award (Oral-Second) for her paper entitled “Precision Nanocluster-Based Toroidal and Supertoroidal Frameworks Using Photocycloaddition-Assisted Dynamic Covalent Chemistry” in “National Science Day competitions-2023” held at CSIR-CECRI. Hearty Congratulations to Lakshmi !!!
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Mr. Sainul Abid K A has joined the group as a doctoral fellow, Welcome Abid !!!
Recent Publications
Luminescent Quantum Dots: Synthesis, Optical Properties, Bioimaging and Toxicity. Adv. Drug Deliv. Rev. 2023, 197, 114830.
Sobhanan, J.; † Rival, J. V.; † Anas, A.;* Shibu, E. S.;* Takano, Y.; Biju, V*
Precision Nanocluster-Based Toroidal and Supertoroidal Frameworks Using Photocycloaddition-Assisted Dynamic Covalent Chemistry. Small 2023, smll.202207119
Lakshmi, K. M.; Rival, J. V.; Sreeraj, P.; Nambiar, S. R.; Jeyabharathi, C.; Nonappa; Shibu, E. S.*
Light-Emitting Atomically Precise Nanocluster-Based Flexible QR Codes for Anti Counterfeiting. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 10583.
Rival, J. V.; Mymoona, P.; Vinod, R.; Vinu Mohan, A. M.; Shibu, E. S.*
Self-Assembly of Precision Noble Metal Nanoclusters: Hierarchical Structural Complexity, Colloidal Superstructures and Applications. Small 2021, 2005718
Rival, J. V.; Mymoona, P.; Lakshmi, K. M.; Nonappa; Pradeep, T.; Shibu, E. S.*
