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SRM being awarded "The UCSB Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Grant 2024". This Program is designed to help postdoctoral scholars by providing funding for pursuing professional development opportunities in variety of career trajectories. Congratulations !!!
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Readout our recent article on"Hydrazine-responsive PISA" at Polymer Chemistry 2024 (doi.org/10.1039/D4PY00073K). This article is part of the themed collection:Polymer Chemistry Emerging Investigators Series. This work is highlighted on the cover of the issue.
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SRM being awarded "The UCSB Senate Faculty Research Grant 2023". Congratulations !!!
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SRM moved to University of California Santa Barbara, USA.
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SRM elected as "Young Associate" of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences-2021. Congratulations !!!
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Readout our recent paper on "RAFT-Hetero-Diels-Alder Chemistry for Bioconjugation" at Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020.
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Check out our recent article on"Trending Methods Employed for PISA" at New Journal of Chemistry 2020.
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Readout our recent review article on "Biomedical applications of pH-responsive amphiphilic polymer nano-assemblies" at ACS Applied Nano Materials 2020.
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It's nice to see our paper in J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem. 2019, 57, 146–156, is among the top 10% most downloaded papers 2018-2019.
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Our Recent article on "NITEC based polymeric nanoparticles for Nano bio-imaging" is highlighted on journal cover for Wiley- SMALL 2018."
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Research Area
Sustainable Polymer Synthesis and Applications
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Vitrimers
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Polymerization-Induced Self-assembly (PISA)
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Polymeric Single-Chain Nanoparticles (SCNP)
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Anionic Polymerization
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Polymer Hydrogels
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Polymer-Protein Conjugation
Funding....
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