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Rakesh Kumar Mahajan

Rakesh Kumar Mahajan

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D-Index
40
Citations
4921
World Ranking
17927
National Ranking
369

Overview

Rakesh Kumar Mahajan is affiliated with Guru Nanak Dev University in India. The primary focus of their research lies in the field of Medicine, with particular emphasis on Pharmaceutical Science, Pharmacology, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's work covers topics including nanoparticle-based drug delivery, advanced drug delivery systems, Indian economic and social development, advanced polymer synthesis and characterization, surfactants and colloidal systems, diffusion coefficients in liquids, and chemical and physical properties in aqueous solutions.

Recent publications by Rakesh Kumar Mahajan include:

  • Advances in the therapeutic delivery and applications of functionalized Pluronics: A critical review, 2021, in Advances in Colloid and Interface Science
  • Solubilization of hydrophobic drugs clozapine and oxcarbazepine in the lower and higher molecular weight pluronic mixed micelles-a physicochemical, In vitro release and In vitro anti-oxidant study, 2020, in Journal of Molecular Liquids
  • Loading of hydrophobic drug silymarin in pluronic and reverse pluronic mixed micelles, 2022, in Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology
  • Unusual solubilization capacity of hydrophobic drug olanzapine in polysorbate micelles for improved sustained drug release, 2022, in Journal of Molecular Liquids
  • Detection of the mecA Gene and Its Association With Antimicrobial Resistance Among Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci Isolated From Clinical Samples in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study, 2025, in Cureus

Key frequent co-authors collaborating with Mahajan include:

  • Pankaj Singla
  • Saweta Garg
  • Marloes Peeters
  • Dilpreet Kaur
  • Amarjit Singh Sidhu

Their work has been published in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Molecular Liquids, Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, and Cureus.

Best Publications

  • Electrochemical detection of dopamine in the presence of ascorbic acid using graphene modified electrodes

    Yang Rae Kim;Sungyool Bong;Yeon Joo Kang;Yongtak Yang

  • 226Ra, 232Th and 40K analysis in soil samples from some areas of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, India using gamma ray spectrometry

    Surinder Singh;Asha Rani;Rakesh Kumar Mahajan

  • Adsorption Kinetics for the Removal of Hazardous Dye Congo Red by Biowaste Materials as Adsorbents

    Sumanjit Kaur;Seema Rani;Rakesh Kumar Mahajan

  • Advances in the synthesis, molecular architectures and potential applications of gemini surfactants.

    Renu Sharma;Ajar Kamal;Maryam Abdinejad;Rakesh Kumar Mahajan

  • Synthesis and adsorption properties of mesoporous material for the removal of dye safranin: Kinetics, equilibrium, and thermodynamics

    Sumanjit Kaur;Seema Rani;R.K. Mahajan;M. Asif

  • A mercury(II) ion-selective electrode based on neutral salicylaldehyde thiosemicarbazone.

    R.K Mahajan;Inderpreet Kaur;T.S Lobana

  • An investigation of drug binding ability of a surface active ionic liquid: micellization, electrochemical, and spectroscopic studies.

    Suruchi Mahajan;Rabia Sharma;Rakesh Kumar Mahajan

  • A regenerative electrochemical sensor based on oligonucleotide for the selective determination of mercury(II)

    Donghoon Han;Yang Rae Kim;Jeong Wook Oh;Tae Hyun Kim

  • Highly Sensitive Gold Nanoparticle-Based Colorimetric Sensing of Mercury(II) through Simple Ligand Exchange Reaction in Aqueous Media

    Yang Rae Kim;Rakesh Kumar Mahajan;Jong Seung Kim;Hasuck Kim

  • Silver ion-selective electrodes employing Schiff base p-tert-butyl calix[4]arene derivatives as neutral carriers

    Rakesh Kumar Mahajan;Inderpreet Kaur;Manoj Kumar

  • Fluorescence turn-on sensors for HSO4−

    Hyun Jung Kim;Sankarprasad Bhuniya;Rakesh Kumar Mahajan;Rajiv Puri

  • Interactions of phenothiazine drugs with bile salts: micellization and binding studies.

    Suruchi Mahajan;Rakesh Kumar Mahajan

  • Surface adsorption and mixed micelle formation of surface active ionic liquid in cationic surfactants: Conductivity, surface tension, fluorescence and NMR studies

    Rabia Sharma;Suruchi Mahajan;Rakesh Kumar Mahajan

  • Physicochemical studies of pyridinium gemini surfactants with promethazine hydrochloride in aqueous solution

    Rakesh Kumar Mahajan;Suruchi Mahajan;Avinash Bhadani;Sukhprit Singh

  • An investigation of binding ability of ionic surfactants with trifluoperazine dihydrochloride: insights from surface tension, electronic absorption and fluorescence measurements

    Rabia Sharma;Rakesh Kumar Mahajan

  • Analysis of uranium and its correlation with some physico-chemical properties of drinking water samples from Amritsar, Punjab

    Surinder Singh;Asha Rani;Rakesh Kumar Mahajan;Tejinder Pal Singh Walia

  • Analysis of interfacial and micellar behavior of sodium dioctyl sulphosuccinate salt (AOT) with zwitterionic surfactants in aqueous media.

    Rakesh Kumar Mahajan;Rabia Sharma

  • Advances in the therapeutic delivery and applications of functionalized Pluronics: A critical review

    Pankaj Singla;Saweta Garg;Jake McClements;Oliver Jamieson

  • A chloride selective sensor based on a calix[4]arene possessing a urea moiety

    J. Nagendra Babu;Vandana Bhalla;Manoj Kumar;R.K. Mahajan

  • Temperature-Dependent Solubilization of the Hydrophobic Antiepileptic Drug Lamotrigine in Different Pluronic Micelles—A Spectroscopic, Heat Transfer Method, Small-Angle Neutron Scattering, Dynamic Light Scattering, and in Vitro Release Study

    Pankaj Singla;Onkar Singh;Shagun Sharma;Kai Betlem

  • A systematic physicochemical investigation on solubilization and in vitro release of poorly water soluble oxcarbazepine drug in pluronic micelles

    Pankaj Singla;Shruti Chabba;Rakesh Kumar Mahajan

  • Silver(I) ion-selective membrane based on Schiff base–p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene

    R. K. Mahajan;Manoj Kumar;Vandana Sharma;Inderpreet Kaur

  • Pluronic-SAILs (surface active ionic liquids) mixed micelles as efficient hydrophobic quercetin drug carriers

    Pankaj Singla;Onkar Singh;Shruti Chabba;Rakesh Kumar Mahajan

  • Organic Additives and Electrolytes as Cloud Point Modifiers in Octylphenol Ethoxylate Solutions

    Rakesh Kumar Mahajan;Kulwinder Kumar Vohra;Navjot Kaur;Vinod Kumar Aswal

  • Mercury(II) ion-selective electrodes based on p-tert-butyl calix[4]crowns with imine units.

    Rakesh Kumar Mahajan;Ravneet Kaur;Inderpreet Kaur;Vandana Sharma

  • Uranium distribution in groundwater and assessment of age dependent radiation dose in Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Pathankot districts of Punjab, India.

    Tanu Sharma;Arvesh Sharma;Inderpreet Kaur;R.K. Mahajan

Frequent Co-Authors

Vinod K. Aswal
Vinod K. Aswal Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Manoj Kumar
Manoj Kumar Guru Nanak Dev University
Vandana Bhalla
Vandana Bhalla Guru Nanak Dev University
Vinod Kumar Gupta
Vinod Kumar Gupta King Abdulaziz University
Hasuck Kim
Hasuck Kim Seoul National University
Jong Seung Kim
Jong Seung Kim Korea University
Mohammad Asif
Mohammad Asif King Saud University
Ray J. Butcher
Ray J. Butcher Howard University
Inderjeet Tyagi
Inderjeet Tyagi Zoological Survey of India
Ramón Martínez-Máñez
Ramón Martínez-Máñez Universitat Politècnica de València

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