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D-Index
63
Citations
15740
World Ranking
8345
National Ranking
108

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Samir Kumar Pal is affiliated with the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in India. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and materials science, with substantial contributions in related subfields such as materials chemistry, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, organic chemistry, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their main research topics include:

  • Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
  • Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior

Samir Kumar Pal has published extensively, with frequent venue appearances including:

  • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry (9 publications)
  • ChemMedChem (7 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (7 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (5 publications)
  • International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering (5 publications)

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Sensitization of nontoxic MOF for their potential drug delivery application against microbial infection," 2021, Inorganica Chimica Acta
  • "Incorporation of a Biocompatible Nanozyme in Cellular Antioxidant Enzyme Cascade Reverses Huntington's Like Disorder in Preclinical Model," 2020, Advanced Healthcare Materials
  • "Nano-MOFs as targeted drug delivery agents to combat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections," 2020, Royal Society Open Science
  • "Oral drug delivery using a polymeric nanocarrier: chitosan nanoparticles in the delivery of rifampicin," 2022, Materials Advances
  • "Identification of Biomarker Hyaluronan on Colon Cancer Extracellular Vesicles Using Correlative AFM and Spectroscopy," 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Samir Kumar Pal include:

  • Aniruddha Adhikari
  • Susmita Mondal
  • Saleh A. Ahmed
  • Dipanjan Mukherjee
  • Ria Ghosh

Samir Kumar Pal has been recognized as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).

Best Publications

  • Dynamics of water in biological recognition.

    Samir Kumar Pal;Ahmed H. Zewail

  • Biological water at the protein surface: dynamical solvation probed directly with femtosecond resolution.

    Samir Kumar Pal;Jorge Peon;Ahmed H. Zewail

  • Biological water: femtosecond dynamics of macromolecular hydration

    Samir Kumar Pal;Jorge Peon;Biman Bagchi;Ahmed H. Zewail

  • Copper quantum clusters in protein matrix: potential sensor of Pb2+ ion.

    Nirmal Goswami;Anupam Giri;M. S. Bootharaju;Paulrajpillai Lourdu Xavier

  • Biological water: A critique

    Dongping Zhong;Samir Kumar Pal;Ahmed H. Zewail

  • Luminescent quantum clusters of gold in transferrin family protein, lactoferrin exhibiting FRET.

    Paulrajpillai Lourdu Xavier;Kamalesh Chaudhari;Pramod Kumar Verma;Samir Kumar Pal

  • Water at DNA surfaces: ultrafast dynamics in minor groove recognition.

    Samir Kumar Pal;Liang Zhao;Ahmed H. Zewail

  • Luminescent Quantum Clusters of Gold in Bulk by Albumin-Induced Core Etching of Nanoparticles: Metal Ion Sensing, Metal-Enhanced Luminescence, and Biolabeling

    Madathumpady Abubaker Habeeb Muhammed;Pramod Kumar Verma;Samir Kumar Pal;Archana Retnakumari

  • Bright, NIR‐Emitting Au23 from Au25: Characterization and Applications Including Biolabeling

    Madathumpady Abubaker Habeeb Muhammed;Madathumpady Abubaker Habeeb Muhammed;Pramod Kumar Verma;Samir Kumar Pal;R. C. Arun Kumar

  • Intramolecular Charge Transfer Processes in Confined Systems. Nile Red in Reverse Micelles

    Anindya Datta;Debabrata Mandal;Samir Kumar Pal;Kankan Bhattacharyya

  • Nanostructured Zinc Oxide for Water Treatment

    Sunandan Baruah;Samir K. Pal;Joydeep Dutta

  • Ag7Au6: A 13-Atom Alloy Quantum Cluster

    Thumu Udayabhaskararao;Yan Sun;Nirmal Goswami;Samir K. Pal

  • Hydration at the surface of the protein Monellin: dynamics with femtosecond resolution.

    Jorge Peon;Samir Kumar Pal;Ahmed H. Zewail

  • Two Distinct Fluorescent Quantum Clusters of Gold Starting from Metallic Nanoparticles by pH-Dependent Ligand Etching

    Madathumpady Abubaker Habeeb Muhammed;Subramani Ramesh;Sudarson Sekhar Sinha;Samir Kumar Pal

  • Femtosecond dynamics of rubredoxin: Tryptophan solvation and resonance energy transfer in the protein

    Dongping Zhong;Samir Kumar Pal;Deqiang Zhang;Sunney I. Chan

  • Photoreactivity of ZnO nanoparticles in visible light: Effect of surface states on electron transfer reaction

    Sunandan Baruah;Sudarson Sekhar Sinha;Barnali Ghosh;Samir Kumar Pal

  • Luminescent, bimetallic AuAg alloy quantum clusters in protein templates.

    Jyoti Sarita Mohanty;P. Lourdu Xavier;Kamalesh Chaudhari;M. S. Bootharaju

  • Quantum Clusters of Gold Exhibiting FRET

    M. A. Habeeb Muhammed;Ajay Kumar Shaw;Samir Kumar Pal;T. Pradeep

  • Ultrafast surface hydration dynamics and expression of protein functionality: α-Chymotrypsin

    Samir Kumar Pal;Jorge Peon;Ahmed H. Zewail

  • Dynamics in the DNA Recognition by DAPI: Exploration of the Various Binding Modes

    Debapriya Banerjee;Samir Kumar Pal

Frequent Co-Authors

Kankan Bhattacharyya
Kankan Bhattacharyya Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
Thalappil Pradeep
Thalappil Pradeep Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Ahmed H. Zewail
Ahmed H. Zewail California Institute of Technology
Joydeep Dutta
Joydeep Dutta Royal Institute of Technology
A. K. Raychaudhuri
A. K. Raychaudhuri Indian Institute of Science
Sabita Roy
Sabita Roy University of Miami
Hynd Remita
Hynd Remita University of Paris-Saclay
Dongping Zhong
Dongping Zhong The Ohio State University
Samit K. Ray
Samit K. Ray Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Omar F. Mohammed
Omar F. Mohammed King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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