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110. Debasmita Sarkar,# Manideepa Dhar,# Avijit Das, Sohini Mandal, Anirban Phukan and Uttam Manna*  "Covalent crosslinking chemistry for controlled modulation of nanometric roughness and surface free energy" Chem. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript  (Impact Factor: 8.4) 

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109. Sujit Kumar Deb, Pronoy Dutta, Golam Masud Karim, Amalika Patra, Pranab Bera, Snehasish Das, Priyam Mukherjee, Kumaran Rengasamy, Angana Borbora, Uttam Manna, Venkatachalam Subramanian, Uday Narayan Maiti*  "Bulk versus surface-limited polymer encapsulation: A current pulse-induced approach for confined polymer coating selectively over quasi-oriented MXene aerogel" Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024, 484, 149617  (Impact Factor: 15.1)

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108. Saurav Kumar, Nishanta Barman, Angana Borbora, Priyam Mondal, Mizuki Tenjimbayashi,* Uttam Manna* "pH-Triggered adjustable bursting of liquid marbles on water pool" J. Mater. Chem. A,  2024, 12, 3362–3372 (Impact Factor: 11.9) 

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107. Hrisikesh Sarma,# Subhankar Mandal,# Angana Borbora, Jaysri Das, Saurav Kumar and Uttam Manna* "Self-healable and tolerant superaerophobic coating for improving electrochemical hydrogen production" Small, 2024, 2309359 (Impact Factor: 13.3)

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106. Manideepa Dhar, Chittaranjan Mishra, Avijit Das and Uttam Manna* "Polymerization of monomer aggregates for tailoring and patterning water wettability" Chemical Communications, 2024, 60, 444-447 (Impact Factor: 4.9) (2023 CRSI Medal Winners Collection)

 

105. Jaysri Das,# Subhankar Mandal,# Angana Borbora, Sonam Rani, Mizuki Tenjimbayashi* and Uttam Manna*​ "Modulating Force of Nucleated Hydrogen Bubble Adhesion to Boost Electrochemical Water Splitting" Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, 2311648 (Impact Factor: 19)

 

104. Angana  Borbora,  Yang  Xu,  Souradeep  Dey, Xin  Wang,  Yuxing  Yao, Biman  B.  Mandal*, Xiaoguang Wang * and Uttam Manna*  "Lubricated Interfaces Enabling Simultaneous Pulsatile and Continuous Chemical Release Modes" Advanced Materials, 2023, 35, 2302264 (Impact Factor: 29.4)

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103. Angana Borbora, Jaysri Das and Uttam Manna*  "Chemically Selective Raising and Rolling of Oil-Droplet Underwater: An Equipment-Free Chemical Sensing Method" Chemical Communication, 2023, 59, 7915–7918 (Impact Factor: 4.9)

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102. Angana Borbora,ǂ Manideepa Dhar,ǂ Arpita Shome, Nishanta Barman, Swaraj Roy and Uttam Manna*  "Chemically-Customizing Mechanical Properties and Optical Transparency in Underwater Superoleophobic Coating" Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, 33, 2302569 (Impact Factor: 19)

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101. Saurav Kumar, Manideepa Dhar, Biswa Mohan Prusty, Debasmita Sarkar, Avijit Das, Debasis Manna, Uttam Manna*  "Amidation Reaction to Derive Waterborne, Tolerant, and Optically Transparent Solid Slippery and Superhydrophobic Coatings" Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023, 465, 142776 (Impact Factor: 15.1)

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100. Manideepa Dhar,ǂ Ufuoma I. Kara,ǂ Supriya Das, Yang Xu, Sohini Mandal, Robert L. Dupont, Eric C. Boerner, Boyuan Chen, Yuxing Yao, Xiaoguang Wang,* Uttam Manna* "Design of self-cleanable multilevel anticounterfeiting interface through covalent chemical modulation"  Materials Horizons, 2023,10, 2204-2214 (Impact Factor: 13.3)

 

99. Nishanta Barman, Arpita Shome, Saurav Kumar, Priyam Mondal, Karan Jain, Mizuki Tenjimbayashi,* Uttam Manna* "Preprogramming Floating Time of Liquid Marble"  Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, 33, 2214840 (Impact Factor: 19)

 

98. Santu Ruidas,ǂ, Avijit Das,ǂ Saurav Kumar, Sasanka Dalapati, Uttam Manna* and Asim Bhaumik*  "Non-Fluorinated and Robust Superhydrophobic Modification on Covalent Organic Framework for Crude-Oil-in-Water Emulsion Separation" Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022, 61, e2022105  (Impact Factor: 16.6)

 

97. Subhrajyoti Ghosh,‡ Abhijeet Rana,‡ Saurav Kumar, Chiranjib Gogoi, Srijan Mukherjee, Uttam Manna and Shyam Biswas*  "A self-cleaning hydrophobic MOF-based composite for highly efficient and recyclable separation of oil from water and emulsions" Mater. Chem. Front., 2022, 6, 2051–2060 (Impact Factor: 7)

 

96. Angana Borbora, and Uttam Manna*  "Design of Super-LC-Phobic Coating for Immobilizing LC μ-Droplet—Without Affecting its Sensitivity" Langmuir, 2022, 38, 30, 9221–9228 (Impact Factor: 3.9)

 

95. Arpita Shome, Avijit Das, Angana Borbora, Manideepa Dhar and Uttam Manna*  "Role of Chemistry on Bio-inspired Liquid Wettability" Chemical Society Reviews, 2022, 51, 5452–5497 (Invited Article). (Impact Factor: 46.2)

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94. Dibyangana Parbat#, Nirban Jana#, Manideepa Dhar, and Uttam Manna*  "Reactive Multilayer Coating as Versatile Nanoarchitectonics for Customizing Various Bio-inspired Liquid Wettability"   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023, 15, 25232–25247.  (Invited Article). (Impact Factor: 9.5)

 

93. Supriya Das, Ravi Kumar, Bingquan Yang, Sudipta Bag, Eric Sauter, Navid Hussain, Michael Hirtz* and Uttam Manna*  "Multiplexed Covalent Patterns on Double-Reactive Porous Coating" Chem Asian J. 2022,17, e202200157 (Impact Factor: 4.1)

 

92. Manideepa Dhar,¥ Avijit Das, ¥ Dibyangana Parbat, Uttam Manna* "Designing a Network of Crystalline Polymer for a Scalable, Nonfluorinated, Healable and Amphiphobic Solid Slippery Interface" Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022, 61, e20211676 (Impact Factor: 16.6)

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91. Adil Majeed Rather,# Yang Xu,# Yun Chang,# Robert Lewis Dupont, Angana Borbora, Ufuoma Israel Kara,Jen-Chun Fang, Rajdeep Mamtani, Meng Zhang, Yuxing Yao, Solomon Adera, Xiaoping Bao*, Uttam Manna*, Xiaoguang Wang* "Stimuli-Responsive Liquid Crystal-Infused Porous Surfaces for Manipulation of Underwater Gas Bubble Transport and Adhesion" Advanced materials, 2022, 34, 2110085 (Impact Factor: 29.4)

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90. Angana Borbora, Robert L. Dupont, Yang Xu,  Xiaoguang Wang * and Uttam Manna* "Dually reactive multilayer coatings enable orthogonal manipulation of underwater superoleophobicity and oil adhesion via post-functionalization" Mater. Horiz., 2022, 9, 991–1001 (Impact Factor: 13.3)

 

89. Arpita shome,# Avijit Das,# and Uttam Manna* "Michael Addition Reaction Assisted Derivation of Functional and Durable Superhydrophobic Interfaces" Chem. Mater., 2021, 33, 8941–8959 (Impact Factor: 8.6)

 

88. Avijit Das,# Manideepa Dhar, # and Uttam Manna* "Small molecules derived Tailored-Superhydrophobicity on fibrous and porous Substrates—with superior tolerance" Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022, 430, 132597 (Impact Factor: 15.1)

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87. Avijit Das, Sarajit Naskar, Manideepa Dhar, and Uttam Manna* "Rapid and Scalable synthesis of Vanillin based Organogelator and its Durable Composite for Comprehensive Remediation of Crude-Oil Spillages" ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 46803–46812 (Impact Factor: 9.5)

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86. Supriya Das,# Rajan Singh,# Avijit Das,# Sudipta Bag, Roy P. Paily,* and Uttam Manna* "Abrasion Tolerant, Non-Stretchable and Super-WaterRepellent Conductive & Ultrasensitive Pattern for Identifying Slow, Fast, Weak and Strong Human Motions at Diverse Conditions" Mater. Horiz., 2021, Accepted Manuscript (Impact Factor: 13.3)

 

85. Uttam Manna, Yashira M. Zavala, Nicholas L. Abbott*, and David M. Lynn* "Structured Liquid Droplets as Chemical Sensors that Function Inside Living Cells" ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 42502–42512 (Impact Factor: 9.5)

 

84. Curran G. Gahan, Xuanrong Guo, Uttam Manna, and David M. Lynn* "Polymer Coatings Comprised Entirely of Soft and Semipermeable Microcapsules" ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2021, 3, 8, 4044–4054. (Impact Factor: 5)

 

83. Manideepa Dhar,‡ Avijit Das,‡ Arpita Shome, Angana Borbora, and Uttam Manna* "Design of ‘Tolerant and Hard’ Superhydrophobicity to Freeze Physical Deformation"     Mater. Horiz., 2021,8, 2717-2725 (Impact Factor: 13.3)

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82. Harshit Agarwal, Kayleigh E. Nyffeler, Uttam Manna, Helen E. Blackwell*, and David M. Lynn* "Liquid Crystal-Infused Porous Polymer Surfaces: A “Slippery” Soft Material Platform for the Naked-Eye Detection and Discrimination of Amphiphilic Species" ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 33652–33663 (Impact Factor: 9.5)

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81. Arpita Shome, Dr. Adil M Rather, Angana Borbora, Pillalamarri Srikrishnarka, Dr. Avijit Baidya, Prof. Thalappil Pradeep* and Prof. Uttam Manna* "Design of a Waste Paper-Derived Chemically ‘Reactive’ and Durable Functional Material with Tailorable Mechanical Property Following an Ambient and Sustainable Chemical Approach" Chem Asian J. 2021, 16, 1 – 15. (Impact Factor: 4.1)

 

80. Arpita Shome, Joseph Christakiran Moses, Adil M. Rather, Prof. Biman B. Mandal* and  Prof. Uttam Manna* "Unconventional and Facile Fabrication of Chemically Reactive Silk Fibroin Sponges for Environmental Remediation" ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2021, 13, 24258–24271 (Impact Factor - 9.5)

 

79. Dibyangana Parbat  Bibhas K. Bhunia  Prof. Biman B. Mandal* and  Prof. Uttam Manna* "Bio‐inspired Underwater Super‐Oil‐Wettability for Controlling Platelet Adhesion" Chem Asian J., 2021, 16, 1–6 (Impact Factor - 4.1)

 

78. Angana Borbora and  Uttam Manna*   "Impact of Chemistry on Preparation and Post-Modification of Multilayered Hollow Microcapsules" Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 2110-2123. (Impact Factor - 4.9)

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77.  Upama Baruah and  Uttam Manna*   "Synthesis of a Chemically-Reactive and Polymeric Luminescent Gel" Chem. Sci., 2021,12, 2097-2107. (Impact Factor: 8.4)

 

76. Avijit Das, Arpita Shome and  Uttam Manna*   "Porous and Reactive Polymeric Interfaces: An Emerging Avenue for Achieving Durable and Functional Bio-Inspired Wettability"  J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 824-856. (Impact Factor: 11.9)

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75. Kousik Maji, Avijit Das, Manideepa Dhar, and  Uttam Manna*   "Synergistic Chemical Pattern on Hydrophilic Slippery Liquid Infused Porous Surface (SLIPS) for Water Harvesting Application" J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020,8, 25040-25046. (Impact Factor: 11.9)

 

74.  Avijit Das and  Uttam Manna* "Customizing Oil-Wettability in Air—without Affecting Extreme Water Repellency" Nanoscale, 2020,12, 24349-24356. (Impact Factor: 6.7)

 

73. Adil Majeed Rather, Pillalamarri Srikrishnarka, Avijit Baidya, Arpita Shome, Thalappil Pradeep* and Uttam Manna* "Evaluating the Impact of Tailored Water Wettability on Performance of CO2 Capture" ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2020, 3, 10541–10549 (Impact factor: 6.4)

 

72. Sreedeep Sekharan*, Abhisekh Saha, Uttam Manna, Lingaraj Sahoo "Transformation of Non-water Sorbing Fly Ash to a Water Sorbing Material for Drought Management" Scientific Reports, 2020, In press. (Impact Factor:4.6)  (From collaboration work with Sreedeep Sekharan, Civil Engineering  department, IIT Guwahati). 

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71. Abhisekh Saha, Sreedeep Sekharan, Uttam Manna "Superabsorbent hydrogel (SAH) as a soil amendment for drought management: A review" Soil and Tillage Research, 2020, 204, 104736 (Impact factor 6.5) (From collaboration work with Sreedeep Sekharan, Civil Engineering  department, IIT Guwahati).

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70. Arpita Shome, Avijit Das, Nidhi Rawat, Adil Majeed Rather, and Uttam Manna* "Reduction of Imine Based Cross-linkages to Achieve Sustainable Underwater Superoleophobicity That Performs at Challenging Conditions" J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8, 15148-15156. (Impact Factor: 11.9)

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69. Avijit Das, Kousik Maji, Sarajit Naskar and Uttam Manna* "Facile optimization of hierarchical topography and chemistry on magnetically active graphene oxide nanosheets" Chem. Sci., 2020,11, 6556-6566 (Advance Article) (Impact Factor: 8.4) 

 

68. Angana Borbora and Uttam Manna* "Synthesis of Orthogonally Reactive Multilayered Microcapsule" Chem. Commun., 2020,56, 7853-7856 (Impact Factor: 4.9)

 

67. Abhisekh Saha, Bharat Rattan, Sreedeep Sekharan* and Uttam Manna "Quantifying the interactive effect of water absorbing polymer (WAP)-soil texture on plant available water content and irrigation frequency" Geoderma 368, 2020,114310 (Impact Factor: 4.336) (From collaboration work with Sreedeep Sekharan, Civil Engineering Department, IIT Guwahati) (Impact Factor: 6.1)

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66. Kousik Maji, Avijit Das,Michael Hirtz and Uttam Manna* "How Does Chemistry Influence Liquid Wettability on Liquid Infused Porous Surface?" ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 14531-14541 (Impact Factor : 9.5)

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65. Supriya Das, Ravi Kumar, Dibyangana Parbat, Sylwia Sekula-Neuner, Michael Hirtz and Uttam Manna* "Covalently Modulated and Transiently Visible Writing: Rational Association of Two Extremes of Water Wettabilities" ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, 12, 2935-2943.(Impact Factor: 9.5)

 

64. "Hydrophobicity or Superhydrophobicity—Which is Right Choice for Stabilizing Underwater Superoleophilicity?" Dibyangana Parbat, Avijit Das , Kousik Maji and Uttam Manna* J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020,8, 97-106 (Impact Factor: 11.9)

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63. "A Scalable Chemical Approach for Synthesis of Highly Tolerant and Efficient Oil-Absorbent" Arpita Shome, Kousik Maji, Adil Majeed Rather, Arcot Yashwanth, Deepak Kumar Patel and Uttam Manna* Chemistry - An Asian Journal 2019, 14,4732 –4740 (Invited Article)(Impact Factor: 4.1)

 

62. "Catalyst-Free and Rapid Chemical Approach for In-situ Growth of ‘Chemically Reactive’ and Porous Polymeric Coating" Supriya Das, Avijit Das, Dibyangana Parbat and U. Manna* ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 11, 34316-34329.(Impact Factor: 9.5)

 

61. “Synthesis of Dual Functional and Robust Underwater Superoleophobic Interface.’  Upama Baruah, Avijit Das and Uttam Manna*. ​ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 11, 28571-28581. (Impact Factor: 9.5 )

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60. “Sustainable biomimicked oil/water wettability that performs under severe challenges. Avijit Das, Dibyangana Parbat, Arpita Shome and Uttam Manna*. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2019, 7, 11350-11359 (Impact Factor: 8.4)

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59. “Rational chemical engineering in natural protein derived functional interface. Arpita Shome, Adil M. Rather, Aindrila Ghosal, Bibhas Kumar Bhunia, Biman B. Mandal and Uttam Manna*. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2019, 7, 7502-7509. (Impact Factor: 8.4)

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58. “Biodegradable polymer based common chemical avenue for optimizing switchable, chemically reactive, and tunable adhesive superhydrophobicity. Nirban Jana, Dibyangana Parbat, Barnali Mondal, Supriya Das, and Uttam Manna*. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2019, 7, 9120-9129 (Impact Factor: 11.9)

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57. “Chemically reactive protein nanoparticles in synthesis of durable and deformable superhydrophobicity that performs in severe settings. Arpita Shome, Adil Majeed Rather and Uttam Manna*. Nanoscale Advances 2019, 1, 1746-1753. (Impact Factor: 4.7)

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56. “Rational use of dual chemical reactivity in single interface for optimizing both superhydrophobicity and underwater superoleophobicity. Nirban Jana, Dibyangana Parbat and Uttam Manna*. Chemistry of Materials, 2019, 31, 1479-1484. (Impact Factor: 8.6)

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55. “Simultaneous and controlled release of two different bioactive small molecules from nature inspired single material. Adil Majeed Rather, Arpita Shome, Bibhas Kumar Bhunia, Aparna Panuganti, Biman B. Mandal and Uttam Manna*. Journal of Materials Chemistry B 2018, 6, 7692-7702 (Impact Factor: 7)

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54. “Aloe Vera mucilage derived highly tolerant underwater superoleophobic coating. Arpita Shome, Adil Majeed Rather and Uttam Manna*. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018, 6, 22465-22471(Impact Factor: 11.9)

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53. “Alkali metal-ion assisted michael addition reaction in controlled tailoring of topography in superhydrophobic polymeric monolith. Adil M. Rather, Arpita Shome, Suresh Kumar, Bibhas Kumar Bhunia, Biman B. Mandal, Hemant Kumar Srivastava and Uttam Manna*. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018, 6, 17019-17031.”(Impact Factor: 11.9)

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52. “Synthesis of fish-scale and lotus-leaf mimicked stretchable and durable multilayers. Avijit Das, Shreyasi Sengupta, Jumi Deka, Adil Majeed Rather, Kalyan Raidongia and Uttam Manna*. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018, 6, 15993-16002.” (Impact Factor: 11.9)

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51. “Green and rapid synthesis of durable and super-oil (underwater) and water (in air) repellent interfaces. Adil M. Rather and Uttam Manna*. ACS Applied Material & Interfaces, 2018,10, 23451-23457. (Impact Factor: 9.5)

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50. “Fish-Scale' mimicked stretchable and robust oil-wettability that perform in practically relevant various physically/chemically severe scenarios. Dibyangana Parbat and Uttam Manna*. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2018, 6, 22027-22036.” (Impact Factor: 11.9)

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49. “Hierarchically featured and substrate independent bulk-deposition of ‘reactive’ polymeric nanocomplexes for controlled and strategic manipulation of durable biomimicking wettability. Kousik Maji and Uttam Manna*. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2018, 6, 6642-6653.” (Impact Factor: 11.9)

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48. “Strategic formulation of graphene oxide sheets for flexible monoliths and robust polymeric coatings that embedded with durable bio-inspired wettability. Avijit Das, Jumi Deka, Adil Majeed Rather, Bibhas Kumar Bhunia, Partha Pratim Saikia, Biman B. Mandal, Kalyan Raidongia and Uttam Manna*. ACS Applied Material & Interfaces, 2017, 9, 42354-42365.” (Impact Factor: 9.5)

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47. “Selective liaison with liquids for environment-friendly and comprehensive oil/water separation. Dibyangana Parbata and Uttam Manna*. ChemSusChem, 2017, 10, 4839-4844.” (Impact Factor: 8.4)

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46. “Sustainable polymeric material for the facile and repetitive removal of oil-spills through the complementary use of both selective-absorption and active-filtration processes. Adil Majeed Rather, Nirban Jana, Prateeti Hazarikaa and Uttam Manna*. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2017, 5, 23339-23348.”(Impact Factor: 11.9)

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45. “Robust and self-healable bulk-superhydrophobic polymeric coating. Avijit Das, Jumi Deka, Kalyan Raidongia and Uttam Manna*. Chemistry of Materials, 2017, 29, 8720-8728.”(Impact Factor: 8.6)

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44. “Exceptional control on physical properties of polymeric materialthrough alcoholic-solvent mediated environmental-friendly michael addition reaction. Adil majeed Rather, Nirban Jana, Samiyara Begum, Hemant Kumar Srivastava and Uttam Manna*. Green Chemistry, 2017, 19, 4527-4532.”(Impact Factor: 9.8)

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43. “Reactive nano-complex coated medical cotton: a facile avenue for tailored release of small molecules. Adil Majeed Rather, Sulendar Mahato, Kousik Maji, Neeha Gogoia and Uttam Manna*. Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 16154-16165. (Impact Factor: 6.7)

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42. “A general and facile chemical avenue for controlled and extreme regulation of water-wettability in air and oil-wettability under water. Dibyangana Parbat, Sana Gaffar, Adil Majeed Rather, Aditi Gupta and Uttam Manna*. Chemical Science 2017, 8, 6542-6554.”(Impact Factor: 8.4)

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41. “Stretchable and durable superhydrophobicity that acts both in air and under oil. Adil Majeed Rather and Uttam Manna*. Journal of Material Chemistry A 2017, 5, 15208-15216.”(Impact Factor: 11.9)

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40. “Synthesis of reactive and covalent polymeric multilayers coatings with durable superoleophobicity and superoleophilicity properties under water. Dibyangana Parbata and Uttam Manna*. Chemical Science, 2017, 8, 6092-6102.”(Impact Factor: 8.4)

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39. “Facile synthesis of tunable and durable bulk superhydrophobic material from amine reactive polymeric gel. Adil Majeed Rather and Uttam Manna*. Chemistry of Materials, 2016, 28, 8689-8699. (Impact Factor: 8.6)

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38. “Superhydrophobic polymer multilayers for the filtration- and absorption-based separation of oil/water mixtures. Michael J. Kratochvil, Uttam Manna and David M. Lynn*. Journal of polymer science, part A: Polymer Chemistry (2017), 55(18), 3127–3136.”(Impact Factor: 3.4)

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37. “Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces that prevent bacterial surface fouling and inhibit virulence phenotypes in surrounding planktonic cells. Michael J. Kratochvil, Michael A. Welsh, Uttam Manna, Benjamín J. Ortiz, Helen E. Blackwell and David M. Lynn*. ACS Infectious Diseases, 2016, 2, 509-517. (Impact Factor: 5.3)

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36. “Designing a single superabsorbent for separating oil from both layered as well as micron/submicron size emulsified oil/water mixtures by gamma radiation assisted grafting. Subhendu Ray Chowdhury, Atanu Jha, Uttam Manna and K. S. S. Sarma*.  RSC Advances 2016, 6, 26086-26095.”(Impact Factor: 3.9)

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35. “Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces that prevent microbial surface fouling and kill non-adherent pathogens in surrounding media: a controlled release approach. Uttam Manna, Namrata Raman, Michael A. Welsh, Yashira M. Zayas‐Gonzalez, Helen E. Blackwell, Sean P. Palecek, and David M. Lynn*. Advanced Functional Materials, 2016, 26, 3599–3611. (Impact Factor: 19)

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34. “Covalent immobilization of caged liquid crystal microdroplets on surfaces. Xuanrong Guo, Uttam Manna, Nicholas L. Abbott, and David M. Lynn. ACS Applied Material & Interfaces, 2015, 7, 26892-26903.”(Impact Factor: 9.5)

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33. “Fabrication of liquid-infused surfaces using reactive polymer multilayers: principles for manipulating the behaviors and mobilities of aqueous fluids on slippery liquid interfaces. Uttam Manna and David M. Lynn*. Advanced Materials, 2015, 27, 3007–3012. (Impact Factor: 29.4)

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32. “Synthetic surfaces that exhibit robust and tunable underwater superoleophobicity. Uttam Manna and David M. Lynn*. Advanced Functional Materials, 2015, 25, 1672–1681.”(Impact Factor: 19)

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31. “Surfactant-Induced ordering and wetting transitions of droplets of thermotropic liquid crystals caged inside partially-filled polymeric capsules. Rebecca J. Carlton, Yashira M. Zayas-Gonzalez, Uttam Manna, David M. Lynn* and Nicholas L. Abbott*. Langmuir, 2014, 30, 14944-14953. (Impact Factor: 3.9)

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30. “Liquid crystal chemical sensors that cells can wear. Uttam Manna, Yashira M. Zayas‐Gonzalez, Rebecca J. Carlton, Prof. Frank Caruso, Nicholas L. Abbott* and David M. Lynn*. Angewandte Chemie Interntional Edition, 2013, 52, 14011 –14015. (Impact Factor: 16.6)

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29. “Superhydrophobic polymer multilayers that promote the extended, long-term release of embedded water-soluble agents. Uttam Manna, Michael J. Kratochvil and David M. Lynn*. Advanced Materials 2013, 25 , 6405–6409. (Impact Factor: 29.4)

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28. “Restoration of superhydrophobicity in crushed polymer films by treatment with water: self-healing and recovery of damaged topographic features aided by an unlikely source. Uttam Manna and David M. Lynn*. Advanced Materials (2013), 25(36), 5104–5108.”(Impact Factor: 29.4)

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27. “Patterning and impregnation of superhydrophobic surfaces using aqueous solutions. Uttam Manna and David M. Lynn*. ACS Applied Material & Interfaces, 2013, 5, 7731-7736. (Impact Factor: 9.5)

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26. “Shrink-to-Fit' superhydrophobicity: thermally- induced microscale wrinkling of thin hydrophobic multilayers fabricated on flexible shrink-wrap substrates. Uttam Manna, Matthew C. D. Carter and David M. Lynn*. Advanced Materials, 2013, 25, 3085–3089.”(Impact Factor: 29.4)

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25. “Chemical patterning and physical refinement of reactive superhydrophobic surfaces. Uttam Manna, Adam H. Broderick and David M. Lynn*. Advanced Materials, 2012, 24, 4291–4295.”(Impact Factor: 29.4)

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24. “Covalent layer-by-layer assembly of water- permeable and water-impermeable polymer multilayers on highly water-soluble and water-sensitive substrates. Adam H. Broderick, Uttam Manna and David M. Lynn*. Chemistry of Materials, 2012, 24, 1786-1795. (Impact Factor: 8.6)

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23. “Hollow hemisphere and microcapsules of nonionic copolymer. Uttam Manna and Satish Patil*. Journal of Material Chemistry, 2011, 21, 263-268.”

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22. “Multilayer self-assembly of TiO2 nanoparticles and polyaniline grafted chitosan copolymer (cpani) for photocatalysis. Debajyoti Mahanta, Uttam Manna, Giridhar Madras and Satish Patil*. ACS Applied Material & Interfaces, 2011, 3, 84-92. (Impact Factor: 9.5)

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21. “Self-assembly of biopolymers on colloidal particles via hydrogen bonding. Uttam Manna and Satish Patil*. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2010, 1, 907-911. (Impact Factor: 5.7)

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20. “Multilayer single-component thin films and microcapsules via covalent bonded layer-by-layer self-assembly. Uttam Manna, Joydeep Dhar, Roopa Nayaka, and Satish Patil*. Chemical Communications, 2010, 46, 2250-2252.”(Impact Factor: 4.9)

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19. “Glucose-triggered drug delivery from borate mediated layer-by- layer self-assembly. Uttam Manna and Satish Patil*. ACS Applied Material & Interfaces, 2010, 2, 1521-1527. (Impact Factor: 9.5)

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18. “Layer-by-Layer self-assembly of modified hyaluronic acid/chitosan based on hydrogen bonding. Uttam Manna, Sri Bharani and Satish Patil*. Biomacromolecules 2009, 10, 2632-2639.”(Impact Factor: 6.2)

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17. “Borax mediated layer-by-layer self-assembly of neutral poly(vinyl alcohol) and chitosan. Uttam Manna and Satish Patil*. Journal of Material Chemistry B, 2009, 113, 9137-9142. (Impact Factor: 7)

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16. “Dual drug delivery microcapsules via layer-by-layer self-assembly. Uttam Manna and Satish Patil*. Langmuir, 2009, 25, 10515-10522.”(Impact Factor: 3.9)

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15. “Encapsulation of uncharged water-insoluble organic substance in polymeric membrane capsules via layer-by-layer approach. Uttam Manna and Satish Patil*. Journal of Material Chemistry B, 2008,112,13258-13262.”(Impact Factor: 7)

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                                                                                                    Patents

 

14. Uttam Manna, Manideepa Dhar, PREPARATION OF SUBSTRATE INDEPENDENT, HEALABLE AND AMPHIPHOBIC SLIPPERY COATING, Application No.: 202131056900, Date: December 07, 2021.

 

13. Uttam Manna, Roy P. Paily, Supriya Das, Rajan Singh, Avijit Das, Sudipta Bag, LOW-STRAIN BASED, WATER REPELLENT AND HIGHLY SENSITIVE HUMAN MOTION SENSOR, Application No.: 202131028045, Date: June 22, 2021.

 

12. Uttam Manna, Avijit Das, Manideepa Dhar, A SORBENT MATERIAL FOR DISTILLATION-FREE SEPARATION AND RECOVERY OF FLOATING OIL CONTAMINANTS, Application No. 202131020005Dated: April 30, 2021

 

11. A. Saha, S. Sreedeep, Uttam Manna "Transformation of fly ash into non-toxic, high water-absorbing polymer for drought management".(Indian Patent, application 201931047641, Filling Date: 21.11.2019)

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10. Uttam Manna, Velayudhan Pillai Nandakumar, Karthick Ramalingam, Manjunatha Megur Ganesh BHAT, Pramod Kumar HEGDE, Avijit Das,  Arpita Shome, Manideepa Dhar "A COATING COMPOSITION AND A PROCESS OF PREPARATION THEREOF"  (Indian Patent, application 202041020725, Filling Date: 16.05.2020)

 

9. Uttam Manna, Avijit Das, Sachin Kumar, A METHOD OF PREPARING DISPOSABLE WATER REPELLENT MASK AND A PRODUCT THEREOF, Submitted as:  Indian Patent Indian Patent.  ( Application No 202031014922, application date: APRIL 03, 2020)

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8. Uttam Manna, V. Nandakumar, Karthick R, Avijit Das, Kousik Maji, Arpita Shome 'A process for preparation of a superhydrophobic membrane' 202041005525, Indian Patent filed on February 7, 2020, Applied.

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7. David Lynn, Uttam Manna, Matthew Carter, Slippery Anti-Fouling Surfaces Fabricated from Reactive Polymer Multilayers, US Patent, Patent # US 10,557,044 B2, Feb 11, 2020. (link)

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6. David Lynn and Uttam Manna "Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces that Prevent Microbial Surface Fouling", US Patent, Patent # US 10,557,042 B2, Feb 11, 2020. (link)

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5. Uttam Manna, V. Nandakumar, Karthick R, Kousik Maji, Arpita Shome, Adil Majeed Rather, 'Selective And Super Oil Absorbent For Remediation Of Oil Spills'  Submitted as:  Indian Patent ( Application No 201841029004, application date: Aug 1, 2018), Granted (Date of Grant: 26.09.23).

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4. Uttam Manna, Adil M Rather,  'A method for producing superhydrophobic coating on fibrous material and a product thereof' , Submitted as:  Indian Patent ( Application No 201831014615, application date: April 17, 2018) Applied.

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3. David Lynn, Uttam Manna, Matthew Carter, Synthetic Surfaces with Robust and Tunable Underwater Superoleophobicity, Submitted as: US Patent, (Application No US20170022372 A1, application date Jan 26, 2017)

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                                                                                                    Book Chapter

2. “Advances In Superhydrophobic Coatings. Arpita Shome, Avijit Das, Uttam Manna. 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry”

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1. “Superhydrophobic Interfaces for high performance/Advanced application. Nirban Jana, Dibyangan Parbat, Uttam Manna. 2019, Springer.”