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Patents & Authored Books

Patented technologies in environmental sensors, toxicant trapping, and authored volumes with leading academic publishers.

Patented Innovations

Indian PatentTEMP/E-1/46586/2018-KOL (2019)

As Sensor and trapper

Inventors: Sanjib Pariyal, Rajan Kumar, Tapendu Samanta, Pawan Kumar, Raja Shunmugam

Polymeric materials engineered for simultaneous sensitive detection and high-capacity trapping of toxic arsenic and heavy metals from contaminated drinking water.

Sensors & Environmental Remediation
International Patent (PCT)PCT/IB2015/051113

Unique norbornene polymer based 'in-field' sensor for As(III)

Inventors: Sourav Bhattacharya#, Santu Sarkar# and Raja Shunmugam*

Field-deployable colorimetric and fluorometric polynorbornene test kits allowing rapid detection of arsenic(III) down to ppb levels without sophisticated lab instruments.

Sensors & Diagnostics
International Patent (PCT)PCT/IB2014/066077

Unusual Red Shift of the Sensor While Detecting the Presence of Cd2+ in Aqueous Environment

Inventors: Santu Sarkar and Raja Shunmugam*

Chemosensing platform showing a rare and distinct fluorometric red shift upon binding cadmium ions, preventing false positives in complex biological and environmental matrices.

Sensors & Diagnostics
United States Patent (USPTO)US 20110065195 A1

Terpyridine substituted compounds and related selective detection methods for mercury ion

Inventors: G. N. Tew, R. Shunmugam

Functional terpyridine-derivatized polymers that chelate and selectively detect toxic mercuric ions (Hg2+) with high sensitivity.

Heavy Metal Sensing
United States Patent (USPTO)US 20110064944 A1

Ferromagnetic block copolymers and related methods

Inventors: G. N. Tew, R. Shunmugam, Z. M. AL-Badri, T. P. Russell

Block copolymer templates capable of organizing ferromagnetic nanoparticles into ordered nanoscale arrays for magnetic data storage, imaging, and guided therapeutics.

Magnetic Nanomaterials

Authored Books & Chapters

Authored Book

Polynorbornene based sensors for 'in-field' heavy metal and nerve agent sensing applications

Edited by Raja Shunmugam

Publisher:
CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group
ISBN:
978-1-77188-297-2
Year:
2016

A definitive treatise on utilizing functionalized norbornene macromolecules for rapid in-field detection of toxic heavy metals, nerve agent warfare surrogates, and remediation protocols.

Book Chapters (7)

  1. 7. “pH-Responsive Materials: Properties, Design, and Applications”

    Diptendu Patra, Basim Basheer and Raja Shunmugam

    Stimuli-Responsive Materials for Biomedical Applications (Eds. Ehsan Nazarzadeh Zare and Pooyan Makvandi) (ACS Symposium Series, American Chemical Society, 2023) — Chapter 7

  2. 6. “Recent Applications of Macromolecular Gels for Environmental Remediation”

    Sayantani Bhattacharya and Raja Shunmugam

    Progress in Polymer Research for Biomedical, Energy and Specialty Applications (Ed. S. Ananthan) (CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, 2022) — Chapter 14

  3. 5. “Arsenic binding to proteins alters tissue homeostasis”

    Afaq Hussain, Vineeth A R, Soumya Kundu, Tapendu Samanta, Shunmugam R., Debnath Pal and Jayasri Das Sarma

    Arsenic in the Environment (Ed. Margarita Stoytcheva) (IntechOpen Publishers, 2018) — Chapter 5, pp. 59-80

  4. 4. “Polynorbornene based sensors for 'in-field' heavy metal and nerve agent sensing applications”

    Sarkar S., Bhattacharya S. and Shunmugam R.

    Polynorbornene based sensors (Ed. Raja Shunmugam) (CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, 2014) — Page 372

  5. 3. “Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization is a Versatile Technique for Making Polymeric Biomaterials”

    Rao, V. N., Mane, S. R., Shunmugam, R.

    Computational and Experimental Chemistry: Developments and Applications (Eds. T. Chakraborty, M. J. Bucknum, E. A. Castro) (CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, 2013) — Page 193

  6. 2. “Novel Block Copolymers with Terpyridine Pendant Groups”

    G. N. Tew, K. Aamer, R. Shunmugam

    Metal-Containing and Metallo-Supramolecular Polymers and Materials (Eds. G.R. Newkome, I. Manners, U.S. Schubert) (ACS Symposium Series, 2006) — pp. 126-140

  7. 1. “Supramolecular Block Copolymers Containing Metal-Ligand Binding Sites: From Synthesis to Properties”

    K. Aamer, R. Shunmugam, G. N. Tew

    Block Copolymers in Nanoscience (Eds. M. Lazzari, S. Lecommandoux, G. Liu) (Wiley-VCH, 2006) — pp. 169-189