Dr T. Senthilkumar

Research Interest

• Design and synthesis of conjugated polymers
• Conjugated polymers for chemo-sensing, bio-sensing and drug delivery applications
• Sensor device development
• Polymer self-assembly
• Synthesis of value added polymers from cheap resources

Work Experience

Awards and Honours

• CSIR-NET-SRF: SRF awarded by CSIR – 2011
• CSIR-NET-JRF: JRF awarded by CSIR – 2009
• PIFI-Postdoctoral fellowship award by Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (2017-2018)

Patents

• Water soluble polyfluorene functionalized with glucuronic acid useful in bilirubin sensing
  S. K. Asha, T. Senthilkumar
  US Patent US9915669, March 2018
• Easy filter-and-separate method using polymer for enantio-selective separation
  S. K. Asha, T. Senthilkumar
  US Patent Application No. US10563008B2, Feb 2020

Selected Publications

• Conjugated Polymer Nanogel Binding Anticancer Drug through Hydrogen Bonds for Sustainable Drug Delivery
  ACS Appl. Bio Mater. 2019, 2, 12, 6012-6020
• Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles Appending Photo-Responsive Units for Controlled Drug Delivery, Release and Imaging
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 13114-13119
• Conjugated Polymers for Photodynamic Therapy
  Wiley-VCH publications, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-527-34273-0
• Orientation effect induced selective chelation of Fe2+ to a glutamic acid appended conjugated polymer for sensing and live cell imaging
  J. Mater. Chem. B 2016, 4, 299-308
• An Easy ‘Filter-and-Separate’ Method for Enantioselective Separation and Chiral Sensing of Substrates Using a Biomimetic Homochiral Polymer
  Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 8931-8934