02 Nov 2024: Congratulations to Harsha, Dr. Naveen, Raju and Lokesh for getting publication in Small titled "Charge Modulation at the Liquid Crystal Droplet-Aqueous Interface Enables Ultrasensitive, Nonspecific Protein Detection".

17 Oct 2024: Congratulations to Lokesh and Dr. Rajkumar for getting publication in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics titled "Cation Effects and Charge Inversion Contribute to the Electrostatic Stabilisation of Protein Bioconjugates in Neat Ionic Liquids".

28 Sept 2024: Congratulations to Harsha Maheshwari for the Best Poster Award at the In-House Symposium 2024, Chemistry Department, IIT Bombay.

28 Sept 2024: Dr. Rajkumar gave an excellent talk on Porous Liquids at the In-House Symposium 2024, Chemistry Department, IIT Bombay.

28 Sept 2024: Pranisha presented a poster on Covalent Organic Framework Materials at the In-House Symposium 2024, Chemistry Department, IIT Bombay.

24 Aug 2024: Rajkumar receives the prestigious "Naik and Rastogi Award for Excellence in Ph.D. Research" for the year 2022-2024: A huge honour for the group for the best Ph.D. thesis in Physical and Materials Chemistry domain. Congratulations, Raj.

26 Jul 2024: Harsha Maheshwari receives the Best Oral Presentation Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry; Journal of Materials Chemistry C, at the 29th International Liquid Crystal Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

23 Jul 2024: Shivalika presented a Poster Entitled: "Exploring the pH-based effects on the self-assembly of Polyethylenimine" at the Gordon Research Conference on Polymer Physics held at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.

10 Jul 2024: Yogendra attended the 3D Bioprinting Ignited X Conference at IISc Bangalore.

28 Jun 2024: Prof. Sharma hosted the "Talks and Lectures on Field and Flow-based Separations" at the Chemistry Department, IIT Bombay.

19 Jun 2024: Prof. Sharma has been chosen as an Advisory Committee Member for the International UK Colloids 2025 Conference.

14 Jun 2024:  Prof. Sharma recently attended the Soft Matter Young Investigator Meet 2024 at Kodaikanal, India.

19 Mar 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Akshay and Dr. Rajkumar for getting their cover art accepted as the front cover of ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering.

07 Mar 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Akshay and Dr. Rajkumar for getting publication in ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering titled "Efficient Carbon Capture and Mineralization Using Porous Liquids Comprising Hollow Nanoparticles and Enzymes Dispersed in Fatty Acid-Based Ionic Liquids".

24 Feb 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Raj Kumar for earning his Ph.D. degree with his hard work and dedication.

02 Feb 2024: Prof. Sharma and Prof. Ruchi Anand hosted the ACS Interactions - Empowering Professionals to Advance Science and Shape the Future! at IIT Bombay.

31 Jan 2024: Prof. Sharma was the co-organizer of the workshop on "Small Angle X-Ray Scattering for Colloids, Polymers and Biological Systems," organized by Prof. Suparna Mukherji, Head, CRNTS and SAIF, IIT Bombay.

23 Dec 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Naveen and Harsha for getting publication in Langmuir. In this paper, they developed a method for patterning of protein-sequestered liquid-crystal droplets.

18-20 Dec 2023: Shivalika gave an exciting talk about the Hierarchical self-assembly of like-charged protonated polymeric chains at CompFlu organized by the IIT Madras.

14 Dec 2023: Prof. Sharma hosted the "Symposium on Soft and Biological Materials: Experiments and Theory" at IIT Bombay.

10-13 Dec 2023: Shivalika presented a poster titled Light responsive self-assembled microstructures of Branched PEI chains at the SPSI Macro conference organized by the IIT Guwahati.

6-8 Dec 2023: Harsha presented a poster on the Ultrasensitive detection of proteins at the Aqeous-Liquid Crystal Interface in C3S conference organized by the Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay.

30th Nov 2023: Congratulations to Raj Kumar for his outstanding achievement. His work got a U S patent. The title is "SOLVENT-FREE LIQUID FROM REGENERATED SILK FIBROIN: A WRITEABLE AND SHAPEABLE MATERIAL".

27th Oct 2023: Congratulations to Shivalika Sharma for the best poster award in Thieme - IIT Bombay International Chemistry Symposium 2023.

18th Oct 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Raj Kumar for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis. His thesis provided significant advancement in understanding in developing new class of regenerated silk fibroin-based liquid materials for 3D printing, utilising ionic liquids for stabilising proteins, and also nanoparticulate-based porous liquids for carbon mineralization.

4th Sep-8th Sep 2023: Harsha presented her work on Liquid Crystal Droplets at the International Soft Matter Conference held in Kyoto,  Japan.

28th Aug-1st Sep 2023: Raju K. Singh attended the International Symposium on Polyelectrolytes, Czech Republic, and presented his work on the Self-assembly of Polyelectrolytes.

28th July 2023: SMRL welcomes Rikna and Pranisha as new Ph.D. group members.

19th June-20th Jun 2023: Raj Kumar attended UK Porous Materials Conference in Sheffield, UK, and presented his work on Porous liquids.

01st July 2023: Prof. Sharma will be a part of a jury member of the prestigious G20 initiative. Link

16th Nov 2022: Polyethyleneimine never ceases to excite: Congratulations to Shivalika Sharma for her first paper to be published in RSC Chemical Communications.

2nd-5th Nov 2022: Rajkumar, Shivalika, and Raju Singh presented posters in the SPSI-Macro 2022. 

20th Sept 2022: Congratulations to Shivalika Sharma for her work being presented at the International Soft Matter Conference 2022, Poznan, Poland.

13th Sept 2022: Congratulations on our research work to be published in ACS Chemistry of Materials. The article is to be featured on the main cover page of the journal.

21st July 2022: Congratulations to Naveen Kumar PM for successfully defending his PhD thesis on the design and development of nematic liquid-crystal droplet and protein-based studies. He becomes 2nd graduate of the Sharma group. 

June 2022: Check out our latest work on the Prevention of amyloid-like aggregation of proteins via polymer bioconjugations: Frontiers in Physics.

June 2022: Silk becomes liquid without a solvent  ACS Applied Polymer Materials: A dual polymer layer around silk fibroin protein allows fluidity & retention of native-like random coil secondary structure, thus allowing processability for writing or moulding applications. Congratulations to Raj Kumar for this excellent work.

May 2022: Congratulations to the group for publishing a ground-breaking work on the Ultraslow Biological Water-Like Dynamics in Waterless Liquid Protein in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters in collaboration with Prof. Anindya Datta's group. It was also featured on the cover page of the journal.

November 2021: Our work on Porous liquids has been highlighted in Nature India,  Research matters, The Hindu Business Line and at different IITB platforms. This work highlights one of India's responses by proposing porous liquid technologies that can be developed towards restricting carbon emission, the main agenda of COP26 Glasgow meeting.

18th November 2021: Congratulations to Anasua Mukhopadhyay for successfully defending her PhD thesis and becoming the first graduate from the group. 

October 2021: Congratulations to Naveen Kumar and Raju Kumar Singh for publishing an article in ACS Langmuir. The article is featured on the cover page of the journal.

July 2021: Congratulations to Archita Bhattacharjee and Raj Kumar for getting publication in ChemSusChem. The article has been cited as a Very Important Paper in the field of sustainable materials.

The work has been covered in a special video by Wiley noteworthy in the Chemistry Europe scientific magazine.