Pradip Das
Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (Supervisor: Prof. Carl W. Garland), 1988

Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (with Prof. W. H. Schwarz), 1991 – 1994

Teaching Fellow, Boston University, 1981-83

 Current Research Interests/ Future Plan:

  • Molecular Crystals, Liquid crystals and Gel states of Lipids and Biopolymers

  • Melting of Molecular Crystals

  • Quantum Chemical and Semiempirical Techniques

 Award/ Fellowship:

  • Institute of Biophysical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 1991 – 1994

List of Publications:

  1. P. Das and J. De, “Purity Criteria for Cholesteryl Oleyl Carbonate”, submitted to Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals .

  2. P. Das and J. De, Crystal Structure and Microstructure of Cholesteryl Oleyl Carbonate, Chemistry and Physics of Lipids 164, 33 – 41 (2011). 

  3. P. Das, R. K. Sinha and J. De, “Pretransitional Phenomena in Pure States and in a Binary Mixture of Axially and Transversally Dipolar Rodlike Molecules of Near-Identical Structures”, Journal of Surface Science and Technology 25, 63 – 84 (2009).  

  4. N. Chakrabarti and P. Das, “Isotropic to Nematic Phase Transition in F-actin”, Journal of Surface Science and Technology 23, 177 – 194 (2007).  

  5. P. Das, R. K. Sinha and S. Basu, “FTIR and UV-VIS-NIR Spectroscopic Studies of Intermolecular Interaction in Cholestesteryl Oleyl Carbonate in Mesophases”, Journal of Chemical Physics 124, 124514 (2006). 

  6. P. Das, S. Basu, R. K. Sinha and U. Das, “Dipole-induced Chiral Smectic-C Phase in a Eutectic Mixture of Cholesterol Esters”, Chemical Physics Letters 410, 417- 422 (2005). 

  7. P. Das, J. Roy, N. Chakrabarti, S. Basu, and U. Das, "Nematic textures in F-actin", J. Chem. Phys. 116, 9028 - 9035 (2002).  (Selected for Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research 3 (2002), Protein Conformational Dynamics and Folding Section). 

  8. P. Das and N. Chakrabarti, "Orientation of semiflexible biopolymers in a magnetic field", J. Polymer Sci., part B: Polymer Physics 38, 3256 - 3270(2000). 

  9. P. Das, J. Xu, J. Roy and N. Chakrabarti, “Liquid Crystal Polymorphism in F-actin Optical Microscopic and Rotary Dispersion Studies”, J. Chem. Phys. 111, 8240 - 8250      (1999). 

  10. P. Das and W. H. Schwarz, “Solitons in Cell Membranes”, Phys. Rev. E 51, 3588 - 3612 (1995). 

  11. P. Das and W. H. Schwarz, “Continuum and Molecular Theories of Biaxial Nematics: Calculation of 2-Director Viscosity Coefficients”, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 239, 27 – 55 (1994). 

  12. P. Das, G. Nounesis, C. W. Garland, G. Sigaud and N. H. Tinh, “Critical Heat Capacity at Nematic - Smectic-A1 and Smectic-A1 – Smectic-A2 Transitions in DB5 + TBBA”, Liq. Cryst. 7, 883 –893 (1990). 

  13. P. Das, K. Ema and C. W. Garland, “Calorimetric Study of Smectic-A to Smectic-C Transition in TBBA”, Liq. Cryst. 4, 205 –208 (1989). 

  14. P. Das, K. Ema, C. W. Garland and R. Shashidahr, “Calorimetric Study of the Incommensurate Smectic-A phase in DB7OCN +8OCB”, Liq. Cryst. 4, 581 –590 (1989). 

  15. P. Leach, P. Das, C. W. Garland and R. Shashidahr, “Calorimetric Study of Nonyloxybenzoyloxycyano-azobenzene (9OBCAB)”, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 168, 183 –187 (1989).

  16. P. Das and C. W. Garland, “Anomalous Heat Capacity Associated with the Incommensurate Smectic-A phase in DB7OCN +8OCB”, In: Incommensurate Crystal, Liquid Crystals and Quasi-crystals, eds. J. F. Scott and N. A. Scott, Plenum Publishing Corp. (1987). 

  17. L. Bhattacharyya, P. Das and A. Sen, “Purification and Properties of  D-galactose-binding Lectins from some Erythrina species”, Archives of Biophysics & Biochemistry 211, 459 - 470 (1981). 

  18. P. Das, “Pretransitional Phenomena in Pure States and in a Binary Mixture of Axially and Transversally Dipolar Rodlike Molecules of Near-Identical Structures”, National Symposium on Soft Matter, September 18-19 (2008), Invited Lecture-19.

Contact

pdas@bosemain.boseinst.ac.in