Dr Avinash Patil

Research summary

Research Interests include development of new"bottom-up" concepts and approaches to the controlled fabrication of hybrid nanomaterials with functions that can be integrated into range of applications such as catalysis, sensing, controlled drug release and nanocomposites.

Key Examples:

• Inorganic encasing of single biomolecules and organic supramolecular assemblies (Nanoscale, 2013, 7, 7161; Angew. Chem. 2012, 51, 732;  Nano Letters, 2007, 7, 2660)
• Desgning novel routes for the synthesis of functional inorganic materials (Adv. Mater., 2012, 24, 5767)
• Fabrication of organic-inorganic hybrid nanocomposites using layered materials (Chem.Phys.Chem., 2012, 13, 2956; Adv. Funct. Mater., 2010, 21, 674; Adv. Mater., 2009 ...

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Selected publications

• Patil, AJ, Li, M & Mann, S, 2013, ‘Integrative self-assembly of functional hybrid nanoconstructs by inorganic wrapping of single biomolecules, biomolecule arrays and organic supramolecular assemblies’. NanoLetts, vol 5., pp. 7161

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Recent publications

• Bosukonda, PK, Fothergill, J, Bretherton, J, Tian, L, Patil, AJ, Davis, SA & Mann, S, 2018, ‘Chloroplast-containing coacervate micro-droplets as a step towards photosynthetically active membrane-free protocells’. Chemical Communications, vol 54., pp. 3594-3597
• Bosukonda, PK, Patil, A & Mann, S, 2018, ‘Enzyme-powered motility in buoyant organoclay/ DNA protocells’. Nature Chemistry, vol 10., pp. 1154-1163

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