Q. Wang, R.K. Pal, H.W. Yen, M. Orzeszko, S. Naik, A. Mazzeo, D. Salvi, "Cold plasma from flexible and conformable paper-based electrodes for fresh produce sanitation: Evaluation of microbial inactivation and quality changes", Food Control, Accepted Manuscript
T. Liang, X. Zou, R.K. Pal, J. Liu, M. Assasie-Gyimah, W. Guo, C. Chen, J. Xie, M. Tenorio, D. Sullivan, A. Root, P. Stansel, A. McKeown, G. Weng, W. Sampson, A. Pelegri , A. Mazzeo, "Tunable Electrical Properties of Embossed, Cellulose-based Paper for Skin-like Sensing", ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12 (46), 51960–51968, 2020
S. P. S. Chundawat, R.K. Pal, C. Zhao, T. Campbell, F. Teymouri, J. Videto, C. Nielson, B. Wieferich, L. Sousa, B. E. Dale, V. Balan, S. Chipkar, J. Aguado, E. Burke, R. G. Ong, “Ammonia Fiber Expansion (AFEX) Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass.” J. Vis. Exp. 2020;(158):10.3791/57488.
S. P. S. Chundawat, L.C. Sousa, S. Roy, Z. Yang, S. Gupta, R. K. Pal, C. Zhao, S.H. Liu, L. Petridis, H. O'Neill and S. V. Pingali, “Ammonia-salt solvent promotes cellulosic biomass deconstruction under ambient pretreatment conditions to enable rapid soluble sugar production at ultra-low enzyme loadings.” Green Chemistry, 22 (1), 2020.
M. Xu, S. Pradhan, F. Agostinacchio, R.K. Pal, G. Greco, B Mazzolai, N.M. Pugno, A. Motta, V.K. Yadavalli " Easy, Scalable, Robust, Micropatterned Silk Fibroin Cell Substrates," Advanced Materials Interfaces 1801822, 2019
R.K. Pal, S.C. Kundu, V.K. Yadavalli “Silk protein nanowires patterned using electron beam lithography,” Nanotechnology, 29, 335301, 2018
A. Bucciarelli, V. Mulloni, D. Maniglio, R.K. Pal, V.K. Yadavalli, A. Motta, A. Quaranta, “A comparative study of the refractive index of silk protein thin films towards biomaterial based optical devices,” Optical Materials, 78, 407–414, 2018
R.K. Pal, S.C. Kundu, V.K. Yadavalli, “Fabrication of an organic, flexible, and biodegradable micro-supercapacitor,” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2018
R.K. Pal, S. Pradhan, L. Narayanan, V.K. Yadavalli, “Micropatterned conductive polymer biosensors on flexible PDMS films,” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 259, 498-504, 2018
R.K. Pal, E.E. Turner, B.H. Chalfant, V.K. Yadavalli, “Mechanically Robust, Photopatternable Conductive Hydrogel Composites,” Reactive and Functional Polymers, 66-73, 2017
R.K. Pal, S.C. Kundu, V.K. Yadavalli, “Biosensing using photolithographically micropatterned electrodes of PEDOT:PSS on ITO substrates,” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 242, 140-147, 2017
A. Bucciarelli, R.K. Pal, D. Maniglio, A. Quaranta, A. Motta, V.K. Yadavalli, “Fabrication of patternable nanoscale films of silk fibroin using benign solvents,” Macromolecular Materials & Engineering, Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 1700110, 2017
R.K. Pal, N.E. Kurland, S.C. Kundu, V.K. Yadavalli, “Fabrication of shape-defined particles of silk proteins using photolithography,” European Polymer Journal, 85, 421-430, 2016
R.K. Pal, A.A. Farghaly, M.M. Collinson, S.C. Kundu, V.K. Yadavalli, “Conducting polymer-silk biocomposites for flexible and biodegradable electrochemical sensors,” Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 81, 294-302, 2016
R.K. Pal, A.A. Farghaly, M.M. Collinson, S.C. Kundu, V.K. Yadavalli, “Photolithographic micropatterning of conducting polymers on flexible silk matrices,” Advanced Materials, 28, 1406-1412, 2015
R.K. Pal, N.E. Kurland, C. Wang, S.C. Kundu, V.K. Yadavalli, “Biopatterning of silk proteins for micro-optics,” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 7, 8809-8816, 2015.
R.K. Pal, S. Chakraborty, “A novel mixing strategy for maximizing yields of glucose and reducing sugar in enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose,” Bioresource Technology, 128, 72-80, 2013
S. Chakraborty, S. Raju, R.K. Pal, “A multiscale three-zone reactive mixing model for engineering a scale separation in enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose,” Bioresource Technology, 173, 140-147, 2014
Book Chapter
R.K. Pal, D. Mitra, A. Dutta, "Electrochemical Tools for the Prognosis of Skin Wounds" CRC Press Handbook on Miniaturized Electrochemical Devices: Advanced Concepts, Fabrication, and Applications" - Under Production
T. Liang, R.K. Pal, X. Zou, and A.D. Mazzeo, “Flexible and Stretchable Paper-based Structures for Electronic Applications” – CRC Press Handbook on Flexible and Stretchable Electronics, November 2019.
In Conference Journals
“Paper as a substrate and smart material for electronics, packaging, and robotics,” IEEE FLEPS Conference, 2021, pp. 1-3, doi: 10.1109/FLEPS51544.2021.9469859
A. Mazzeo, T. Liang, X. Zou, J. Xie, A. Ashraf, D. Salvi, F. Berthiaume, and R.K. Pal
Meng Xu, Sayantan Pradhan, R.K. Pal, and Vamsi K. Yadavalli, “Fully organic, flexible, and biodegradable components for bioinspired electronics,” SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2019.
R.K. Pal, and V.K. Yadavalli, “Silk biocomposites as flexible and biodegradable electrochemical sensors,” Tech Connect, 2017
R.K. Pal, A.A. Farghaly, M.M. Collinson, S.C. Kundu, V.K. Yadavalli, “Micropatterned Flexible and Conformable Biofunctional Devices Using Silk Proteins,” MRS Advances, 1, 3539-3544, 2016
R.K. Pal, N.E. Kurland, S.C. Kundu, V.K. Yadavalli, “Functional silk architectures using photolithography,” Tissue Engineering Part A, 21, S65, 2015
R.K. Pal, N.E. Kurland, S.C. Kundu, V.K. Yadavalli, “Fabrication of silk microstructures using photolithography,” MRS Proceedings, 1718, 2015
Patent
News Highlights
Chemical and Engineering News: Making silk optical devices with photolithography, April 2015
The Daily Targum: Rutgers team develops method of killing bacteria with devices made of paper, March 2019
Work on Ammonia-Salt-based deconstruction of cellulose featured in WMBC-TV, 2020