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Kriti Kapil

Graduate Student, Chemistry

Education

Aug. 2019 – Present, Ph.D. Student in Chemistry

Department of Chemistry, Ò»±¾µÀÎÞÂë, United States

Advisor: Prof. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

 

July 2017- July 2019, Master of Science in Chemistry

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India

Advisor: Prof. Bhaskar Datta

Master’s Thesis: Construction & In-Cellular Behavior of Novel Cascade Enzyme Nano constructs.

 

July 2014- July 2017, Bachelor of Science (Honors) Chemistry

Miranda House, University of Delhi, India

Advisor: Dr. Sharda Mahikar & Dr. Anshika Lamba

Project: Synthesis of Henna Lawsonia inermis based Scaffolds & Comparison of their Color & Anti-microbial activity.

Research

Internships

Sept 2021 - Oct 2021, Leibniz-Institut f¨ur Polymerforschung Dresden, Germany

Mentor: Dr. Albena Lederer, Center for Macromolecular Structure Analysis

Project: Analysis of engineered extracellular vesicles and hyper branched polymer conjugated protein hybrids by Asymmetrical Field Flow Fractionation (AF4)

June 2018 - July 2018, Japan Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Japan

Mentor: Dr. Kosuke Okeyoshi, School of Materials Science

Project: Lattice Adsorption Patterns of LC Polysaccharide through Evaporative Self Assembly

Publications

1. Green-Light-Driven ATRP under Air Enabled b Photoredox/Copper Dual Catalysis

Szczepaniak, G.; Jeong, J.; Kapil, K.; Dadashi-Silab, S.; Yerneni, S.S.; Ratajczyk, P.;

Lathwal, S.; Schild, D.J.; Das, S.R.; Matyjaszewski, K.

Chemical Science, RSC

2. Making ATRP More Practical: Oxygen Tolerance

Szczepaniak, G.; Fu, L.; Jafari, H.; Kapil, K.; Matyjaszewski, K.

Accounts of Chemical Research 2021, 54, 1779-1790

3. Controlled Rellease of Exosomes Using Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Based Hydrogels

Yerneni, S. S.; Lathwal, S.; Cuthbert, J.; Kapil, K.; Szczepaniak, G.; Jeong, J.; Das, S. R.;

Campbell, P. G.; Matyjaszewski, K.

Biomacromolecules 2022, 23, 1713-1722

4. Grafting polymer brushes by ATRP from functionalized poly(ether ether ketone)

microparticles

Fu, L.; Jafari, H.; Gießl, M.; Yerneni, S. S.; Sun, M.; Wang, Z.; Liu, T.; Kapil, K.; Cheng, B.

C.; Yu, A.; Averick, S. E.; Matyjaszewski, K.

Polymers for Advanced Technologies 2021, 32, 3948-3954

5. Nucleic Acid Based Nanoconstructs for Environmental Analysis in Atypical Contexts

Kapil, K.; Singhal, A.; Dodla, A.; Kumar, S.; Datta, B.

Nanotechnology for Energy and Environmental Engineering. Springer, Cham, 2020. 577-596

Conference Presentations

• Symposium on Field and Flow-based Separations, October 2021

Best Poster award for “Hyperbranched polymers-protein conjugates by ATRP”

• Dresden Polymer Discussion at Meissen, Germany, October 2021
• 4th National Conference on Chemistry at IIT Gandhinagar, August 2021

Oral Presentation on ATRP’s practical application on Biomedical Engineering

• 25th CRSI- National Symposium in Chemistry at IIT Kanpur, June 2019

Poster Presented on Enzyme Nano constructs

Awards & Scholarships

• DAAD Fellowship (2021) to pursue research at IPF Dresden
• Institute Gold Medal (2019) for Outstanding Academic Performance, IIT Gandhinagar
• Award for Integrity and Exemplary Human Qualities (2019), IIT Gandhinagar
• JASSO Scholarship (2018), to pursue exchange program at JAIST, Japan
• World Brotherhood Organization Scholarship (2016) to pursue undergraduate studies