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Vikas Nandwana, PhD

Research Assistant
Northwestern University
Room: B562, Silverman Hall
Chemistry of Life Processes Institute,
2170 Campus Drive
Evanston IL, 60208-3113

Phone: (847)491-5809
email: Vikas.nandwana@northwestern.edu

Educational Background

Research Objectives and Approach

Functional nanomaterials for biomedical, energy, and environmental applications. Applied research-led entrepreneurship that can convert laboratory bench invention inot commercialized technologies.

References and Publications

• Nandwana, V.; Ribet, S.; Reis, R.D.; Kuang, Y.; More, Y.; Dravid, V.P. OHM Sponge: A Versatile, Efficient, and Ecofriendly Envirnomental Remediation Platform.  Eng. Chem. Res.2020, 59, 10945-10954 (Cover Article and Featured on NSF (Front Page), C&EN, Science Daily, Eurek Alert(AAAS), Euronews, The Engineer etc.)
• Nandwana, V.; Ryoo, S.-R.; Zheng, T.; You, M. M.; Dravid, V. P. Magnetic nanostructures coated thermo-responsive hydrogel nanoconstruct as a smart multimodal theranostic platform. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng.2019, 5, 3049-3059. 
• Singh, A.; Nandwana, V.; Rink, J. S.; Ryoo, S. R.; Chen, T. H.; Allen, S. D.; Scott, E. A.; Gordon, L. I.; Thaxton, C. S.; Dravid, V. P. Biomimetic magnetic nanostructures: A combinatorial therapeutic approach targeting lipid metabolism and immune response against lymphoma.ACS Nano 2019, 13, 10301-311. 
• Nandwana, V.; Zhou, R.; Mohapatra, J.; Prasad, P. V.; Liu, J. P.; Dravid, V. P. Exchange coupling in soft magnetic nanostructures and its impact of their theranostic properties. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces2018, 10, 27233-243. 
• Nandwana, V.;Huang, W.; Li, Y.; Dravid, V. P. One pot green synthesis of Fe₃O₄/MoS₂ 0D/2D nanocomposites and their application in non-invasive point-of-care diagnostics. ACS Appl. Nano Mat. 2018, 1, 1949-1958.
• Nandwana, V.;Singh, A. S.; You, M. M., Zhang, G.; Higham, J.; Zheng, T.; Li, Y.; Prasad, P.V.; Dravid, V.P. Magnetic lipid nanocapsules (MLNCs): Self-assembled lipid based nanoconstruct for non-invasive theranostic applications. Mater. Chem. B 2018, 1026-1034.
• Nandwana, V.; Ryoo, S.-R.; Kanthala, S.; Kumar, A.; Sharma, A.; Castro, F. C.; Li, Y.; Hoffman, B.; Lim, S. & Dravid, V. P., Engineered Ferritin Nanocages as Natural Contrast Agents in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. RSC Advances2017, 7, 34892-34900.
• Nandwana, V.;  Ryoo, S.-R.; Kanthala, S.; McMahon, K. M.; Rink, J. S.; Venkatraman, S. S.; Thaxton.; C. S. & Dravid, V. P., High-density lipoprotein-like magnetic nanostructures (HDL-MNS): Theranostic agents for cardiovascular disease. Mater. 2017, 29, 2276-2282.
• Nandwana, V.; Ryoo, S.-R.; Kanthala, S.; De, M., Chou, S., Prasad, P. V.; Dravid, V. P., Engineered theranostic magnetic nanostructures: Role of composition and surface coating on magnetic resonance imaging contrast and thermal activation. ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfaces 2016, 8, 6953-6961.
• Nandwana, V., De, M., Chu, S., Jaiswal, M., Rotz, M., Meade, T. J., & Dravid, V. P., Theranostic Magnetic Nanostructures (MNS) for Cancer. Cancer treatment and research 2015, 166, 51-83.
• Kushida, T.; Saha, K.; Subramani, C.; Nandwana, V.; Rotello, V. M. Effect of nano-scale curvature on the intrinsic blood coagulation system. Nanoscale 2014, 6, 14484-14487.
• Landis, R. F.; Yazdani, M.; Creran, B.; Yu, X.; Nandwana, V.; Cooke, G.; Rotello, V. M. Solvatochromic Probes for Detecting Hydrogen Bond-Donating Solvents.  Commun. 2014,50, 4579-4581.
• Nandwana, V.; Serrano, L. A.; Solntsev, K. M.; Ebenhoch, B.; Liu, Q.; Tonga, G. Y.; Samuel, I. W.; Cooke, G.; Rotello, V. M. Engineering the nanoscale morphology of quantum dot-fullerene assembly via complementary hydrogen bonding interactions. Langmuir 2013, 29, 7534-7537.
• Nandwana, V.; Cooke, G.C.; Samuel, I.; Rotello, V.M. Aromatic stacking interactions in flavin model systems. Chem. Res. 2013, 46, 1000-1009.
• Nandwana, V.; Mout, R; Yeh, Y.-C.; Dickert, S; Tuominen, M; Rotello, V. M. Patterning of protein/quantum dot hybrid bionanostructures.   Inorg. Organomet. Polym. 2013, 23, 227-232.
• Zainalabdeen, N.; Fitzpatrick, B.; Kareem, M. M.; Nandwana, V.; Cooke, G.; Rotello, V. M. Synthesis and Characterization of Naphthalenediimide-Functionalized Flavin Derivatives. J. Mol. Sci.2013, 14, 7468-7479.
• Przybyla, D. E.; Pérez, C. M. R.; Gleaton, J.; Nandwana, V.; Rotello, V. M.; Chmielewski J. Hierarchical Assembly of Collagen Peptide Triple Helices into Curved Disks and Metal Ion-Promoted Hollow Spheres. Am. Chem. Soc.2013, 135, 3418–3422.
• Nandwana, V.; Fitzpatrick, B.; Liu, Q.; Solntsev, K. M.; Yu, X.; Tonga, G. Y.; Eymur, S.; Tonga, M.; Cooke, G.; Rotello, V. M. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer in recognition-mediated polymer-quantum dot assemblies. Chem. 2012, 3, 3072-3076 (selected as paper of the week and top 10 most-read Polymer Chemistry articles in June).
• Nandwana, V.; Subramani, C.; Eymur, S.; Yeh, Y.-C.; Tonga, G. Y.; Tonga, ; Jeong, Y.; Yang, B.; Barnes, M. D.;Cooke, G.; Rotello, V. M. Recognition-mediated assembly of quantum dot polymer conjugates with controlled morphology. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2011, 12, 6357-6366.
• Nandwana, V.; Subramani, C.; Yeh, Y.-C.; Yang, B.; Dickert, S.; Barnes, M. D.;Tuominen, M.; Rotello, V. M. Direct Patterning of quantum dot nanostructures via e-beam lithography. Mater. Chem. 2011, 16, 16859-16862.
• Nandwana, V.; Chaubey, G. S.; Zhang, Y.; Liu, J. P. Magnetic properties of Fe_xPt_yAu_100-x-y J. Nanosci. Nanotech. 2010, 10, 2979-2983.