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Jitkumar Bhatt

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Jitkumar Bhatt

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Biological Engineering

  • MSc: Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar, Gujarat
  • PhD: CSIR-CSMCRI, India, 2019

Email: jit.kb -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Website : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LGot1K8AAAAJ&hl=en



  • Work experience

    • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India (November 2021 - Present)
    • Research Associate, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. (Aug. 2019-Feb. 2020)
    • Project Assistant, CSIR – Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSIR-CSMCRI), G B Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat-34002, India. (Feb. 2013- Sep. 2015)

  • Selected Publications

    1. Jitkumar Bhatt, Dibyendu Mondal, Ranjitsinh V. Devkar and Kamalesh Prasad. Synthesis of functionalized N-doped graphene DNA hybrid material in a deep eutectic solvent. Green Chemistry, 2016, 18, 4297-4302.
    2. Jitkumar Bhatt, Rosy Alphons Sequeira, Aliasgar Vohra, Ranjitsinh Vijaysingh Devkar, Tapan Kumar Maity and Kamalesh Prasad. Ionic liquid-mediated preparation of noncytotoxic hemocompatible stable DNA−ε-poly-l-lysine polyplexes: A new sustainable approach for the bulk production of potential nonviral vectors for gene delivery applications. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2021, 9, 1, 264-272.
    3. Jitkumar Bhatt, M. M. Pereira and Kamalesh Prasad. Simultaneous morphological transformation of metal salt and conformations of DNA in a bio-based ionic liquid. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2019, 135, 926-930.
    4. A facile approach to prepare a dual functionalized DNA based material in a bio-deep eutectic solvent. Dibyendu Mondal, Jitkumar Bhatt, Mukesh Sharma, Shruti Chatterjeea and Kamalesh Prasad, Chemical Communications, 2014, 50, 3989-3992.
    5. Jitkumar Bhatt, DibyenduMondal, Gopal Bhojani, Shruti Chatterjee and Kamalesh Prasad. Preparation of bio-deep eutectic solvent triggered cephalopod shaped silver chloride-DNA hybrid material having antibacterial and bactericidal activity. Materials Science & Engineering: C, 2015, 56, 125-131.