Apurba Lal Koner

Supramolecular Photochemistry and Photophysics
Associate Professor
Phone: +91 755 269 1335, 669 1335
akoner@iiserb.ac.in

  • Assistant Professor (2012-present), in Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.
  • Human Frontier Science Fellow (2010 - 2012), in Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University, UK, with Prof. Dr. David J. Sherratt and Dr. Mark Howarth.
  • Welcome Trust Postdoctoral Researcher (2009 - 2010), in Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University, UK, with Dr. Mark Howarth.
  • Ph.D (2006 - 2009), from School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, with Prof. Dr. Werner M. Nau.
  • Supramolecular photochemistry and photophysics, molecular switches, sensors and functional materials.
  • Synthesis and characterization of fluorescent nanoparticle, bioconjugation and single-particle spectroscopy.
  • Fluorescence microscopy, live-cell imaging, cell-surface receptor and RNA-trafficking
  • # Authors Title Journals Year
    1 Akshay Silswal
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Tracking endoplasmic reticulum viscosity during ferroptosis and autophagy using molecular rotor probe Chem. Commun. 2023
    2 Akshay Silswal
    Paersis Weslie
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Bioimaging of labile lysosomal iron through naphthalimide-based fluorescent probe Talanta 2023
    3 Aasif Khan
    Ashutosh Agrahari
    Supriya Saha
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Sequential oxidation of sulfur annulated perylenediimide: An efficient strategy to generate ultra-stable radical anions and dianions Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C 2022
    4 Rupam Roy
    Anup Pramanik
    Tanoy Dutta
    Vikas Sharma
    Kovida Kovida
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Harnessing Solution and Solid-state Emissive Materials from Aliphatic Biogenic Amine-induced Transient Assembly and Spontaneous Disassembly Materials Chemistry Frontiers 2022
    5 oendrila Chatterjee
    Rupam Roy
    Anup Pramanik
    Tanoy Dutta
    Vikas Sharma
    Pranab Sarkar
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Dynamic Self-assembly of Photo-reduced Perylene Diimide: Single-component White Light Emission from Organic Radicals Advanced Optical Materials 2022
    6 Tanoy Dutta
    Kaushik Pal
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Intracellular physical properties with small organic fluorescent probes: Recent advances and future perspectives The Chemical Record 2022
    7 Naveneet Dubey
    Suman Ramteke
    N K Jain
    Tanoy Dutta
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Apurba L. Koner Folate-Receptor-Mediated Uptake of Carbon Dots as a pH- Responsive Carrier for Chemotherapy ChemistrySelect 2022
    8 P Kavyashree
    Barsha Chakraborty
    Varsha Rani
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Rationally Designed Far-red Emitting Styryl Chromones and its Magnetic Nanoconjugate for Strip-based ‘on-site’ Detection of Metabolic Marker Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C 2022
    9 Oendrila Chatterjee
    Anup Pramanik
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Exploring Optically Fueled Dissipative Self-Assembly of a Redox-Active Perylene Diimide Scaffold Organic Materials 2022
    10 Akshay Silswal
    Ashutosh Kanojiya
    Apurba Lal Koner
    A Fluorogenic Far Red-Emitting Molecular Viscometer for Ascertaining Lysosomal Stress in Live Cells and Caenorhabditis elegans Frontiers in Chemistry 2022
    11 Srikanta Patra
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Ahmad Husain
    Falguni Chandra
    Paltan Laha
    Long-lived Cyclometallated Iridium Complexes: Synthesis, Structure, DFT and Photocatalytic Aspects Dye and Pigments 2022
    12 Barsha Chakraborty
    Suprakash Biswas
    Anup Pramanik
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Multi-action of a Fluorophore in the Sight of Light: Release of NO, Emergence of FONs, and Organelle Switching ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022
    13 Ajmal Roshan Unniram Parambil
    Kavyashree P
    Akshay Silswal
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Water-soluble optical sensors: keys to detect aluminium in biological environment RSC Advances 2022
    14 Rupam Roy
    Aasif Khan
    Tanoy Dutta
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Red to NIR-emissive anthracene-conjugated PMI dyes with dual functions: singlet-oxygen response and lipid-droplet imaging Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C 2022
    15 Ishaan Gupta
    Sreeparna Das
    Tanoy Dutta
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Construing the communication between powerhouse and ribosomal factory of cell: A small molecular viscometer comes to the rescue Chemical Science 2022
    16 Zeba Manzer
    Tanoy Dutta
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Aniruddha Mitra
    Cucurbit[7]uril Nanoencapsulation Reduces the Unpalatability of Bitter Phytochemicals ACS Agric. Sci. Technol. 2021
    17 Tanoy Dutta
    Shrobona Banerjee
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Regulating Endoplasmic Reticulum localization of a fluorescent NBD adamantane conjugate by Cucurbit[7]uril Chemical Physics Impact 2021
    18 Tanoy Dutta
    Kaushik Pal
    Apurba Lal Koner
    An Enumerated Outlook of Intracellular Micropolarity Using Solvatochromic Organic Fluorescent Probes ACS Omega 2021
    19 Deepak Chopra
    Vikas Sharma
    Rohit Bhowal
    Rupam Roy
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Understanding the molecular origin of solid-state emitting PMI realized from the detection of hazardous organic peroxide Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C 2021
    20 Suprakash Biswas
    Tanoy Dutta
    Akshay Silswal
    Rohit Bhowal
    Deepak Chopra
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Strategic Engineering of Alkyl Spacer Length for pH-tolerant Lysosome Marker and Dual Organelle Localization Chemical Science 2021
    21 Rupam Roy
    Aasif Khan
    Oendrila Chatterjee
    Sukomal Bhunia
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Perylenemonoimide as a Versatile Fluoroprobe: The Past, Present, and Future Organic Materials 2021
    22 Aditya Upadhyay
    Raushan Kumar Jha
    Monojit Batabyal
    Tanoy Dutta
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Sangit Kumar
    Janus-Faced Oxidant and Antioxidant Profiles of Organo Diselenides Dalton Transactions 2021
    23 Apurba Lal Koner
    Srikanta Patra
    Kavyashree P
    Platan Laha
    Falguni Chandra
    Prashant Kumar
    Local DNA Microviscosity Converts Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complexes to Ultrasensitive Photosensitizers Journal of Molecular Liquid 2021
    24 Kaushik Pal
    Prashant Kumar
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Deciphering interior polarity of lysosome in live cancer and normal cells using spectral scanning microscopy Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology, B: Biology 2020
    25 Tanoy Dutta
    Kaushik Pal
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Cellular metabolic activity marker via selective turn-ON detection of transporter protein using nitrobenzoxadiazole-based fluorescent reporter Scientific Reports 2020
    26 Apurba Lal Koner
    Vikas Sharma
    Kovida
    Rapid On-site and Naked-eye Detection of Common Nitro Pesticides with Ionic Liquid Analyst 2020
    27 Apurba Lal Koner
    Suprakash Biswas
    Prashant Kumar
    Fast Tyrosinase Detection in Early Stage Melanoma with Nanomolar Sensitivity using Naphthalimide-based Fluorescent Read-out Probe New Journal of Chemistry 2020
    28 Falguni Chandra
    Tanoy Dutta
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Supramolecular Encapsulation of a Neurotransmitter Serotonin by Cucurbit[7]uril Frontiers in Chemistry 2020
    29 Apurba Lal Koner
    Laxmikant Gadhe
    Tanoy Dutta
    Anirban Das
    Ishu Saraogi
    A biocompatible fluorescent probe for selective detection of amyloid fibrils Analytical Chemistry 2020
    30 Kallol Mohanta
    Nonu Varghese
    Rupam Roy
    Vikas Sharma
    Dhananjaya Sahoo
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Synthesis of Highly-soluble Push-pull Perylenemonoimide Derivatives by Regioselective Peri-functionalization for Switchable Memory Application Chemical Communications 2019
    31 Deepak Chopra
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Athulbabu Thumbarathil
    Suprakash Biswas
    Rohit Bhowal
    Exploring the Relationship between Intermolecular Interactions and Solid-state Photophysical Properties of Organic Co-crystals The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2019
    32 Rahul Kadu
    Monojit Batabyal
    Heena Kadyan
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Sangit Kumar
    An efficient copper-catalyzed synthesis of symmetrical bis(N-arylbenzamide) selenides and their conversion to hypervalent spirodiazaselenuranes and hydroxy congeners Dalton Transactions 2019
    33 Vikas Sharma
    Nihara R Sajeev
    Rupam Roy
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Aggregation Induced Emission-switching-based Ultrasensitive Ratiometric Detection of Biogenic Diamines using Perylenediimide-based Smart Fluoroprobe ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2019
    34 Apurba Lal Koner
    Prashant Kumar
    Suman Mallick
    Freeze-ResistantCadmium-FreeQuantumDotsforLive-CellImaging ACS Applied Nano Materials 2019
    35 Rohit Bhowal
    Suprakash Biswas
    Deviprasad Adiyeri Saseendran
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Deepak Chopra
    Tuning the solid-state emission by co-crystallization through σ- and π-hole directed intermolecular interactions CrystEngComm 2019
    36 Vikas Sharma
    Kovida
    Dhananjaya Sahoo
    Nonu Varghese
    Kallol Mohanta
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Synthesis and photovoltaic application of NIR-emitting perylene-monoimide dyes with large Stokes-shift RSC Advances 2019
    37 Apurba Lal Koner
    Sourav Datta
    Debojyoti Kar
    Neha Upadhyay
    Suprakash Biswas
    Visible light-controlled NO generation for photoreceptor-mediated plant root growth regulation Nitric Oxide 2019
    38 Nilotpal Kapuria
    Dhananjaya Sahoo
    Vikas Sharma
    Kaushik Pal
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Large Stokes-shifted NIR-emission from Nanospace-induced Aggregation of Perylenemonoimide Doped Polymer Nanoparticle: Imaging of Folate Receptor Expression Chemical Communications 2018
    39 Prashant Kumar
    Vikas Sharma
    Suprakash Biswas
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Selective Sensing of Lysosomal Iron(III) via Three-component Fluorescence-based Strategy in Living Cells Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 2018
    40 Falguni Chandra
    Prashant Kumar
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Encapsulation and modulation of protolytic equilibrium of β-carboline-based norharmane drug by cucurbit[7]uril and micellar environments for enhanced cellular uptake Colloids and Surfaces B: Interfaces 2018
    41 Pirudhan Karak
    Unnikrishnan Puthumana
    Vikas Sharma
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Visible Light-triggered Generation of Ultra-stable Radical Anion from Nitro-substituted Perylenediimides J. Org. Chem. 2018
    42 Debabrata Goswami
    Rahul Kumar Gupta
    Indranil Samanta
    Kaushik Pal
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Deciphering Micropolarity Inside the Endoplasmic Reticulum Using Two-photon Active Solvatofluorochromic Probe Chemical Communications 2018
    43 Falguni Chandra
    Tanoy Dutta
    Apurba Lal Koner
    A rapid, naked-eye detection of hypochlorite and bisulfite using a robust and highly-photostable indicator dye Quinaldine Red in aqueous medium Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 2018
    44 Apurba Lal Koner
    Prashant Kumar
    Kaushik Pal
    Suprakash Biswas
    A Fluorogenic Probe for in vitro and in vivo Detection of Biothiols and Vitamin-C with an In-depth Mechanistic Understanding Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 2018
    45 Prashant Kumar
    Vikas Sharma
    Nilotpal Kapuria
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Exploration of Dynamic Self-assembly Mediated Nano-particle Formation Using Perylenemonoimide-Pyrene Conjugate: A Tool Towards Single-component Whitelight Emission Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C 2018
    46 Kaushik Pal
    Aman Sharma
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Synthesis of Two-Photon Active Tricomponent Fluorescent Probe for Distinguishment of Biotin Receptor Positive and Negative Cells and Imaging 3D-Spheroid Organic Letters 2018
    47 Vikas Sarma
    Dhananjaya Sahoo
    Falguni Chandra
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Highly Fluorescent Peri-functionalized Perylenemonoimide Derivatives with Tunable Optical Properties for Selective Sensing of Electron-rich Aromatic Amines ChemistrySelect 2017
    48 Apurba L. Koner
    Suman Mallick
    Falguni Chandra
    Spectroscopic Investigation of Bio-mimetic Solvolysis of 6-(N, N-dimethylamino)-2, 3-naphthalic Anhydride in Confined Nanocavities Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2017
    49 Kalyanasis Sahu
    Werner M. Nau
    Apurba L. Koner
    Indrajit Ghosh
    Tousif Hossen
    Arindam Mukhopadhyay
    Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy
    Helicity-Dependent Regiodifferentiation in the Excited-State Quenching and Chiroptical Properties of Inward/Outward Helical Coumarins Chemistry - A European Journal 2017
    50 Albrecht Berkessel
    Angela Heinsch
    Kaushik Pal
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Differentiation of Folate-Receptor-Positive and Negative Cells Using a Substrate Mimicking Fluorescent Probe Chemistry - A European Journal 2017
    51 Suman Mallick
    Anil S Arathi
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Customized Tuning of Aggregation-Induced Emission of a Napthalimide Dye by Surfactants and Cyclodextrin J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2017
    52 Joghee Ravichandran
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Sanjeev Kumar Jat
    Kaushik Pal
    Lopamudra Bhattacharjee
    Rama Ranjan Bhattacharjee
    Tuning optical properties of printable carbon quantum dots using near-field environment Carbon 2017
    53 Kaushik Pal
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Rationally Designed Solvatochromic Fluorescent IndolineDerivatives for Probing Mitochondrial Environment Chemistry - A European Journal 2017
    54 Srikanta Patra
    Apurba L. Koner
    Niranjan Dehury
    Falguni Chandra
    Paltan Laha
    Koushik Singha
    Long-Lived Polypyridyl Based Mononuclear Ruthenium Complexes: Synthesis, Structure, and Azo Dye Decomposition Inorganic Chemistry 2017
    55 Apurba Lal Koner
    Vikas Sharma
    Kaushik Pal
    Single-Component White-light Emission via Intramolecular Electronic Conjugation-truncation with Perylenemonoimide Chemical Communications 2017
    56 Dhananjaya Sahoo
    Falguni Chandra
    Vikas Sharma
    Apurba L. Koner
    Sonogashira-coupled PMI Derivatives: Impact of Electron Donating Groups on Optoelectronic Properties Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2017
    57 Anil S Arathi
    Suman Mallick
    Apurba L. Koner
    Tuning Aggregation-Induced Emission of 2,3-Napthalimide by Employing Cyclodextrin Nanocavities ChemistrySelect 2016
    58 Apurba L. Koner
    Kaushik Pal
    Falguni Chandra
    Suman Mallick
    Investigation of Cucurbit[7]uril Complexation on Photophysical and Acid-Base Properties of an Antimalaria Drug Quinine Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016
    59 Falguni Chandra
    Kaushik Pal
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Tailoring Emission Properties Using Macrocyclic Nanocavities via Guest Interplay in Aqueous Solution ChemistrySelect 2016
    60 Rama Ranjan Bhattacharjee
    Kaushik Mohanta
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Lopamudra Bhattacharjee
    Polarization induced dynamic photoluminescence in carbon quantum dot-based ionic fluid Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C 2016
    61 Apurba Lal Koner
    Srikanta Patra
    Suman Tripathy
    Prashant Kumar
    Falguni Chandra
    Iridium Complexes as a Roadblock for DNA Polymerase during Amplification ChemMedChem 2016
    62 Apurba Lal Koner
    Kaushik Pal
    Suman Mallick
    Probing Microenvironment of Micelle and Albumin Using Diethyl 6-(dimethylamino)naphthalene-2,3-dicarboxylate: An Electroneutral Solvatochromic Fluorescent Probe. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2016
    63 Apurba Lal Koner
    Falguni Chandra
    Suman Mallick
    A ratiometric fluorescent probe for detection of biogenic primary amines with nanomolar sensitivity. Analyst 2016
    64 Apurba Lal Koner
    Falguni Chandra
    Kaushik Pal
    Suman Mallick
    pH dependent supramolecular recognition of dapoxyl sodium sulfonate with 2-hydroxypropyl β-cyclodextrin: an application towards food-additive formulation New Journal of Chemistry 2016
    65 Falguni Chandra
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Sushil Lathwal
    Kaushik Pal
    Supramolecular Guest Relay Using Host-Protein Nanocavities: An Application of Host-Induced Guest Protonation Molecular BioSystems 2016
    66 Suman Mallick
    Apurba Lal Koner
    Falguni Chandra
    Kaushik Pal
    Effect of solvents and cyclodextrin complexation on acid–base and photophysical properties of dapoxyl dye. J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem 2015
    67 Apurba Lal Koner
    Suman Mallick
    Kaushik Pal
    Complexation induced fluorescence and acid-base properties of dapoxyl dye with gamma-cyclodextrin: a drug-binding application using displacement assays Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2015
    68 D J Sherratt
    Q Hou
    D Krndija
    Apurba Lal Koner
    M H Howarth
    Hydroxy-Terminated Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles Have Near-Unity Bright Fraction and Reveal Cholesterol-Dependence of IGF1R Nanodomains ACS Nano 2013