• Paper titled “Thermoplastic starch based melt processed films for packaging applications: Experimental and computational studies” published in Materials Today: Communications [January 2025] (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2024.111475)

Kshitij Madhu, Manoj Kumar Dhal, Arnab Banerjee, Prasanna V., Amit Kumar, Vimal Katiyar

• Paper titled “Melt-Processed cast films of calcite reinforced starch/guar-gum biopolymer composites for packaging applications” accepted for publication in the Journal of Materials Sciences [January 2025].
• 
  

Kshitij Madhu, Manoj Kumar Dhal, Arnab Banerjee, Amit Kumar, Vimal Katiyar

• Paper titled “Hydrophobized Iron Tailing based Cementitious Composites for Low to Medium Load Bearing External Applications” accepted for publication in ASCE Journal for Materials in Civil Engineering. [November 2024]
• 
  

Soumya Roy, Charakho N. Chah, Arnab Banerjee, Sanandam Bordoloi, Sreedeep Sekharan

• Review Paper titled “Decoding the Complex Interplay of Biological and Chemical Factors in Polylactic Acid Biodegradation: A Systematic Review” published in International Journal of Biological Macromolecules [November 2024] (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.136956)
• 
  

Arnab Banerjee, Abhinav Borah, Charakho N. Chah, Manoj Kumar Dhal, Kshitij Madhu, Vimal Katiyar, Sreedeep Sekharan

• Paper titled “Landfill-mined soil-like fraction (LMSF) use in biopolymer composting: Material pre-treatment, bioaugmentation and agricultural prospects” published in Environmental Pollution. [August 2024] (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124255)
• 
  

Arnab Banerjee, Manoj Kumar Dhal, Kshitij Madhu, Charakho N. Chah, Bharat Rattan, Vimal Katiyar, Sreedeep Sekharan, Ajit Sarmah

• Paper titled “Microenvironment of landfill-mined soil-like material: Evaluating the polymer composting potential using metagenomics and geo-environmental Characterisation” published in the International Journal of Environmental Research [April 2024]. ( https://doi.org/10.1007/s41742-024-00598-2 )
• 
  

Arnab Banerjee, Charakho N. Chah, Manoj Kumar Dhal, Kshitij Madhu, Kiran Vilas Dhobale, Bharat Rattan, Vimal Katiyar, Sreedeep Sekharan

• Paper titled “Investigation of bacterial community under the simultaneous influence of water-absorbing polymer and vegetation subjected to drought stress: Insights into mechanism of soil-polymer-plant-bacteria-water interaction” published in Plant and Soil Journal. [April 2024] ( https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-024-06658-y )
• 
  

Bharat Rattan, Arnab Banerjee, Kiran Vilas Dhobale, Sreedeep Sekharan, Ankit Garg, Lingaraj Sahoo

• Book chapter titled “Precision metagenomics in a low-end computation infrastructure: A tool to augment research on bioremediation of plastic and microplastic contamination” published in ACS Symposium Series titled “Bioremediation: A Promising Technique for Microplastics Clean-up from Soil” [December 2023]
• 
  

Arnab Banerjee, Charakho N. Chah, Vimal Katiyar, Sreedeep Sekharan

• Paper titled “Polylactic acid/polycaprolactone/sawdust based biocomposites trays with enhanced compostability” published in International Journal of Biological Macromolecules [September 2023] (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.126977)
• 
  

Manoj Kumar Dhal, Kshitij Madhu, Arnab Banerjee, Prasanna V., Amit Kumar, Vimal Katiyar

• Paper titled “A systematic review on bioplastic-soil interaction: Exploring the effects of residual bioplastics on the soil geoenvironment” published in Science of the Total Environment. [August 2022] (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158311)

Charakho N. Chah, Arnab Banerjee, Vinay Kumar Gadi, Sreedeep Sekharan, Vimal Katiyar

• Book Chapter titled “Challenges and Strategies of Water Supply and Wastewater Management in Coastal Urban and Semi-Urban Areas” published in the book “Urban water crisis and management strategies for sustainable development” [August 2022]. (https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91838-1.00011-7)

Arnab Banerjee, Antariksha Sarkar, Sambarna Ghoshal

• Paper titled “Tannic acid induced membrane surface modification to increase efficiency of direct contact membrane distillation for desalination of the bioreactor effluent of a bioplastic-producing haloarchaeal bioprocess,” in Materials Today: Proceedings (March 2021) doi: 10.1016/j.matpr.2021.02.754.

Arnab Banerjee, Joydeep Mukherjee

Publications Currently in Journal :

• Paper titled “Bioplastic compost can aid drought-resistant sustainable agriculture in a circular economy: A physico-chemical and microbial perspective of amended soil” submitted to Environmental Technology [November 2024]
• 
  

Arnab Banerjee, Bharat Rattan, Manoj Kumar Dhal, Kshitij Madhu, Vimal Katiyar, Sreedeep Sekharan

• Paper titled “The structure of a depolymerase enzyme and its binding interactions with Polylactic Acid (PLA): The key to enhanced degradation performance and waste management of PLA-based single-use consumer products” submitted to “Molecular Simulation” [October 2024]

Arnab Banerjee, Priya Kumari, Debarshee Sengupta, Manoj Kumar Dhal, Kshitij Madhu, Vimal Katiyar, Sreedeep Sekharan

• Paper titled “Effect of dicumyl peroxide-coated sawdust in melt-processed polylactic acid/polycaprolactone biocomposite for enhanced thermomechanical properties” 1^st Revision at International Journal of Biological Macromolecules [December 2024].
• 
  

Manoj Kumar Dhal, Arnab Banerjee, Kshitij Madhu, Aniket Baburao Gole, Amit Kumar, Vimal Katiyar

• Paper titled “Starch/Guar-Gum/PBAT based antimicrobial composite films for packaging applications: Optimization of Processing Aids for a melt-processed system” submitted to Polymer Degradation and Stability. [ January 2025]

Madhu Kshitij, Arnab Banerjee, Manoj Kumar Dhal, Viraj Nagariya, Vimal Katiyar, Amit Kumar