Publications
Postdoctoral Research
19 S. K. Ghosh, S. Pal, K. Roy, W. Yue, Y. Gao, F. Xia, P. He, S. Sarkar, M. Teng, J. Park, P. Tsao, X. Li, S. A. M. Tofail, P. B. Messersmith, L. Lin, Highly Responsive Piezoelectric Hydrogels with Embedded Amino Acid Crystals for Self-healing and Degradable Soft Machines. Adv. Mater. 10.1002/adma.202507859, (2025).
18 S. Pal,* E. Salzman, D. Ramirez, H. Chen, C. A. Perez, K. Dale, S. K. Ghosh, L. Lin, P. B. Messersmith,* Versatile solid-state medical superglues of α-lipoic acid. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 147, 13377, (2025). * corresponding author
17 S. Pal, J. Shin, K. DeFrates, M. Arslan, K. Dale, H. Chen, D. Ramirez, P. B. Messersmith, Recyclable Surgical, Consumer, and Industrial Adhesives of Poly(α-lipoic acid). Science, 385, 877 (2024).
16 J. X. Shi, N. R. Ciccia, S. Pal, D. Kim, J. Brunn, C. Lizandara-Pueyo, M. Ernst, A. Haydl, P. Messersmith, B. Helms, J. F. Hartwig, Chemical Modification of Oxidized Polyethylene Enables Access to Functional Polyethylenes with Greater Reuse. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 145, 39 (2023).
15 N. R. Ciccia, J. X. Shi, S. Pal, M. Hua, K. G. Malollari, C. L. Pueyo, E. Risto, M. Ernst, B. A. Helms, P. B. Messersmith, J. F. Hartwig, Diverse Functional Polyethylenes by Catalytic Amination. Science, 381,1433 (2023).
14 F. Marx, S. Pal, J. Sautaux, N. Pallab, G. Stoclet, C. Weder, S. Schrettl, Plasticization of a Semicrystalline Metallosupramolecular Polymer Network. ACS Polym. Au, 3, 132 (2023).
Doctoral Research
13 S. Farooq, M. Nedyalkova, S. Pal, A. Crochet, M. Lattuada, A. Kilbinger, Fluorinated Aromatic Amide Helices: Synthesis and Assignment of Helical Handedness. Macromolecules, 58, 5990 (2025).
12 A. Mandal,# S. Pal,# A. F. M. Kilbinger, Controlled Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization of a New Monomer: On Switching the Solvent Water-Soluble Homopolymers to Degradable Copolymers. Macromol. Rapid Commun. 44, 2300218 (2023). # equal contribution
11 S. Pal, L. Hong, R. Freire, S. Farooq, S. Salentinig, A. F. M. Kilbinger, High Molecular Weight Poly(aromatic amide) Foldamers via Living Polymerization. Macromolecules, 56, 7984 (2023).
10 S. Pal,# I. Mandal,# A.F.M. Kilbinger, Controlled Alternating Metathesis Copolymerization of Terminal Alkynes. ACS Macro Lett. 11, 847 (2022). # equal contribution
9 S. Pal,# A. Mandal,# Hong, L.; Ortuso, R.; Petri-Fink, A.; Salentinig, S.; Kilbinger, A. F. M. Native Chemical Ligation: Ultrafast Synthesis of Block Copolymers. Macromolecules, 55, 2854 (2022). # equal contribution
8 S. Pal, A. F. M. Kilbinger, New Phosphine Reagents for the Living Polymerization of Aminobenzoic Acids and its Oligomers. CHIMIA, 75, 803 (2021). Invited
7 S. Pal, D. P. T. Nguyen, A. Molliet, M. Alizadeh, A. Crochet, R. D. Ortuso, A. Petri-Fink, A. F. M. Kilbinger, A Versatile Living Polymerization Method for Aromatic Amides. Nat. Chem. 13, 705 (2021).
6 S. Pal, M. Alizadeh, P. Kong, A. F. M. Kilbinger, Oxanorbornenes: Promising New Single Addition Monomers for the Metathesis Polymerization. Chem. Sci. 12, 6705 (2021).
5 S. Pal, M. Alizadeh, A. F. M. Kilbinger, Telechelics Based on Catalytic Alternating Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization. ACS Macro Lett. 8, 1396 (2019).
4 S. Pal, F. Lucarini, R. Ruggi, A. F. M. Kilbinger, Functional Metathesis Catalyst Through Ring Closing Enyne Metathesis: One Pot Protocol for Living Hetero-telechelic Polymers. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 3181 (2018).
3 M. Badoux, S. Drechsler, S. Pal, A. F. M. Kilbinger, Facile Synthesis of a High Molecular Weight Amphiphilic Aramid-ROMP Block Copolymer. Macromolecules, 50, 9307 (2017).
Undergraduate and Master’s Research
2 N. Mukherjee, S. Pal, A. Saha, B. C. Ranu, Silver-Catalyzed Carbon–Selenium Cross-Coupling Using N-(phenylseleno)phthalimide: An Alternate Approach to the Synthesis of Organoselenides. Can. J. Chem. 95, 51 (2017).
1 S. Mondal, S. Debnath, S. Pal, A. Das, Synthesis of Uracil-, Coumarin- and Quinolone-Fused Benzosultams and Benzosultones. Synthesis, 47, 3423 (2015).