Dr. Vidhika Damani

“Stimuli-Responsive Conductive Polymers for Bioelectronics”, selected for journal cover. Watercolor on paper.

1. Shalini Sundar, Vidhika S. Damani, Allison Koopman, Weiran Xie, Jenna Averill, Qurat-Ul-Ain Bhatti, Zoe A. Fields, Emily Yao, Sri Vishnuvardhan Akepati, Arthi Jayaraman, Darrin Pochan, Justin Parreno, Laure V. Kayser, Charles Dhong, “Enhanced diffusion and retention of proteoglycan replacements in cartilage through thermo-responsive polyelectrolytes”, manuscript under revision
2. Tulaja Shrestha, Dan My Nguyen, Harrison Goehrig, Vidhika S. Damani, Caitlin Quinn, Laure V. Kayser, “Organo-Catalyzed Deamination of Polystyrene Sulfonamide for Diverse Post-Polymerization Modification of Styrenic Polymers”, submitted
3. Vidhika S. Damani and Laure V. Kayser, “Stimuli-responsive conjugated polymers for multifunctional electronics” (invited article, selected for Journal Cover) Chem. Mater., 2025 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c00495
4. Vidhika S. Damani, Xinran Xie, Rachel Daso, Khushboo Suman, Masoud Ghasemi, Weiran Xie, Ruiheng Wu, Yuhang Wu, Calvin Chao, Julian Alberto, Casey Lorch, Ai-Nin Yang, Dan My Nguyen, Tulaja Shrestha, Kayla Otero, Chun-Yuan Lo, Darrin Pochan, Enrique D. Gomez, Jonathan Rivnay, Laure V. Kayser, “Thermo-reversible gelation of self-assembled conducting polymer colloids”, manuscript under revision, pre-print online on ChemRxiv: https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-g900w
5. Zachary Swain, Maryanne Derkaloustian, Kayla A Hepler, Abigail Nolin, Vidhika S. Damani, Pushpita Bhattacharyya, Tulaja Shrestha, Jared Medina, Laure Kayser, Charles Dhong, “Self-Assembled Thin Films as Alternative Surface Textures in Assistive Aids with Users Who are Blind”,  J. Mater. Chem. B, 2024, 12, 10068-10081 https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TB01646G
6. Shalini Sundar, Allison Koopman, Thomas J Manzoni, Weiran Xie, Qurat-Ul-Ain Bhatti, Chun-Yuan Lo, Vidhika S. Damani, Ai Nin Yang, Darrin Pochan, Justin Parreno, Julie B Engiles, Laure V Kayser, Charles Dhong, “Kinetics and Retention of Polystyrenesulfonate for Proteoglycan Replacement in Cartilage”, Biomacromolecules, 2024, 25, 9, 5819–5833 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.4c00479
7. Chun-Yuan Lo, Kelsey Koutsoukos, Dan My Nguyen, Yuhang Wu, David Alejandro Angel Trujillo, Tabitha Miller, Tulaja Shrestha, Ethan Mackey, Vidhika S. Damani, Uddhav Kanbur, Robert Opila, David C. Martin, David Kaphan, Laure V. Kayser, “Imidazolium-based sulfonating agent to control the degree of sulfonation of aromatic polymers and enable plastics-to-electronics upgrading”, JACS Au, 2024, 4, 7, 2596–2605 https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.4c00355
8. Charles Dhong, Shalini Sundar, Vidhika S. Damani, Ai-Nin Yang, Qurat Ul-Ain Bhatti, Laure V Kayser, “Application of synthetic polyelectrolytes for restoration of glycosaminoglycan or proteoglycan function in soft tissue”, PCT International Patent Application No. PCT/US24/54137.
9. Vidhika S. Damani and Laure V. Kayser, “Thermo-responsive and conducting polymer with a reversible sol-gel transition”, PCT International Patent Application No. PCT/US2023/015527.