Dr. Meegle S Mathew

Assistant Professor
M.Sc, UGC -NET, Ph.D, Post Doc

Profile

 Dr. Meegle S Mathew, joined as Assistant Professpor in Department of Chemistry on 05/06/2023. She received her PhD from Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram in 2019, in the area of Nanomaterials for Biomedical applications. Following her Ph.D programme, she has awarded UGC- DR DS Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship for the Topic of photocatalytic activity of metal nanoclusters graphted TiO2. Dr. Mathew has worked as a  postdoctoral fellow for three years at School of Energy Materials, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. During her research career she has published several research articles in high impact journals,granted an Indian patent, edited two books and published several book chapters. She also worked as a visiting researcher at University of Lyon, Lyon, France.

Research

  Researech Intrests 

  • Fluorescent Nanoparticles
  • Photocatalysis
  • Nano-biophotonics
  • Optical Imaging
  • Development of Biosensors & Biomedical Devices

Projects

2022-2023

  •  International Emerging Action Scheme (IEA)-Institute of Lumiere Matter (iLM), University of Lyon1, CNRS Institute France 

2020-2023

  •  DR DS Kothari Post- Doctoral Fellowship for the proposal entitled “Green Synthesized Metal Nanocluster Graphted TiO2 for Photocatalytic Conversion of CO2” 

Publications

2023

    •  JS Jayan, MS Mathew, BK Alias, N Thomas, S Appukuttan, S Thomas Redox properties of zero-dimensional carbon based nanomaterials, Elsevier
    • Meegle S. Mathew, Greeshma Krishnan, Amita Aanne Mathews  , Kevin Sunil , Leo Mathew ,Rodolphe Antoine  and Sabu Thomas  ‘Recent Progress on Ligand-Protected Metal Nanoclusters in Photocatalysis  (Nanomaterials 2023, 13, 1874)
    • P.J. Sreelekshmi, V. Devika, M.M. Sreejaya, Sandhya Sadanandan, Meegle S. Mathew, Appukuttan Saritha, Kuruvilla Joseph, and Sabu Thomas ‘Biomaterials and biomimetics, Book:Antiviral and Antimicrobial Smart Coatings, Fundamentals and Applications, Elsevier 2023, ISBN: 9780323992916

2022

    • Ansu Mary Alex, Meegle S. Mathew, Kitty Joseph Kuruvilla, Saritha Appukuttan, Kuruvilla Joseph, and Sabu Thomas, Protein and enzyme protected metal nanoclusters (Elsevier 2022, ISBN: 9780323886413)
    • Jitha S Jayan, Kitty Joseph Kuruvilla, Saritha Appukuttan, Meegle S. Mathew, Kuruvilla Joseph and Sabu Thomas, General introduction—luminescent metal nanoclusters (Elsevier 2022, ISBN: 9780323886413)
    • Meegle S. Mathew, Saritha appukuttan, Kuruvilla Joseph and Sabu Thomas, Luminescent Metal Nanoclusters: Summary and future outlook, Luminescent Metal Nanoclusters, 679-681, (Elsevier 2022, ISBN: 9780323886413)
    • Haritha R Das, Meegle S. Mathew, Saritha Appukuttan, and Sabu Thomas Foundation and Growth of Macromolecular Science: Advances in Research for Sustainable Development. (Apple Academic Press, 2022, ISBN: 9781774913673

2021

  •  Meegle S. Mathew, Saritha appukuttan and Kuruvilla Joseph, Biosensor and drug delivery application by the utilization of Green Nanotechnology, Apple Academic Press,2021 ISBN9781771889650

2020

    • BDS Deeraj, Meegle S. Mathew, Jyothishkumar Parameswarpillai and Kuruvilla Joseph, EMI Shielding Materials Based on Thermosetting Polymers, in Materials for potential EMI Shielding, Elsevier 2020, ISBN-978-0-12-817590-3
    • Meegle S. Mathew, Anoop Philip, and Kuruvilla Joseph “Wheat–Gluten-Directed Facile Synthesis of AgAuQC: Probing Inner Filter Effects and Electron Transfer for Bilirubin Detection”. Chemistry Select 2020, 5, 9641–9653.
    • Meegle S. Mathew, Kavya Vinod and Kuruvilla Joseph “Improved Bioavailability of Curcumin in Gliadin-Protected Gold Quantum Cluster for Targeted Delivery” ACS omega 2020, 4 (10), 14169-14178

2019

    •  Meegle S. Mathew, Kiran. S and Kuruvilla Joseph "Graphene Carbon Dot Assisted Sustainable and Fast Synthesis of Gold Quantum Cluster in a Plant Derived Protein for Bio-Friendly White Light Emitting Material and Ratiometric Sensing of Mercury” Chemistry Select,2019 3, 9545-9554.

2018

    •  Meegle S. Mathew, Joyal Davis & Kuruvilla Joseph, “Green Synthesis of Plant-Derived Protein Protected Copper Quantum Cluster for Intrauterine Device Application” Analyst, 2018, 143, 3841–3849
    • Meegle S. Mathew and Kuruvilla Joseph, “Green Synthesis of Gluten-Stabilized Fluorescent Gold Quantum Clusters: Application as Turn-On Sensing of Human Blood Creatinine” ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2017, 5, pp 4837–4845

2016

    • Meegle S. Mathew, Ananya Baksi, T. Pradeep and Kuruvilla Joseph, “Choline-induced selective fluorescence quenching of Acetylcholinesterase conjugated Au@BSA clusters”, Biosensors and Bioelectronics 2016, 81, 68–74 

2015

    •  Meegle S. Mathew, K. Sreenivasan and Kuruvilla Joseph, “Hydrogen-bond assisted, aggregation-induced emission of digitonin”, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 100176–100183

Books

  • Sabu Thomas, Kuruvila Joseph and Saritha Appukuttan, Meegle S. Mathew,Luminescent Metal Nanoclusters Synthesis, Characterization and Applications, Elsevier 2022 (ISBN: 9780323886574 https://www.elsevier.com/books/luminescent-metal-nanoclusters/thomas/978-0-323-88657
 
  • Meegle S. Mathew, Josep Haponik, Sabu Thomas, Foundations of Macromolecular Science: Advances in Research for Sustainable Development, Apple Academic Press (ISBN:9781774913673)https://www.appleacademicpress.com/foundation-and-growth-of-macromolecular-science-advances-in-research-for-sustainable-development/9781774913673

Seminar/Conference Presentations

  • Development of Nanocluster-Decorated TiO2 Heterogenous Catalyst (Short Invited Lecture), International hybrid Conference in Advances in Material Science Breaking Barriers, Building Future (ICAMS 2023)
  • Facile Synthesis of Protein Protected Fluorescent Metal Quantum Cluster for Use as Sensing Probes and Drug Delivery Vehicle (Oral Presentation) -International Conference on Optoelectronic and Nano Materials for Advanced Technology (2019)
  • Facile Synthesis of Protein Protected Luminescent Noble Metal Quantum Clusters for Biomedical Applications (Poster Presentation)-International Conference on recent trends in Material Science and Technology (ICMST 2018)
  • Plant Protein Directed Synthesis Luminescent Noble Metal Quantum Clusters and Their Application in Biosensors (Poster Presentation) International Conference on Nanomaterials and their Applications by University of Mysore, 2018
  • pH assisted aggregation induced emission (AIE) of digitonin (Poster Presentation)     National Conference on Material Science and Technology (2016)
  • Choline induced selective fluorescence quenching of Acetylcholinesterase conjugated Au@BSA quantum clusters (Oral Presentation) International Symposium on Photonics Applications and Nanomaterial (2015)
  • Fluorescent nanomaterial for Biosensing (Oral Presentation)National meeting of Material Research Society, (2015)
  • Protein Stabilized Fluorescent Gold Quantum clusters for Turn-on Sensing of Human Blood Creatinine (Poster Presentation)IUMRS International Conference of Young Researchers on Advanced Materials (2015)

others

 Patent

Meegle S Mathew, Kuruvilla Joseph, “Novel biosensor for the detection of creatinine, Indian Patent (Patent No: 372438)

 

 

 

Achievements

  •       DR DS Kothari Post- Doctoral Fellowship for the proposal entitled “Green Synthesized Metal Nanocluster        Graphted        TiO2 for Photocatalytic Conversion of CO2” (June 2020)
  •          National Eligibility Test (NET): (June 2013)
  •          Qualified GATE- 2012-2014 (Score 355)

Awards and Recognition

  • Best Poster Award for the presentation of entitled “Facile Synthesis of Protein Protected Luminescent Noble Metal Quantum Clusters for Biomedical Applications’ in International Conference on recent trends in Material Science and Technology (Oct 2018)

Institutional Responsibilities

  • Joint Coordinator- Science Forum
  • Assistant Nodal Officer- IEDC

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