Publications

M.-B. Avinash*, N. S. Surya, S. S. Janani, J. Abraham, Regeneratable Living Materials and Functional Architectures, 2026, (In Review)

M.-B. Avinash*, N. S. Surya, Y. Cui, S. S. Janani, J. Abraham, Engineering the Toughness of Living Materials, 2026, (In Review)

H. M. Hammad, S. Swarnadeep, H. Priode, E. Jackson, A. Kurowski, R. B. Moore, M.-B. Avinash, S. Deshmukh, A. Duraj-Thatte, Programming β-Solenoid Architecture for Tailorable Autogenic Engineered Living Materials, bioRxiv, 2026, Advanced Functional Materials (In revision).

H. M. Hammad, S. Swarnadeep, E. C. Jackson, N. Burns, H. Wang, H. Priode, R. B. Moore, S. Deshmukh, M.-B. Avinash, A. Duraj-Thatte, De novo Autogenic Engineered Living Functional Materials, Advanced Materials, 2026, 0:e74312.
Highlighted in nanowerk
Featured in Advanced Materials Editor’s Choice, Celebrating Excellence in the Advanced Materials Family: Women in Materials Science

N. Burns, A. Rajesh, M.-B. Avinash*, A. Duraj-Thatte, 3D Extrusion Bioprinting of Microbial Inks for Biomedical Applications, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2025, 217, 115505.
Invited Review for a special issue on “Pharmaceutical and Biological 3D printing”

M.-B. Avinash*, A. Duraj-Thatte, N. S. Joshi, Mechanically Tunable, Compostable, Healable and Scalable Engineered Living Materials, Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 9179.
Highlighted in Earth.com, Technology Networks, Futura Sciences, Dieline, Super interessante, New India Abroad, Phys.org, Lenta.ru, Olhar Digital, Inovacao tecnologica, Espanol News, Northeastern Global News, MSN, Bioplastics News, Canadian Plastics
Short Documentary Video in YouTube
Featured in the “Biotechnology for a circular economy” collection at Nature Portfolio involving Nature Communications, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports.

I. Gelfat, Y. Aqeel, J. M. Tremblay, J. J. Jaskiewicz, A. Shrestha, J. N. Lee, S. Hu, X. Qian, L. Magoun, A. Sheoran, D. Bedenice, C. Giem, M.-B. Avinash, A. R. Pulsifer, H. X. Tu, X. Li, M. L. Minus, M. S. Osburne, S. Tzipori, C. B. Shoemaker, J. M. Leong, N. S. Joshi, Single domain antibodies against enteric pathogen virulence factors are active as curli fiber fusions on probiotic E. coli Nissle 1917, PLOS Pathogens, 2022, 18, e1010713.
Highlighted in MedicalXPress, Drug Discovery News, Northeastern Global News, AskByGeeks

A. Duraj-Thatte#, M.-B. Avinash#, N. M. D. Courchesne#, G. Cannici, A. Sánchez-Ferrer, B. P. Frank, L. van 't Hag, S. K. Cotts, D. H. Fairbrother, R. Mezzenga, N. S. Joshi, Water-Processable, Biodegradable and Coatable Aquaplastic from Engineered Microbial Biofilms, Nature Chemical Biology, 2021, 17, 732-738.
Highlighted in The Washington Post, la Repubblica, Earth.org, Genetic Literacy Project, Harvard Innovation Labs, Bioplastics News, Freethink, SustainabilityX etc.
Nature Chemical Biology News & Views

A. Duraj-Thatte#, M.-B. Avinash#*, S. Hassan, A. Sourlis, J. Xia, A. Lesha, A. G. Rubio, J. Rutledge, S. Y. Zhang, N. S. Joshi, Programmable Microbial Ink for 3D Printing of Living Materials Produced from Genetically Engineered Protein Nanofibers, Nature Communications, 2021, 12, 6600.
Highlighted in The New York Times, New Scientist, Science Alert, Smithsonian Magazine, The Naked Scientist, The Daily Beast, The Register, ZME Science, Phys.org, la Repubblica, Nature Asia, N+1, Yahoo News, Engadget, SingularityHub, Digital Journal, The Statesman, The Paper, Xinhua, Al Jazeera, WION, NewsBytes, Daily Magazine, Futura Tech etc.
Top 25 articles in Chemistry & Materials Science in Nature Communications in 2021
Featured in the “Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing” Collection in Nature Communications

M.-B. Avinash*, A. Duraj-Thatte, N. S. Joshi, Robust Self-regeneratable Stiff Living Material Fabricated from Microbial Cells, Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, 31, 2010784.

D. Birnbaum, M.-B. Avinash, A. Kan, B. L. Tardy, N. S. Joshi, Hybrid Living Capsules Autonomously Produced by Engineered Bacteria, Advanced Science, 2021, 8, 2004699.

P. K. R. Tay, M.-B. Avinash and N. S. Joshi, Repurposing bacterial extracellular matrix for selective and differential abstraction of rare earth elements, Green Chemistry, 2018, 20, 3512-3520.
Highlighted as a Hot Article of 2018 in Green Chemistry Journal
Featured in “Precious Elements”, a Themed Web Collection of Articles published in Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Journals

M.-B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, Architectonics: Design of Molecular Architecture for Functional Applications, Accounts of Chemical Research, 2018, 51, 414-426. (A Review)

M.-B. Avinash*, K. V. Sandeepa and T. Govindaraju, Emergent Behaviors in Kinetically Controlled Dynamic Self-Assembly of Synthetic Molecular Systems, ACS Omega, 2016, 1, 378-387.
(First synthetic molecular system to showcase emergent behaviors like supramolecular speciation, supramolecular regulation, super-nonlinearity, and dynamic pathway complexity)

M.-B. Avinash, K. Swati, K. S. Narayan and T. Govindaraju, Molecular Architectonics of Naphthalenediimides for Efficient Structure-Property Correlation, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2016, 8, 8678-8685.

M.-B. Avinash, D. Raut, M. K. Mishra, U. Ramamurty and T. Govindaraju, Bioinspired Reductionistic Peptide Engineering for Exceptional Mechanical Properties, Scientific Reports, 2015, 5, 16070.
(A simple approach to mimic the stiffness of silk fibers)

M.-B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, Nanoarchitectonics of Biomolecular Assemblies for Functional Applications, Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 13348-13369. (Invited Review)

Y. Hisamatsu, S. Banerjee, M.-B. Avinash, T. Govindaraju and C. Schmuck, A Supramolecular Gel from a Quadruple Zwitterion that Responds to both Acid and Base, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2013, 52, 12550-12554.
Chosen as a "Hot Paper" by the Editors

M.-B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, Extremely Slow Dynamics of an Abiotic Helical Assembly: Unusual Relevance to the Secondary Structure of Proteins, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2013, 4, 583-588.
(Synthetic molecular self-assembly mimics the protein folding process)

M.-B. Avinash, P. K. Samanta, K. V. Sandeepa, S. K. Pati and T. Govindaraju, Molecular Architectonics of Stereochemically Constrained p-Complementary Functional Modules, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2013, 5838-5847.
(Engineered alternate assembly of donor and acceptor modules into well-defined supramolecular architectures)

M.-B. Avinash, K. V. Sandeepa and T. Govindaraju, Molecular Assembly of Amino Acid Interlinked, Topologically Symmetric, p–Complementary Donor–Acceptor–Donor Triads, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2013, 9, 1565-1571.

N. Narayanaswamy, M.-B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, Exploring Hydrogen Bonding and Weak Aromatic Interactions Induced Assembly of Adenine and Thymine Functionalized Naphthalenediimides, New Journal of Chemistry, 2013, 37, 1302-1306.
Most Accessed Article

M.-B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, Amino Acid Derivatized Arylenediimides: A Versatile Modular Approach for Functional Molecular Materials, Advanced Materials, 2012, 24, 3905-3922. (A Review)

M.-B. Avinash, E. Verheggen, C. Schmuck and T. Govindaraju, Self-Cleaning Functional Molecular Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2012, 51, 10324-10328.
Chosen as a "Hot Paper" by the Editors
Highlighted in "Chemistry Views"

T. Govindaraju and M.-B. Avinash, Two-Dimensional Nanoarchitectonics: Organic and Hybrid Materials, Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 6102-6117. (A Review; Cover Page)

M. Pandeeswar, M.-B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, Chiral Transcription and Retentive Helical Memory: Probing Peptide Auxiliaries Appended with Naphthalenediimides for Their One-Dimensional Molecular Organization, Chemistry - A European Journal, 2012, 18, 4818- 4822. (Inside Cover Page)

M.-B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, Engineering Molecular Organization of Naphthalenediimides: Large Nanosheets with Metallic Conductivity and Attoliter Containers, Advanced Functional Materials, 2011, 21, 3875-3882. (Back Cover Page)

M.-B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, A Bio-Inspired Design Strategy: Organization of Tryptophan-Appended Naphthalenediimide into Well-Deﬁned Architectures Induced by Molecular Interactions, Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 2536-2543. (Cover Page)

M.-B. Avinash, K. S. Subrahmanyam, Y. Sundarayya and T. Govindaraju, Covalent Modiﬁcation and Exfoliation of Graphene Oxide Using Ferrocene, Nanoscale, 2010, 2, 1762-1766.
Most Accessed Article
Selected for Physics Nobel 2010 Web Collection: Graphene

A. Thirumurugan, M.-B. Avinash and C. N. R. Rao, 1,2-, 1,3- and 1,4- Cyclohexanedicarboxylates of Cd and Mn with Chain and Layered Structures, Dalton Transactions, 2006, 221-228.
(1D and 2D metal organic hybrids)

Book Chapter

P. Q. Nguyen, P. Praveschotinunt, M.-B. Avinash, I. Gelfat, N. S. Joshi, Engineering Living Materials: Designing Biological Cells as Nanomaterials Factories, 21st Century Nanoscience: A Handbook. Editor - Klaus D. Sattler

# Equal Contribution * Co-Corresponding Author

Publications: 30 First/Co-First Author: 19

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M.-B. Avinash*, N. S. Surya, S. S. Janani, J. Abraham, Regeneratable Living Materials and Functional Architectures, 2026, (In Review)

M.-B. Avinash*, N. S. Surya, Y. Cui, S. S. Janani, J. Abraham, Engineering the Toughness of Living Materials, 2026, (In Review)

H. M. Hammad, S. Swarnadeep, H. Priode, E. Jackson, A. Kurowski, R. B. Moore, M.-B. Avinash, S. Deshmukh, A. Duraj-Thatte, Programming β-Solenoid Architecture for Tailorable Autogenic Engineered Living Materials, bioRxiv, 2026, Advanced Functional Materials (In revision).

H. M. Hammad, S. Swarnadeep, E. C. Jackson, N. Burns, H. Wang, H. Priode, R. B. Moore, S. Deshmukh, M.-B. Avinash, A. Duraj-Thatte, De novo Autogenic Engineered Living Functional Materials, Advanced Materials, 2026, 0:e74312.

Highlighted in nanowerk

Featured in Advanced Materials Editor’s Choice, Celebrating Excellence in the Advanced Materials Family: Women in Materials Science

N. Burns, A. Rajesh, M.-B. Avinash*, A. Duraj-Thatte, 3D Extrusion Bioprinting of Microbial Inks for Biomedical Applications, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2025, 217, 115505.

Invited Review for a special issue on “Pharmaceutical and Biological 3D printing”

M.-B. Avinash*, A. Duraj-Thatte, N. S. Joshi, Mechanically Tunable, Compostable, Healable and Scalable Engineered Living Materials, Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 9179.

Highlighted in Earth.com, Technology Networks, Futura Sciences, Dieline, Super interessante, New India Abroad, Phys.org, Lenta.ru, Olhar Digital, Inovacao tecnologica, Espanol News, Northeastern Global News, MSN, Bioplastics News, Canadian Plastics

Short Documentary Video in YouTube

Featured in the “Biotechnology for a circular economy” collection at Nature Portfolio involving Nature Communications, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports.

Highlighted in MedicalXPress, Drug Discovery News, Northeastern Global News, AskByGeeks

Highlighted in The Washington Post, la Repubblica, Earth.org, Genetic Literacy Project, Harvard Innovation Labs, Bioplastics News, Freethink, SustainabilityX etc.

Nature Chemical Biology News & Views

A. Duraj-Thatte#, M.-B. Avinash#*, S. Hassan, A. Sourlis, J. Xia, A. Lesha, A. G. Rubio, J. Rutledge, S. Y. Zhang, N. S. Joshi, Programmable Microbial Ink for 3D Printing of Living Materials Produced from Genetically Engineered Protein Nanofibers, Nature Communications, 2021, 12, 6600.

Top 25 articles in Chemistry & Materials Science in Nature Communications in 2021

Featured in the “Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing” Collection in Nature Communications

M.-B. Avinash*, A. Duraj-Thatte, N. S. Joshi, Robust Self-regeneratable Stiff Living Material Fabricated from Microbial Cells, Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, 31, 2010784.

D. Birnbaum, M.-B. Avinash, A. Kan, B. L. Tardy, N. S. Joshi, Hybrid Living Capsules Autonomously Produced by Engineered Bacteria, Advanced Science, 2021, 8, 2004699.

P. K. R. Tay, M.-B. Avinash and N. S. Joshi, Repurposing bacterial extracellular matrix for selective and differential abstraction of rare earth elements, Green Chemistry, 2018, 20, 3512-3520.

Highlighted as a Hot Article of 2018 in Green Chemistry Journal

Featured in “Precious Elements”, a Themed Web Collection of Articles published in Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Journals

M.-B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, Architectonics: Design of Molecular Architecture for Functional Applications, Accounts of Chemical Research, 2018, 51, 414-426. (A Review)

M.-B. Avinash*, K. V. Sandeepa and T. Govindaraju, Emergent Behaviors in Kinetically Controlled Dynamic Self-Assembly of Synthetic Molecular Systems, ACS Omega, 2016, 1, 378-387.

(First synthetic molecular system to showcase emergent behaviors like supramolecular speciation, supramolecular regulation, super-nonlinearity, and dynamic pathway complexity)

M.-B. Avinash, K. Swati, K. S. Narayan and T. Govindaraju, Molecular Architectonics of Naphthalenediimides for Efficient Structure-Property Correlation, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2016, 8, 8678-8685.

M.-B. Avinash, D. Raut, M. K. Mishra, U. Ramamurty and T. Govindaraju, Bioinspired Reductionistic Peptide Engineering for Exceptional Mechanical Properties, Scientific Reports, 2015, 5, 16070.

(A simple approach to mimic the stiffness of silk fibers)

M.-B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, Nanoarchitectonics of Biomolecular Assemblies for Functional Applications, Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 13348-13369. (Invited Review)

Y. Hisamatsu, S. Banerjee, M.-B. Avinash, T. Govindaraju and C. Schmuck, A Supramolecular Gel from a Quadruple Zwitterion that Responds to both Acid and Base, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2013, 52, 12550-12554.

Chosen as a "Hot Paper" by the Editors

M.-B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, Extremely Slow Dynamics of an Abiotic Helical Assembly: Unusual Relevance to the Secondary Structure of Proteins, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2013, 4, 583-588.

(Synthetic molecular self-assembly mimics the protein folding process)

M.-B. Avinash, P. K. Samanta, K. V. Sandeepa, S. K. Pati and T. Govindaraju, Molecular Architectonics of Stereochemically Constrained p-Complementary Functional Modules, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2013, 5838-5847.

(Engineered alternate assembly of donor and acceptor modules into well-defined supramolecular architectures)

M.-B. Avinash, K. V. Sandeepa and T. Govindaraju, Molecular Assembly of Amino Acid Interlinked, Topologically Symmetric, p–Complementary Donor–Acceptor–Donor Triads, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2013, 9, 1565-1571.

N. Narayanaswamy, M.-B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, Exploring Hydrogen Bonding and Weak Aromatic Interactions Induced Assembly of Adenine and Thymine Functionalized Naphthalenediimides, New Journal of Chemistry, 2013, 37, 1302-1306.

Most Accessed Article

M.-B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, Amino Acid Derivatized Arylenediimides: A Versatile Modular Approach for Functional Molecular Materials, Advanced Materials, 2012, 24, 3905-3922. (A Review)

M.-B. Avinash, E. Verheggen, C. Schmuck and T. Govindaraju, Self-Cleaning Functional Molecular Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2012, 51, 10324-10328.

Chosen as a "Hot Paper" by the Editors

Highlighted in "Chemistry Views"

T. Govindaraju and M.-B. Avinash, Two-Dimensional Nanoarchitectonics: Organic and Hybrid Materials, Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 6102-6117. (A Review; Cover Page)

M. Pandeeswar, M.-B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, Chiral Transcription and Retentive Helical Memory: Probing Peptide Auxiliaries Appended with Naphthalenediimides for Their One-Dimensional Molecular Organization, Chemistry - A European Journal, 2012, 18, 4818- 4822. (Inside Cover Page)

M.-B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, Engineering Molecular Organization of Naphthalenediimides: Large Nanosheets with Metallic Conductivity and Attoliter Containers, Advanced Functional Materials, 2011, 21, 3875-3882. (Back Cover Page)

M.-B. Avinash and T. Govindaraju, A Bio-Inspired Design Strategy: Organization of Tryptophan-Appended Naphthalenediimide into Well-Deﬁned Architectures Induced by Molecular Interactions, Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 2536-2543. (Cover Page)

M.-B. Avinash, K. S. Subrahmanyam, Y. Sundarayya and T. Govindaraju, Covalent Modiﬁcation and Exfoliation of Graphene Oxide Using Ferrocene, Nanoscale, 2010, 2, 1762-1766.

Most Accessed Article

Selected for Physics Nobel 2010 Web Collection: Graphene

A. Thirumurugan, M.-B. Avinash and C. N. R. Rao, 1,2-, 1,3- and 1,4- Cyclohexanedicarboxylates of Cd and Mn with Chain and Layered Structures, Dalton Transactions, 2006, 221-228.

(1D and 2D metal organic hybrids)

Book Chapter

P. Q. Nguyen, P. Praveschotinunt, M.-B. Avinash, I. Gelfat, N. S. Joshi, Engineering Living Materials: Designing Biological Cells as Nanomaterials Factories, 21st Century Nanoscience: A Handbook. Editor - Klaus D. Sattler

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M.-B. Avinash, N. S. Surya, S. S. Janani, J. Abraham, Regeneratable Living Materials and Functional Architectures*, 2026, (In Review)

M.-B. Avinash, N. S. Surya, Y. Cui, S. S. Janani, J. Abraham, Engineering the Toughness of Living Materials*, 2026, (In Review)

N. Burns, A. Rajesh, M.-B. Avinash, A. Duraj-Thatte, 3D Extrusion Bioprinting of Microbial Inks for Biomedical Applications, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews*, 2025, 217, 115505.

M.-B. Avinash, A. Duraj-Thatte, N. S. Joshi, Mechanically Tunable, Compostable, Healable and Scalable Engineered Living Materials, Nature Communications*, 2024, 15, 9179.

A. Duraj-Thatte#, M.-B. Avinash#, S. Hassan, A. Sourlis, J. Xia, A. Lesha, A. G. Rubio, J. Rutledge, S. Y. Zhang, N. S. Joshi, Programmable Microbial Ink for 3D Printing of Living Materials Produced from Genetically Engineered Protein Nanofibers, Nature Communications*, 2021, 12, 6600.

M.-B. Avinash, A. Duraj-Thatte, N. S. Joshi, Robust Self-regeneratable Stiff Living Material* Fabricated from Microbial Cells, Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, 31, 2010784.

M.-B. Avinash, K. V. Sandeepa and T. Govindaraju, Emergent Behaviors in Kinetically Controlled Dynamic Self-Assembly of Synthetic Molecular Systems, ACS Omega*, 2016, 1, 378-387.