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Prof. Om Shanker Tiwari

Assistant Professor Gr-I

Department of Chemistry

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Room No: CY-503 +91-870-2462650 otiwari@nitw.ac.in https://erp.nitw.ac.in/ext/profile/cy-otiwari Bio Sketch

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    • Journal(s): 28
    • Conference(s): 10
    • Book Chapter(s): 1
    • Text Book(s): 1
    • PhD: Current - 1
    • Event(s) Organized: Conference - 1  FDP - 1

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    Research Areas

    Biomaterials
    Catalysis
    Climate Change
    CO2 Capture
    Drug Delivery
    Electrochemistry
    Energy and Sustainability
    Environmental Remediation
    Piezoelectricity
    Water Remediation
    EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
    Degree Institute Year
    Post-Doctoral Fellow Tel Aviv University, Israel 2025
    Doctor of Philosophy Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India 2020
    Master of Science Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India 2016
    Bachelor of Science Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University Jaunpur Uttar Pradesh 2013
    COURSES HANDLED
    Course L-T-P Credit Degree Level
    Engineering Chemistry(CY1161) 3-0-2 4 UG
    Organic Reactions and Mechanism(CY16007) 3-0-0 3 UG, PG
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    PUBLICATIONS
    Journal(s)
    Multienzyme (3-in-1)-mimicking A Single Nucleobase-Derived Bionanozyme for Versatile Environmental and Biomedical Applications, By Vishwakarma, S.;# Tiwari, O. S.;# Banerjee, D.; Shimon, L. J. W.; Kaminker, I.; Mukherjee, S.; Gazit, E.; Makam, P., Wiley, Advanced Healthcare Materials, vol., pp.2501435, 2025
    Allopurinol Reprograms Uric Acid Self-Assembly by Disrupting Cytotoxic Fibrils and Redirecting Crystal Growth, By Laor Bar-Yosef, D., Oluwatoba, D.S., Adsi, H., Safoah, H.A., Tiwari, O.S., Sogolovsky-Bard, I., Zaguri, D., Levy, D., Gazit, E. and Do, T.D., , American Chemical Society, JACS Au, vol.5, pp.985-5998, 2025
    Engineering a Single Amino Acid Bionanozyme for Ultrasensitive Detection of Biomarkers: A WHO-REASSURE- Aligned Approach, By Vishwakarma, S.; Tiwari, O. S.; Patel, V. K.; Shukla, R.; Gazit, E.; Makam, P. , Wiley, Advanced Functional Materials, vol., pp.2502902, 2025
    Crystallization of L-Cysteine in Heavy Water Induces Intrinsic Fluorescence, By Banerjee, D.; Chibh, S.; Tiwari, O. S.; Mirón, G. D.; Monti, M.; Yakir, H. R.; Pawar, S.; Fixler, D.; Shimon, L. J.; Gazit, E.; Hassanali, A., Wiley, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol., pp.e202505331, 2025
    Amyloid inspired single amino acid (phenylalanine)-based supramolecular functional assemblies: from disease to device applications, By Vishwakarma, S.; Tiwari, O. S.; Shukla, R.; Gazit, E.; Makam, P., Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Society Reviews, vol.54, pp.465-483, 2025
    Minimalistic Peptide Nanocarriers for Multiple Cancer Drugs, By Anastasia Vlachou*, Om Shanker Tiwari*, Sonika Chibh, Jake R Remmert, Ehud Gazit, Phanourios Tamamis, American Chemical Society, ACS Applied Bio Materials, vol.8, pp.9093-9108, 2025
    Experimental and Computational Investigation of Surface-Responsive Riboflavin-Based Self-Assembled Systems, By Aizen, R.; Vijayakanth, T.; Guerin, S.; Cazade, P.-A.; Tiwari, O. S.; Xue, B.; Shimon, L. J.W.; Cao, Y.; Thompson, D.; Gazit, E., Wiley, Chemistry: A European Journal, vol.31, pp.e00726, 2025
    Phenylalanine-Embedded Carbazole-based Fluorescent ‘Turn-off’ Chemosensor for the Detection of Metal Ions, By Tiwari, O. S.; Rawat, V.; Rencus-Lazar, S.; Gazit, E., Elsevier , Spectrochimica Acta, Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, vol.326, pp.125277, 2025
    Effect of Solvent-Induced Packing Transitions on N-capped Diphenylalanine Peptide Crystal Growth, By Dan, Y.; Arnon, Z. A.; Tang, Y.; Kravikass, M.; Zhou, Y.; Misra, R.; Tiwari, O. S.; Shimon, L. J.; Beck, R.; Gazit, E.; Wei, G.; Adler-Abramovich, L., Nature Portfolio, Nature Communications, vol.16, pp.6106, 2025
    Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactide Catalyzed Using Metal-Coordinated Enzyme-like Amino Acid Assemblies, By Tiwari, O. S.; Rawat, V.; Zhang, H.; Chibh, S.; Rencus-Lazar, S.; Diesendruck, C. E.; Gazit, E., Wiley, Journal of Peptide Science, vol.30, pp.e3626, 2024
    Zirconium Oxide Nano-Catalyzed Synthesis of Pharmacologically Important Bis(indolyl)methanes: A Highly Efficient and Mild Approach, By Rathi, K.; Tiwari, O. S.;# Rawat, V.; Jat, J. L.; Yadav, D.; Verma, V. P., Royal Society of Chemistry, Org. Biomol. Chem., vol.22, pp.3287-3298, 2024
    Co-Assembly of Cancer Drugs with Cyclo-HH Peptides: Insights from Simulations and Experiments, By Vlachou, A.;# Kumar, V. B.;# Tiwari, O. S.;# Rencus-Lazar, S.; Chen, Y.; Ozguney, B.; Gazit, E.; Tamamis, P., American Chemical Society, ACS Appl. Bio Mater., vol.7, pp.2309-2324, 2024
    A rapid in vivo pipeline to identify small molecule inhibitors of amyloid aggregation, By Kamal, M.;* Knox, J.;* Horne, R. I.; Tiwari, O. S.; Burns, A. R.; Han, D.; Levy, D.; Bar-Yosef, D. L.; Gazit, E.; Vendruscolo, M.; Roy, P. J., Nature Portfolio, Nature Communications, vol.15, pp.8311, 2024
    Recent advancements in snake antivenom production, By Rathore, A. S.; Kumar, R.; Tiwari, O. S., Elsevier , International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, vol.240, pp.124478, 2023
    Entropically-Driven Co-assembly of L-Histidine and L-Phenylalanine to Form Supramolecular Materials, By Tiwari, O. S.; Aizen, R.; Meli, M.; Colombo, G.; Shimon, L. J. W.; Tal, N.; Gazit, E., American Chemical Society, ACS Nano, vol.17, pp.3506-3517 , 2023
    Spin-Induced Electron Transmission through Metal-Organic Chiral Crystals, By Das, T. K.; Mondal, A. K.; Tiwari, O. S.; Makam, P.; Leitus, G.; Gazit, E.; Fontanesi, C.; Naaman, R., Royal Society of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol.25, pp.22124-22129, 2023
    Peptide- and Metabolite-Based Hydrogels: Minimalistic Approach for the Identification and Characterization of Gelating Building Blocks, By Tiwari, O. S.; Rencus-Lazar, S.; Gazit, E., MDPI, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol.24, pp.10330, 2023
    Calixarene-Metal Complexes in Lactide Polymerization: The Story so Far, By Sachdeva, G.; Bamal, Y.; Ladan, A.; Tiwari, O. S.; Rawat, V.; Yadav, P.; Verma, V. P., American Chemical Society, ACS Omega, vol.8, pp.13479-13491, 2023
    Carbazole-fused calixarene cavities: single and mixed AIEgen systems for NO detection, By Rawat, V.; Baheti, A.; Tiwari, O. S.; Vigalok, A., Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, vol.59, pp.5543-5546 , 2023
    Design of Functional RGD Peptide-Based Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering, By Kumar, V. B.; Tiwari, O. S.; Finkelstein-Zuta, G.; Rencus-Lazar, S.; Gazit, E., MDPI, Pharmaceutics, vol.15, pp.345, 2023
    Effect of Stereochemistry and Hydrophobicity on the Self-Assembly of Phe-Phe-Nucleoside Conjugates, By Tiwari, O. S.; Ganesh, K. N.; Gazit, E. , Wiley, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, vol.223, pp.2200011, 2022
    Advances in Self-Assembly of Metabolite Nanostructures: Physiology, Pathology and Nanotechnology, By Tiwari, O. S.; Rencus-Lazar, S.; Gazit, E., Wiley, ChemNanoMat, vol.8, pp.e202200055, 2022
    Synthesis, Characterization, Investigation of Capacitance and Redox Properties of Self-assembled Phe-Phe with Ferrocene Conjugates, By Tiwari, O. S., Royal Society of Chemistry, Molecular Systems Design and Engineering, vol.7, pp.171-181, 2022
    Tubular to spherical mesoscopic self-assembly of C- and N-termini capped dileucines, By Datta, D.; Jana, S.;# Tiwari, O. S.;# , Wiley, Peptide Science, vol.112, pp.e24134, 2019
    Self-Assembly of Diphenylalanine−Peptide Nucleic Acid Conjugates, By Datta, D.;# Tiwari, O. S.;# Gupta, M. K., American Chemical Society, ACS Omega, vol.4, pp.10715−10728, 2019
    New archetypes in self-assembled Phe-Phe motif induced nanostructures from nucleoside conjugated-diphenylalanines, By Datta, D.;# Tiwari, O. S.;# Ganesh, K. N., Royal Society of Chemistry, Nanoscale, vol.10, pp.3212-3224 , 2018
    Stereochemistry Dependent Proton Conduction in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, By Ravikumar, T.; Mruthyunjayachari. D.; Alagar Raja, K.; Tiwari, O. S.; Gaikwad, P.; Paswan, B.; Musthafa, T., American Chemical Society, Langmuir, vol.32, pp.359-365, 2016
    Effects of Electrochemical Tailoring of Monolayers on a Catalytic Redox Entity: An ON–OFF Phenomenon Regulated by the Surrounding Medium, By Alagar Raja, K.; Harish M. N. K.; Mruthyunjayachari. D.; Ravikumar, T.; Paswan, B.; Tiwari, O. S.; Chanda, V.; Gaikwad, P.; Musthafa. T., American Chemical Society, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol.119, pp.28276-28284, 2015
    Conference(s)
    “21st TIFR "Future of Chemistry" Symposium’’ By Om Shanker Tiwari and Ehud Gazit, Peptide and Metabolite-based Bio-inspired Materials for Environmental and Biomedical Applications, 2025
    "Experimental Studies on Short Peptide-based Novel Nanocarriers for Multi-Drug Cancer Therapy" By Om Shanker Tiwari, Anastasia Vlachou, Phanourios Tamamis and Ehud Gazit, BioSoft Center, 2025
    “Experimental Studies on Short Peptide-based Novel Nanocarriers for Multi-Drug Cancer Therapy’’ By Om Shanker Tiwari, Anastasia Vlachou, Phanourios Tamamis and Ehud Gazit, 2025 Peptide Materials Conference GRC (Gordon Research Conference), 2025
    Minimalistic Peptide Nanocarriers for Multiple Cancer Drugs By Om Shanker Tiwari, Anastasia Vlachou, Sonika Chibh, Jake R Remmert, Phanourios Tamamis and Ehud Gazit, 6th Science Conclave-NBRCOM 2025, 2025
    “Metabolite-based Bio-inspired Materials for Nanotechnology Applications’’ By Om Shanker and Ehud Gazit, Invited Seminar, 2024
    “Entropically-Driven Co-assembly of L-Histidine and L-Phenylalanine to Form Supramolecular Materials’’ By Om Shanker Tiwari and Ehud Gazit, Sorrento 2013 – Sorrento 2023: A decade of Peptide Materials, 2023
    ‘‘Exploration of Capacitance and Redox Properties of Self-assembled Phe–Phe with Ferrocene Conjugates: Their Utilization in Energy Storage Devices’’ By Om Shanker Tiwari and Ehud Gazit, 13th Annual Meeting of Fred Chaoul Nano Centre Community, 2022
    ‘‘Nucleobase Conjugated-Diphenylalanines as a New Platform for Self-Assembled Nanostructures and Their Utilization as Biomaterials’’ By Om Shanker Tiwari and Krishna N. Ganesh, 57th Annual Convention of Chemists 2020 & International Conference on Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences - RTCS2020, 2020
    ‘‘Nucleobase Conjugated-Diphenylalanines as a New Platform for Self-Assembled Nanostructures and Their Utilization as Biomaterials’’ By Om Shanker Tiwari and Krishna N. Ganesh, International Carbohydrate Conference (Carbo-XXXIV) , 2019
    ‘‘Effects of Nucleoside and PNA Conjugation on Self-assembly of Diphenylalanine (Phe-Phe)’’ By Om Shanker Tiwari and Krishna N. Ganesh, Chemsymphoria, 2019
    Text Book(s)
    Handbook of Ultraviolet and Visible Spectroscopy By Komal Rathi, Ved Prakash Verma, Om Shanker Tiwari, Varun Rawat (Published by: The Incredible Pahadi, Noida-201301), National, 2025
    Book Chapter(s)
    Characterization of amyloid-like metal-amino acid assemblies with remarkable catalytic activity By Tiwari, O. S.; Gazit, E. in Peptide Catalysts, Including Catalytic Amyloids, Elsevier, Methods in Enzymology, International, 2024
    PROJECT / CONSULTANCY
    Bio-Inspired Design for Advanced Nanomaterials
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Type: Research
    Sponsor: National Institute of Technology Warangal Under RSG
    Project Cost (INR): 500000
    Date of Commencement: 10-12-2025  
    Duration: 12 Months
    Status: Ongoing
    RESEARCH FELLOWS / PhD STUDENTS
    Current PhD Students
    Adithya Ramesh
    Area of Research: Metabolite-based supramolecular materials for environmental remediation
    CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP / SYMPOSIUM / SHORT TERM COURSE / FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
    5-Day Online FDP on “Bio-inspired Materials and Catalysis for Industrial and Biomedical Applications”
    08-Dec-2025 → 12-Dec-2025
    Event Type: Faculty Development Programme
    Role: Coordinator
    Funding Agency: Self‑sponsored
    Organic Synthesis and Advanced Materials
    26-Feb-2026 → 28-Feb-2026
    Event Type: Conference
    Role: Treasurer
    Funding Agency: CSIR and DST/ANRF
    AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
    2025
    INTERNATIONAL DISTINGUISHED RESEARCHER AWARD
    2023
    The Marian Gertner Institute for Medical
    Shmunis Excellence Scholarship Award
    2022
    CSIR - UGC NET
    2021
    Tel Aviv University, Postdoc Fellowship Award
    2017
    Best Teaching Assistant Award
    2013
    IIT-JAM
    ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
    •  Chair at “The First Metabolostasis Conference”, at Tel Aviv University, Israel (July, 2023 - July, 2023)
     Last updated on February 19, 2026