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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2025
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Gurshagan Kandhola

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Researcher

Also affiliated: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2018); Center for NanoScience (2017)

Faculty Researcher

11 h-index 21 pubs 466 cited

  • Cellulose
  • Hydrogels
  • Nanoparticles
  • Food
  • Starch
  • Graphite
  • Nanotubes, Carbon
  • Nanostructures
  • Zea mays
  • Food Handling
  • Drug Carriers
  • Microspheres
  • Chitosan
  • Biological Availability
  • Particle Size

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Gurshagan Kandhola's research focuses on the development and application of nanomaterials, particularly those derived from polysaccharides like cellulose. Their work investigates the creation of novel nanostructured hydrogels and microspheres using materials such as cellulose nanocrystals, graphene, and carbon nanotubes. These engineered materials are explored for their potential in enhanced bioaccessibility and bioavailability of bioactive food compounds, as well as for tissue engineering applications.

Kandhola's publications detail the fabrication of bionanocomposites for improved drug encapsulation and release efficiency, and the tuning of hydrogel properties through covalent and ionic crosslinking. Their research also examines the impact of feedstock variability on cellulose nanocrystal properties and the synthesis of gold nanoparticles on cellulose nanocrystals for enhanced localized surface plasmon resonance. Kandhola has an h-index of 11 with 21 total publications and 424 total citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 11
  • Publications: 21
  • Citations: 466

Selected Publications

  • Cellulose nanocrystal-based hydrogel microspheres prepared via electrohydrodynamic processes for controlled release of bioactive compounds (2025)
    Carbohydrate Polymers 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Ionically crosslinked cellulose nanocrystals by metal nitrates for the preparation of stable emulsions with tunable interface properties (2023)
    Scientific Reports 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Fabrication of Chitosan/PEGDA Bionanocomposites for Enhanced Drug Encapsulation and Release Efficiency (2023)
    Molecular Pharmaceutics 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Nanomaterial-Based Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Applications: A Review on Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes and Nanocellulose (2023)
    Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine 65 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Polysaccharide‐based porous biopolymers for enhanced bioaccessibility and bioavailability of bioactive food compounds: Challenges, advances, and opportunities (2022)
    Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety 66 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Covalent Crosslinking of Colloidal Cellulose Nanocrystals for Multifunctional Nanostructured Hydrogels with Tunable Physicochemical Properties (2022)
    Biomacromolecules 15 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Impact of species-based wood feedstock variability on physicochemical properties of cellulose nanocrystals (2022)
    Cellulose 13 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Enhanced Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance of Gold Nanoparticles Synthesized on Cellulose Nanocrystals (2021)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Preparation and Characterization of Nanopatterned Polycaprolactone/Cellulose Nanocrystal Composite Membranes for Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering (2021)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Maximizing production of cellulose nanocrystals and nanofibers from pre-extracted loblolly pine kraft pulp: a response surface approach (2020)
    Bioresources and Bioprocessing 111 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Investigating the effects of hemicellulose pre-extraction on the production and characterization of loblolly pine nanocellulose (2020)
    Cellulose 53 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Effects of Oligosaccharides Isolated From Pinewood Hot Water Pre-hydrolyzates on Recombinant Cellulases (2018)
    Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Changes in Phenolic Acid Content in Maize during Food Product Processing (2018)
    Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 28 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Beneficial effects of Trametes versicolor pretreatment on saccharification and lignin enrichment of organosolv-pretreated pinewood (2017)
    RSC Advances 17 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Pretreatments for Enhanced Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Pinewood: a Review (2017)
    BioEnergy Research 40 citations DOI OpenAlex

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