Profile
Dr. Koushik Mazumder, Scientist-E from NABI is working in the field of structural and synthetic carbohydrate chemistry with respect to their structural, functional and biological significances. He has expertise in extraction of several polysaccharides (e.g. hemicellulosic polysaccharides) from cereals and secondary agricultural by products such as wheat straw, structural characterization using several analytical techniques (e.g. GC-MS, HPLC, mass spectrometry and NMR). He has further modified polysaccharides to improve their functional properties such moisture barrier, mechanical, optical and thermal properties for their application in postharvest shelf life improvement of fruits and vegetables. He has worked extensively in the area of carbohydrate chemistry and post-harvest technology for the quality improvement of perishable fruit crops.
Current Focus Areas
Selected Publications
Gumber S, Kanwar S, Mazumder K* (2023) Properties and antimicrobial activity of wheat-straw nanocellulose-arabinoxylan acetate composite films incorporated with silver nanoparticles, International J of Biological Macromolecules 246, 125480.
Kanwar S, Gumber S, Mazumder K* (2023) Impact of Antimicrobial Composite Coatings Based on Arabinoxylan and Cellulose/Starch Stearic Acid Ester on Improving the Post-Harvest Quality of Guava (Psidium guajava), ACS Food Science & Technology, 3, 1800-1814
Kanwar S, Ali U, Mazumder K* (2021) Effect of cellulose and starch fatty acid esters addition on microstructure and physical properties of arabinoxylan films, Carbohydrate Polymers, 270, Article number: 118317, DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2021.118317.
Ali U, Basu S, Mazumder K* (2020) Improved postharvest quality of Apple (Rich Red) by composite coating based on arabinoxylan and β-glucan stearic acid ester, International J of Biological Macromolecules 151, 628-627.
Ali U, Kanwar S, Yadav K, Basu S, Mazumder K* (2019) Effect of arabinoxylan and β-glucan stearic acid ester coatings on post-harvest quality of apple (Royal Delicious), Carbohydrate Polymers 209, 338-349.