
Boğaziçi University (Undergraduate) Boğaziçi University (MS)
My research focuses on material science involves "Degradable Hydrogels" that can be used for biomolecule delivery or tissue engineering scaffolds and "Nanofibers" which are responsive to certain stimulies.
1-Altınbasak, I.; Sanyal, R.; Sanyal, A.
''Best of Both Worlds: Diels-Alder Chemistry Towards Fabrication of Redox-Responsive Degredable Hydrogels for Protein Release''
RSC Advances 2016, 6, 74757-74764.
2-Landis, R. F., Li, C.-H., Gupta, A., Lee, Y.-W., Yazdani, M., Ngernyuang, N., Altinbasak, I., Mansoor, S., Khichi, M., Sanyal, A., Rotello, V. M.
‘Biodegradable Nanocomposite Antimicrobials for the Eradication of Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Biofilms without Accumulated Resistance’
Journal of The American Chemical Society, 2018, 140(19), 6176-6182.
3-Altinbasak, I.; Jijie, R.; Barras, A.; Golba, B.; Sanyal, R.; Bouckaert, J; Drider, D; Bilyy, R; Dumych, T;Paryzhak, S;Vovk, V.; Boukherroub, R.; Sanyal, A.; Szunerits, S.
‘Reduced Graphene-Oxide-Embedded Polymeric Nanofiber Mats: An “On-Demand” Photothermally Triggered Antibiotic Release Platform’
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2018, 10 (48), 41098–41106.
4-Altinbasak, I., Arslan, M., Sanyal, R. and Sanyal, A.
‘Pyridyl disulfide-based thiol–disulfide exchange reaction: shaping the design of redox-responsive polymeric materials’
Polymer Chemistry, 2020, 11, 7603-7624.
5-Altinbasak, I., Kocak, S., Sanyal, R, and Sanyal, A.
'Fast-Forming Dissolvable Redox-Responsive Hydrogels: Exploiting the Orthogonality of Thiol–Maleimide and Thiol–Disulfide Exchange Chemistry'
Biomacromolecules, 2022, 23, 9, 3525–3534.(Cover Article).
6-Altinbasak, I., Kocak, S., Colby, A. H., Alp, Y., Sanyal, R, Grinstaff, M. W. and Sanyal, A.
'pH-Responsive Nanofiber Buttresses as Local Drug Delivery Devices'
Biomaterials Science (RSC), 2023, 11, 813-821.(Cover Article).
7-Altinbasak, I., Kocak, S., Sanyal, R.; Sanyal, A.
‘Redox-responsive nanogels for drug-delivery: thiol–maleimide and thiol–disulfide exchange chemistry as orthogonal tools for fabrication and degradation’,
Polymer Chemistry, 2023,14, 3897-3905. (Cover Article).
8-Sancar, T., Altinbasak, I., Sanyal, R., Sanyal, A.
'Electrospun photothermally active graphene-based nanofibers with a Retro-Diels-Alder reaction to initiate drug release'
European Polymer Journal, 2024, 201, 112946.
Basketball, Tennis, Computer Games.




