Dr Karan Gulati
UQ Amplify Senior Lecturer / Resear
School of Dentistry
+61 7 336 58031
Researcher biography
Dr. Gulati is working as a Research Fellow at School of Dentistry, The University of Queensland, QLD, Australia. His main research focus is ‘nano-engineered therapeutic titanium dental implants towards enhanced soft- and hard-tissue integration’. More recently Dr. Gulati was successful in obtaining Australian Government’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Fellowship (Jan 2018- Dec 2021).
Prior to current appointment, Dr. Gulati worked at the School of Dentistry and Oral Health, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia as a Research Fellow (2016-17), working in the area of nano-engineered dental implants. He completed PhD in the domain of 'Nano-Engineered Bone Implants' from School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Australia in 2015, and was awarded Dean’s Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence. Besides he also completed a 1.5 year Research Internship at Ian Wark Research Institute, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia (2010-2011).
Book Chapters
Gulati, Karan (2022). Supramolecular surface modifications of titanium implants. Supramolecular chemistry in corrosion and biofouling protection. (pp. 393-409) edited by Viswanathan S. Saji. Boca Raton, FL, United States: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9781003169130-28
Gulati, Karan, Kogawa, Masakazu, Maher, Shaheer, Atkins, Gerald, Findlay, David and Losic, Dusan (2015). Titania nanotubes for local drug delivery from implant surfaces. Electrochemically engineered nanoporous materials: methods, properties and applications. (pp. 307-355) edited by Dusan Losic and Abel Santos. Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-20346-1_10
Journal Articles
Chan, Wai-Sze, Gulati, Karan and Peters, Ove A. (2023). Advancing Nitinol: From heat treatment to surface functionalization for nickel–titanium (NiTi) instruments in endodontics. Bioactive Materials, 22, 91-111. doi: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2022.09.008
Guo, Tianqi, Scimeca, Jean-Claude, Ivanovski, Sašo, Verron, Elise and Gulati, Karan (2023). Enhanced Corrosion Resistance and Local Therapy from Nano-Engineered Titanium Dental Implants. Pharmaceutics, 15 (2) 315, 315. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics15020315
Han, Pingping, Guo, Tianqi, Jayasree, Anjana, Gomez, Guillermo A., Gulati, Karan and Ivanovski, Sašo (2023). Tunable nano-engineered anisotropic surface for enhanced mechanotransduction and soft-tissue integration. Nano Research. doi: 10.1007/s12274-023-5379-y
Bayrak, Meltem, Kocak-Oztug, Necla Asli, Gulati, Karan, Cintan, Serdar and Cifcibasi, Emine (2022). Influence of Clinical Decontamination Techniques on the Surface Characteristics of SLA Titanium Implant. Nanomaterials, 12 (24) 4481, 4481. doi: 10.3390/nano12244481
Jayasree, Anjana, Gómez-Cerezo, María Natividad, Verron, Elise, Ivanovski, Sašo and Gulati, Karan (2022). Gallium-doped dual micro-nano titanium dental implants towards soft-tissue integration and bactericidal functions. Materials Today Advances, 16 100297, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.mtadv.2022.100297
Gulati, Karan (2022). Nano- and Micro-Engineered Biomaterials: Trigger, Therapy and Toxicity Evaluations. Materials Today Advances, 16 100311, 100311. doi: 10.1016/j.mtadv.2022.100311
Guo, Tianqi, Ivanovski, Saso and Gulati, Karan (2022). Optimizing titanium implant nano-engineering via anodization. Materials and Design, 223 111110, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.matdes.2022.111110
Guo, Tianqi, Ivanovski, Sašo and Gulati, Karan (2022). Tuning electrolyte aging in titanium anodization to fabricate nano-engineered implants. Surface and Coatings Technology, 447 128819, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2022.128819
Chopra, Divya, Guo, Tianqi, Ivanovski, Sašo and Gulati, Karan (2022). Single-step nano-engineering of multiple micro-rough metals via anodization. Nano Research, 16 (1), 1-10. doi: 10.1007/s12274-022-4847-8
Guo, Tianqi, Ivanovski, Saso and Gulati, Karan (2022). Fresh or aged: short time anodization of titanium to understand the influence of electrolyte ageing on titania nanopores. Journal of Materials Science and Technology, 119, 245-256. doi: 10.1016/j.jmst.2021.11.050
Jayasree, A., Raveendran, N.T., Guo, T., Ivanovski, S. and Gulati, K. (2022). Electrochemically nano-engineered titanium: influence of dual micro-nanotopography of anisotropic nanopores on bioactivity and antimicrobial activity. Materials Today Advances, 15 100256, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.mtadv.2022.100256
Chopra, Divya, Jayasree, Anjana, Guo, Tianqi, Gulati, Karan and Ivanovski, Sašo (2022). Advancing dental implants: bioactive and therapeutic modifications of zirconia. Bioactive Materials, 13, 161-178. doi: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2021.10.010
Gulati, Karan, Martinez, Ruben Del Olmo, Czerwiński, Mateusz and Michalska-Domańska, Marta (2022). Understanding the influence of electrolyte aging in electrochemical anodization of titanium. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 302 102615, 102615. doi: 10.1016/j.cis.2022.102615
Gulati, Karan, Abdal-hay, Abdalla and Ivanovski, Sašo (2022). Novel nano-engineered biomaterials for bone tissue engineering. Nanomaterials, 12 (3) 333. doi: 10.3390/nano12030333
Gulati, Karan (2022). Nano-engineering solutions for dental implant applications. Nanomaterials, 12 (2) 272, 272. doi: 10.3390/nano12020272
Guo, Tianqi, Asli Kocak Oztug, Necla, Han, Pingping, Ivanovski, Sašo and Gulati, Karan (2021). Untwining the topography-chemistry interdependence to optimize the bioactivity of nano-engineered titanium implants. Applied Surface Science, 570 151083, 151083. doi: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.151083
Chopra, D., Gulati, K. and Ivanovski, S. (2021). Bed of nails: bioinspired nano-texturing towards antibacterial and bioactivity functions. Materials Today Advances, 12 100176, 100176. doi: 10.1016/j.mtadv.2021.100176
Guo, Tianqi, Oztug, Necla Asli Kocak, Han, Pingping, Ivanovski, Saso and Gulati, Karan (2021). Influence of sterilization on the performance of anodized nanoporous titanium implants. Materials Science and Engineering: C, 130 112429, 112429. doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2021.112429
Alali, Aya Q., Abdal-hay, Abdalla, Gulati, Karan, Ivanovski, Sašo, Fournier, Benjamin P. J. and Lee, Ryan S. B. (2021). Influence of bioinspired lithium-doped titanium implants on gingival fibroblast bioactivity and biofilm adhesion. Nanomaterials, 11 (11) 2799. doi: 10.3390/nano11112799
Zhang, Yifan, Gulati, Karan, Li, Ze, Di, Ping and Liu, Yan (2021). Dental implant nano-engineering: advances, limitations and future directions. Nanomaterials, 11 (10) 2489, 2489. doi: 10.3390/nano11102489
Gulati, Karan, Zhang, Yifan, Di, Ping, Liu, Yan and Ivanovski, Sašo (2021). Research to clinics: clinical translation considerations for anodized nano-engineered titanium implants. ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 8 (10), 4077-4091. doi: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c00529
Hua, Shu, Bartold, Peter Mark, Gulati, Karan, Moran, Corey Stephen, Ivanovski, Sašo and Han, Pingping (2021). Periodontal and dental pulp cell-derived small extracellular vesicles: a review of the current status. Nanomaterials, 11 (7) 1858, 1-34. doi: 10.3390/nano11071858
Gulati, Karan, Scimeca, Jean-Claude, Ivanovski, Sašo and Verron, Elise (2021). Double-edged sword: therapeutic efficacy versus toxicity evaluations of doped titanium implants. Drug Discovery Today, 26 (11), 2734-2742. doi: 10.1016/j.drudis.2021.07.004
Chopra, Divya, Gulati, Karan and Ivanovski, Sašo (2021). Micro + Nano: conserving the gold standard microroughness to nanoengineer zirconium dental implants. ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 7 (7) acsbiomaterials.1c00356, 3069-3074. doi: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c00356
Chopra, Divya, Gulati, Karan and Ivanovski, Sašo (2021). Understanding and optimizing the antibacterial functions of anodized nano-engineered titanium implants. Acta Biomaterialia, 127, 80-101. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2021.03.027
Guo, Tianqi, Gulati, Karan, Arora, Himanshu, Han, Pingping, Fournier, Benjamin and Ivanovski, Sašo (2021). Race to invade: Understanding soft tissue integration at the transmucosal region of titanium dental implants. Dental Materials, 37 (5), 816-831. doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2021.02.005
Chopra, Divya, Gulati, Karan and Ivanovski, Sašo (2021). Towards clinical translation: optimized fabrication of controlled nanostructures on implant-relevant curved zirconium surfaces. Nanomaterials, 11 (4) 868. doi: 10.3390/nano11040868
Jayasree, Anjana, Ivanovski, Sašo and Gulati, Karan (2021). ON or OFF: Triggered therapies from anodized nano-engineered titanium implants. Journal of Controlled Release, 333, 521-535. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2021.03.020
Guo, Tianqi, Oztug, Necla Asli Kocak, Han, Pingping, Ivanovski, Sašo and Gulati, Karan (2021). Old is gold: electrolyte aging influences the topography, chemistry, and bioactivity of anodized TiO2 nanopores. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13 (7) acsami.0c19569, 7897-7912. doi: 10.1021/acsami.0c19569
Guo, Tianqi, Gulati, Karan, Arora, Himanshu, Han, Pingping, Fournier, Benjamin and Ivanovski, Sašo (2021). Orchestrating soft tissue integration at the transmucosal region of titanium implants. Acta Biomaterialia, 124, 33-49. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2021.01.001
Martinez-Marquez, Daniel, Gulati, Karan, Carty, Christopher P., Stewart, Rodney A. and Ivanovski, Sašo (2020). Determining the relative importance of titania nanotubes characteristics on bone implant surface performance: a quality by design study with a fuzzy approach. Materials Science and Engineering: C, 114 110995, 110995. doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2020.110995
Gulati, Karan, Moon, Ho-Jin, Kumar, P.T. Sudheesh, Han, Pingping and Ivanovski, Sašo (2020). Anodized anisotropic titanium surfaces for enhanced guidance of gingival fibroblasts. Materials Science and Engineering: C, 112 110860, 110860. doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2020.110860
Guo, Tianqi, Gulati, Karan, Shen, Ziyun, Han, Pingping and Fan, Zhen (2020). Therapeutic outcomes of non-grafted and platelet concentrations-grafted transcrestal maxillary sinus elevation (TSFE): a systematic review and meta-analysis. Scientific Reports, 10 (1) 5935, 5935. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62407-y
Abdal-hay, Abdalla, Gulati, Karan, Fernandez-Medina, Tulio, Qian, Ma and Ivanovski, Saso (2020). In situ hydrothermal transformation of titanium surface into lithium-doped continuous nanowire network towards augmented bioactivity. Applied Surface Science, 505 144604, 144604. doi: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.144604
Abbasi, Naghmeh, Ivanovski, Saso, Gulati, Karan, Love, Robert M. and Hamlet, Stephen (2020). Role of offset and gradient architectures of 3-D melt electrowritten scaffold on differentiation and mineralization of osteoblasts. Biomaterials Research, 24 (1) 2, 2. doi: 10.1186/s40824-019-0180-z
Li, Tao, Gulati, Karan, Wang, Na, Zhang, Zhenting and Ivanovski, Sašo (2018). Bridging the gap: optimized fabrication of robust titania nanostructures on complex implant geometries towards clinical translation. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 529, 452-463. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2018.06.004
Gulati, Karan, Moon, Ho-Jin, Li, Tao, Sudheesh Kumar, P T and Ivanovski, Sašo (2018). Titania nanopores with dual micro-/nano-topography for selective cellular bioactivity. Materials Science and Engineering C: Materials for Biological Applications, 91, 624-630. doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2018.05.075
Gulati, Karan, Li, Tao and Ivanovski, Sašo (2018). Consume or conserve: micro-roughness of titanium implants towards fabrication of dual micro-nanotopography. ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 4 (9) acsbiomaterials.8b00829, 3125-3131. doi: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.8b00829
Li, Tao, Gulati, Karan, Wang, Na, Zhang, Zhenting and Ivanovski, Sašo (2018). Understanding and augmenting the stability of therapeutic nanotubes on anodized titanium implants. Materials Science and Engineering: C, 88, 182-195. doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2018.03.007
Gulati, Karan, Hamlet, Stephen M. and Ivanovski, Sašo (2018). Tailoring the immuno-responsiveness of anodized nano-engineered titanium implants. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 6 (18), 2677-2689. doi: 10.1039/c8tb00450a
Karunagaran, Ramesh, Coghlan, Campbell, Shearer, Cameron, Tran, Diana, Gulati, Karan, Tung, Tran Thanh, Doonan, Christian and Losic, Dusan (2018). Green synthesis of three-dimensional hybrid N-doped ORR electro-catalysts derived from apricot sap. Materials, 11 (2) 205, 205. doi: 10.3390/ma11020205
Gulati, Karan, Prideaux, Matthew, Kogawa, Masakazu, Lima-Marques, Luis, Atkins, Gerald J., Findlay, David M. and Losic, Dusan (2017). Anodized 3D-printed titanium implants with dual micro- and nano-scale topography promote interaction with human osteoblasts and osteocyte-like cells. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 11 (12), 3313-3325. doi: 10.1002/term.2239
Daish, C., Blanchard, R., Gulati, K., Losic, D., Findlay, D., Harvie, D. J.E. and Pivonka, P. (2017). Estimation of anisotropic permeability in trabecular bone based on microCT imaging and pore-scale fluid dynamics simulations. Bone Reports, 6, 129-139. doi: 10.1016/j.bonr.2016.12.002
Gulati, Karan and Ivanovski, Saso (2017). Dental implants modified with drug releasing titania nanotubes: therapeutic potential and developmental challenges. Expert Opinion On Drug Delivery, 14 (8), 1009-1024. doi: 10.1080/17425247.2017.1266332
Gulati, Karan, Kogawa, Masakazu, Prideaux, Matthew, Findlay, David M., Atkins, Gerald J. and Losic, Dusan (2016). Drug-releasing nano-engineered titanium implants: therapeutic efficacy in 3D cell culture model, controlled release and stability. Materials Science and Engineering C: Materials for Biological Applications, 69, 831-840. doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2016.07.047
Kaur, Gagandeep, Willsmore, Tamsyn, Gulati, Karan, Zinonos, Irene, Wang, Ye, Kurian, Mima, Hay, Shelley, Losic, Dusan and Evdokiou, Andreas (2016). Titanium wire implants with nanotube arrays: A study model for localized cancer treatment. Biomaterials, 101, 176-188. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2016.05.048
Gulati, Karan, Maher, Shaheer, Findlay, David M. and Losic, Dusan (2016). Titania nanotubes for orchestrating osteogenesis at the bone-implant interface. Nanomedicine, 11 (14), 1847-1864. doi: 10.2217/nnm-2016-0169
Gulati, Karan, Johnson, Lucas, Karunagaran, Ramesh, Findlay, David and Losic, Dusan (2016). In situ transformation of chitosan films into microtubular structures on the surface of nanoengineered titanium implants. Biomacromolecules, 17 (4), 1261-1271. doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.5b01037
Rahman, Shafiur, Gulati, Karan, Kogawa, Masakazu, Atkins, Gerald J., Pivonka, Peter, Findlay, David M. and Losic, Dusan (2016). Drug diffusion, integration, and stability of nanoengineered drug-releasing implants in bone ex-vivo. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 104 (3), 714-725. doi: 10.1002/jbm.a.35595
Gulati, Karan, Maher, Shaheer, Chandrasekaran, Soundarrajan, Findlay, David M. and Losic, Dusan (2016). Conversion of titania (TiO2) into conductive titanium (Ti) nanotube arrays for combined drug-delivery and electrical stimulation therapy. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 4 (3), 371-375. doi: 10.1039/c5tb02108a
Alsawat, Mohammed, Altalhi, Tariq, Gulati, Karan, Santos, Abel and Losic, Dusan (2015). Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube-Nanotubular Titania Composites by Catalyst-Free CVD Process: Insights into the Formation Mechanism and Photocatalytic Properties. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 7 (51), 28361-28368. doi: 10.1021/acsami.5b08956
Saji, Viswanathan S., Kumeria, Tushar, Gulati, Karan, Prideaux, Matthew, Rahman, Shafiur, Alsawat, Mohammed, Santos, Abel, Atkins, Gerald J. and Losic, Dusan (2015). Localized drug delivery of selenium (Se) using nanoporous anodic aluminium oxide for bone implants. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 3 (35), 7090-7098. doi: 10.1039/c5tb00125k
Gulati, Karan, Santos, Abel, Findlay, David and Losic, Dusan (2015). Optimizing anodization conditions for the growth of titania nanotubes on curved surfaces. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119 (28), 16033-16045. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b03383
Kumeria, Tushar, Mon, Htwe, Aw, Moom Sinn, Gulati, Karan, Santos, Abel, Griesser, Hans J. and Losic, Dusan (2015). Advanced biopolymer-coated drug-releasing titania nanotubes (TNTs) implants with simultaneously enhanced osteoblast adhesion and antibacterial properties. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 130, 255-263. doi: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2015.04.021
Gulati, Karan, Kant, Krishna, Findlay, David and Losic, Dusan (2015). Periodically tailored titania nanotubes for enhanced drug loading and releasing performances. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 3 (12), 2553-2559. doi: 10.1039/c4tb01882f
Losic, Dusan, Aw, Moom Sinn, Santos, Abel, Gulati, Karan and Bariana, Manpreet (2015). Titania nanotube arrays for local drug delivery: recent advances and perspectives. Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, 12 (1), 103-127. doi: 10.1517/17425247.2014.945418
Kumeria, Tushar, Gulati, Karan, Santos, Abel and Losic, Dusan (2013). Real-time and in situ drug release monitoring from nanoporous implants under dynamic flow conditions by reflectometric interference spectroscopy. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 5 (12), 5436-5442. doi: 10.1021/am4013984
Gulati, Karan, Aw, Moom Sinn, Findlay, David and Losic, Dusan (2012). Local drug delivery to the bone by drug-releasing implants: perspectives of nano-engineered titania nanotube arrays. Therapeutic Delivery, 3 (7), 857-873. doi: 10.4155/TDE.12.66
Losic, Dusan, Gulati, Karen and Sinn Aw, Moon (2012). Nanoengineered drug-releasing Ti wires as an alternative for local delivery of chemotherapeutics in the brain. International Journal of Nanomedicine, 7, 2069-2076. doi: 10.2147/ijn.s29917
Aw, Moom Sinn, Khalid, Kamarul A., Gulati, Karan, Atkins, Gerald J., Pivonka, Peter, Findlay, David M. and Losic, Dusan (2012). Characterization of drug-release kinetics in trabecular bone from titania nanotube implants. International Journal of Nanomedicine, 7, 4883-4892. doi: 10.2147/IJN.S33655
Gulati, Karan, Ramakrishnan, Saminathan, Aw, Moom Sinn, Atkins, Gerald J., Findlay, David M. and Losic, Dusan (2012). Biocompatible polymer coating of titania nanotube arrays for improved drug elution and osteoblast adhesion. Acta Biomaterialia, 8 (1), 449-456. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2011.09.004
Gulati, Karan, Aw, Moom Sinn and Losic, Dusan (2011). Drug-eluting Ti wires with titania nanotube arrays for bone fixation and reduced bone infection. Nanoscale Research Letters, 6 (1) 571, 1-6. doi: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-571
Aw, Moom Sinn, Gulati, Karan and Losic, Dusan (2011). Controlling Drug Release from Titania Nanotube Arrays Using Polymer Nanocarriers and Biopolymer Coating. Journal of Biomaterials and Nanobiotechnology, 02 (05), 477-484. doi: 10.4236/jbnb.2011.225058
Conference Papers
Martinez-Marquez, Daniel, Gulati, Karan, Mirnajafizadeh, Ali, Carty, Christopher P., Stewart, Rodney and Ivanovski, Saso (2018). Quality by Design towards Standardization of 3D Printed Bone Implants and scaffolds for Industry Translation. 4th World Congress on Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems and Science, Madrid, Spain, August 21 – 23 2018. Avestia Publishing. doi: 10.11159/icbes18.124
Mokhtarzadeh, Hossein, Aw, Moom S., Khalid, Kamarul A., Gulati, Karan, Atkins, Gerald J., Findlay, David M., Losic, Dusan and Pivonka, Peter (2014). Computational and experimental model of nano-engineered drug delivery system for trabecular bone. 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI), Barcelona, Spain, 20-25 July 2014. Barcelona, Spain: International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering.
Gulati, Karan, Atkins, Gerald J., Findlay, David M. and Losic, Dusan (2013). Nano-engineered titanium for enhanced bone therapy. Conference on Biosensing and Nanomedicine VI, San Diego CA, United States, 25-28 August 2013. Bellingham, WA United States: SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering. doi: 10.1117/12.2027151
Losic, Dusan, Velleman, Leonara, Kant, Krishna, Kumeria, Tushar, Gulati, Karan, Shapter, Joe G., Beattie, David A. and Simovic, Spomenka (2011). Self-ordering electrochemistry: a simple approach for engineering nanopore and nanotube arrays for emerging applications. 39th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Adelaide, SA Australia, 24-30 July 2010. Clayton, VIC Australia: CSIRO Publishing. doi: 10.1071/CH10398
Gulati, Karan, Simovic, Spomenka and Losic, Dusan (2010). Highly ordered Titania (TiO2) nanotube arrays fabricated by electrochemical self-ordering process toward development of implantable drug delivery devices with triggered drug release. Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD), Canberra Australia, 12-15 December 2010. New York, NY United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/COMMAD.2010.5699716