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Dr. Bhattacharyya's Lab

Functional nanomaterials for light energy conversion

01. Ramesh Mandal, and Santanu Bhattacharyya*, "Optimizing Porosity and Heteroatom Functionalities in Amorphous Carbon-Rich g-C3N4 for Dual-Mode Photocatalysis through Solar to Green Hydrogen and Chemical Energy Conversion" in ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c06896

02. Subhajit Kar, Amit Kumar, Ramesh Mandal, Sakshi Chawla, Shanti Gopal Patra, Arijit Kumar De and Santanu Bhattacharyya*, "Unveiling the Role of Ground State Charge Transfer Complex in Carbon Nanoparticles for Highly Efficient Metal-free Solar Hydrogen Production" in RSC Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3TA07895G.

03. Bramhaiah Kommula, Vinay Kumar Sriramadasu, Srayee Mandal, and Santanu Bhattacharyya*, "Stable Room-Temperature Phosphorescence from MXene-Derived Carbon Dots: Ultralong Afterglow Emission without an External Matrix" in ACS Applied Optical Materials, 2024, doi.org/10.1021/acsaom.3c00371.

04. Chandra Shobha Vennapoosa, Sagar Varangane, B. Moses Abraham, Vidha Bhasin, Santanu Bhattacharyya, Xuefeng Wang, Ujjwal Pal, and Debabrata Chatterjee, "Single-Atom Ru Catalyst-Decorated CNF(ZnO) Nanocages for Efficient H2 Evolution and CH3OH Production" in ACS The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023, 14, 50, 11400–11411.

05. Srayee Mandal, Bramhaiah Kommula, and Santanu Bhattacharyya*, "Structural Optimization of Luminescent Sulfur Dots for Solar Light Induced Efficient and Selective Oxidative Coupling Reactions of Aromatic Amines: A Complete Metal-Free Approach" in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2023. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c03296.

06. Vinay Kumar Sriramadasu, Bramhaiah Kommula, Prabhakar Bhardwaj and Santanu Bhattacharyya*, "Understanding the Role of Dominant Crystal Facets on Heterogeneous Catalytic activity of BiOBr Nanomaterials: Boosting Catalytic Efficiency through Fe(III)/Fe(II) Incorporation" in Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Elsevier 2023, 967, 171814.

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07. Kommula Bramhaiah, and Santanu Bhattacharyya, Chapter "Interface Engineering of Nano-Photocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction and Degradation of Organic Pollutants" (pp 449-479), part of the book "Photocatalysis for Environmental Remediation and Energy Production" published in Springer, Cham(ISBN: 978-3-031-27706-1)

08. Lopamudra Bishwal, Subhajit Kar, and Santanu Bhattacharyya*, "Role of Noncovalent Interactions in N,P-Functionalized Luminescent Carbon Dots for Ultrasensitive Detection of Moisture in D2O: Boosting Visible-NIR Light Sensitivity" in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, 15, 12, 15907–15916.

09. Srayee Mandal, Pandiselvi Durairaj, Bramhaiah Kommula, Sunandan Sarkar, and Santanu Bhattacharyya, "Switching between Fluorescence and Room Temperature Phosphorescence in Carbon Dots: Key Role of Heteroatom Functionalities" in ACS The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2023, 127, 5, 2430–2439.

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10. Bramhaiah Kommula, Pandiselvi Durairaj, Samita Mishra, Subhajit Kar, Adhra Sury, Amit Kumar, Arijit K. De, Sunandan Sarkar, and Santanu Bhattacharyya*, "Self-Assembled Oligothiophenes for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production and Simultaneous Organic Transformation" in ACS Applied Nano Materials 2022, 5, 10, 14746–14758.

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11. Rahul Bhuyan, K Bramhaiah, Lopamudra Bishwal, Srayee Mandal, and Santanu Bhattacharyya*, "From Small Molecules to Zero-Dimensional Carbon Nanodots: Chasing the Stepwise Transformations During Carbonization" in ACS The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2022, 126, 38, 16377–16386.

12. Monika Bai M. G., K Bramhaiah, Santanu Bhattacharyya, Rajeswara Rao Malakalapalli, "Acid-modulated Synthesis of Novel π-Conjugated Microporous Polymers for Efficient Metal-free Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution" in Chemistry A European Journal 2022, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202202023.

13. Subhajit Kar, Lopamudra Bishwal, Bramhaiah Kommula,Santanu Bhattacharyya, "Critical Optimization of Phosphorus Functionalized Carbon Nanomaterials for Metal-Free Solar Hydrogen Production and Simultaneous Organic Transformation" in Advanced Optical Materials, 2022,202102641,1-12.

14. Karthika S Sunil, Kommula Bramhaiah, Srayee Mandal, Subhajit Kar , Neena S John and Santanu Bhattacharyya*, "Emergence of Long Afterglow and Room Temperature Phosphorescence Emission from Ultra Small Sulfur Dots" in Materials Advances, 2022,3, 2037-2046.

15. Bramhaiah K. and Santanu Bhattacharyya, "Challenges and future prospects of graphene-based hybrids for solar fuel generation: moving towards next generation photocatalysts" in Materials Advances, 2022, 3, 142-172.

16. Rahul Bhuyan, Bramhaiah Kommula and Santanu Bhattacharyya*, "Specific locations of blue and green-emitting units in dual emissive carbon dots and their reversible emitting properties due to switchable inter-chromophoric interactions" in J. Colloid and Interface Science, 605(2022) 364 - 372.

17. Kar, S.; Kommula, B.; John, N. S.; Bhattacharyya, S.*, "Insight into the Multistate Emissive N, P‐doped Carbon Nano‐Onions: Emerging Visible Light Absorption for Photocatalysis" in Chemistry-An Asian 2021, 16, 1138-1149.

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18. Bramhaiah,K.; Bhuyan.R; Mandal.S; Kar,S; Prabhu.R; John,N.S.;Gramlich, M.;Urban. A. S.; Bhattacharyya. S*, "Molecular, Aromatic, and Amorphous Domains of N-Carbon Dots: Leading toward the Competitive Photoluminescence and Photocatalytic Properties" in ACS J.Phys.Chem.C 2021,125,7,4299–4309.

19. Fang, J., Debnath, T., Bhattacharyya, S., Doblinger, M., Feldmann, J., Stolarczyk, J. K., "Photobase effect for just-in-time delivery in photocatalytic hydrogen generation" in
Nature Communications 2020, 11, 5179.

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20. Kundu, S., K. Bramhaiah, Bhattacharyya, S*, "Carbon based nanomaterials: In the quest of alternative metal free photocatalysts for solar water splitting" in Nanoscale Advances 2020,2, 5130-5151.

21. Pschunder, F.; Huergo, M. A., Ramallo-Lopez, J., Kommula, B., Requejo, F. G., Bhattacharyya, S*
"Role of Intrinsic Atomic Features and Bonding Motif from the Surface to the Deep Core on Multistate Emissive Properties of N, B-Co Doped Carbon Dots" in ACS J. Phys. Chem. C 2020, 124, 1, 1121–1128.

22. Pritzl, S. D.; Pschunder, F.; Ehrat, F ; Bhattacharyya, S; Lohmueller, T.; Huergo, M. A.; Feldmann, J., "Trans-membrane Fluorescence Enhancement by Carbon Dots: Ionic Interactions and Energy Transfer" in Nano Lett. 2019, 3886-3891

23. Jana, B; Bhattacharyya, S; Patra A. (2018) “Perspective of Dye encapsulated Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles for potential applications” in Bull. Mater. Sci, 41, 122 (invited review article)

24. Bhattacharyya, S; F. Ehrat, Urban, P.; Teves, R.; Wyrwich, R.; Dӧblinger, M.; Feldmann, J.; Urban, A. S.; Stolarczyk, J. K. (2017) “Effect of Nitrogen Atom-Positioning on the Trade-off between Emissive and Photocatalytic Properties of Carbon Dots” in Nature Communications 8, 1401 (manuscript ID. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01463-x) ( corresponding author) (highlighted in German National online newspaperFOCUS online http://www.focus.de/regional/muenchen/muenchen-nanomaterialien-eine-frage-der-lage_id_7880575.html)

25. Ehrat, F.; Bhattacharyya, S.; Schneider, J.; Löf, A.; Wyrwich, R.; Rogach, A. L.; Stolarczyk, J. K.; Urban, S.; Feldmann, J. (2017) “Tracking the Origin of Photoluminescence in Citric Acid-Based Carbon Dots” in Nano Lett. 17 (12), pp 7710–7716.

26. J. Stolarczyk.; Bhattacharyya, S.; Palavarapu, L.; J. Feldmann. (2017) “" Challenges and Prospects in Solar water splitting and CO2 reduction with inorganic and hybrid nanostructures" in ACS Catalysis 8, 3602

27. Cabrera-González, J.; Ferrer‐Ugalde, A.; Bhattacharyya, S.; Chaari, M.; Teixidor, F.; Gierschner, J.; Núñez, R. (2017) “Fluorescent carborane-vinylstilbene functionalised octasilsesquioxanes: synthesis, structural, thermal and photophysical properties” in J. Mater. Chem. C 5, 10211

28. Cabrera-González, J.; Bhattacharyya, S.; Milián-Medina, B.; Teixidor, F.; Farfán, N.; Rafael, A. R.; Vargas-Reyes, V.; Gierschner, J.; Núñez, R. (2017) Tetra(p-Dodecacarborane-Stilbeno)ethylene a Novel Luminescent Tetraphenylethylene (TPE) Core System. In European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201700453

29. Jana, B., Bhattacharyya, S., Patra, A. (2016) Functionalized Dye Encapsulated Polymer Nanoparticle Attached with BSA Scaffold as Efficient Antenna Materials for Artificial Light Harvesting. In Nanoscale 8, (35)16034-16043

30. Cabrera-González, J., Viñas, C., Haukka, M., Bhattacharyya, S., Gierschner, J., Núñez, R. (2016) Photoluminescence in carborane-stilbene triads: a combined structural, spectroscopic and computational study. In Chemistry-a European Journal 22, 13588 –13598

31. Dänekamp,B., Kobin, B., Bhattacharyya S., Hecht, S.,Milan-Medina, B.; Gierschner, J. (2016):Tuning of the Electronic, Optical, and Photophysical Properties of Ladder-Type Quaterphenyl by Selective Methylene-Bridge Fluorination. In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18, 16501-16508

32. Bhattacharyya, S., Jana, B., Sain, S., Barman, M, K., Pradhan, S., Patra, A. (2015): Photo Switching and Thermo Responsive Properties of Conjugated Multi Chromophoric Nanostructured Materials. In Small 11, 6317-6324

33. Wykes, M., Park, S. Y., Bhattacharyya, S., Wannemacher, R., Luer, L., Park, S. Y. Gierschner, J. (2015): Excited State Features and Dynamics in a Distyrylbenzene-Based Mixed Stack Donor–Acceptor Cocrystal with Luminescent Charge Transfer Characteristics. In Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 6, 3682-3687. (indicates similar contributions)

34. Bhattacharyya, S., Jana, B., Patra, A., (2015): Self-Assembled Oligothiophene and Nile Red Encapsulated Polymer Nanoparticles for Artifical Light Harvesting. In ChemPhysChem. 16, 796-804.

35. Jana, B., Bhattacharyya, S., Patra, A. (2015): Conjugated Polymer P3HT/Au Hybrid Nanostructure for Enhancing Photocatalytic Activity. In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17, 15392-15399.

36. Kundu, S., Bhattacharyya, S., Patra, A., (2015): Photoinduced Energy Transfer in Dye Doped Polymer Nanoparticle-Semiconducting Quantum Dots Conjugates for Artifical Light Harvesting. In Materials Horizons 2, 60-67.

37. Martin, C., Bhattacharyya, S., Patra, A., Douhal, A., (2014): Single and multistep energy transfer processes within doped polymer nanoparticles. In Photochemical Photobiological Sciences. 13, 1241-1252. (With front cover page).

38. Barman, M. K., Jana, B., Bhattacharyya, S., Patra, A., (2014): Photophysical Properties of Doped Carbon Dots (N, P and B) and Their Influence on Electron/Hole Transfer in Carbon Dots- Nickel (II) Phthalocyanine Conjugates. In Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 118 (34), 20034–20041.

39. Mandal, S., Kundu, S., Bhattacharyya, S., Patra, A., (2014): Aggregation Behavior and Photophysical Properties of Ionic Liquid Assisted Porphyrin Nanoparticles Nickel Phthalocyanine Conjugates and Singlet OxygenGenaration. In Journal of Material Chemistry C 2, 8691-8699

40. Satapathi, S; Molla, M. R.; Bhattacharyya, S.; Ghosh, S.; Patra, A., (2014): Photophysical study of P3HT/NDI based hybrid nanoparticles. In Eur. Phys. J. D 68 (11), 350 (1-7)

41. Bhattacharyya, S., Barman, M. K., Baidya, A., Patra, A. (2014): Singlet Oxygen Generation from Polymer Nanoparticles-Photosensitizer Conjugates Using FRET Cascade. In Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 118 , 9733–9740

42. Bhattacharyya, S., Patra, A. (2014): Interactions of -conjugated polymer with inorganic nanocrystals. In Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews. 20, 51-70. (Invited review article)

43. Bhattacharyya, S., Prashanthi, S., Bangal, P. R. (2013): Photophysics and Dynamics of Nile red doped -conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles by Timeresolved and Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy. In Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 117, 26750–26759.

44. Paramanik, B., Bhattacharyya, S., Patra, A. (2013): Detection of Hg2+ and F− Ions by Using Fluorescence Switching of Quantum Dots in an Au-Cluster–CdTe QD Nanocomposite. In Chemistry - A European Journal. 3, 5980.

45. Barman, M. K., Bhattacharyya, S., Patra, A. (2013): Steady state and time resolved spectroscopic study of C-dots–MEH–PPV polymer nanoparticles composites. In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15, 16834-16840.

46. Paramanik, B., Bhattacharyya, S., Patra, A. (2013): Steady state and time resolved spectroscopic study of QD–DNA interaction. In Journal of Luminescence. 134, 401-407.

47. Kar, A., Kundu, A., Bhattacharyya, S., Mandal, S., Patra, A. (2013): Luminescence Resonance Energy Transfer (LRET) between Ce-Doped LaPO4 Nanorods and Coumarine 440 Dye. In RSC Adv. 3, 13372-13380.

48. Bhattacharyya, S., Paramanik, B., Patra, A. (2012): Energy/Hole Transfer Phenomena of Hybrid α-Sexithiophene (α-STH) Nanoparticle – CdTe QD Nanocomposites. In ChemPhysChem. 13, 4155-4162.

49. Bhattacharyya, S., Patra, A. (2012): Energy Transfer from Semiconducting Polymer Nanoparticles to Metal Nanoparticles. In Science of Advanced Materials. 4, 643-648.

50. Bhattacharyya, S., Patra, A. (2012): Photoluminescence quenching of semiconducting polymer nanoparticles in presence of Au nanoparticles. In Bulletin of Material. Science. 35, 719-725.

51. Mandal, S., Bhattacharyya, S., Borovkov, V., Patra, A. (2012): Photophysical Properties, Self-Assembly Behavior, and Energy Transfer of Porphyrin-Based Functional Nanoparticles. In Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 116, 11401-11407.

52. Sen, T., Bhattacharyya, S., Mandal, S., Patra, A. (2012): Spectroscopic Investigations on the H-Type Aggregation of Coumarin 153 Dye Molecules: Role of Au Nanoparticles and γ- Cyclodextrin. In Journal of Fluorescence. 22, 303-310.

53. Bhattacharyya, S., Paramanik, B., Patra, A. (2011): Energy Transfer and Confined Motion of Dyes Trapped in Semiconducting Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles. In Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 115, 20832-20839.

54. Mandal, S., Bhattacharyya, S., Borovkov, V., Patra, A. (2011): Porphyrin-Based Functional Nanoparticles: Conformational and Photophysical Properties of Bis-Porphyrin and Bis-Porphyrin Encapsulated Polymer Nanoparticles. In Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 115, 24029-24036.

55. Bhattacharyya, S., Sen, T., Patra, A. (2010): Host−Guest Energy Transfer: Semiconducting Polymer Nanoparticles and Au Nanoparticles. In Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 114, 11787-11795.

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