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PUBLICATIONS

“The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel”

- Claude Bernard -

Journal Publications

  1. Tomar, Y.; Pathak, S. S.; Jain, S.; Panchakarla, L. S. Transparent, Conducting Self‐Assembled CuS Nanostructures at and beyond Liquid‐Liquid Interface and their Electrocatalytic Properties. Israel Journal of Chemistry, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/ijch.202100080

  2. Pathak, S. S.; Panchakarla, L. S. A large area flexible p-type transparent conducting CuS ultrathin films generated at liquid-liquid interface. Applied Materials Today, 2021, 24, 101152

  3. Kotha, V.;  Kumar, K.;  Dayman, P.; Panchakarla, L. S. Doping with chemically hard elements to improve photocatalytic properties of ZnO nanostructures. Journal of Cluster Science, 2021, 1-8 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10876-021-02115-3(0123456789().,-volV)(0123456789,-)

  4. Tripathi, V.; Reddy, L.; Panchakarla, L. S. Photoluminescence with peaked structure: is it inherent to nanoparticles or impurity from caps of sample vials? ChemPhysChem 2021 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202100110).

  5. Kampmann, F.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Gillen, R.; Tenne, R.; Maultzsch, J. Vibrational Properties and Charge Transfer in the Misfit-Layer Compound LaS–CrS2. J. Phys. Chem. C 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c02187).

  6. Roi, K. S.; Subramaniam, C.; Panchakarla, L. S. Non-Stoichiometry Induced Exsolution of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles via Formation of Wavy Surfaces and their Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity: Case of Misfit Calcium Cobalt Oxide. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, 13, 9897–9907.

  7. Tripathi, V.; Kumar, H.; Agarwal, A.; Panchakarla, L. S. Microwave-induced electric discharges on metal particles for the synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials under solvent-free conditions. Beilstein journal of nanotechnology 2020, 11, 1019.

  8. Mrinalini, M.; Pathak, S. S.; Achary, B. S.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Prasanthkumar, S. Voltage Stimulated Anion Binding of Metalloporphyrin‐induced Crystalline 2D Nanoflakes, Chemistry–An Asian Journal 2019, 14, 537-541

  9. Mrinalini, M.; Krishna, J.V.S.; Krishna, N.V.; Kotha, V.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Prasanthkumar, S. Photobleaching of Triphenylamine–Phthalocyanine Entails Mixed Valence-State Triggered Self-Assembled Nanospheres, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2018, 122, 19946-19952.

  10. Lajaunie, L.; Ramasubramaniam, A.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Arenal, R., Optoelectronic properties of calcium cobalt oxide misfit nanotubes, Applied Physics Letters 2018, 113, 031102.

  11. Višić, B.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Tenne, R. Inorganic Nanotubes and Fullerene-like Nanoparticles at the Crossroads between Solid-State Chemistry and Nanotechnology. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2017, 139, 12865-12878.

  12. Panchakarla, L. S.; Lajaunie, L.; Ramasubramaniam, A.; Arenal, R.; Tenne, R. Nanotubes from Oxide-Based Misfit Family: The Case of Calcium Cobalt Oxide. ACS Nano 2016, 10, 6248–6256.

  13. Panchakarla, L. S.; Lajaunie, L.; Ramasubramaniam, A.; Arenal, R.; Tenne, R. Strontium cobalt oxide misfit nanotubes. Chemistry of Materials 2016 28, 9150-9157.

  14. Panchakarla, L. S.; Lajaunie, L.; Tenne, R.; Arenal, R. Atomic Structural Studies on Thin Single-Crystalline Misfit-Layered Nanotubes of TbS-CrS2. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2015, 120, 15600-15607.

  15. Sasidharan, A.; Swaroop, S.; Koduri, C. K.; Girish, C. M.; Chandran, P.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Somasundaram, V. H.; Gowd, G. S.; Nair, S.; Koyakutty, M. Comparative in vivo toxicity, organ biodistribution and immune response of pristine, carboxylated and PEGylated few-layer graphene sheets in Swiss albino mice: A three month study. Carbon 2015, 95, 511-524.

  16. Panchakarla, L. S.; Radovsky, G.; Houben, L.; Popovitz-Biro, R.; Dunin-Borkowski, R. E.; Tenne, R. Nanotubes from Misfit Layered Compounds: A New Family of Materials with Low Dimensionality. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters  2014, 5, 3724-3736. (Featured as "Cover article" in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.)

  17. Panchakarla, L. S.; Popovitz-Biro, R.; Houben, L.; Dunin-Borkowski, R. E.; Tenne, R. Lanthanide-Based Functional Misfit-Layered Nanotubes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2014, 53, 6920-6924.

  18. Moussa, S. O.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Ho, M. Q.; El-Shall, M. S. Graphene-Supported, Iron-Based Nanoparticles for Catalytic Production of Liquid Hydrocarbons from Synthesis Gas: The Role of the Graphene Support in Comparison with Carbon Nanotubes. ACS Catalysis 2014, 4, 535-545.

  19. Kashid, R. V.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Dhole, S. D.; More, M. A.; Joag, D. S. Effect of Cobalt-60 Gamma Irradiation on Graphene: Raman and Field Emission Investigations. Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids 2014, 169, 447-456.

  20. Herring, N. P.; Panchakarla, L. S.; El-Shall, M. S. P-Type Nitrogen-Doped ZnO Nanostructures with Controlled Shape and Doping Level by Facile Microwave Synthesis. Langmuir 2014, 30, 2230-2240.

  21. Kashid, R. V.; Zamri Yusop, M.; Takahashi, C.; Kalita, G.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Joag, D. S.; More, M. A.; Tanemura, M. Field Emission Characteristics of Pristine and N-doped Graphene Measured by in- situ Transmission Electron Microscopy. Journal of Applied Physics 2013, 113, 214311.

  22. Sasidharan, A.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Sadanandan, A. R.; Ashokan, A.; Chandran, P.; Girish, C. M.; Menon, D.; Nair, S. V.; Rao, C. N. R.; Koyakutty, M. Hemocompatibility and Macrophage Response of Pristine and Functionalized Graphene. Small 2012, 8, 1251-1263. 

  23. Chitara, B.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Krupanidhi, S. B.; Rao, C. N. R. Infrared Photodetectors Based on Reduced Graphene Oxide and Graphene Nanoribbons. Advanced Materials 2011, 23, 5419-5424. 

  24. Kumar, P.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Rao, C. N. R. Laser-Induced Unzipping of Carbon Nanotubes to Yield Graphene Nanoribbons. Nanoscale 2011, 3, 2127-2129.

  25. Sasidharan, A.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Chandran, P.; Menon, D.; Nair, S.; Rao, C. N. R.; Koyakutty, M. Differential Nano-Bio Interactions and Toxicity Effects of Pristine Versus Functionalized Graphene. Nanoscale 2011, 3, 2461-2464.

  26. Gopalakrishnan, K.; Joshi, H. M.; Kumar, P.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Rao, C. N. R. Selectivity in the Photocatalytic Properties of the Composites of TiO2 Nanoparticles with B- and N-Doped Graphenes. Chemical Physics Letters 2011, 511, 304-308. 

  27. Dattatray, J. L.; Urmimala, M.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Umesh, V. W.; Rao, C. N. R. Temperature Effects on the Raman Spectra of Graphenes: Dependence on the Number of Layers and Doping. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 2011, 23, 055303. 

  28. Dileep, K.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Balasubramanian, K.; Waghmare, U. V.; Datta, R. Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of ZnO Nanocrystals with Different Oxygen Vacancy Concentrations. Journal of Applied Physics 2011, 109, 063523.

  29. Loukya, B.; Sowjanya, P.; Dileep, K.; Shipra, R.; Kanuri, S.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Datta, R. Controlling Structural Quality of ZnO Thin Film on c-plane Sapphire During Pulsed Laser Deposition. Journal of Crysta Growth 2011, 329, 20-26.

  30. Basant, C.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Salaru Baba, K.; Rao, C. N. R. UV Photodetectors Based on ZnO Nanorods: Role of Defect-Concentration. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 2011, 50, 100206.

  31. Moses, K.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Matte, H. S. S.; Govindarao, B.; Rao, C. N. R. Synthesis, characterization and spectroscopy of composites of graphene with CdSe and CdS nanoparticles. Indian Journal of Chemistry-Section A 2011, 50, 1239-1247.

  32. Late, D. J.; Ghosh, A.; Subrahmanyam, K. S.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Krupanidhi, S. B.; Rao, C. N. R. Characteristics of Field-Effect Transistors Based on Undoped and B- and N-Doped Few-Layer Graphenes. Solid State Communications 2010, 150, 734-738. 

  33. Palnitkar, U. A.; Kashid, R. V.; More, M. A.; Joag, D. S.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Rao, C. N. R. Remarkably Low Turn-on Field Emission in Undoped, Nitrogen-Doped, and Boron-Doped Graphene. Applied Physics Letters 2010, 97, 063102. 

  34. Panchakarla, L. S.; Govindaraj, A.; Rao, C. N. R. Boron- and Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene. Inorganica Chimica Acta 2010, 363, 4163-4174. Top 25 hottest articles of the journal as per September 2011, Most Downloaded Inorganica Chimica Acta Articles

  35. Panchakarla, L. S.; Sundarayya, Y.; Manjunatha, S.; Sundaresan, A.; Rao, C. N. R. On the Defect Origin of the Room-Temperature Magnetism Universally Exhibited by Metal-Oxide Nanoparticles. ChemPhysChem 2010, 11, 1673-1679

  36. Manjunatha, S.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Biswas, K.; Rao, C. N. R. Nanorods and Nanofilms of ZnO Generated at the Liquid–Liquid Interface. Inorganica Chimica Acta 2010, 363, 2125-2130.

  37. Prashant, K.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Bhat, S. V.; Urmimala, M.; Subrahmanyam, K. S.; Rao, C. N. R. Photoluminescence, White Light Emitting Properties and Related Aspects of ZnO nanoparticles Admixed with Graphene and GaN. Nanotechnology 2010, 21, 385701. highlighted in Nature India: http://www.nature.com/nindia/2010/100929/full/nindia.2010.134.html

  38. Gautam, U. K.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Dierre, B.; Fang, X.; Bando, Y.; Sekiguchi, T.; Govindaraj, A.; Golberg, D.; Rao, C. N. R. Solvothermal Synthesis, Cathodoluminescence, and Field-Emission Properties of Pure and N-Doped ZnO Nanobullets. Advanced Functional Materials 2009, 19, 131-140.

  39. Panchakarla, L. S.; Subrahmanyam, K. S.; Saha, S. K.; Govindaraj, A.; Krishnamurthy, H. R.; Waghmare, U. V.; Rao, C. N. R. Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of Boron- and Nitrogen-Doped Graphene. Advanced Materials 2009, 21, 4726-4730.

  40. Subrahmanyam, K. S.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Govindaraj, A.; Rao, C. N. R. Simple Method of Preparing Graphene Flakes by an Arc-Discharge Method. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2009, 113, 4257- 4259. Appeared in C&EN news http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/87/i10/8710news1.html

  41. Ghosh, A.; Late, D. J.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Govindaraj, A.; Rao, C. N. R. NO2 and Humidity Sensing Characteristics of Few-Layer Graphenes. Journal of Experimental Nanoscience 2009, 4, 313-322. Top 10 most cited articles of the journal

  42. Panchakarla, L. S.; Govindaraj, A. Covalent and Non-Covalent Functionalization and Solubilization of Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Nonpolar and Aqueous Media. Journal of Chemical Science 2008, 120, 607-611.

  43.  Panchakarla, L. S.; Govindaraj, A.; Rao, C. N. R. Nitrogen- and Boron-Doped Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. ACS Nano 2007, 1, 494-500. 

  44. Panchakarla, L. S.; Govindaraj, A. Carbon Nanostructures and Graphite-Coated Metal Nanostructures Obtained by Pyrolysis of Ruthenocene and Ruthenocene-Ferrocene Mixtures. Bulletin of Materials Science 2007, 30, 23-29.

  45. Panchakarla, L. S.; Shah, M. A.; Govindaraj, A.; Rao, C. N. R. A Simple Method to Prepare ZnO and Al(OH)3 Nanorods by the Reaction of the Metals with Liquid Water. Journal of Solid State Chemistry 2007, 180, 3106-3110.

  46. Panchakarla, L. S.; Govindaraj, A.; Rao, C. N. R. Formation of ZnO Nanoparticles by the Reaction of Zinc Metal with Aliphatic Alcohols. Journal of Cluster Science 2007, 18, 660-670.

  47. Varghese, N.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Hanapi, M.; Govindaraj, A.; Rao, C. N. R. Solvothermal Synthesis of Nanorods of ZnO, N-doped ZnO and CdO. Materials Research Bulletin 2007, 42, 2117-2124.

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Book Chapters

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  1. Panchakarla, L. S.; Rao, C.N.R. Nanotubes, “Advances in the Chemistry and Physics of Materials”, 2020 (Eds.: S.J. George, C. Narayana, C.N.R. Rao), World Scientific.

  2. Panchakarla, L. S.; Tenne, R. Inorganic nanotubes and fullerene-like nanoparticles at the crossroad between materials science and nanotechnology and their applications with regards to sustainability, “Nanotechnology for Energy Sustainability”, 2017 (Eds.: Raj, Van de Voorde, Mahajan), Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA 

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Patents

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  1. Panchakarla, L. S.; Rai, K. S.; Subramaniam, C. “Misfit Calcium Cobalt Oxide and its Non-Stoichiometric Synthesis and their Enhanced Electrochemical Activity”, patent Application No. 202121003411 dated 25-01-2021.

  2. Tenne, R.; Panchakarla, L. S.; Radovsky, G. "Inorganic nanomaterials", Synthesis of Nanotubes/Nanoscrolls from Lanthanide Based Misfit Layered Compounds, US Appl. No. 61989859 (EFS ID- 18970696) 07-05-2014. 

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