List of Papers Published:

Mixed Valent, Distorted Cobalt Ludwigite (Co3BO5/Co3O2BO3) and Its Composite with Reduced Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes (R‐MWCNT) in Enhancing the Domain 252 Edge‐Sharing Oxygen as Superior Water Oxidation Electrocatalysts, Dr. Sumana Kundu, Bibhudatta Malik, Dr. Deepak K. Pattanayak and Prof. Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, ChemElectroChem, 5(13), 2018, 1670 – 1676

Co3Fe7/Nitrogen-doped graphene nanoribbons as bi-functional electrocatalyst for 251 oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution, Jaison M Joy, Sivamathini Rajappa, Vijayamohanan K Pillai and Subbiah Alwarappan, Nanotechnology, 2018

Adsorption kinetics of WS2 quantum dots onto a polycrystalline gold surface, Manila 250 Ozhukil Valappil, Mekkat Roopesh, Subbiah Alwarappan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 2018 Preface for Eleventh International Symposium on Advances in Electrochemical Science 249 and Technology Special Issue, M.V. Sangaranarayanan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 43(9), 2018, 4681 Nickel-Incorporated, Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Nanoribbons as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Jaison Joy, Archana Sekar, Saranyan 248 Vijayaraghavan, Prem Kumar T., Vijayamohanan K Pillai and Subbiah Alwarappan, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 165 (3), 2018, H141-H146 Role of Specific N-Containing Active Sites in Interconnected Graphene Quantum Dots for the Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity towards Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Sumana 247 Kundu, Bibhudatta Malik, Deepak Kumar Pattanayak, Pitchai Ragupathy and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, ChemistrySelect, 2(2017), 9943 – 9946 Effect of Dimensionality and Doping in Quasi-“One-Dimensional (1-D)” Nitrogen Doped Graphene Nanoribbons on the Oxygen Reduction Reaction, Sumana Kundu, 246 Bibhudatta Malik, Deepak Kumar Pattanayak and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017 Spotlighting graphene quantum dots and beyond: Synthesis, properties and sensing 245 applications, Manila Ozhukil Valappil, Subbiah Alwarappan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Applied Materials Today, 9(2017), 350–371

Topotactic Transition of α-Co(OH)2 to β-Co(OH)2 Anchored on CoO Nanoparticles During Electrochemical Water Oxidation: Synergistic Electrocatalytic Effects, Sumana 244 Kundu, Bibhudatta Malik, Amrutha Prabhakaran, Deepak K. Pattanayak and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, ChemComm, 53(2017), 9809--9812

Enhancing the Efficiency of DSSCs by the Modification of TiO2 Photoanodes using N, F and S, co-doped Graphene Quantum Dots, Sumana Kundu, P. Sarojinijeeva, 243 R. Karthick, G. Anantharaj, G. Saritha, Rajesh Bera, S. Anandan, Amitava Patra, P. Ragupathy, M. Selvaraj, D. Jeyakumar and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Electrochimica Acta, 242(2017), 337–343 Unraveling the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Active Sites in N-Functionalized 242 Interconnected Graphene Quantum Dots, Sumana Kundu, Bibhudatta Malik, Deepak K. Pattanayak, Ragupathy Pitchai and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, ChemistrySelect, 2(2017), 4511 – 4515

A Single step electrochemical synthesis of luminescent WS2 quantum dots, Athira Anil, 241 Manikoth Shaijumon, Vijayamohanan K Pillai and Subbiah Alwarappan, Chemistry-A European Journal, 2017 Single-Step Synthesis of Halogenated Graphene through Electrochemical Exfoliation and Its Utilization as Electrodes for Zinc Bromine Redox Flow Battery, Y. Munaiah, P. 240 Ragupathy and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 163(2016), A2899-A2910 New Understanding on Regulating the Crystallization and Morphology of the β‑Polymorph of Isotactic Polypropylene Based on Carboxylate−Alumoxane Nucleating 239 Agents, Mohan Raj Mani, Ramesh Chellaswamy, Yogesh N. Marathe and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Macromolecules, 46(2016), 2197–2205 Simultaneous unzipping and sulfonation of multi-walled carbon nanotubes to sulfonated graphene nanoribbons for nanocomposite membranes in polymer 238 electrolyte fuel cells, Avanish Shukla, Santoshkumar D. Bhat, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Membrane Science, 520(2016), 657-670 Effect of Reversible Lithium Ion Intercalation on the Size-Dependent Optical Properties 237 of Graphene Quantum Dots, Sumana Kundu, P. Ragupathy and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 163(2016), A1112-A1119 Facile Green Synthesis of BCN Nanosheets as High-Performance Electrode Material for Electrochemical Energy Storage, Indrapal Karbhal, Rami Reddy Devarapalli, Joyashish 236 Debgupta, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Pulickel M. Ajayan and Manjusha V. Shelke, Chemistry - A European Journal, 22(2016) 7134-7140 Enhanced nucleation of polypropylene by metal– organic frameworks (MOFs) based on aluminium dicarboxylates: influence of structural features, Mohan Raj Mani, 235 Ramesh Chellaswamy, Yogesh N. Maratheab and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, RSC Advances, 6(2016), 1907-1912 Recent advances in the development of low-dimensional materials for electrochemical 234 Applications: CECRI, Karaikudi, Subbiah Alwarappan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Current Science, 108(2015), 789-791 Role of the Molecular Structure of Carboxylate-Alumoxanes on the Enhanced Nucleation of Polypropylene, Mohanraj Mani,a Ramesh Chellaswamy, Yogesh N. 233 Marathea and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemical Communications, 51(2015), 10026- 10029

Electrochemical synthesis of luminescent MoS2 quantum dots, Deepesh Gopalakrishnan, Dijo Damien, Bo Li, Hemtej Gullappalli, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, 232 Pulickel M. Ajayan and Manikoth M. Shaijumon, Chemical Communications, 51(2015), 6293-6296

231 Synthesis of N, F and S co-doped graphene quantum dots, Sumana Kundu, Ram Manohar Yadav, T. N. Narayanan, Manjusha V. Shelke, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel M. Ajayan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Nanoscale, 7(2015), 11515-11519

A single-step room-temperature electrochemical synthesis of nitrogen-doped graphene nanoribbons from carbon nanotubes, M. J. Jaison, Tharangattu N. 230 Narayanan, T. Prem Kumar and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3(2015), 18222-18228 Graphene nanoribbons as prospective field emitter, Ruchita Khare, Dhanraj B. Shinde, 229 Sanjeewani Bansode, Mahendra A. More, Mainak Majumder, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Dattatray J. Late, Applied Physics Letters, 106(2015), 023111 Electrochemical preparation of nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dots and their size- dependent electrocatalytic activity for oxygen reduction, Dhanraj B Shinde, Vishal M 228 Dhavale, Sreekumar Kurungot and Vijayamohanan K Pillai, Bulletin of Materials Science, 38(2015), 435-442

Co3O4 Nanorods—Efficient Non-noble Metal Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution at 227 Neutral pH, Rani M. Ramsundar, Joyashish Debgupta, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Pattayil A. Joy, Electrocatalysis, 6(2015), 331-340 Fractional photo-current dependence of graphene quantum dots prepared from carbon nanotubes, Sumana Kundu, Sujoy Ghosh, Michael Fralaide, T. N. Narayanan, 226 Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Saikat Talapatra, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(2015), 24566-24569 Photophysical and photoconductivity properties of thiol-functionalized graphene– CdSe QD composites, Joyashish Debgupta, Sadananda Mandal, Hemen Kalita, 225 Mohammed Aslam, Amitava Patra and Vijayamohanan Pillai, RSC Advances, 4(2014), 13788-13795 Sequential Electrochemical Unzipping of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes to Graphene Ribbons Revealed by in Situ Raman Spectroscopy and Imaging, Robin John, 224 Dhanraj B. Shinde, Lili Liu, Feng Ding, Zhiping Xu, Cherianath Vijayan, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Thalappil Pradeep, ACS Nano, 8(2014), 234-242 Counter-ion Dependent, Longitudinal Unzipping of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes to 223 Highly Conductive and Transparent Graphene Nanoribbons, Dhanraj B. Shinde, Mainak Majumder and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Scientific Reports, 4(2014), 4363 Electric field induced transformation of carbon nanotube to graphene nanoribbons 222 using Nafion as a solid polymer electrolyte, M. J. Jaison, K. Vikram, Tharangattu N. Narayanan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Applied Physics Letters, 104(2014), 153111 C@SiNW/TiO2 Core-Shell Nanoarrays with Sandwiched Carbon Passivation Layer as High Efficiency Photoelectrode for Water Splitting, Rami Reddy Devarapalli, Joyashish 221 Debgupta, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Manjusha V. Shelke, Scientific Reports, 4(2014), 4897 Comparative Electrocatalytic Performance of Single-Walled and Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes for Zinc Bromine Redox Flow Batteries, Y. Munaiah, S. Suresh, 220 S. Dheenadayalan, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and P. Ragupathy, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(2014), 14795-14804 Electrochemical preparation of vertically aligned, hollow CdSe nanotubes and their p-n junction hybrids with electrodeposited Cu2O, Joyashish Debgupta, Ramireddy 219 Devarapalli, Shakeelur Rahman, Manjusha V. Shelkeab and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Nanoscale, 6(2014), 9148-9156 Mitigating the Cytotoxicity of Graphene Quantum Dots and Enhancing Their Applications in Bioimaging and Drug Delivery, Anil Chandra, Sonal Deshpande, Dhanraj 218 B. Shinde, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Neetu Singh, ACS Macro Letters, 3(2014), 1064-1068 Thiolated graphene – a new platform for anchoring CdSe quantum dots for hybrid 217 heterostructures, Joyashish Debgupta and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Nanoscale, 5(2013), 3615-3619 3-Dimensionally self-assembled single crystalline platinum nanostructures on few- 216 layer graphene as an efficient oxygen reduction electrocatalyst, Sreekuttan M. Unni, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Sreekumar Kurungot, RSC Advances, 3(2013), 6913-6921 High Performance Carbon Nanotube Based Electrodes for Zinc Bromine Redox Flow 215 Batteries, Y. Munaiah, S. Dheenadayalan, P. Ragupathy and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, 2(2013), M3182-M3186 Hysteresis and charge trapping in graphene quantum dots, Hemen Kalita, Harikrishnan 214 V, Dhanraj B. Shinde, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, and M. Aslam, Applied Physics Letters, 102(2013), 143104 Electrochemical Resolution of Multiple Redox Events for Graphene Quantum Dots, 213 Dhanraj B. Shinde and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 52(2013), 2482-2485

Porous Co3O4 nanorods as superior electrode material for supercapacitors and 212 rechargeable Li-ion batteries, S. Vijayanand, R. Kannan, H. S. Potdar, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, P. A. Joy, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 43(2013), 995-1003 Structural and Catalytic Properties of a Novel Vanadium Containing Solid Core Mesoporous Shell Silica Catalysts for Gas Phase Oxidation Reaction, N. Venkatathri, 211 Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, A. Rajini, M. Nooka Raju and I.A.K. Reddy, Journal of Chemical Sciences., 125(2013), 63-69 Stabilization of graphene quantum dots (GQDs) by encapsulation inside zeolitic imidazolate framework nanocrystals for photoluminescence tuning, 210 Bishnu P. Biswal, Dhanraj B. Shinde, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Rahul Banerjee, Nanoscale, 5(2013), 10556-10561 Electrochemical Preparation of Luminescent Graphene Quantum Dots from 209 Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes, Dhanraj B. Shinde and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemistry - A European Journal, 18 (2012), 12522-12528

Hydrous RuO2–carbon nanofiber electrodes with high mass and electrode-specific 208 capacitance for efficient energy storage, Ranjith Vellacheri, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Sreekumar Kurungot, Nanoscale, 4(2012), 890-896 TiO2–Au plasmonic nanocomposite for enhanced dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) 207 performance, Subas Muduli, Onkar Game, Vivek Dhas, K. Vijayamohanan, K.A. Bogle, N. Valanoor, Satishchandra B. Ogale, Solar Energy, 86(2012), 1428-1434 Charge transport in functionalized multi-wall carbon nanotube-Nafion Composite, C. S. 206 Suchand Sangeeth, R. Kannan, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Reghu Menon, Journal of Applied Physics, 112(2012), 53706 In situ electrochemical organization of CdSe nanoclusters on graphene during 205 unzipping of carbon nanotubes, Joyashish Debgupta, Dhanraj B. Shinde and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemical Communications, 48(2012), 3088 – 3090. Polydentate disulfides for enhanced stability of AuNPs and facile nanocavity 204 formation, Satish C. Biradar, Dhanraj B. Shinde, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Mohan G. Kulkarni, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22(2012), 10000-10008 Carbon nanotube-modified sodium dodecyl sulfate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for molecular weight determination of proteins, Meera Parthasarathy, 203 Joyashish Debgupta, Bhalchandra Kakade, Abu A. Ansary, M. Islam Khan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Analytical Biochemistry, 409(2011), 230-235. Enhanced electrocatalytic performance of interconnected Rh nano-chains towards 202 formic Acid oxidation, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Beena K. Balan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Energy & Environmental Science, 4(2011), 1029-1036. Functionalization of SBA-15 Mesoporous Materials using "Thiol-Ene Click" Michael Addition Reaction, Sushma Kumari, Bharmana Malvi, Anal Kr. Ganai, Vijayamohanan K. 201 Pillai and Sayam Sen Gupta, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115(2011), 17774- 17781. Competitive wetting of acetonitrile and dichloromethane in comparison to that of water on functionalized carbon nanotube surfaces, Joyashish Debgupta, Bhalchandra 200 A. Kakade and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 13(2011), 14668 – 14674. Anion exchange reaction potentials as approximate estimates of the relative thermodynamic stabilities of Mg/Al layered double hydroxides containing different 199 anions, Belavalli E. Prasad, P. Vishnu Kamath and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 27(2011), 13539 – 13543. Improved Performance of Phosphonated Carbon Nanotube –Polybenzimidazole Composite Membranes in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, Ramaiyan Kannan, 198 Husain N. Kagalwala, Harshal D. Chaudhari, Ulhas K. Kharul, Sreekumar Kurungota and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 21(2011), 7223-7231. Electrochemical Unzipping of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes for Facile Synthesis of High-Quality Graphene Nanoribbons, Dhanraj B. Shinde, Joyashish Debgupta, Ajay 197 Kushwaha, Mohammed Aslam, and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133(2011), 4168-71. Ex-situ dispersion of core–shell nanoparticles of Cu–Pt on an in-situ modified carbon 196 surface and their enhanced electrocatalytic activities, Vishal M. Dhavale, Sreekuttan M. Unni, Husain N. Kagalwala, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Sreekumar Kurungot, Chemical Communications, 47(2011), 3951.

Enhanced electrocatalytic performance of functionalized carbon nanotube electrodes for oxygen reduction in proton exchange membrane fuel cells, Ramaiyan Kannan, Unni 195 Bipinlal, Sreekumar Kurungota and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 13(2011), 10312-10317. High aspect ratio nanoscale multifunctional materials derived from hollow carbon nanofiber by polymer insertion and metal decoration, Beena K. Balan, Vinayak S. Kale, 194 Pradnya P. Aher, Manjusha V. Shelke, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Sreekumar Kurungot, Chemical Communications, 46(2010), 5590–5592. High current density, low threshold field emission from functionalized carbon nanotube bucky paper, Bhalchandra A. Kakade, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Dattatray J. 193 Late, Padmakar G. Chavan, Farid J. Sheini, Mahendra A. More, and Dilip S. Joag, Applied Physics Letters, 97(2010), 073102. Artificially Designed Membranes Using Phosphonated Multiwall Carbon Nanotube- Polybenzimidazole Composites for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells, Ramaiyan Kannan, 192 Pradnya P. Aher , Thangavelu Palaniselvam , Sreekumar Kurungot , Ulhas K. Kharul and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 14(2010), 2109– 2113 Tunable optical features from self-organized rhodium nanostructures, Bhaskar R. 191 Sathe, Beena K. Balan, and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Applied Physics Letters, 96(2010), 233102.

Effect of Fe3O4 on morphology of Fe–SnO2 hyperbranched heterostructures Bhaskar R. 190 Sathe, Pravin S. Walke, Imtiaz S. Mulla, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemical Physics Letters, 493(2010), 121–125. Observation of Photoconductivity in Sn-Doped ZnO Nanowires and Their Photoenhanced Field Emission Behavior, Farid Jamali Sheini, Mahendra A. More, 189 Sandesh R. Jadkar, K. R. Patil, Vijaymohanan K. Pillai and Dilip S. Joag, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 114(2010), 3843-3849. High Pt Utilization Electrodes for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells by Dispersing Pt Particles Formed by a Preprecipitation Method on Carbon “Polished” 188 with Polypyrrole, Sreekuttan M. Unni, Vishal M. Dhavale, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Sreekumar Kurungot, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 114(2010), 14654-14661. Synthesis of Rh–carbon nanotube based heterostructures and their enhanced field emission characteristics, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Bhalchandra A. Kakade, Ajay Kushwaha, 187 Mohammed Aslam and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemical Communications, 46(2010), 5671-5673. Bio-inspired catalyst compositions for enhanced oxygen reduction using Nanostructured Pt electrocatalysts in polymer electrolyte fuel cells, Meera 186 Parthasarathy, Ramaiyan Kannan, Kurungot Sreekumar and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 20(2010), 9651–9657. Direct transfer of micro-molded electrodes for enhanced mass transport and water management in PEMFC, Ashvini B. Deshmukh, Vinayak S. Kale, Vishal M. Dhavale, K. 185 Sreekumar, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Manjusha V. Shelke, Electrochemistry Communications, 12(2010), 1638–1641. Applications of carbon nanotubes in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, 184 Ramaiyan Kannan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 89(2009), 425-436. Shape dependant electrocatalytic activity of Platinum nanostructures, Mahima 183 Subhramannia and Vijayamohanan K Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 18 (2009), 5858-5870. Ultrafast switching time and third order nonlinear coefficients of microwave treated single walled carbon nanotubes suspensions, N. Kamaraju, Sunil Kumar, 182 B. Karthikeyan, Bhalchandra Kakade, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, and A. K. Sood, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 9(2009), 5550–5554. Enhanced Conversion Efficiency in dye sensitized solar cells based on hydrothermally synthesized TiO2-MWCNT Nanocomposites, Subas Muduli, Wonjoo Lee, Vivek Dhas, 181 Sarfraj Mujawar, Megha Dubey, K. Vijayamohanan, Sung-Hwan Han and Satishchandra Ogale, Applied Materials and Interfaces, 1(2009), 2030–2035. Imaging hydrogen oxidation activity of catalyst-coated perfluoro sulfonic acid-polymer electrolyte membranes using Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy, Meera 180 Parthasarathy and Vijayamohanan K Pillai, Journal of Chemical Sciences, 121(2009), 719–725. Preparation and Characterization of Rhodium Nanostructures through the Evolution of Microgalvanic Cells and Their Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity for Formaldehyde 179 Oxidation, Bhaskar Sathe, Dhanraj Shinde and Vijayamohanan K Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 113(2009), 9616–9622. Domain size manipulation of perflouorinated polymer electrolytes by sulfonic acid functionalized MWCNTs to enhance fuel cell performance. Ramaiyan Kannan, Meera 178 Parthasarathy, Sreekuttan U. Maraveedu, Sreekumar Kurungot and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 14(2009), 8299–8305.

Field emission Investigations of single Fe doped SnO2 wire, Ashok B. Bhise, Dattatray J. 177 Late, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Mahendra A. More, Imtiaz S. Mulla, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Dilip S. Joag, Solid State Sciences, 11(2009), 1114–1117. Y-junction nanostructures of palladium: Enhanced electrocatalytic properties for fuel 176 cell reactions, Mahima Subhramannia, Kannan Ramaiyan, Mohammed Aslam, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 627(2009), 58-62. Design of an ‘‘all solid-state’’ supercapacitor based on phosphoric acid doped polybenzimidazole (PBI) electrolyte, Dhanraj Rathod, Meenu Vijay, Nazrul Islam, 175 Ramaiyan Kannan, Ulhas Kharul, Sreekumar Kurungot and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 39(2009), 1097–1103.

174 RuO2 doped SnO2 nanobipyramids on Si(111) as a field emmiter, Ashok K Bhise, D.J. Late, N.S. Ramgir, M.A. More, I.S. Mulla, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Dilip S. Joag, Thin Solid Films 516(2008)6388-91.

Synthesis of Platinum Y-Junction Nanostructures using Hierarchically Designed Alumina Templates and Their Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity for Fuel-Cell 173 Applications, Subhramannia Mahima, Ramaiyan Kannan, Indulekha Komath, Mohammed Aslam, and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemistry of Materials, 20 (2008), 601–603. Near-complete phase transfer of single-wall carbon nanotubes by covalent 172 functionalization, Bhalchandra Kakade, Sanjay Patil, Bhaskar Sathe, Suresh Gokhale and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Chemical Sciences, 120(2008), 599–606. The effect of synthesis procedure on the structure and properties of 171 palladium/polycarbonate nanocomposites, O.P. Valmikanathan, O. Ostroverkhova, I.S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, S.V. Atre, Polymer, 49(2008), 3413–3418. Invertase inhibition based electrochemical sensor for the detection of heavy metal ions in Aqueous system: Application of ultramicroelectrode to enhance sucrose 170 biosensor’s sensitivity, Dipali Bagal-Kestwal, Meena S. Karve, Bhalchandra Kakade and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 24(2008), 657–664. Tuning the Wetting Properties of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes by Surface 169 Functionalization, Bhalchandra A. Kakade and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112(2008), 3183-3186. Enhanced field emission from hexagonal rhodium nanostructures, Bhaskar R. Sathe, 168 Bhalchandra A. Kakade, Imtiaz S. Mulla, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Dattatray J. Late, Mahendra A. More and Dilip S. Joag, Applied Physics Letters, 92(2008), 253106. Imaging Stomatal Physiology of Somatic Embryo-derived Peanut Leaves by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy, Meera Parthasarathy, Shweta Singh, Sulekha Hazra and 167 Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 391(2008), 2227– 2233. Silicate nanoparticles by bioleaching of glass and modification of the glass surface, Sneha Kulkarni, Asad Syed, Sanjay Singh, Anil Gaikwad, Kashinath Patil, 166 Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Absar Ahmad, Satishchandra Ogale, Journal of Non- Crystalline Solids, 354(2008), 3433–3437. Tuning the Transport Properties of Poly(oxyethylene)bisamine-Nafion Polyelectrolyte 165 Complexes by Dielectric Manipulation, Meera Parthasarathy, Bhalchandra Kakade and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Macromolecules, 41(2008), 3653-3658. High-Purity Synthesis of Scrolled Mats of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes using 164 Temperature Modulation, Bhalchandra A. Kakade, Hatem Allouche, Mahima Subhramannia and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Carbon, 46(2008), 567 –576. Comparative Study of the Shape Dependant Electrocatalytic Activity of Platinum 163 Multipods, Discs and Hexagons: Applications for Fuel Cells, Mahima Subhramannia, Ramaiyan Kannan, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 24(2008), 3576-3583. An efficient route towards the covalent functionalization of Single walled carbon 162 nanotubes, Bhalchandra A. Kakade and Vijayamohanan K Pillai, Applied Surface Science, 254(2008), 4936-4943. Electric Field Induced, Superhydrophobic to Superhydrophilic Switching in Multiwalled 161 Carbon Nanotube Papers, Bhalchandra Kakade, Rutvik Mehta, Apurva Durge and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Nanoletters, 8(2008), 2693-2696. A 27-3 fractional factorial optimization of polybenzimidazole based membrane- electrode assembly for H2/O2 fuel cells, R. Kannan, Md. Nazrul Islam, Dhanraj Rathod, 160 Meenu Vijay, U. K. Kharul, P.C. Ghosh and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 38(2008), 583-590. Enhanced performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cells with Nafion based composite electrolytes using Sulfonic acid functionalized single wall carbon nanotubes, Ramaiyan 159 Kannan, Bhalchandra A. Kakade, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 47(2008), 2653 –2656. Electrochemical Sensing of Sulphur Dioxide: A Comparison Using Dodecanethiol and Citrate Capped Gold Nanoclusters, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Mandar S. Risbud, Imtiaz S. Mulla 158 and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 8(2008), 3184-91. Nanometer sized, Tridecyl amine capped, Rhodium dispersed on high Surface area support: Catalytic Investigations, Trissa Joseph, Shashidhar Shintri , Bhalchandra 157 Kakade, K. Vijayamohanan Pillai and S.B. Halligudi, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol., 7(2007) 1-7. ‘All-solid-state’ electrochemistry of a protein-confined polymer electrolyte film, 156 Meera Parthasarathy, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Imtiaz S. Mulla, Mohammed Shabab, M.I. Khan, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 364(2007), 86–91. Role of Polyfunctional Organic molecules in the Synthesis and Assembly of Metal 155 Nanoparticles, Jadab Sharma, Bhalchandra A. Kakade, Nirmalya K Chaki, S. Mahima and Vijayamohanan K Pillai, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol., 7(2007) 2139-50.

Sb-doped SnO2 wire: Highly stable field emitter, Ashok B. Bhisea, Dattatray J. Late, 154 Pravin S. Walke, Mahendra A. Morea, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Imtiaz S. Mulla and Dilip S. Joag, Journal of Crystal Growth, 307(2007), 87–91. Template–Assisted Synthesis of Ruthenium Oxide Nanoneedles: Electrical and Electrochemical Properties, Mahima Subhramannia, Beena K. Balan, Bhaskar R. Sathe, 153 Imtiaz S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111(2007), 16593-16600. Surface State-Mediated Electron Transfer at Nanostructured ZnO multipod/Electrolyte Interfaces, Meera Parthasarathy, Niranjan S. Ramgir, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Imtiaz S. Mulla, 152 and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111(2007), 13092- 13102.

A single In-doped SnO2 submicrometre sized wire as a field emitter, Ashok B Bhise, 151 Dattatray J Late, PravinWalke, Mahendra A More, Imtiaz S Mulla, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Dilip S Joag, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 40(2007), 3644–3648. Interfacial Behavior of Alkyltrichlorosilane Monolayers on Silicon: Control of Flat-Band 150 Potential and Surface State Distribution Using Chain Length Variation, Sneha A. Kulkarni and Vijayamohanan K Pillai, Surface Science, 601(2007)2983. Highly Sensitive Nanostructured Platinum Electrocatalysts for CO oxidation: Implications for CO sensing and Fuel Cell Performance, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Mandar S. 149 Risbud, Sanjay Patil, K.S. Ajayakumar, R.C. Naik, Imtiaz S. Mulla, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Sensors and Actuators A, 138(2007), 376–383. Cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impedance and ex-situ X-ray diffraction studies of electrochemical insertion and deinsertion of lithium ion into nanostructured organic- 148 inorganic poly(3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene) based hybrids, A. Vadivel Murugan, M.V. Reddy, Guy Campet, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 603(2007), 287–296. Tuning the hydrophobic properties of silica particles by surface silanization using 147 mixed self-assembled monolayer, Sneha A. Kulkarni, Satishchandra B. Ogale and Vijayamohanan K Pillai, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 318(2008), 372–379.

Quantized Double-Layer Charging of Rhodium2057(Tridecylamine)321 Clusters by Using Differential Pulse and Cyclic Voltammetry, Bhalchandra A. Kakade, Shashidhar S. 146 Shintri, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Shivappa B. Halligudi, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Advanced Materials, 19(2007), 272-275. Energy analysis of field emitted electrons from a ZnO tetrapod, Ahmed A. Al-Tabbakh, 145 Mahendra A. More, Dilip S. Joag, Niranjan S. Ramgir, Imtiaz S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Applied Physics Letters, 90(2007), 162102. Suppression of electron transfer characteristics of ferrocene by OTS monolayer on a Silicon/electrolyte Interface, Sneha A. Kulkarni ; Bhalchandra A. Kakade; Imtiaz S. 144 Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 299(2006), 777–784. Exfoilation induced nanoribbon formation of poly (3, 4-Ethylenedioxy thiophene) PEDOT between MoS2 layers as cathode materials for lithium batteries, A. Vadivel 143 Murugana, Mathieu Quintin, Marie-Helene Delville, Guy Campet, Chinnakonda S. Gopinath and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Power Sources, 156(2006), 615–619. Electrochemical Characterization of Self-Assembled Monolayers on Semiconducting 142 Substrates for MEMS Applications, Sneha A. Kulkarni, Imtiaz S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 34(2006), 322–329. Autoreduction of Cyanoferrate(III) Ions in a Polymer Electrolyte Membrane: All Solid State Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Investigations, Meera Parthasarathy, 141 Chinnakonda S. Gopinath and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemistry of Materials, 18(2006), 5244-5252. ZnO Multipods, Submicron Wires, and Spherical Structures and Their Unique Field Emission Behavior, Niranjan S. Ramgir, Dattatray J. Late, Ashok B. Bhise, Mahendra A. 140 More,Imtiaz S. Mulla, Dilip S. Joag and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110(2006), 18236-18242. Highly efficient organic-inorganic layered PEDOT-MoO3 nanocomposite electrodes for 139 double-layer supercapacitance, A.Vadivel Murugan, A.K. Viswanath, C.S. Gopinath, and K. Vijayamohanan, J. Appl. Phys.,100(2006)615-19. Field Emission Studies of Novel ZnO nanostructures in high and low field regions, 138 Niranjan S Ramgir, N Dattatray J Late, Ashok B Bhise, Imtiaz S, Mulla, Mahendra A More, Dilip S Joag and Vijayamohanan K Pillai, Nanotechnology, 17(2006), 2730–2735. Directed organization of gold nanoclusters on Silver nanowires : a step forward in 137 heterostructure – assembly, Jadab Sharma, J. P. Vivek, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Poonam Singh and C. V. Dharmadhikari, Applied Physics Letters, 88(2006), 193103. Electrochemical Organization of Monolayer Protected Gold Nanoclusters on Single- Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Significantly Enhanced Double Layer Capacitance, S. 136 Mahima, N. K. Chaki, J. Sharma, B. A. Kakade, R. Pasricha, A. M. Rao, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Nanoscience Nanotechnology, 6(2006)1387. Investigation of interparticle interactions of larger (4.63 nm) monolayer protected gold clusters during quantized double layer charging, Nirmalya Kumar Chaki, 135 Balachandra Kakde, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Poonam Singh and C. V. Dharmadhikari, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, 8(2006), 1837–1844. Organic dye molecules as reducing agent for the synthesis of electroactive gold 134 nanoplates, Jadab Sharma and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 298(2006), 679–684. Optical trapping and transportation of carbon nanotubes made easy by decorating 133 with palladium, Manas Khan, A.K. Sood, S.K. Mohanty, P.K. Gupta, Girish V Arabale, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and C.N. R. Rao, Optics Express, 14(2006), 424-429.

Micropencils and Microhexagonal Cones of ZnO, Niranjan S. Ramgir, Imtiaz S. Mulla, 132 and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110(2006), 3995-4001.

Ultralow threshold field emission from a single multipod structure of ZnO, Niranjan S. 131 Ramgir, Imtiaz S. Mulla, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Dattatray J. Late, Ashok B. Bhise, Mahendra A. More and Dilip S. Joag, Applied Physics Letters, 88(2006), 42107. Silver Nanocluster Redox-Couple-Promoted Nonclassical Electron Transfer: An Efficient Electrochemical Wolff Rearrangement of α-Diazoketones, Surendra G. Sudrik, 130 Nirmalya K. Chaki, Vilas B. Chavan, Sambhaji P. Chavan, Subhash P. Chavan, Harikisan R. Sonawane and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemistry - A European Journal, 12(2006), 859 – 864. Synnthesis and Characterization of organo-inorganic Poly (3, 4-Ethylenedioxy thiophene) PEDOT/ MoS2 Nanocomposite via in situ oxidative polymerization, A.V. 129 Murugan, M. Quintin, Marie-Helene Delville, Guy Campet, C.S. Gopinath, and K. Vijayamohanan, J. Mater. Res. 21(2006)112. Page 8 of 14 Electron Transfer Behavior of Monolayer Protected monoclusters and Nanowires of 128 Silver and Gold, Jadab Sharma, Vivek J. P., and Kunjukrishna P., K. Vijayamohanan, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 6(2006)3464-69. Wolff Rearrangement of α-Diazoketones using an in-situ generated silver nanoclusters as Electron Mediators, Surendra G. Sudrik, Jadab Sharma, Vilas B. Chavan, Nirmalya K. 127 Chaki, Harikisan R. Sonawane and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Organic Letters, 8(2006), 1089-1092.

A room temperature nitric oxide sensor actualized from Ru-doped SnO2 nanowires, 126 Niranjan S. Ramgir, Imtiaz S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Sensors and Actuators B, 107(2005), 708-715. Synthesis and characterization of polyimides and co-polyimides having pendant benzoic acid moiety, Mahesh Kulkarni, Sandeep Kothwade, Girish Arabale, Deepali 125 Wagh, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, R.A. Kulkarni and S.P. Vernekar, Polymer, 46(2005), 3669–3676. Study of Correlation of Structural and Surface Properties with Electrochemical behaviour in carbon aerogels, N. Hebalker, G. Arabale, S.R. Sainkar, S.D. Pradhan, I.S. 124 Mulla, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, P. Ayyub and S.K. Kulkarni, Journal of Materials Science, 40(2005), 3777 – 3782. Effects of Amine and Pyridine terminated molecular nanolayers on adhesion at 123 Cu/SiO2 interfaces, P.G. Ganesan, G. Cui, K. Vijayamohanan, M. Lane and G. Ramanath, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 23(2005) 327. Electrochemical studies of Poly (3, 4-Ethylenedioxy thiophene) PEDOT/VS2 Nanocomposite as a cathode material for rechargeable Lithium batteries, A. Vadivel 122 Murugan, Chinnakonda S. Gopinath and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Electrochemistry Communications, 7(2005), 213–218. Entrapment of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) between VS2 layers to form a new organic-inorganic intercalative nanocomposites, A. Vadivel Murugan, Mathieu Quintin, 121 Marie-Helene Delville, Guy Capet and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 15(2005), 902–909. Phase transitions in octanethiol-capped Ag nanocluster microfilm assemblies, A.V. 120 Ellis, J. D’Arcy-Gall, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, R. Goswami, P.G. Ganesan, C. Ryu and G. Ramanath, Thermochimica Acta, 426(2005), 207–212. Thermal Stability of Self-assembled octadecyl trichlorosilane monolayers on planar 119 and curved silica surfaces, Sneha Kulkarni, S.A. Mirji, A.B. Mandale and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Thin Solid Films, 496 (2006), 420 – 425. Temperature-Induced Phase Transitions of the Ordered Superlattice Assembly of Au 118 Nanoclusters, Nirmalya Kumar Chaki and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 109(2005), 2552-2558. Growth kinetics and thermodynamic stability of octadecyltrichlorosilane self- 117 assembled monolayer on Si (100) substrate, Sneha Kulkarni, S.A. Mirji, A.B. Mandale, R.P. Gupta and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Materials Letters, 59(2005), 3890 – 3895. Preparation and characterization of composite electrode of coconut-shell-based activated carbon and hydrous ruthenium oxide for supercapacitors, Mukta S. 116 Dandekar, Girish Arabale and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Power Sources, 141(2005), 198–203. Enhancement of double-layer capacitance behavior and its electrical conductivity in layered poly (3, 4 - ethylenedioxy thiophene_ based nanocomposite, A.V. Murugan, A. 115 Kasi Viswanathan, Guy Campet, C.S. Gopinath, and K. Vijayamohanan, Appl. Phys. Let. 87(2005)1-3. Wet-chemical templateless assembly of metal nanowires from nanoparticles, 114 T. Maddanimath, A. Kumar, J. D'Arcy-Gall, P. G. Ganesan, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and G. Ramanath, Chemical Communications, 2005, 1435–1437. Comparative behavior of CdS and CdSe quantum dots in poly(3-hexylthiophene) based 113 nanocomposites, Prashant Sonar, K.P. Srinivasan, Trupti Maddanimath, and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Materials Research Bulletin, 41(2006), 198–208.

Shape dependent, preferential growth in SnO2 nanostructures: nanobipyramids, cubes 112 and nanowires, Niranjan S. Ramgir, Imtiaz S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 109(2005), 12297-12303. Quantized double layer charging of dodecanethiol protected larger Au nanoclusters: combined investigations using differential pulse voltammetry, cyclic voltammetry and 111 impedance technique, Nirmalya Kumar Chaki, Bhalchandra Kakade and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Electrochemistry Communications, 6(2004), 661–665.

Shape Selective Synthesis of Unusual Nanobipyramids, Cubes, and Nanowires of RuO2: 110 SnO2, Niranjan S. Ramgir, Imtiaz S. Mulla, and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108(2004), 14815-14819. Self-assembled molecular nanocathodes for rechargeable energy storage modules, 109 Trupti Maddanimath, G. Ramanath and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemical Physics Letters, 396(2004), 277-281. Single-Electron Charging Features of Larger, Dodecanethiol-Protected Gold Nanoclusters: Electrochemical and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies, Nirmalya 108 Kumar Chaki, Poonam Singh, C. V. Dharmadhikari and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 20(2004), 10208-10217. Highly Resolved Quantized Double Layer Charging of Relatively Larger dodecanethiol Passivated Gold Q-dots, Nirmalya K. Chaki, Bhalchandra Kakade, Jadab Sharma, 107 Subhramannia Mahima, K. Vijayamohanan and S.K.Haram, J. Appl. Phys. 96(2004)5032. A Novel Approach To Prepare Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Nanoribbons between V2O5 Layers by Microwave Irradiation, A. Vadivel Murugan, C.W. Kwon, 106 G. Campet, B.B. Kale, A. B. Mandale, S.R. Sainker, C.K. Gopinath, and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108(2004), 10736-10742. Templateless Room-Temperature Assembly of Nanowire Networks from 105 Nanoparticles, G. Ramanath, J. D’Arcy-Gall, T. Maddanimath, A. V. Ellis, P. G. Ganesan, R. Goswami, A. Kumar and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 20(2004), 5583-5587. Electrochemistry of inorganic nanocrystalline electrode materials for Lithium batteries, C.W. Kwon, S.J. Hwang, M.H. Delville, C. Labrugre, Vadivel Murugan, B.B. 104 Kale, K. Vijayamohanan and G. Campet, Active and Passive Electronic Components, 26(2004), 23-29. Cu2+-perchlorophthalocyanine immobilized MCM-41: catalyst for oxidation of alkenes, 103 P. Karandikar, M. Agashe, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and A.J. Chandwadkar, Applied Catalysis A: General, 257(2004), 133–143.

Morphological and sensing properties of spray pyrolysed Th:SnO2 thin films, R.S. 102 Niranjan, K.R. Patil, S.R. Sainkar, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and I.S. Mulla, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 84(2004), 37–45. Size dependent redox behavior of monolayer protected silver nanoparticles (2-7nm) in aqueous medium, Nirmalya K. Chaki, Jadab Sharma, A.B. Mandale, I.S. Mulla, Renu 101 Paricha and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 6(2004), 1304 – 1309. Tuning the aspect ratio of silver nanostructures: effect of solvent dielectric constant and 4-Aminothiophenol concentration, Jadab Sharma, Nirmalya K. Chaki, 100 Subhramannia Mahima, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Imtiaz S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 14(2004), 970-975. Novel one-step synthesis of amine stabilized aqueous colloidal gold Nano particles, M. 99 Aslam, Lei Fu, Ming Su, K. Vijayamohanan and Vinayak P. Dravid, J. Mater. Chem, 14(2004)1795-1797. Controlled Interlinking of Au and Ag nanoclusters using 4-aminothiophenol as molecular interconnects. Jadab Sharma, Nirmalya K. Chaki, A.B. Mandale, Renu 98 Pasricha and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 272 (2004), 145–152. Monolayer Coated Au and Ag Nanoclusters, N.K. Chaki, T.G. Gopakumar, M. Aslam and K. Vijayamohanan, Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol.5, 861- 97 877; Edited by H.S. Nalwa, American Scientific Publishers, Stevenson Ranch, California (2004). Synthesis of silver nanowires inside mesoporous MCM-41 host, P.V. Adhyapak, 96 P. Karandikar, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, A.A. Athawale and A.J. Chandwadkar, Materials Letters, 58(2004), 1168–1171. Solvent-Assisted One-Pot Synthesis and Self-Assembly of 4-Aminothiophenol-Capped Gold Nanoparticles, Jadab Sharma, S. Mahima, Bhalchandra A. Kakade, Renu Pasricha, 95 A. B. Mandale and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108(2004), 13280-13286. Hydrophobic Anchoring of Monolayer-Protected Gold Nanoclusters to Carbon 94 Nanotubes, A.V. Ellis, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, R. Goswami, N. Chakrapani, L.S. Ramanathan, P.M. Ajayan and G. Ramanath, Nanoletters, 3(2003), 279-282. Self-assembled monolayers of diphenyl disulphide: a novel cathode material for 93 rechargeable lithium batteries, Trupti Maddanimath, Yogesh B. Khollam, M. Aslam, I.S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Power Sources, 124(2003), 133–142. Effect of chain length on the tunneling conductance of gold quantum dots at room 92 temperature, N.K. Chaki, T.G. Gopakumar, Trupti Maddani, M. aslam and K. Vijayamohanan, J. Appl. Phys. 94(2003)3663. Evidence for the involvement of silver nanoclusters during the Wolff rearrangement of α-diazoketones, Surendra G. Sudrik, Trupti Maddanimath, Nirmalya K. Chaki, Sambhaji 91 P. Chavan, Subhash P. Chavan, Harikisan R. Sonawane and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Organic Letters, 5(2003), 2355-2358. Enhanced Supercapacitance of multiwalled carbon nanotubes functionalized with ruthenium oxide, Girish Arabale, Deepali Wagh, Mahesh Kulkarni, I.S. Mulla, 90 S.P. Vernekar, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and A.M. Rao, Chemical Physics Letters, 376(2003), 207–213. Device Applications of Self-assembled Monolayers and monolayer protected 89 nanoclusters, M. aslam, N,.K. Chaki, Jadab Sharms and K. Vijayamohanan, Current Applied Physics, 3(2003)115-127. A novel Luminescent functionalized Siloxane Polymer, Madhavan P. Vinod, Detlef 88 Bahnemann, Pattuparambil R. Rajamohanan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 107(2003), 11583-11588. Effect of Chain Length and the Nature of the Monolayer on the Electrical Behavior of 87 Hydrophobically Organized Gold Clusters, Nirmalya Kumar Chaki, M. Aslam, T.G. Gopakumar, Jadab Sharma, Renu Parischa, I.S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 107(2003), 13567-13574. Self-assembled subnanolayers as interfacial adhesion enhancers and diffusion barriers for integrated circuits, G. Ramanath, G. Cui, P.G. ganesan, X. Guo, A.V. Ellis, 86 M. Stukowski, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, P. Doppelt and M. Lane, Applied Physics Letters, 83(2003), 383-385. Phase transitions in octanethiol-capped Ag, Au and CdS nanocluster assemblies, 85 Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and G. Ramanath, Materials Research Society Symposium, 739(2003), 127-132. Crystal structure, magnetic and electrochemical properties of a quarternary thiospinel: Ag2MnSn3S8, G. Garg, K. V. Ramanajuchary, S.E. Loffland, M.V. Lobanov, 84 M. Greenblat, T. Maddanimath, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and A.K. Ganguli, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 174(2003), 229–232.

Freely Dispersible Au@TiO2, Au@ZrO2, Ag@TiO2, and Ag@ZrO2 Core-Shell Nanoparticles: One-Step Synthesis, Characterization, Spectroscopy, and Optical 83 Limiting Properties, Renjis T. Tom, A. Sreekumaran Nair, Navinder Singh, M. Aslam, C.L. Nagendra, Reji Philip, K. Vijayamohanan and T. Pradeep, Langmuir, 19(2003), 3439-3445. Humidity sensing properties of surface functionalised polyethylene and polypropylene 82 films, T. Maddanimath, I.S. Mulla, S.R. Sainkar, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, K.I Shaikh, Patil and S.P.Vernekar, Sensors and Actuators B, 81(2002), 141-151. Self-assembled monolayers as a tunable platform for biosensor applications, 81 Vijayamohanan K. Pillaiand Nirmalya K. Chaki, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 17(2002), 1-12. Single phase preparation of monodispersed silver nanoclusters using a unique electron transfer and cluster stabilizing agent, triethy amine, Nirmalya K Chaki, 80 Surendra G. Sudrik, H. R. Sonawane and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemical Communications, 2002, 76-77. Application of Electrochemically prepared carbon nanofibers in supercapacitors, P.V. 79 Adyapak, Trupti Maddanimath, Sushama Pethkar, A.J. Chandwadkar, Y.S. Negi and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Power Sources, 109(2002), 105-110. Trimethyl amine sensing properties of thorium incorporated tin oxide, R.S. Niranjan, 78 S.L. Meghana, A.B. Mandale, S.R. Sainkar, L.S. Prabhumirashi, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and I.S. Mulla, Sensors and Actuators B, 87(2002), 406-413. Ruthenium: tin oxide thin films as a highly selective hydrocarbon sensor, R.S. Niranjan, 77 S.R. Sainkar, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and I.S. Mulla, Sensors and Actuators B, 82(2002), 82-88.

Poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)V2O5 hybrids for lithium batteries, Chai-won Kwon, 76 A. Vadivel Murugan, Guy Campet, Josik Portier, B.B. Kale, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Jin-Ho Choy, Electrochemistry Communications, 4(2002), 384–387. Surface ruthenated tin oxide thin-film as a hydrocarbon sensor, R. S. Niranjan, 75 V.S. Choudhary, K.R. Patil, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and I.S. Mulla, Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, 79(2001), 132-136. Synthesis and Characterization of a new organo-inorganic poly(3,4-Ethylene Dioxythiophene) PEDOT/V2O5 Nanocomposite by Intercalation, A. Vadivel Murugan, 74 B. B. Kale, Chai-Won Kwon, Guy Campet and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 11(2001), 2470–2475.

Piezoresistivity of conducting polyaniline/BaTiO3 composites, R.C. Patil, 73 S. Radhakrishnan, Sushama Pethkar and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Research, 16(2001), 1982-88. Evidence for Second-Order Optical Nonlinearity in γ -Ray Induced Partially Cross- Linked Polyacrylonitrile, Susham Pethkar, J.A. Dharmadhikari, Anjali A. Athawale, 72 R.C. Iyer and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 105(2001), 5110-5113. Hydrophobic organization of monolayer protected Au clusters on thiol functionalized 71 Au(111) surfaces, Mohammed Aslam, I.S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 17(2001), 7487-7493. Preparation and Electrical Characterisation of Dodecanethiol Monolayer Protected 70 Silver Nanoclusters, M. Aslam, N. K. Chaki, I.S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Applied Surface Science, 182(2001), 338-344. Electrochemical lithium insertion into a poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) PEDOT/V2O5 Nanocomposite, A. Vadivel Murugan, Chai-Won Kwon, Gay Campet, B.B. 69 Kale, Trupti Maddanimath and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Power Sources, 4613(2001), 1-5. Application of self-assembled monolayers in materials chemistry, Nirmalya K Chaki, 68 M Aslam, Jadab Sharma and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences : Chemical Sciences, 113(2001), 1-12. Effect of Iron oxide on the hydrogen sulphide sensitivity of tin oxide thin films, 67 Choudhary. V.A., Sainker S.R., Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Mulla I.S., Journal of Materials Science Letters, 20(2001), 1643 – 1645. Preparation and Characterisation of silver quantum dot superlattice using sequential 66 self-assembled monolayers of pentane dithiol, Sushama Pethkar, M. Aslam, I.S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 11(2001), 1710-1714. Hydrocarbon Sensing Mechanism of Surface Ruthenated Tin Oxide: An In Situ IR, ESR 65 and Adsorption Kinetics Study, V. A. Chaudhary, I.S. Mulla, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, S.G. Hegde and D. Srinivas, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 105(2001), 2565-2571. Comparative behaviour of aromatic disulphide and diselenide monolayers on polycrystalline gold films using CV, STM and QCM, Mohammed Aslam, K. 64 Bandhopadhyay, K. Vijayamohanan and V. Laxminarayanan, J. Colloidal and Interf. Sci. 234 (2001). Applications of Self-assembled monolayers for Biomolecular Electronics, 63 Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and M. Aslam, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 96(2001), 25-39. Insulating-to-Metal transition in Coulomb Blockade Nanostructures, Mohammed 62 Aslam, I.S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Applied Physics Letters, 79(2001), 689- 691.

Effect of gelling on the Impedance parameters of Pb/PbSO4 electrode in Maintenance- 61 Free Lead acid Batteries, M.P. Vinod and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Power Sources, 89(2000), 88–92. Metal ion reactivity to 1,4-benzenedimethanethiol monolayers on gold, K. 60 Venkataramanan, K.V.G.K. Murthy, T. Pradeep, W. Deepali and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 16(2000), 7673-7678.

Electrochemical Supercapacitors: Energy storage beyond Batteries, A.K. Shukla, S. 59 Sampath and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Current Science, 79(2000), 1656-1661.

Preparation, Characterisation and Mechanistic Features of Zirconia Films on bare and functionalised gold surfaces, M. Aslam, Sushama Pethkar, K. Bandyopadhyay, I.S. 58 Mulla, S.R. Sainkar, A.B. Mandale and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 10(2000), 1737-1743. Effect of Protonation media on Chemically and Electrochemically Syntheisized 57 Polyaniline, R.C. Patil, S.F. Patil, I.S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Polymer International, 49(2000), 189-196.

Selective hydrogen sensing properties of surface functionalized tin oxide, V.A. 56 Choudhary, Mulla, K. Vijayamohanan, Sensors & Actuators B 55(1999)154-160. Surface Ruthenated hydrocarbon sensor: Statistical Optimisation of sensitivity, V.A. 55 Choudhary, I.S. Mulla, S.R. Sainkar, A. B. Mandale and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Sensors and Actuators, 79(2000), 224–229. Self-assembled monolayers of small aromatic disulphide and diselenide molecules on polycrystalline gold films: A comparative study of the geometric constraint using 54 temperature dependent SERS, XPS and Electrochemistry. K. Bandyopadhyay, K. Vijayamohanan, M. Venkataraman and T. Pradeep, Langmuir, 15(1999), 5314-5322. A highly selective ammonia gas sensor using surface ruthenated zic oxide, M. Aslam, 53 V.A. Choudhary, I.S. Mulla, S.R. Sainkar, A.B. Mandale, A.A. Belhekar, and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Sensors & Actuators A, 75(1999), 162–167. Deposition and characterization of CdS nanoparticle /polyaniline composite films, 52 Sushama Pethkar, R.C. Patil, J.A. Kher and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Thin Solid Films, 349(1999), 105-109. Catalytic and Electrocatalytic Properties of Intrazeolitically prepared Iron- 51 phthalocyanine, M.P. Vinod, T.Kr. Das, A.J. Chandwadkar, K. Vijayamohanan, and J.G. Chandwadkar, Mater. Chem. Phys. 58(1999)37-43. Self-assembled monolayers of two aromatic disulfides and a diselenide on polycrystalline silver films: an investigation by SERS and XPS. M. Venkataramanan, G. 50 Skanth, K. Bandhyopadhyay, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and T. Pradeep, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 212(1999), 553–561. A novel room temperature synthesis of microcrystalline zirconia, Bandyopadhyay, S.R. 49 Sainker and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 82(1999), 622-624.

Selective gas sensing properties of surface ruthenated tin oxide, V.A. Choudhary, I.S. 48 Mulla and K. Vijayamohanan, J. Mater. Res. 14(1999)185-188.

Impedance Studies of an LPG sensor using surface ruthenated tin oxide, V. A., 47 Choudhary, Mulla, K. Vijayamohanan, Sensors & Actuators B 55 (1999)127-133.

Humidity sensing properties of boron phosphate, I.S. Mulla, V.A. Choudhary and 46 Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Sensors & Actuators A, 69(1998), 72-76.

Formation of self-assembled monolayer of diphenyl diselenide on polycrystalline gold 45 surface. K. Bandyopadhyay and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 14(1998), 625-629.

Effect of Geometric Constraints on the Self-Assembled Monolayer Formation of 44 Aromatic Disulfides on Polycrystalline Gold, Krisanu Bandyopadhyay, Vijaya Patil, Murali Sastry, and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 14(1998), 3808-3814. Effect of silicate and phosphate additives on the kinetics of the oxygen evolution 43 reaction in valve-regulated lead acid batteries. M.P. Vinod, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and S.N. Joshi, Journal of Power Sources, 70(1998), 103 - 105. Effect of Co-adsorbed surfactant on the structure of self-assembled monolayer of thiol 42 on polycrystalline gold, K. Bandyopadhyay, K. Vijayamohanan, Abhijit Manna and B.D. Kulkarni, J. Colloid. Inter. Sci. 206(1998)224-230. Formation of microcrystalline Zirconia using functionalised interface of self-assembled 41 monolayer of dithiol on polycrystalline gold at room temperature. K. Bandyopadhyay and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 14(1998), 6924-6929. Surface Ruthenated tin oxide as a novel hydrocarbon sensor, V.A. Choudhary, I.S. 40 Mulla, S.R. Sainker, A.A. Belheker, and K. Vijayamohanan, Sensors and Actutators, A 65(1998) 197-202. Impedance Analysis of self-assembled Naphthalene disulphide monolayers on gold 39 using external redox probes, K. Bandhyopadhyay, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, G.S. Shekhawat and R.P. Gupta, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 447(1998), 11–16. Comparative studies of doped and surface modified tin oxide towards hydrogen 38 sensing: synergistic effects of Pd and Ru. V.A. Chaudhary, I.S. Mulla and K. Vijayamohanan, Sensors & Actuators, B 50(1998) 45-51. Poly(m-chloroaniline): Electrochemical Synthesis and characterisation. A.A. Athawale, 37 S. F. Patil, B. Deore, R.C. Patil and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Polymer Journal, 29(1997), 787-794. Redox active self-assembled monolayer formation of Naphtho-1,2 dithiol on gold, K. 36 Bandyopadhyay, Murali sastry, V. Paul and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 13(1997), 866-869. Synthesis and characterization of hydrophobic, approtically dispersible, silver nanoparticles in Winsor II Type microemulsions, Abhijit Manna, B.D.Kulkarni, Krisanu 35 Bandyopadhyay and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemistry of Materials, 9(1997), 3032- 3036. Adsorption of Silver Colloidal Particles through Covalent Linkage to Self-Assembled 34 Monolayers, K. Bandyopadhyay, S. Mayya, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Murali Sastry, Langmuir, 13(1997), 5244-5248. Catalytic and Electrocatalytric oxidation of aniline to nitrobenzene over vanadium 33 silicate molecular sieves, T. Selvam, M.P. Vinod and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters, 60(1997), 137-144. Formation of Silicon Nanoclusters during the Reaction of β-Ionone with 32 Tetrachlorosilane, S. Suresh, U.M. Joshi, M.P. Vinod, N.R. Pavasker and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemistry of Materials, 9(1997), 1186-1190. Role of Surfactants in the Synthesis of Poly(p-phenylene)Film in Microemulsions, 31 Abhijit Manna, K. Bandyopadhyay, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, P.R. Rajumohan, S. Sainker and B.D. Kulkarni, Langmuir, 13(1997), 84-90. Synergestic sensitivity effects in surface modified tin oxide as a hydrogen sensor using 30 Ru-Pd oxides, V.A. Choudhary, I.S. Mulla and K. Vijayamohanan, J. Mat. Sci. Let., 16(1997) 1819-21. Effect of monomer concentration and substrate resistance on redox behaviour of 29 polyaniline films, A.G. Bedekar, S.F. Patil, R.C. Patil and K. Vijayamohanan, Mater Chem. and Phys., 48 (1997)76-81. Spontaneously organised molecular assembly of an aromaticdisulfide on Ag/Pt alloy surfaces: an angle dependent X-ray photoemission investigation, K. Bandyopadhyay, 28 K.S. Mayya, K. Vijayamohanan, Murali Sastry, J. Electron. Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom., 87(1997)101-107. Cyclic Voltammetric Studies of Vanadium in V-molecular sieves, Narayanan Venkatathri, Madhavan P. Vinod, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Subramanian 27 Sivasanker, Journal of the Chemical Society: Faraday Transactions, 92(1996), 473- 478.

Silicon based light emitting gels, M.P. Vinod and K. Vijayamohanan, Appl. Phys. Let., 26 68(1996)81-83.

The mechanism of humidity-sensitivity of Ti doped Magnesium chromate, S.S. Pingale, 25 S.F. Patil, M.P. Vinod, G. Pathak and K. Vijayamohanan, Mater. Chem and Phys., 46(1996)72-76. The effect of gelling on the surface structure of porous lead electrode in sulphuric 24 acid, M.P. Vinod, A.B. Mandale, S.R. Sainker and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 27(1997), 462-468.

Humidity sensing behaviour of zirconia based solid superacids, I.S. Mulla and K. 23 Vijayamohanan, Sensors & Actuators, A 57(1996)217-221.

Effect of silicate adsorption on the double layer capacitance and exchange current 22 density of Pb/PbSO4 electrode reaction, P. Vinod and K. Vijayamohanan, J. Appl. Electrochem., 25(1995)80-87. Mechanistic Studies of Electrochemically Deposited Poly(o-anisidine) Films, Anjali G. 21 Bedekar, Somaji F. Patil, Rahul C. Patil and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 5(1995), 963-967. An unusual electron-transfer behaviour of ferrocene in aqueous microemulsion 20 systems, K. Jha, B.D. Kulkarni, M.P. Vinod and K. Vijayamohanan, Chem. Phys. Lett., 240 (1995) 442-448. Effect of surface-modification due to Superacid species in Controlling the sensitivity 19 and selectivity of SnO2 gas sensors, A. Keshavaraja, B.S. Jayashri, A.V. Ramaswami and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Sensors and Actuators B, 23(1995), 75-81. Binuclear dioxomolybdenum(VI) complexes of dithio or methylene bridged Schiff 18 bases, M.R. Maurya, D.C. Antony, S. Gopinathan, C. Gopinathan and K. Vijayamohanan, Indian J. Chem., 34A (1995) 360.

Effect of gelling on the open-circuit potential time transients of Pb/PbSO4 electrodes 17 at various states-of-charge, M.P. Vinod and K. Vijayamohanan, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 24(1994), 44-51. Effect of gelling on the electrode kinetics of the Pb/PbSO4 and hydrogen electrode 16 reactions in maintenance-free lead acid batteries. M.P. Vinod and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Power Sources, 50(1994), 67-79.

Light Emitting Porous silicon, S.V. Bhorasker, K. Vijayamohanan and Tejashree, M 15 Bhave, Phys. Education, 11 (1994)144-153.

A novel Non-destructive method for the prediction of state-of-charge of Maintenance- 14 free lead acid batteries, M.P. Vinod and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Power Sources, 52(1994), 135-139. Mechanism of the discharge of porous iron electrodes in alkaline medium, T.S. 13 Balasubramaniam, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, and A.K. Shukla, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 23(1993), 947-950.

Gas sensor materials, C.N.R. Rao, A.R. Raju and K. Vijayamohanan, in New Materials, 12 ed., S.K. Joshi, T. Tsuruta, C.N.R. Rao and S. Nagakura, Narosa, (1992).

Some techniques for the estimation of SO2 in mixtures used in process control, G.N.Acharya,T.K. Balwe, P.R. Brahme. R.N. Karekar, R.N. Prasad and K. Vijayamohanan, 11 in Solid state Ionics: materials and applications, ed. B.V.R. Chowdari et al, World Scientific, (1992).

Rechargeable alkaline iron electrodes: a technical update, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, 10 T.S. Balasubranmaniam and A.K. Shukla, Journal of Power Sources, 34(1991), 269-285.

Formation mechanism of alkaline iron electrodes, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, A.K. Shukla 9 and S. Sathyanarayana, Journal of Power Sources, 32(1990), 329-339.

Open-circuit potential time transients of alkaline iron electrodes at various states-of- 8 charge, K. Vijayamohanan, A.K. Shukla and S. Sathyanarayana Electrochim. Acta, 37 (1990) 369. The role of sulphide additives on the performance of alkaline iron, electrodes, 7 Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, A.K. Shukla and S. Sathyanarayana, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 289(1990), 55-68. Kinetics of hydrogen evolution reaction on lead acid battery negative, electrodes with 6 silicate and antimonate additives, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, S.N. Joshi and S. Sathyanarayana, Journal of Power Sources, 30(1990), 169-175. Kinetics of electrode reactions on alkaline iron electrodes, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, 5 A.K. Shukla and S. Sathyanarayana, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 295(1990), 59-70.

On the premature failure of nickel-cadmium batteries, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, 4 Current Science, 58(1989), 944-945.

Porous lead/lead sulphate reference electrode for industrial battery research, 3 Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, S.N. Joshi and S. Sathyanarayana, Journal of Power Sources, 27(1989), 167-176. Open-circuit potential recovery transients of alkaline iron, electrodes during 2 discharge, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, A.K. Shukla and S. Sathyanarayana, Journal of Power Sources, 21(1987), 53-57.

Statistical optimization of alkaline iron electrodes, K. Vijayamohanan, A.K. Shukla and 1 S. Sathyanarayana, Indian Journal of Technology, 24(1986), 430-434.