List of Papers Published:

252

Mixed Valent, Distorted Cobalt Ludwigite (Co3BO5/Co3O2BO3) and Its Composite with Reduced Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes (R‐MWCNT) in Enhancing the Domain 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

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

250 Adsorption kinetics of WS2 quantum dots onto a polycrystalline gold surface, Manila Ozhukil Valappil, Mekkat Roopesh, Subbiah Alwarappan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 2018

249 Preface for Eleventh International Symposium on Advances in Electrochemical Science and Technology Special Issue, M.V. Sangaranarayanan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 43(9), 2018, 4681

248

Nickel-Incorporated, Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Nanoribbons as Efficient Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Jaison Joy, Archana Sekar, Saranyan Vijayaraghavan, Prem Kumar T., Vijayamohanan K Pillai and Subbiah Alwarappan, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 165 (3), 2018, H141-H146

247

Role of Specific N-Containing Active Sites in Interconnected Graphene Quantum Dots for the Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity towards Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Sumana Kundu, Bibhudatta Malik, Deepak Kumar Pattanayak, Pitchai Ragupathy and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, ChemistrySelect, 2(2017), 9943 – 9946

246

Effect of Dimensionality and Doping in Quasi-“One-Dimensional (1-D)” Nitrogen Doped Graphene Nanoribbons on the Oxygen Reduction Reaction, Sumana Kundu, Bibhudatta Malik, Deepak Kumar Pattanayak and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017

245 Spotlighting graphene quantum dots and beyond: Synthesis, properties and sensing applications, Manila Ozhukil Valappil, Subbiah Alwarappan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Applied Materials Today, 9(2017), 350–371

244

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

243

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, 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

242 Unraveling the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Active Sites in N-Functionalized Interconnected Graphene Quantum Dots, Sumana Kundu, Bibhudatta Malik, Deepak K. Pattanayak, Ragupathy Pitchai and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, ChemistrySelect,

2(2017), 4511 – 4515

241 A Single step electrochemical synthesis of luminescent WS2 quantum dots, Athira Anil, Manikoth Shaijumon, Vijayamohanan K Pillai and Subbiah Alwarappan, Chemistry-A European Journal, 2017

240

Single-Step Synthesis of Halogenated Graphene through Electrochemical Exfoliation and Its Utilization as Electrodes for Zinc Bromine Redox Flow Battery, Y. Munaiah, P. Ragupathy and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 163(2016), A2899-A2910

239

New Understanding on Regulating the Crystallization and Morphology of the β‑Polymorph of Isotactic Polypropylene Based on Carboxylate−Alumoxane Nucleating Agents, Mohan Raj Mani, Ramesh Chellaswamy, Yogesh N. Marathe and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Macromolecules, 46(2016), 2197–2205

238

Simultaneous unzipping and sulfonation of multi-walled carbon nanotubes to sulfonated graphene nanoribbons for nanocomposite membranes in polymer electrolyte fuel cells, Avanish Shukla, Santoshkumar D. Bhat, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Membrane Science, 520(2016), 657-670

237 Effect of Reversible Lithium Ion Intercalation on the Size-Dependent Optical Properties of Graphene Quantum Dots, Sumana Kundu, P. Ragupathy and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 163(2016), A1112-A1119

236

Facile Green Synthesis of BCN Nanosheets as High-Performance Electrode Material for Electrochemical Energy Storage, Indrapal Karbhal, Rami Reddy Devarapalli, Joyashish Debgupta, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Pulickel M. Ajayan and Manjusha V. Shelke, Chemistry - A European Journal, 22(2016) 7134-7140

235

Enhanced nucleation of polypropylene by metal– organic frameworks (MOFs) based on aluminium dicarboxylates: influence of structural features, Mohan Raj Mani, Ramesh Chellaswamy, Yogesh N. Maratheab and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, RSC Advances, 6(2016), 1907-1912

234

Recent advances in the development of low-dimensional materials for electrochemical

Applications: CECRI, Karaikudi, Subbiah Alwarappan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Current Science, 108(2015), 789-791

233

Role of the Molecular Structure of Carboxylate-Alumoxanes on the Enhanced Nucleation of Polypropylene, Mohanraj Mani,a Ramesh Chellaswamy, Yogesh N. Marathea and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemical Communications, 51(2015), 10026-10029

232

Electrochemical synthesis of luminescent MoS2 quantum dots, Deepesh Gopalakrishnan, Dijo Damien, Bo Li, Hemtej Gullappalli, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, 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

230

A single-step room-temperature electrochemical synthesis of nitrogen-doped graphene nanoribbons from carbon nanotubes, M. J. Jaison, Tharangattu N. Narayanan, T. Prem Kumar and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3(2015), 18222-18228

229 Graphene nanoribbons as prospective field emitter, Ruchita Khare, Dhanraj B. Shinde, Sanjeewani Bansode, Mahendra A. More, Mainak Majumder, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Dattatray J. Late, Applied Physics Letters, 106(2015), 023111

228

Electrochemical preparation of nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dots and their size-dependent electrocatalytic activity for oxygen reduction, Dhanraj B Shinde, Vishal M Dhavale, Sreekumar Kurungot and Vijayamohanan K Pillai, Bulletin of Materials Science, 38(2015), 435-442

227 Co3O4 Nanorods—Efficient Non-noble Metal Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution at Neutral pH, Rani M. Ramsundar, Joyashish Debgupta, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Pattayil A. Joy, Electrocatalysis, 6(2015), 331-340

226

Fractional photo-current dependence of graphene quantum dots prepared from carbon nanotubes, Sumana Kundu, Sujoy Ghosh, Michael Fralaide, T. N. Narayanan, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Saikat Talapatra, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(2015), 24566-24569

225

Photophysical and photoconductivity properties of thiol-functionalized graphene–CdSe QD composites, Joyashish Debgupta, Sadananda Mandal, Hemen Kalita, Mohammed Aslam, Amitava Patra and Vijayamohanan Pillai, RSC Advances, 4(2014), 13788-13795

224

Sequential Electrochemical Unzipping of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes to Graphene Ribbons Revealed by in Situ Raman Spectroscopy and Imaging, Robin John, Dhanraj B. Shinde, Lili Liu, Feng Ding, Zhiping Xu, Cherianath Vijayan, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Thalappil Pradeep, ACS Nano, 8(2014), 234-242

223 Counter-ion Dependent, Longitudinal Unzipping of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes to Highly Conductive and Transparent Graphene Nanoribbons, Dhanraj B. Shinde, Mainak Majumder and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Scientific Reports, 4(2014), 4363

222 Electric field induced transformation of carbon nanotube to graphene nanoribbons 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

221

C@SiNW/TiO2 Core-Shell Nanoarrays with Sandwiched Carbon Passivation Layer as High Efficiency Photoelectrode for Water Splitting, Rami Reddy Devarapalli, Joyashish Debgupta, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Manjusha V. Shelke, Scientific Reports, 4(2014), 4897

220

Comparative Electrocatalytic Performance of Single-Walled and Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes for Zinc Bromine Redox Flow Batteries, Y. Munaiah, S. Suresh, S. Dheenadayalan, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and P. Ragupathy, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(2014), 14795-14804

219

Electrochemical preparation of vertically aligned, hollow CdSe nanotubes and their p-n junction hybrids with electrodeposited Cu2O, Joyashish Debgupta, Ramireddy Devarapalli, Shakeelur Rahman, Manjusha V. Shelkeab and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Nanoscale, 6(2014), 9148-9156

218

Mitigating the Cytotoxicity of Graphene Quantum Dots and Enhancing Their Applications in Bioimaging and Drug Delivery, Anil Chandra, Sonal Deshpande, Dhanraj B. Shinde, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Neetu Singh, ACS Macro Letters, 3(2014), 1064-1068

217 Thiolated graphene – a new platform for anchoring CdSe quantum dots for hybrid heterostructures, Joyashish Debgupta and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Nanoscale, 5(2013), 3615-3619

216 3-Dimensionally self-assembled single crystalline platinum nanostructures on few-layer graphene as an efficient oxygen reduction electrocatalyst, Sreekuttan M. Unni, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Sreekumar Kurungot, RSC Advances, 3(2013), 6913-6921

215 High Performance Carbon Nanotube Based Electrodes for Zinc Bromine Redox Flow Batteries, Y. Munaiah, S. Dheenadayalan, P. Ragupathy and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, 2(2013), M3182-M3186

214 Hysteresis and charge trapping in graphene quantum dots, Hemen Kalita, Harikrishnan V, Dhanraj B. Shinde, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, and M. Aslam, Applied Physics Letters, 102(2013), 143104

213 Electrochemical Resolution of Multiple Redox Events for Graphene Quantum Dots, Dhanraj B. Shinde and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 52(2013), 2482-2485

212 Porous Co3O4 nanorods as superior electrode material for supercapacitors and 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

211

Structural and Catalytic Properties of a Novel Vanadium Containing Solid Core Mesoporous Shell Silica Catalysts for Gas Phase Oxidation Reaction, N. Venkatathri, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, A. Rajini, M. Nooka Raju and I.A.K. Reddy, Journal of Chemical Sciences., 125(2013), 63-69

210

Stabilization of graphene quantum dots (GQDs) by encapsulation inside zeolitic imidazolate framework nanocrystals for photoluminescence tuning, Bishnu P. Biswal, Dhanraj B. Shinde, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Rahul Banerjee, Nanoscale, 5(2013), 10556-10561

209 Electrochemical Preparation of Luminescent Graphene Quantum Dots from Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes, Dhanraj B. Shinde and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemistry - A European Journal, 18 (2012), 12522-12528

208 Hydrous RuO2–carbon nanofiber electrodes with high mass and electrode-specific capacitance for efficient energy storage, Ranjith Vellacheri, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Sreekumar Kurungot, Nanoscale, 4(2012), 890-896

207

TiO2–Au plasmonic nanocomposite for enhanced dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) performance, Subas Muduli, Onkar Game, Vivek Dhas, K. Vijayamohanan, K.A. Bogle,

N. Valanoor, Satishchandra B. Ogale, Solar Energy, 86(2012), 1428-1434

206 Charge transport in functionalized multi-wall carbon nanotube-Nafion Composite, C. S. Suchand Sangeeth, R. Kannan, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Reghu Menon, Journal of Applied Physics, 112(2012), 53706

205 In situ electrochemical organization of CdSe nanoclusters on graphene during unzipping of carbon nanotubes, Joyashish Debgupta, Dhanraj B. Shinde and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemical Communications, 48(2012), 3088 – 3090.

204 Polydentate disulfides for enhanced stability of AuNPs and facile nanocavity formation, Satish C. Biradar, Dhanraj B. Shinde, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Mohan G. Kulkarni, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22(2012), 10000-10008

203

Carbon nanotube-modified sodium dodecyl sulfate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for molecular weight determination of proteins, Meera Parthasarathy, Joyashish Debgupta, Bhalchandra Kakade, Abu A. Ansary, M. Islam Khan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Analytical Biochemistry, 409(2011), 230-235.

202 Enhanced electrocatalytic performance of interconnected Rh nano-chains towards formic Acid oxidation, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Beena K. Balan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Energy & Environmental Science, 4(2011), 1029-1036.

201

Functionalization of SBA-15 Mesoporous Materials using "Thiol-Ene Click" Michael Addition Reaction, Sushma Kumari, Bharmana Malvi, Anal Kr. Ganai, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Sayam Sen Gupta, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115(2011), 17774- 17781.

200

Competitive wetting of acetonitrile and dichloromethane in comparison to that of water on functionalized carbon nanotube surfaces, Joyashish Debgupta, Bhalchandra A. Kakade and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 13(2011), 14668 – 14674.

199

Anion exchange reaction potentials as approximate estimates of the relative thermodynamic stabilities of Mg/Al layered double hydroxides containing different anions, Belavalli E. Prasad, P. Vishnu Kamath and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 27(2011), 13539 – 13543.

198

Improved Performance of Phosphonated Carbon Nanotube –Polybenzimidazole Composite Membranes in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, Ramaiyan Kannan, Husain N. Kagalwala, Harshal D. Chaudhari, Ulhas K. Kharul, Sreekumar Kurungota

and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 21(2011), 7223-7231.

197

Electrochemical Unzipping of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes for Facile Synthesis of High-Quality Graphene Nanoribbons, Dhanraj B. Shinde, Joyashish Debgupta, Ajay Kushwaha, Mohammed Aslam, and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133(2011), 4168-71.

196 Ex-situ dispersion of core–shell nanoparticles of Cu–Pt on an in-situ modified carbon 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.

195

Enhanced electrocatalytic performance of functionalized carbon nanotube electrodes for oxygen reduction in proton exchange membrane fuel cells, Ramaiyan Kannan, Unni Bipinlal, Sreekumar Kurungota and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 13(2011), 10312-10317.

194

High aspect ratio nanoscale multifunctional materials derived from hollow carbon nanofiber by polymer insertion and metal decoration, Beena K. Balan, Vinayak S. Kale, Pradnya P. Aher, Manjusha V. Shelke, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Sreekumar Kurungot, Chemical Communications, 46(2010), 5590–5592.

193

High current density, low threshold field emission from functionalized carbon nanotube bucky paper, Bhalchandra A. Kakade, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Dattatray J. Late, Padmakar G. Chavan, Farid J. Sheini, Mahendra A. More, and Dilip S. Joag, Applied Physics Letters, 97(2010), 073102.

192

Artificially Designed Membranes Using Phosphonated Multiwall Carbon Nanotube- Polybenzimidazole Composites for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells, Ramaiyan Kannan, Pradnya P. Aher , Thangavelu Palaniselvam , Sreekumar Kurungot , Ulhas K. Kharul and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 14(2010), 2109–2113

191 Tunable optical features from self-organized rhodium nanostructures, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Beena K. Balan, and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Applied Physics Letters, 96(2010), 233102.

190 Effect of Fe3O4 on morphology of Fe–SnO2 hyperbranched heterostructures Bhaskar R. Sathe, Pravin S. Walke, Imtiaz S. Mulla, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemical Physics Letters, 493(2010), 121–125.

189

Observation of Photoconductivity in Sn-Doped ZnO Nanowires and Their Photoenhanced Field Emission Behavior, Farid Jamali Sheini, Mahendra A. More, Sandesh R. Jadkar, K. R. Patil, Vijaymohanan K. Pillai and Dilip S. Joag, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 114(2010), 3843-3849.

188

High Pt Utilization Electrodes for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells by Dispersing Pt Particles Formed by a Preprecipitation Method on Carbon “Polished” with Polypyrrole, Sreekuttan M. Unni, Vishal M. Dhavale, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Sreekumar Kurungot, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 114(2010), 14654-14661.

187

Synthesis of Rh–carbon nanotube based heterostructures and their enhanced field emission characteristics, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Bhalchandra A. Kakade, Ajay Kushwaha, Mohammed Aslam and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemical Communications, 46(2010), 5671-5673.

186

Bio-inspired catalyst compositions for enhanced oxygen reduction using Nanostructured Pt electrocatalysts in polymer electrolyte fuel cells, Meera Parthasarathy, Ramaiyan Kannan, Kurungot Sreekumar and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 20(2010), 9651–9657.

185

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. Sreekumar, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Manjusha V. Shelke, Electrochemistry Communications, 12(2010), 1638–1641.

184 Applications of carbon nanotubes in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, Ramaiyan Kannan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 89(2009), 425-436.

183 Shape dependant electrocatalytic activity of Platinum nanostructures, Mahima Subhramannia and Vijayamohanan K Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 18 (2009), 5858-5870.

182

Ultrafast switching time and third order nonlinear coefficients of microwave treated single walled carbon nanotubes suspensions, N. Kamaraju, Sunil Kumar, B. Karthikeyan, Bhalchandra Kakade, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, and A. K. Sood, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 9(2009), 5550–5554.

181

Enhanced Conversion Efficiency in dye sensitized solar cells based on hydrothermally synthesized TiO2-MWCNT Nanocomposites, Subas Muduli, Wonjoo Lee, Vivek Dhas, Sarfraj Mujawar, Megha Dubey, K. Vijayamohanan, Sung-Hwan Han and Satishchandra Ogale, Applied Materials and Interfaces, 1(2009), 2030–2035.

180

Imaging hydrogen oxidation activity of catalyst-coated perfluoro sulfonic acid-polymer electrolyte membranes using Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy, Meera Parthasarathy and Vijayamohanan K Pillai, Journal of Chemical Sciences, 121(2009), 719–725.

179

Preparation and Characterization of Rhodium Nanostructures through the Evolution of Microgalvanic Cells and Their Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity for Formaldehyde Oxidation, Bhaskar Sathe, Dhanraj Shinde and Vijayamohanan K Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 113(2009), 9616–9622.

178

Domain size manipulation of perflouorinated polymer electrolytes by sulfonic acid functionalized MWCNTs to enhance fuel cell performance. Ramaiyan Kannan, Meera Parthasarathy, Sreekuttan U. Maraveedu, Sreekumar Kurungot and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 14(2009), 8299–8305.

177 Field emission Investigations of single Fe doped SnO2 wire, Ashok B. Bhise, Dattatray J. Late, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Mahendra A. More, Imtiaz S. Mulla, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Dilip S. Joag, Solid State Sciences, 11(2009), 1114–1117.

176 Y-junction nanostructures of palladium: Enhanced electrocatalytic properties for fuel cell reactions, Mahima Subhramannia, Kannan Ramaiyan, Mohammed Aslam, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 627(2009), 58-62.

175

Design of an ‘‘all solid-state’’ supercapacitor based on phosphoric acid doped polybenzimidazole (PBI) electrolyte, Dhanraj Rathod, Meenu Vijay, Nazrul Islam, 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.

173

Synthesis of Platinum Y-Junction Nanostructures using Hierarchically Designed Alumina Templates and Their Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity for Fuel-Cell Applications, Subhramannia Mahima, Ramaiyan Kannan, Indulekha Komath, Mohammed Aslam, and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemistry of Materials, 20 (2008), 601–603.

172 Near-complete phase transfer of single-wall carbon nanotubes by covalent functionalization, Bhalchandra Kakade, Sanjay Patil, Bhaskar Sathe, Suresh Gokhale and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Chemical Sciences, 120(2008), 599–606.

171 The effect of synthesis procedure on the structure and properties of palladium/polycarbonate nanocomposites, O.P. Valmikanathan, O. Ostroverkhova, I.S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, S.V. Atre, Polymer, 49(2008), 3413–3418.

170

Invertase inhibition based electrochemical sensor for the detection of heavy metal ions in Aqueous system: Application of ultramicroelectrode to enhance sucrose biosensor’s sensitivity, Dipali Bagal-Kestwal, Meena S. Karve, Bhalchandra Kakade and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 24(2008), 657–664.

169 Tuning the Wetting Properties of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes by Surface Functionalization, Bhalchandra A. Kakade and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112(2008), 3183-3186.

168 Enhanced field emission from hexagonal rhodium nanostructures, Bhaskar R. Sathe, 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.

167

Imaging Stomatal Physiology of Somatic Embryo-derived Peanut Leaves by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy, Meera Parthasarathy, Shweta Singh, Sulekha Hazra and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 391(2008), 2227–2233.

166

Silicate nanoparticles by bioleaching of glass and modification of the glass surface, Sneha Kulkarni, Asad Syed, Sanjay Singh, Anil Gaikwad, Kashinath Patil, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Absar Ahmad, Satishchandra Ogale, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 354(2008), 3433–3437.

165 Tuning the Transport Properties of Poly(oxyethylene)bisamine-Nafion Polyelectrolyte Complexes by Dielectric Manipulation, Meera Parthasarathy, Bhalchandra Kakade and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Macromolecules, 41(2008), 3653-3658.

164 High-Purity Synthesis of Scrolled Mats of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes using Temperature Modulation, Bhalchandra A. Kakade, Hatem Allouche, Mahima Subhramannia and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Carbon, 46(2008), 567 –576.

163 Comparative Study of the Shape Dependant Electrocatalytic Activity of Platinum Multipods, Discs and Hexagons: Applications for Fuel Cells, Mahima Subhramannia, Ramaiyan Kannan, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 24(2008), 3576-3583.

162 An efficient route towards the covalent functionalization of Single walled carbon nanotubes, Bhalchandra A. Kakade and Vijayamohanan K Pillai, Applied Surface Science, 254(2008), 4936-4943.

161 Electric Field Induced, Superhydrophobic to Superhydrophilic Switching in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Papers, Bhalchandra Kakade, Rutvik Mehta, Apurva Durge and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Nanoletters, 8(2008), 2693-2696.

160

A 27-3 fractional factorial optimization of polybenzimidazole based membrane- electrode assembly for H2/O2 fuel cells, R. Kannan, Md. Nazrul Islam, Dhanraj Rathod, Meenu Vijay, U. K. Kharul, P.C. Ghosh and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 38(2008), 583-590.

159

Enhanced performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cells with Nafion based composite electrolytes using Sulfonic acid functionalized single wall carbon nanotubes, Ramaiyan Kannan, Bhalchandra A. Kakade, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 47(2008), 2653 –2656.

158

Electrochemical Sensing of Sulphur Dioxide: A Comparison Using Dodecanethiol and Citrate Capped Gold Nanoclusters, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Mandar S. Risbud, Imtiaz S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 8(2008), 3184-91.

157

Nanometer sized, Tridecyl amine capped, Rhodium dispersed on high Surface area support: Catalytic Investigations, Trissa Joseph, Shashidhar Shintri , Bhalchandra Kakade, K. Vijayamohanan Pillai and S.B. Halligudi, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol., 7(2007) 1-7.

156 ‘All-solid-state’ electrochemistry of a protein-confined polymer electrolyte film, Meera Parthasarathy, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Imtiaz S. Mulla, Mohammed Shabab, M.I. Khan, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 364(2007), 86–91.

155 Role of Polyfunctional Organic molecules in the Synthesis and Assembly of Metal Nanoparticles, Jadab Sharma, Bhalchandra A. Kakade, Nirmalya K Chaki, S. Mahima and Vijayamohanan K Pillai, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol., 7(2007) 2139-50.

154 Sb-doped SnO2 wire: Highly stable field emitter, Ashok B. Bhisea, Dattatray J. Late, Pravin S. Walke, Mahendra A. Morea, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Imtiaz S. Mulla and Dilip S. Joag, Journal of Crystal Growth, 307(2007), 87–91.

153

Template–Assisted Synthesis of Ruthenium Oxide Nanoneedles: Electrical and Electrochemical Properties, Mahima Subhramannia, Beena K. Balan, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Imtiaz S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111(2007), 16593-16600.

152

Surface State-Mediated Electron Transfer at Nanostructured ZnO multipod/Electrolyte Interfaces, Meera Parthasarathy, Niranjan S. Ramgir, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Imtiaz S. Mulla, and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111(2007), 13092-13102.

151 A single In-doped SnO2 submicrometre sized wire as a field emitter, Ashok B Bhise, 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.

150 Interfacial Behavior of Alkyltrichlorosilane Monolayers on Silicon: Control of Flat-Band Potential and Surface State Distribution Using Chain Length Variation, Sneha A. Kulkarni and Vijayamohanan K Pillai, Surface Science, 601(2007)2983.

149

Highly Sensitive Nanostructured Platinum Electrocatalysts for CO oxidation: Implications for CO sensing and Fuel Cell Performance, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Mandar S. Risbud, Sanjay Patil, K.S. Ajayakumar, R.C. Naik, Imtiaz S. Mulla, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Sensors and Actuators A, 138(2007), 376–383.

148

Cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impedance and ex-situ X-ray diffraction studies of electrochemical insertion and deinsertion of lithium ion into nanostructured organic-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.

147 Tuning the hydrophobic properties of silica particles by surface silanization using mixed self-assembled monolayer, Sneha A. Kulkarni, Satishchandra B. Ogale and Vijayamohanan K Pillai, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 318(2008), 372–379.

146

Quantized Double-Layer Charging of Rhodium2057(Tridecylamine)321 Clusters by Using Differential Pulse and Cyclic Voltammetry, Bhalchandra A. Kakade, Shashidhar S. Shintri, Bhaskar R. Sathe, Shivappa B. Halligudi, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Advanced Materials, 19(2007), 272-275.

145 Energy analysis of field emitted electrons from a ZnO tetrapod, Ahmed A. Al-Tabbakh, Mahendra A. More, Dilip S. Joag, Niranjan S. Ramgir, Imtiaz S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Applied Physics Letters, 90(2007), 162102.

144

Suppression of electron transfer characteristics of ferrocene by OTS monolayer on a Silicon/electrolyte Interface, Sneha A. Kulkarni ; Bhalchandra A. Kakade; Imtiaz S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 299(2006), 777–784.

143

Exfoilation induced nanoribbon formation of poly (3, 4-Ethylenedioxy thiophene) PEDOT between MoS2 layers as cathode materials for lithium batteries, A. Vadivel Murugana, Mathieu Quintin, Marie-Helene Delville, Guy Campet, Chinnakonda S. Gopinath and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Power Sources, 156(2006), 615–619.

142 Electrochemical Characterization of Self-Assembled Monolayers on Semiconducting Substrates for MEMS Applications, Sneha A. Kulkarni, Imtiaz S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 34(2006), 322–329.

141

Autoreduction of Cyanoferrate(III) Ions in a Polymer Electrolyte Membrane: All Solid State Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Investigations, Meera Parthasarathy, Chinnakonda S. Gopinath and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemistry of Materials, 18(2006), 5244-5252.

140

ZnO Multipods, Submicron Wires, and Spherical Structures and Their Unique Field Emission Behavior, Niranjan S. Ramgir, Dattatray J. Late, Ashok B. Bhise, Mahendra A. More,Imtiaz S. Mulla, Dilip S. Joag and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110(2006), 18236-18242.

139 Highly efficient organic-inorganic layered PEDOT-MoO3 nanocomposite electrodes for double-layer supercapacitance, A.Vadivel Murugan, A.K. Viswanath, C.S. Gopinath, and K. Vijayamohanan, J. Appl. Phys.,100(2006)615-19.

138 Field Emission Studies of Novel ZnO nanostructures in high and low field regions, 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.

137 Directed organization of gold nanoclusters on Silver nanowires : a step forward in heterostructure – assembly, Jadab Sharma, J. P. Vivek, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Poonam Singh and C. V. Dharmadhikari, Applied Physics Letters, 88(2006), 193103.

136

Electrochemical Organization of Monolayer Protected Gold Nanoclusters on Single- Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Significantly Enhanced Double Layer Capacitance, S. Mahima, N. K. Chaki, J. Sharma, B. A. Kakade, R. Pasricha, A. M. Rao, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Nanoscience Nanotechnology, 6(2006)1387.

135

Investigation of interparticle interactions of larger (4.63 nm) monolayer protected gold clusters during quantized double layer charging, Nirmalya Kumar Chaki, Balachandra Kakde, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Poonam Singh and C. V. Dharmadhikari, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, 8(2006), 1837–1844.

134 Organic dye molecules as reducing agent for the synthesis of electroactive gold nanoplates, Jadab Sharma and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 298(2006), 679–684.

133 Optical trapping and transportation of carbon nanotubes made easy by decorating 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.

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

131 Ultralow threshold field emission from a single multipod structure of ZnO, Niranjan S. 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.

130

Silver Nanocluster Redox-Couple-Promoted Nonclassical Electron Transfer: An Efficient Electrochemical Wolff Rearrangement of α-Diazoketones, Surendra G. Sudrik, 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.

129

Synnthesis and Characterization of organo-inorganic Poly (3, 4-Ethylenedioxy thiophene) PEDOT/ MoS2 Nanocomposite via in situ oxidative polymerization, A.V. Murugan, M. Quintin, Marie-Helene Delville, Guy Campet, C.S. Gopinath, and K. Vijayamohanan, J. Mater. Res. 21(2006)112. Page 8 of 14

128 Electron Transfer Behavior of Monolayer Protected monoclusters and Nanowires of Silver and Gold, Jadab Sharma, Vivek J. P., and Kunjukrishna P., K. Vijayamohanan, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 6(2006)3464-69.

127

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. Chaki, Harikisan R. Sonawane and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Organic Letters, 8(2006), 1089-1092.

126 A room temperature nitric oxide sensor actualized from Ru-doped SnO2 nanowires, Niranjan S. Ramgir, Imtiaz S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Sensors and Actuators B, 107(2005), 708-715.

125

Synthesis and characterization of polyimides and co-polyimides having pendant benzoic acid moiety, Mahesh Kulkarni, Sandeep Kothwade, Girish Arabale, Deepali Wagh, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, R.A. Kulkarni and S.P. Vernekar, Polymer, 46(2005), 3669–3676.

124

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. Mulla, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, P. Ayyub and S.K. Kulkarni, Journal of Materials Science, 40(2005), 3777 – 3782.

123 Effects of Amine and Pyridine terminated molecular nanolayers on adhesion at Cu/SiO2 interfaces, P.G. Ganesan, G. Cui, K. Vijayamohanan, M. Lane and G. Ramanath, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 23(2005) 327.

122

Electrochemical studies of Poly (3, 4-Ethylenedioxy thiophene) PEDOT/VS2 Nanocomposite as a cathode material for rechargeable Lithium batteries, A. Vadivel Murugan, Chinnakonda S. Gopinath and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Electrochemistry Communications, 7(2005), 213–218.

121

Entrapment of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) between VS2 layers to form a new organic-inorganic intercalative nanocomposites, A. Vadivel Murugan, Mathieu Quintin, Marie-Helene Delville, Guy Capet and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 15(2005), 902–909.

120 Phase transitions in octanethiol-capped Ag nanocluster microfilm assemblies, A.V. Ellis, J. D’Arcy-Gall, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, R. Goswami, P.G. Ganesan, C. Ryu and G. Ramanath, Thermochimica Acta, 426(2005), 207–212.

119 Thermal Stability of Self-assembled octadecyl trichlorosilane monolayers on planar and curved silica surfaces, Sneha Kulkarni, S.A. Mirji, A.B. Mandale and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Thin Solid Films, 496 (2006), 420 – 425.

118 Temperature-Induced Phase Transitions of the Ordered Superlattice Assembly of Au Nanoclusters, Nirmalya Kumar Chaki and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 109(2005), 2552-2558.

117 Growth kinetics and thermodynamic stability of octadecyltrichlorosilane self-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.

116

Preparation and characterization of composite electrode of coconut-shell-based activated carbon and hydrous ruthenium oxide for supercapacitors, Mukta S. Dandekar, Girish Arabale and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Power Sources, 141(2005), 198–203.

115

Enhancement of double-layer capacitance behavior and its electrical conductivity in layered poly (3, 4 - ethylenedioxy thiophene_ based nanocomposite, A.V. Murugan, A. Kasi Viswanathan, Guy Campet, C.S. Gopinath, and K. Vijayamohanan, Appl. Phys. Let. 87(2005)1-3.

114 Wet-chemical templateless assembly of metal nanowires from nanoparticles, T. Maddanimath, A. Kumar, J. D'Arcy-Gall, P. G. Ganesan, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and G. Ramanath, Chemical Communications, 2005, 1435–1437.

113 Comparative behavior of CdS and CdSe quantum dots in poly(3-hexylthiophene) based nanocomposites, Prashant Sonar, K.P. Srinivasan, Trupti Maddanimath, and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Materials Research Bulletin, 41(2006), 198–208.

112 Shape dependent, preferential growth in SnO2 nanostructures: nanobipyramids, cubes and nanowires, Niranjan S. Ramgir, Imtiaz S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 109(2005), 12297-12303.

111

Quantized double layer charging of dodecanethiol protected larger Au nanoclusters: combined investigations using differential pulse voltammetry, cyclic voltammetry and impedance technique, Nirmalya Kumar Chaki, Bhalchandra Kakade and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Electrochemistry Communications, 6(2004), 661–665.

110 Shape Selective Synthesis of Unusual Nanobipyramids, Cubes, and Nanowires of RuO2: SnO2, Niranjan S. Ramgir, Imtiaz S. Mulla, and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108(2004), 14815-14819.

109 Self-assembled molecular nanocathodes for rechargeable energy storage modules, Trupti Maddanimath, G. Ramanath and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemical Physics Letters, 396(2004), 277-281.

108

Single-Electron Charging Features of Larger, Dodecanethiol-Protected Gold Nanoclusters: Electrochemical and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies, Nirmalya Kumar Chaki, Poonam Singh, C. V. Dharmadhikari and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 20(2004), 10208-10217.

107

Highly Resolved Quantized Double Layer Charging of Relatively Larger dodecanethiol Passivated Gold Q-dots, Nirmalya K. Chaki, Bhalchandra Kakade, Jadab Sharma, Subhramannia Mahima, K. Vijayamohanan and S.K.Haram, J. Appl. Phys. 96(2004)5032.

106

A Novel Approach To Prepare Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Nanoribbons between V2O5 Layers by Microwave Irradiation, A. Vadivel Murugan, C.W. Kwon, 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.

105

Templateless Room-Temperature Assembly of Nanowire Networks from 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.

104

Electrochemistry of inorganic nanocrystalline electrode materials for Lithium batteries, C.W. Kwon, S.J. Hwang, M.H. Delville, C. Labrugre, Vadivel Murugan, B.B. Kale, K. Vijayamohanan and G. Campet, Active and Passive Electronic Components, 26(2004), 23-29.

103 Cu2+-perchlorophthalocyanine immobilized MCM-41: catalyst for oxidation of alkenes, P. Karandikar, M. Agashe, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and A.J. Chandwadkar, Applied Catalysis A: General, 257(2004), 133–143.

102 Morphological and sensing properties of spray pyrolysed Th:SnO2 thin films, R.S. Niranjan, K.R. Patil, S.R. Sainkar, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and I.S. Mulla, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 84(2004), 37–45.

101

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 Paricha and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 6(2004), 1304 – 1309.

100

Tuning the aspect ratio of silver nanostructures: effect of solvent dielectric constant and 4-Aminothiophenol concentration, Jadab Sharma, Nirmalya K. Chaki, Subhramannia Mahima, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Imtiaz S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 14(2004), 970-975.

99 Novel one-step synthesis of amine stabilized aqueous colloidal gold Nano particles, M. Aslam, Lei Fu, Ming Su, K. Vijayamohanan and Vinayak P. Dravid, J. Mater. Chem, 14(2004)1795-1797.

98

Controlled Interlinking of Au and Ag nanoclusters using 4-aminothiophenol as molecular interconnects. Jadab Sharma, Nirmalya K. Chaki, A.B. Mandale, Renu Pasricha and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 272 (2004), 145–152.

97

Monolayer Coated Au and Ag Nanoclusters, N.K. Chaki, T.G. Gopakumar, M. Aslam and K. Vijayamohanan, Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol.5, 861-877; Edited by H.S. Nalwa, American Scientific Publishers, Stevenson Ranch, California (2004).

96 Synthesis of silver nanowires inside mesoporous MCM-41 host, P.V. Adhyapak, P. Karandikar, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, A.A. Athawale and A.J. Chandwadkar, Materials Letters, 58(2004), 1168–1171.

95

Solvent-Assisted One-Pot Synthesis and Self-Assembly of 4-Aminothiophenol-Capped Gold Nanoparticles, Jadab Sharma, S. Mahima, Bhalchandra A. Kakade, Renu Pasricha, A. B. Mandale and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108(2004), 13280-13286.

94 Hydrophobic Anchoring of Monolayer-Protected Gold Nanoclusters to Carbon 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.

93 Self-assembled monolayers of diphenyl disulphide: a novel cathode material for 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.

92 Effect of chain length on the tunneling conductance of gold quantum dots at room temperature, N.K. Chaki, T.G. Gopakumar, Trupti Maddani, M. aslam and K. Vijayamohanan, J. Appl. Phys. 94(2003)3663.

91

Evidence for the involvement of silver nanoclusters during the Wolff rearrangement of α-diazoketones, Surendra G. Sudrik, Trupti Maddanimath, Nirmalya K. Chaki, Sambhaji P. Chavan, Subhash P. Chavan, Harikisan R. Sonawane and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Organic Letters, 5(2003), 2355-2358.

90

Enhanced Supercapacitance of multiwalled carbon nanotubes functionalized with ruthenium oxide, Girish Arabale, Deepali Wagh, Mahesh Kulkarni, I.S. Mulla, S.P. Vernekar, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and A.M. Rao, Chemical Physics Letters, 376(2003), 207–213.

89 Device Applications of Self-assembled Monolayers and monolayer protected nanoclusters, M. aslam, N,.K. Chaki, Jadab Sharms and K. Vijayamohanan, Current Applied Physics, 3(2003)115-127.

88 A novel Luminescent functionalized Siloxane Polymer, Madhavan P. Vinod, Detlef Bahnemann, Pattuparambil R. Rajamohanan and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 107(2003), 11583-11588.

87

Effect of Chain Length and the Nature of the Monolayer on the Electrical Behavior of

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.

86

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, M. Stukowski, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, P. Doppelt and M. Lane, Applied Physics Letters, 83(2003), 383-385.

85 Phase transitions in octanethiol-capped Ag, Au and CdS nanocluster assemblies, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and G. Ramanath, Materials Research Society Symposium, 739(2003), 127-132.

84

Crystal structure, magnetic and electrochemical properties of a quarternary thiospinel: Ag2MnSn3S8, G. Garg, K. V. Ramanajuchary, S.E. Loffland, M.V. Lobanov, M. Greenblat, T. Maddanimath, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and A.K. Ganguli, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 174(2003), 229–232.

83

Freely Dispersible Au@TiO2, Au@ZrO2, Ag@TiO2, and Ag@ZrO2 Core-Shell Nanoparticles: One-Step Synthesis, Characterization, Spectroscopy, and Optical 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.

82 Humidity sensing properties of surface functionalised polyethylene and polypropylene 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.

81 Self-assembled monolayers as a tunable platform for biosensor applications, Vijayamohanan K. Pillaiand Nirmalya K. Chaki, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 17(2002), 1-12.

80

Single phase preparation of monodispersed silver nanoclusters using a unique electron transfer and cluster stabilizing agent, triethy amine, Nirmalya K Chaki, Surendra G. Sudrik, H. R. Sonawane and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemical Communications, 2002, 76-77.

79 Application of Electrochemically prepared carbon nanofibers in supercapacitors, P.V. Adyapak, Trupti Maddanimath, Sushama Pethkar, A.J. Chandwadkar, Y.S. Negi and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Power Sources, 109(2002), 105-110.

78 Trimethyl amine sensing properties of thorium incorporated tin oxide, R.S. Niranjan, 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.

77 Ruthenium: tin oxide thin films as a highly selective hydrocarbon sensor, R.S. Niranjan, S.R. Sainkar, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and I.S. Mulla, Sensors and Actuators B, 82(2002), 82-88.

76 Poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)V2O5 hybrids for lithium batteries, Chai-won Kwon, A. Vadivel Murugan, Guy Campet, Josik Portier, B.B. Kale, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Jin-Ho Choy, Electrochemistry Communications, 4(2002), 384–387.

75 Surface ruthenated tin oxide thin-film as a hydrocarbon sensor, R. S. Niranjan, V.S. Choudhary, K.R. Patil, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and I.S. Mulla, Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, 79(2001), 132-136.

74

Synthesis and Characterization of a new organo-inorganic poly(3,4-Ethylene Dioxythiophene) PEDOT/V2O5 Nanocomposite by Intercalation, A. Vadivel Murugan, B. B. Kale, Chai-Won Kwon, Guy Campet and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 11(2001), 2470–2475.

73 Piezoresistivity of conducting polyaniline/BaTiO3 composites, R.C. Patil, S. Radhakrishnan, Sushama Pethkar and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Research, 16(2001), 1982-88.

72

Evidence for Second-Order Optical Nonlinearity in γ -Ray Induced Partially Cross-Linked Polyacrylonitrile, Susham Pethkar, J.A. Dharmadhikari, Anjali A. Athawale, R.C. Iyer and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 105(2001), 5110-5113.

71 Hydrophobic organization of monolayer protected Au clusters on thiol functionalized Au(111) surfaces, Mohammed Aslam, I.S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 17(2001), 7487-7493.

70 Preparation and Electrical Characterisation of Dodecanethiol Monolayer Protected Silver Nanoclusters, M. Aslam, N. K. Chaki, I.S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Applied Surface Science, 182(2001), 338-344.

69

Electrochemical lithium insertion into a poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) PEDOT/V2O5 Nanocomposite, A. Vadivel Murugan, Chai-Won Kwon, Gay Campet, B.B. Kale, Trupti Maddanimath and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Power Sources, 4613(2001), 1-5.

68 Application of self-assembled monolayers in materials chemistry, Nirmalya K Chaki, M Aslam, Jadab Sharma and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences : Chemical Sciences, 113(2001), 1-12.

67 Effect of Iron oxide on the hydrogen sulphide sensitivity of tin oxide thin films, Choudhary. V.A., Sainker S.R., Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Mulla I.S., Journal of Materials Science Letters, 20(2001), 1643 – 1645.

66 Preparation and Characterisation of silver quantum dot superlattice using sequential 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.

65 Hydrocarbon Sensing Mechanism of Surface Ruthenated Tin Oxide: An In Situ IR, ESR 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.

64

Comparative behaviour of aromatic disulphide and diselenide monolayers on polycrystalline gold films using CV, STM and QCM, Mohammed Aslam, K. Bandhopadhyay, K. Vijayamohanan and V. Laxminarayanan, J. Colloidal and Interf. Sci. 234 (2001).

63 Applications of Self-assembled monolayers for Biomolecular Electronics, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and M. Aslam, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 96(2001), 25-39.

62 Insulating-to-Metal transition in Coulomb Blockade Nanostructures, Mohammed Aslam, I.S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Applied Physics Letters, 79(2001), 689-691.

61 Effect of gelling on the Impedance parameters of Pb/PbSO4 electrode in Maintenance-Free Lead acid Batteries, M.P. Vinod and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Power Sources, 89(2000), 88–92.

60 Metal ion reactivity to 1,4-benzenedimethanethiol monolayers on gold, K. Venkataramanan, K.V.G.K. Murthy, T. Pradeep, W. Deepali and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 16(2000), 7673-7678.

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

58

Preparation, Characterisation and Mechanistic Features of Zirconia Films on bare and functionalised gold surfaces, M. Aslam, Sushama Pethkar, K. Bandyopadhyay, I.S. Mulla, S.R. Sainkar, A.B. Mandale and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 10(2000), 1737-1743.

57 Effect of Protonation media on Chemically and Electrochemically Syntheisized Polyaniline, R.C. Patil, S.F. Patil, I.S. Mulla and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Polymer International, 49(2000), 189-196.

56 Selective hydrogen sensing properties of surface functionalized tin oxide, V.A. Choudhary, Mulla, K. Vijayamohanan, Sensors & Actuators B 55(1999)154-160.

55 Surface Ruthenated hydrocarbon sensor: Statistical Optimisation of sensitivity, V.A. Choudhary, I.S. Mulla, S.R. Sainkar, A. B. Mandale and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Sensors and Actuators, 79(2000), 224–229.

54

Self-assembled monolayers of small aromatic disulphide and diselenide molecules on polycrystalline gold films: A comparative study of the geometric constraint using temperature dependent SERS, XPS and Electrochemistry. K. Bandyopadhyay, K. Vijayamohanan, M. Venkataraman and T. Pradeep, Langmuir, 15(1999), 5314-5322.

53 A highly selective ammonia gas sensor using surface ruthenated zic oxide, M. Aslam, 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.

52 Deposition and characterization of CdS nanoparticle /polyaniline composite films, Sushama Pethkar, R.C. Patil, J.A. Kher and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Thin Solid Films, 349(1999), 105-109.

51 Catalytic and Electrocatalytic Properties of Intrazeolitically prepared Iron-phthalocyanine, M.P. Vinod, T.Kr. Das, A.J. Chandwadkar, K. Vijayamohanan, and J.G. Chandwadkar, Mater. Chem. Phys. 58(1999)37-43.

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Self-assembled monolayers of two aromatic disulfides and a diselenide on polycrystalline silver films: an investigation by SERS and XPS. M. Venkataramanan, G. Skanth, K. Bandhyopadhyay, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and T. Pradeep, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 212(1999), 553–561.

49 A novel room temperature synthesis of microcrystalline zirconia, Bandyopadhyay, S.R. Sainker and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 82(1999), 622-624.

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

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

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

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

44 Effect of Geometric Constraints on the Self-Assembled Monolayer Formation of Aromatic Disulfides on Polycrystalline Gold, Krisanu Bandyopadhyay, Vijaya Patil, Murali Sastry, and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 14(1998), 3808-3814.

43 Effect of silicate and phosphate additives on the kinetics of the oxygen evolution 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.

42 Effect of Co-adsorbed surfactant on the structure of self-assembled monolayer of thiol on polycrystalline gold, K. Bandyopadhyay, K. Vijayamohanan, Abhijit Manna and B.D. Kulkarni, J. Colloid. Inter. Sci. 206(1998)224-230.

41 Formation of microcrystalline Zirconia using functionalised interface of self-assembled monolayer of dithiol on polycrystalline gold at room temperature. K. Bandyopadhyay and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 14(1998), 6924-6929.

40 Surface Ruthenated tin oxide as a novel hydrocarbon sensor, V.A. Choudhary, I.S. Mulla, S.R. Sainker, A.A. Belheker, and K. Vijayamohanan, Sensors and Actutators, A 65(1998) 197-202.

39 Impedance Analysis of self-assembled Naphthalene disulphide monolayers on gold using external redox probes, K. Bandhyopadhyay, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, G.S. Shekhawat and R.P. Gupta, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 447(1998), 11–16.

38 Comparative studies of doped and surface modified tin oxide towards hydrogen sensing: synergistic effects of Pd and Ru. V.A. Chaudhary, I.S. Mulla and K. Vijayamohanan, Sensors & Actuators, B 50(1998) 45-51.

37 Poly(m-chloroaniline): Electrochemical Synthesis and characterisation. A.A. Athawale, S. F. Patil, B. Deore, R.C. Patil and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Polymer Journal, 29(1997), 787-794.

36 Redox active self-assembled monolayer formation of Naphtho-1,2 dithiol on gold, K. Bandyopadhyay, Murali sastry, V. Paul and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Langmuir, 13(1997), 866-869.

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Synthesis and characterization of hydrophobic, approtically dispersible, silver nanoparticles in Winsor II Type microemulsions, Abhijit Manna, B.D.Kulkarni, Krisanu Bandyopadhyay and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemistry of Materials, 9(1997), 3032-3036.

34 Adsorption of Silver Colloidal Particles through Covalent Linkage to Self-Assembled Monolayers, K. Bandyopadhyay, S. Mayya, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Murali Sastry, Langmuir, 13(1997), 5244-5248.

33 Catalytic and Electrocatalytric oxidation of aniline to nitrobenzene over vanadium silicate molecular sieves, T. Selvam, M.P. Vinod and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters, 60(1997), 137-144.

32 Formation of Silicon Nanoclusters during the Reaction of β-Ionone with Tetrachlorosilane, S. Suresh, U.M. Joshi, M.P. Vinod, N.R. Pavasker and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Chemistry of Materials, 9(1997), 1186-1190.

31 Role of Surfactants in the Synthesis of Poly(p-phenylene)Film in Microemulsions, Abhijit Manna, K. Bandyopadhyay, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, P.R. Rajumohan, S. Sainker and B.D. Kulkarni, Langmuir, 13(1997), 84-90.

30 Synergestic sensitivity effects in surface modified tin oxide as a hydrogen sensor using Ru-Pd oxides, V.A. Choudhary, I.S. Mulla and K. Vijayamohanan, J. Mat. Sci. Let., 16(1997) 1819-21.

29 Effect of monomer concentration and substrate resistance on redox behaviour of polyaniline films, A.G. Bedekar, S.F. Patil, R.C. Patil and K. Vijayamohanan, Mater Chem. and Phys., 48 (1997)76-81.

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Spontaneously organised molecular assembly of an aromaticdisulfide on Ag/Pt alloy surfaces: an angle dependent X-ray photoemission investigation, K. Bandyopadhyay, K.S. Mayya, K. Vijayamohanan, Murali Sastry, J. Electron. Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom., 87(1997)101-107.

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Cyclic Voltammetric Studies of Vanadium in V-molecular sieves, Narayanan Venkatathri, Madhavan P. Vinod, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Subramanian Sivasanker, Journal of the Chemical Society: Faraday Transactions, 92(1996), 473-478.

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

25 The mechanism of humidity-sensitivity of Ti doped Magnesium chromate, S.S. Pingale, S.F. Patil, M.P. Vinod, G. Pathak and K. Vijayamohanan, Mater. Chem and Phys., 46(1996)72-76.

24 The effect of gelling on the surface structure of porous lead electrode in sulphuric acid, M.P. Vinod, A.B. Mandale, S.R. Sainker and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 27(1997), 462-468.

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

22 Effect of silicate adsorption on the double layer capacitance and exchange current density of Pb/PbSO4 electrode reaction, P. Vinod and K. Vijayamohanan, J. Appl. Electrochem., 25(1995)80-87.

21 Mechanistic Studies of Electrochemically Deposited Poly(o-anisidine) Films, Anjali G. Bedekar, Somaji F. Patil, Rahul C. Patil and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 5(1995), 963-967.

20 An unusual electron-transfer behaviour of ferrocene in aqueous microemulsion systems, K. Jha, B.D. Kulkarni, M.P. Vinod and K. Vijayamohanan, Chem. Phys. Lett., 240 (1995) 442-448.

19 Effect of surface-modification due to Superacid species in Controlling the sensitivity 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.

18 Binuclear dioxomolybdenum(VI) complexes of dithio or methylene bridged Schiff bases, M.R. Maurya, D.C. Antony, S. Gopinathan, C. Gopinathan and K. Vijayamohanan, Indian J. Chem., 34A (1995) 360.

17 Effect of gelling on the open-circuit potential time transients of Pb/PbSO4 electrodes at various states-of-charge, M.P. Vinod and K. Vijayamohanan, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 24(1994), 44-51.

16 Effect of gelling on the electrode kinetics of the Pb/PbSO4 and hydrogen electrode reactions in maintenance-free lead acid batteries. M.P. Vinod and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Power Sources, 50(1994), 67-79.

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

14 A novel Non-destructive method for the prediction of state-of-charge of Maintenance-free lead acid batteries, M.P. Vinod and Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, Journal of Power Sources, 52(1994), 135-139.

13 Mechanism of the discharge of porous iron electrodes in alkaline medium, T.S. Balasubramaniam, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, and A.K. Shukla, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 23(1993), 947-950.

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

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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, in Solid state Ionics: materials and applications, ed. B.V.R. Chowdari et al, World Scientific, (1992).

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

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

8 Open-circuit potential time transients of alkaline iron electrodes at various states-of-charge, K. Vijayamohanan, A.K. Shukla and S. Sathyanarayana Electrochim. Acta, 37 (1990) 369.

7 The role of sulphide additives on the performance of alkaline iron, electrodes, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, A.K. Shukla and S. Sathyanarayana, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 289(1990), 55-68.

6 Kinetics of hydrogen evolution reaction on lead acid battery negative, electrodes with silicate and antimonate additives, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, S.N. Joshi and S. Sathyanarayana, Journal of Power Sources, 30(1990), 169-175.

5 Kinetics of electrode reactions on alkaline iron electrodes, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, A.K. Shukla and S. Sathyanarayana, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 295(1990), 59-70.

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

3 Porous lead/lead sulphate reference electrode for industrial battery research, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, S.N. Joshi and S. Sathyanarayana, Journal of Power Sources, 27(1989), 167-176.

2 Open-circuit potential recovery transients of alkaline iron, electrodes during discharge, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, A.K. Shukla and S. Sathyanarayana, Journal of Power Sources, 21(1987), 53-57.

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