Research Articles

Sharma, M., Kumar, A., Gill, D., Jaiswal, S., Patra, A., Bhattacharya, S., & Krishnan, V. (2023). Boosting photocatalytic nitrogen fixation via nanoarchitectonics using oxygen vacancy regulation in W-doped Bi2MoO6 nanosheets. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 15(48), 55765-55778. 

Kumar, A., Sharma, M., Sheoran, S., Jaiswal, S., Patra, A., Bhattacharya, S., & Krishnan, V. (2023). Tailoring defects in SrTiO3 by one-step nanoarchitectonics for realizing photocatalytic nitrogen fixation in pure water. Nanoscale, 15(27), 11667-11680. 

Kumar, A., Singla, Y., Sharma, M., Bhardwaj, A., & Krishnan, V. (2022). Two-dimensional S-scheme Bi2WO6–TiO2–Ti3C2 nanocomposites for efficient degradation of organic pollutants under natural sunlight. Chemosphere, 308, 136212. 

Chand, H., Kumar, A., Bhumla, P., Naik, B. R., Balakrishnan, V., Bhattacharya, S., & Krishnan, V. (2022). Scalable Production of Ultrathin Boron Nanosheets from a Low‐Cost Precursor. Advanced materials interfaces, 9(23), 2200508. 

Sharma, M., Kumar, A., & Krishnan, V. (2022). Influence of oxygen vacancy defects on Aurivillius phase layered perovskite oxides of bismuth towards photocatalytic environmental remediation. Nanotechnology, 33(27), 275702. 

Sharma, V., Kumar, A., Kumar, A., & Krishnan, V. (2022). Enhanced photocatalytic activity of two dimensional ternary nanocomposites of ZnO–Bi2WO6–Ti3C2 MXene under natural sunlight irradiation. Chemosphere, 287, 132119. 

Kumar, A., Kashyap, S., Sharma, M., & Krishnan, V. (2022). Tuning the surface and optical properties of graphitic carbon nitride by incorporation of alkali metals (Na, K, Cs and Rb): effect on photocatalytic removal of organic pollutants. Chemosphere, 287, 131988. 

Kumari, N., Chhabra, T., Kumar, A., & Krishnan, V. (2021). Bioderived carbon supported bismuth molybdate nanocomposites as bifunctional catalysts for removal of organic pollutants: adsorption and photocatalytic studies. Materials Letters, 302, 130455. 

Chand, H., Choudhary, P., Kumar, A., Kumar, A., & Krishnan, V. (2021). Atmospheric pressure conversion of carbon dioxide to cyclic carbonates using a metal-free Lewis acid-base bifunctional heterogeneous catalyst. Journal of CO2 Utilization, 51, 101646.

Rao, V. N., Bharagav, U., Kumar, A., Krishnan, V., Ravi, P., Sathish, M., ... & Shankar, M. V. (2021). Surfactant controlled metal oxide shell layer deposition for enhanced photocatalytic solar hydrogen generation: CdSe/TiO2 nanocomposite a case study. Materials Letters, 298, 130025.  

Rao, V. N., Preethi, V., Bhargav, U., Ravi, P., Kumar, A., Sathish, M., ... & Shankar, M. V. (2021). Gram-scale synthesis of ZnS/NiO core-shell hierarchical nanostructures and their enhanced H2 production in crude glycerol and sulphide wastewater. Environmental Research, 199, 111323. 

Kumari, N., Kumar, A., & Krishnan, V. (2021). Ultrathin Au–Ag heterojunctions on nanoarchitectonics based biomimetic substrates for dip catalysis. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, 31(5), 1954-1966. 

Kumar, A., Shankar, K. R., Kumar, A., Harith, G., & Krishnan, V. (2021). Controlling the kinetics of visible-light-induced photocatalytic performance of gold decorated graphitic carbon nitride nanocomposite using different proteins. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 9(2), 105147. 

Sharma, V., Maivizhikannan, V., Rao, V. N., Kumar, S., Kumar, A., Kumar, A., ... & Krishnan, V. (2021). Sea urchin-shaped ZnO coupled with MoS2 and polyaniline as highly efficient photocatalysts for organic pollutant decomposition and hydrogen evolution. Ceramics International, 47(7), 10301-10313. 

Kumar, A., Kumar, M., Rao, V. N., Shankar, M. V., Bhattacharya, S., & Krishnan, V. (2021). Unraveling the structural and morphological stability of oxygen vacancy engineered leaf-templated CaTiO 3 towards photocatalytic H 2 evolution and N 2 fixation reactions. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9(31), 17006-17018. 

Kumar, A., Choudhary, P., Kumar, K., Kumar, A., & Krishnan, V. (2021). Plasmon induced hot electron generation in two dimensional carbonaceous nanosheets decorated with Au nanostars: enhanced photocatalytic activity under visible light. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 5(3), 1448-1467. 

Kumar, A., Navakoteswara Rao, V., Kumar, A., Mushtaq, A., Sharma, L., Halder, A., ... & Krishnan, V. (2020). Three-dimensional carbonaceous aerogels embedded with Rh-SrTiO3 for enhanced hydrogen evolution triggered by efficient charge transfer and light absorption. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 3(12), 12134-12147. 

Kumar, A., Navakoteswara Rao, V., Kumar, A., Venkatakrishnan Shankar, M., & Krishnan, V. (2020). Interplay between mesocrystals of CaTiO3 and edge sulfur atom enriched MoS2 on reduced graphene oxide nanosheets: enhanced photocatalytic performance under sunlight irradiation. ChemPhotoChem, 4(6), 427-444. 

James, A. L., Lenka, M., Pandey, N., Ojha, A., Kumar, A., Saraswat, R., ... & Jasuja, K. (2020). Processable dispersions of photocatalytically active nanosheets derived from titanium diboride: self assembly into hydrogels and paper-like macrostructures. Nanoscale, 12(32), 17121-17131. 

Kumar, P., Kumar, A., Rizvi, M. A., Moosvi, S. K., Krishnan, V., Duvenhage, M. M., ... & Swart, H. C. (2020). Surface, optical and photocatalytic properties of Rb-doped ZnO nanoparticles. Applied Surface Science, 514, 145930. 

Singh, M., Kumar, A., & Krishnan, V. (2020). Influence of different bismuth oxyhalides on the photocatalytic activity of graphitic carbon nitride: a comparative study under natural sunlight. Materials Advances, 1(5), 1262-1272. 

Kumar, S., Kumar, A., Navakoteswara Rao, V., Kumar, A., Shankar, M. V., & Krishnan, V. (2019). Defect-rich MoS2 ultrathin nanosheets-coated nitrogen-doped ZnO nanorod heterostructures: an insight into in-situ-generated ZnS for enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2(8), 5622-5634. 

Kumar, A., Sharma, V., Kumar, S., Kumar, A., & Krishnan, V. (2018). Towards utilization of full solar light spectrum using green plasmonic Au–TiOx photocatalyst at ambient conditions. Surfaces and Interfaces, 11, 98-106. 

Kumar, A., Reddy, K. L., Kumar, S., Kumar, A., Sharma, V., & Krishnan, V. (2018). Rational design and development of lanthanide-doped NaYF4@ CdS–Au–RGO as quaternary plasmonic photocatalysts for harnessing visible–near-infrared broadband spectrum. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 10(18), 15565-15581. 

Kumar, S., Reddy, N. L., Kumar, A., Shankar, M. V., & Krishnan, V. (2018). Two-dimensional N-doped ZnO-graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets heterojunctions with enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. international journal of hydrogen energy, 43(8), 3988-4002. 

Kumar, A., Schuerings, C., Kumar, S., Kumar, A., & Krishnan, V. (2018). Perovskite-structured CaTiO3 coupled with g-C3N4 as a heterojunction photocatalyst for organic pollutant degradation. Beilstein journal of nanotechnology, 9(1), 671-685. 

Kumar, S., Kumar, A., Kumar, A., Balaji, R., & Krishnan, V. (2018). Highly efficient visible light active 2D‐2D nanocomposites of N‐ZnO‐g‐C3N4 for photocatalytic degradation of diverse industrial pollutants. ChemistrySelect, 3(6), 1919-1932. 

Kumar, S., Reddy, N. L., Kushwaha, H. S., Kumar, A., Shankar, M. V., Bhattacharyya, K., ... & Krishnan, V. (2017). Efficient electron transfer across a ZnO–MoS2–reduced graphene oxide heterojunction for enhanced sunlight‐driven photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. ChemSusChem, 10(18), 3588-3603. 

Chauhan, S., Kumar, A., Kaur, M., & Chauhan, M. S. (2017). Physico-chemical and spectroscopic approach to analyse the behaviour of surface-active ionic liquid and conventional surfactant in aqueous glycine. Journal of Surfactants and Detergents, 20(5), 1129-1139.