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2024

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Intertwining of Localized (d) and Delocalized (π) Spins in Magnetically Frustrated Two-Dimensional Metal–Organic Frameworks

Ajay Ugale, Pranay Ninawe, Anil Jain, Mayur Sangole, Rimpa Mandal, Kirandeep Singh, and Nirmalya Ballav

Inorg. Chem. 2024, XXXX, XXX, XXX-XXX

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Excitonic cuprophilic interactions in one-dimensional hybrid organic-inorganic crystal

Nahid Hassan, Suneetha Nagaraja, Sauvik Saha, Kartick Tarafder and Nirmalya Ballav

Chem. Sci., 2024, XXXX, XXX, XXX-XXX

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Robust Spin Liquidity in 2D Metal-Organic Framework Cu3(HHTP)2 with S = ½ Kagome Lattice

Pranay Ninawe, Anil Jain, Mayur Sangole, Mohd Anas, Ajay Ugale, Vivek K Malik, Seikh M. Yusuf, Kirandeep Singh, and Nirmalya Ballav

Chem. Eur. J. 2024, 30, e202303718

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2023

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Ag Nanoparticles-Induced Metallic Conductivity in Thin Films of 2D Metal–Organic Framework Cu3(HHTP)2

Sauvik Saha, K.S. Ananthram, Nahid Hassan, Ajay Ugale, Kartick Tarafder, and Nirmalya Ballav

Nano Lett. 2023, 23, 9326–9332

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Distal Synergistic Effect in Bimetal–Organic Framework for Superior Catalytic Water Oxidation

Umashis Bhoi, Subhasmita Ray, Sujit Bhand, Pranay Ninawe, Debashree Roy, Shammi Rana, Kartick Tarafder, and Nirmalya Ballav

ACS Energy Lett. 2023, 8, 4465−4473

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Insulator-to-metal-like transition in thin films of a biological metal-organic framework

Pooja Sindhu, K.S. Ananthram, Anil Jain, Kartick Tarafder and Nirmalya Ballav

Nat. Commun. 2023, 14, 2857

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2022

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Charge-transfer interface of insulating metal-organic frameworks with metallic conduction

Pooja Sindhu, K.S. Ananthram, Anil Jain, Kartick Tarafder and Nirmalya Ballav

Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 7665

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2021

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Possible Electron Doping of Geometrically Perfect Spin- 1/2 Kagome-Lattice Barlowite by Reduced Graphene Oxide

Kriti Gupta, Pranay Ninawe, Anil Jain, Arun Dadwal, M. Anas, V. K. Malik, S. M. Yusuf, Pattayil A. Joy and Nirmalya Ballav

Phys. Rev. B 2021, 104, L100418

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Seed-Mediated Growth of Pt on High-Index Faceted Au Nanocrystals: The Ag Lining and Implications for Electrocatalysis

Debashree Roy, Ranguwar Rajendra, Pranav K. Gangadharan, Ajmal Pandikassala, Sreekumar Kurungot and Nirmalya Ballav

 

ACS Appl. Nano. Mater.  2021, 4, 9155-9166

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Self-Assembly and Magnetic Order of Bi-Molecular 2D Spin Lattices of M(II, III) Phthalocyanines on Au(111)

Milos Baljozovic, Xunshan Liu, Olha Popova, Jan Nowakowski, Harald Rossmann, Thomas Nijs, Mina Moradi, Fatemeh Mousavi, Nicholas C. Plumb, Milan Radovic, Nirmalya Ballav, Jan Dreiser, Silvio Decurtins, Igor A. Pasti, Natalia V. Skorodumova, Shi-Xia Liu and Thomas A. Jung

 

Magnetochemistry (10.3390/magnetochemistry7080119)

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Chemistry at the Solid-Gas Interface: Direct Crystalline Thin-Film to Thin-Film Chemical Transformation

Shammi Rana, Sujit Bhand, Mohammad Balal, Anupam Prasoon, Sudipta Roy Barman and Nirmalya Ballav

J. Phys. Chem. C  2021, 125, 7728-7733

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2020

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Direct Layer-by-Layer Growth of Crystalline Ag-TCNQ Thin Films on Functionalized Au Substrate: How Critical Is the pH of Ag(I) Solution?

Aswani Sathish Lathika, Shammi Rana, Anupam Prasoon, Pooja Sindhu, Debashree Roy and Nirmalya Ballav

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 10548-10551

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Magnetism in Bimetallic Ni  -Co  Coordination Polymer

Kriti Gupta, Arun Dadwal, Pattayil A. Joy, and Nirmalya Ballav

AIP Conference Proceedings 20202265, 030585

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Inducing Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Cancer Cells Using Graphene Oxide-Based Nanoparticles

Shalini Pandey, Aditi Nandi, Sudipta Basu, and Nirmalya Ballav

Nanoscale Adv. 20202, 4887-4894

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Integrating Structurally Perfect S=1/2 Kagome-Lattice with Reduced Graphene Oxide

Kriti Gupta, Arun Dadwal, Pranay Ninawe, Pattayil A. Joy, and Nirmalya Ballav

J. Phys. Chem. C 2020,124, 19753-19759

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Emergent Interface in Hetero-Structured Thin Films of Cu(II) and Cu(I) Coordination Polymers

Pooja Sindhu, Anupam Prasoon, Shammi Rana, and Nirmalya Ballav

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 6242-6248

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Exploring Magnetic XY Behavior in a Quasi-2D Anisotropic Triangular Lattice of Cu(II) by Functionalized Graphene

Kriti Gupta, Arun Dadwal, Plawan Kumar Jha, Anil Jain, S. M. Yusuf, Pattayil A. Joy and Nirmalya Ballav

Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 6214-6219

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Gold Nano-Earbuds: Seed-mediated Synthesis and the Emergence of Three Plasmonic Peaks

Debashree Roy, Yi Xu, Ranguwar Rajendra, Lin Wu, Ping Bai and Nirmalya Ballav

 

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 3211-3217

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Imparting Multifunctionality by Utilizing Biporosity in a Zr-Based MOF

Ashwini Jadhav, Kriti Gupta, Pranay Ninawe and Nirmalya Ballav

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 2215-2219

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2019

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Achieving current rectification ratio > 10  across thin film of coordination polymer

Anupam Prasoon, Barun Dhara, Debashree Roy, Shammi Rana, Sujit Bhand and Nirmalya Ballav

Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 10040–10047

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In situ generated Mn O -reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite for oxygen reduction reaction and isolated reduced graphene oxide for supercapacitor applications

Plawan Kumar Jha, Varchaswal Kashyap, Kriti Gupta, Vikash Kumar, Anil Krishna Debnath, Debashree Roy, Shammi Rana, Sreekumar Kurungot and Nirmalya Ballav

Carbon 2019, 154, 285-291

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A Perspective on Interfacial Reduction Reaction

Shammi Rana, Pooja Sindhu and Nirmalya Ballav

 

Langmuir 2019, 35, 9647-9659

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Embedding S=½ Kagome-Like Lattice in Reduced Graphene Oxide 

Kriti Gupta, Plawan Kumar Jha, Arun Dadwal, Anil Krishna Debnath, Ishan Jaiswal, Shammi Rana, Pattayil Aias Joy, and Nirmalya Ballav

 

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 201910, 2663-2668

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3D Mesoporous Reduced Graphene Oxide With Remarkable Supercapacitive Performance 

Plawan Kumar Jha, Kriti Gupta, Anil Krishna Debnath, Shammi Rana, Rajendrakumar Sharma, and Nirmalya Ballav

 

Carbon 2019, 148, 354-360

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2018

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2017

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High-Level Supercapacitive Performance of Chemically Reduced Graphene Oxide

Plawan Kumar Jha, Santosh Kumar Singh, Vikash Kumar, Shammi Rana, Sreekumar Kurungot, Nirmalya Ballav

 

Chem 2017, 3, 846-860

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Thermally-Driven Resistive Switching in Solution Processable Thin Films of Coordination Polymers

Shammi Rana, Anupam Prasoon, Plawan Kumar Jha, Anil Pratham Shetti, and Nirmalya Ballav

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2017, 8, 5008–5014

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Giant Enhancement of Carrier Mobility in Bimetallic Coordination Polymers

Barun Dhara, Vikash Kumar, Kriti Gupta, Plawan Kumar Jha and Nirmalya Ballav

 

ACS Omega 2017, 2, 4488−4493

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Long-range ferrimagnetic order in a two-dimensional supramolecular Kondo lattice

Jan Girovsky, Jan Nowakowski, Md. Ehesan Ali, Milos Baljozovic, Harald R. Rossmann, Thomas Nijs, Elise A. Aeby, Sylwia Nowakowska, Dorota Siewert, Gitika Srivastava, Christian Wackerlin, Jan Dreiser, Silvio Decurtins, Shi-Xia Liu, Peter M. Oppeneer, Thomas A. Jung and Nirmalya Ballav

 

Nat. Commun. 2017, 8, 15388

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Diamagnetic Molecules Exhibiting Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism in Supramolecular Aggregates

Barun Dhara, Plawan Kumar Jha, Kriti Gupta, Vimlesh Kumar Bind, and Nirmalya Ballav

 

J. Phys. Chem. C 2017, 121, 12159-12167

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Cisplatin-induced self-assembly of graphene oxide sheets into spherical nanoparticles for damaging sub-cellular DNA

Aditi Nandi, Abhik Mallick, Piyush More, Poulomi Sengupta, Nirmalya Ballav and Sudipta Basu

 

Chem. Commun. 201753, 1409-1412

2016

88.

Possible Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism in Self-Assembled Ensembles of Paramagnetic and Diamagnetic Molecular Semiconductors

Barun Dhara, Kartick Tarafder, Plawan Kumar Jha, Soumendra Nath Panja, Sunil Nair, Peter M. Oppeneer and Nirmalya Ballav

 

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2016, 7, 4988–4995

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High-index faceted Au nanocrystals with highly controllable optical property and electro-catalytic activity

Ranguwar Rajendra, Pranav K. G., Shalini Tripathi, Sreekumar Kurungot and Nirmalya Ballav

 

Nanoscale 2016, 8, 19224-19228

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Selective Sensing of Metal Ions and Nitro Explosives by Efficient Switching of Excimer-to-Monomer Emission of an Amphiphilic Pyrene Derivative

Sharad Chandrakant Deshmukh, Shammi Rana, Sopan Valiba Shinde, Barun Dhara, Nirmalya Ballav and Pinaki Talukdar

ACS Omega 2016, 1, 371–377

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Increase in Electrical Conductivity of MOF to Billion-Fold upon Filling the Nanochannels with Conducting Polymer

Barun Dhara, Sanjog S. Nagarkar, Jitendra Kumar, Vikash Kumar, Plawan K. Jha, Sujit K. Ghosh, Sunil Nair and Nirmalya Ballav

 

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 20167, 2945–2950

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Coordination polymers of Fe(III) and Al(III) ions with TCA ligand: distinctive fluorescence, CO2 uptake, redox-activity and oxygen evolution reaction

Barun Dhara, Subrahmanyam Sappati, Santosh K. Singh, Sreekumar Kurungot,

Prasenjit Ghosh and Nirmalya Ballav

Dalton Trans. 201645, 6901-6908

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Highly Hydrophobic and Chemically Rectifiable Surface-Anchored Metal-Organic Framework Thin-Film Devices

Shammi Rana, Ranguwar Rajendra, Barun Dhara, Plawan Kumar Jha and Nirmalya Ballav

Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2016, 3, 1500738

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Pb2+-N Bonding Chemistry: Recycling of Polyaniline−Pb Nanocrystals Waste for Generating High-Performance Supercapacitor Electrodes

Plawan Kumar Jha, Santosh K. Singh, Suresh Gatla, Olivier Mathon, Sreekumar Kurungot and Nirmalya Ballav

J. Phys. Chem. C 2016, 120, 911–918

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Probing the Reactivity of Functionalized Surfaces by Porphyrin Metalation

Jan Nowakowski, Sylwia Nowakowska, Gitika Srivastava, Milos Baljozovic, Jan Girovsky, Nirmalya Ballav and Thomas A. Jung

ChemistrySelect 2016, 5, 891 –895

2015

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Homogeneously-Alloyed Gold−Silver Nanoparticles as per Feeding Moles

Ranguwar Rajendra, Parnika Bhatia, Anita Justin, Shilpy Sharma and Nirmalya Ballav

J. Phys. Chem. C 2015, 119, 5604−5613

2014

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Controlling the Dimensionality of On-Surface Coordination Polymers via Endo- or Exoligation

Aneliia Shchyrba, Christian Wackerlin, Jan Nowakowski, Sylwia Nowakowska, Jonas Bjö rk, Shadi Fatayer, Jan Girovsky, Thomas Nijs, Susanne C. Martens, Armin Kleibert, Meike Stö hr, Nirmalya Ballav, Thomas A. Jung and Lutz H. Gade

 

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 9355−9363

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An anticancer drug to probe non-specific protein–DNA interactions

Abhigyan Sengupta, Raj Kumar Koninti, Krishna Gavvala, Nirmalya Ballav and Partha Hazra

 

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014, 16, 3914-3917

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Loading of an anti-cancer drug onto graphene oxide and subsequent release to DNA/RNA: a direct optical detection

Raj Kumar Koninti, Abhigyan Sengupta, Krishna Gavvala, Nirmalya Ballav and Partha Hazra

Nanoscale 2014, 6, 2937–2944

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Nanofibers to nanocuboids of polyaniline by lead nitrate: hierarchical self-assembly with lead ions

Plawan K. Jha, Barun Dhara and Nirmalya Ballav

RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 9851–9855

Antiferromagnetic coupling of Cr-porphyrin to a bare Co substrate

Jan Girovsky, Kartick Tarafder, Christian Wackerlin, Jan Nowakowski, Dorota Siewert, Tatjana Hahlen, Aneliia Wackerlin, Armin Kleibert, Nirmalya Ballav, Thomas A. Jung and Peter M. Oppeneer

Phys. Rev. B 2014, 90, 220404

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Investigating magneto-chemical interactions at molecule–substrate interfaces by X-ray photo-emission electron microscopy

Jan Girovsky, Michele Buzzi, Christian Wackerlin, Dorota Siewert, Jan Nowakowski, Peter M. Oppeneer, Frithjof Nolting, Thomas A. Jung, Armin Kleibert and Nirmalya Ballav

Chem. Commun. 2014,50, 5190-5192

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Redox-Induced Photoluminescence of Metal−Organic Coordination Polymer Gel

Barun Dhara, Partha Pratim Patra, Plawan K. Jha, Shraddha V. Jadhav, G. V. Pavan Kumar and Nirmalya Ballav

J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 19287–19293

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Coercivity and exchange bias of bismuth ferrite nanoparticles isolated by polymer coating

Smita Chaturvedi, Mandar M. Shirolkar, Ranguwar Rajendra, Surjeet Singh, Nirmalya Ballav and Sulabha Kulkarni

J. Appl. Phys. 2014, 115, 123906

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Probing bismuth ferrite nanoparticles by hard x-ray photoemission: Anomalous occurrence of metallic bismuth

Smita Chaturvedi, Indranil Sarkar, Mandar M. Shirolkar, U-Ser Jeng, Yi-Qi Yeh, Ranguwar Rajendra, Nirmalya Ballav and Sulabha Kulkarni

Appl. Phys. Lett. 2014, 105, 102910

2013

70.

Ammonia Coordination Introducing a Magnetic Moment in an On-Surface Low-Spin Porphyrin

Christian Wäckerlin, Kartick Tarafder, Jan Girovsky, Jan Nowakowski, Tatjana Hählen, Aneliia Shchyrba, Dorota Siewert, Armin Kleibert, Frithjof Nolting, Peter M. Oppeneer, Thomas A. Jung and Nirmalya Ballav

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 4568 –4571

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On-surface coordination chemistry: direct imaging of the conformational freedom of an axial ligand at room temperature

Christian Wackerlin, Dorota Siewert, Thomas A. Jung and Nirmalya Ballav

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2013, 15, 16510

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Two-Dimensional Supramolecular Electron Spin Arrays

Christian Wäckerlin, Jan Nowakowski, Shi-Xia Liu, Michael Jaggi, Dorota Siewert, Jan Girovsky, Aneliia Shchyrba, Tatjana Hählen, Armin Kleibert, Peter M. Oppeneer, Frithjof Nolting, Silvio Decurtins, Thomas A. Jung and Nirmalya Ballav

Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, 2404–2408

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Magnetic exchange coupling of a synthetic Co(II)-complex to a ferromagnetic Ni substrate

Christian Wackerlin, Pablo Maldonado, Lena Arnold, Aneliia Shchyrba, Jan Girovsky, Jan Nowakowski, Md. Ehesan Ali, Tatjana Hahlen, Milos Baljozovic, Dorota Siewert, Armin Kleibert, Klaus Mullen, Peter M. Oppeneer, Thomas A. Jung and Nirmalya Ballav

Chem. Commun. 2013,49, 10736-10738

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Reusable plasmonic substrates fabricated by interference lithography: a platform for systematic sensing studies

Thomas Siegfried, Martin Kind, Andreas Terfort, Olivier J. F. Martin, Michael Zharnikov, Nirmalya Ballav and Hans Sigg

J. Raman Spectrosc. 2013, 44, 170–175

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Discriminative response of aliphatic and aromatic dithiol in the self-assembly of gold nanoparticles

Ranguwar Rajendra and Nirmalya Ballav

RSC Adv. 2013, 3, 15622

64.

Porphyrin metalation providing an example of a redox reaction facilitated by a surface reconstruction

Jan Nowakowski, Christian Wackerlin, Jan Girovsky, Dorota Siewert, Thomas A. Jung and Nirmalya Ballav

Chem. Commun. 2013,49, 2347-2349

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In situ generation of conducting polymer in a redox-active metal–organic gel

Barun Dhara and Nirmalya Ballav

RSC Adv. 20133, 4909-4913

62.

Emergence of On-Surface Magnetochemistry

Nirmalya Ballav, Christian Wackerlin, Dorota Siewert, Peter M. Oppeneer and Thomas A. Jung

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2013, 4, 2303–2311

2012

61.

On-surface coordination chemistry of planar molecular spin systems: novel magnetochemical effects induced by axial ligands

Christian Wackerlin, Kartick Tarafder, Dorota Siewert, Jan Girovsky, Tatjana Hahlen, Cristian Iacovita, Armin Kleibert, Frithjof Nolting, Thomas A. Jung, Peter M. Oppeneer and Nirmalya Ballav

Chem. Sci. 20123, 3154-3160

60.

Spin Enhancement And Band Gap Opening Of Ferrimagnetic Graphene On fcc-Co(111) Surface Upon Hydrogenation

Niharika Joshi, Indu Kaul, Nirmalya Ballav and Prasenjit Ghosh

SOLID STATE PHYSICS: Proceedings of the 57th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2012

59.

Hydrogenation of Ferrimagnetic Graphene on a Co Surface: Significant Enhancement of Spin Moments by C–H Functionality

Indu Kaul, Niharika Joshi, Nirmalya Ballav and Prasenjit Ghosh

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 20123, 2582–2587

58.

Hydrogen-induced reversal of spin alignment in graphene supported on Ni(111) surface

Niharika Joshi, Nirmalya Ballav and Prasenjit Ghosh

Phys. Rev. B 2012, 86, 121411

57.

Book Chapter:

Making Gradient Patterns by Electron-Beam Chemical Lithography with Monomolecular Resists

Nirmalya Ballav, Terfort Andreas and Zharnikov Michael

Soft Matter Gradient Surfaces: Methods and Applications (2012): 199-227

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Assembly of 2D ionic layers by reaction of alkali halides with the organic electrophile 7, 7, 8, 8-tetracyano-p-quinodimethane (TCNQ)

Christian Wäckerlin,  Christian Iacovita, Dorota Chylarecka, Petra Fesser, Thomas A. Jung and Nirmalya Ballav

Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 9146-9148

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