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When a young aspirant asked Michael Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is comprised in three words — Work, Finish, Publish.'
2025
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Mini Kalyani, Kekkar Subray Ananthram, Sauvik Saha, Pranay Ninawe, Kartick Tarefder, Nirmalya Ballav
Inorg.Chem. 2025, (Just accepted)
133.
Thin Films of Azobenzene Dicarboxylate-based Cu-MOF: Generating Electronic Heterostructure by Molecular Doping
Sauvik Saha, Therese Mariya Jose, Mini Kalyani, Nahid Hasan, Umashis Bhoi, Ajay Ugale, Nirmalya Ballav
J. Chem. Sci. 2025,
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Spin-Frustrated Metal-Organic Framework
Rimpa Mandal, Pranay Ninawe, Aradhana Acharya, Nirmalya Ballav
2024
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Nahid Hassan, Suneetha Nagaraja, Sauvik Saha, Kartick Tarafder and Nirmalya Ballav
130.
Unconventional Hole Doping of S = ½ Kagome Antiferromagnet CoCu3(OH)6Cl2
Rimpa Mandal, Pranay Ninawe, K. S. Ananthram, Akash Mhase, Kriti Gupta, Sauvik Saha, Ajay Ugale, Kirandeep Singh, Kartick Tarafder, and Nirmalya Ballav
129.
Ajay Ugale, Pranay Ninawe, Anil Jain, Mayur Sangole, Rimpa Mandal, Kirandeep Singh, and Nirmalya Ballav
128.
Excitonic cuprophilic interactions in one-dimensional hybrid organic-inorganic crystal
Nahid Hassan, Suneetha Nagaraja, Sauvik Saha, Kartick Tarafder and Nirmalya Ballav
127.
Pooja Sindhu, Sauvik Saha, Umashis Bhoi and Nirmalya Ballav
126.
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
2023
125.
Sauvik Saha, K.S. Ananthram, Nahid Hassan, Ajay Ugale, Kartick Tarafder, and Nirmalya Ballav
124.
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
123.
Thin Films of MOF-on-Guest@MOF: A Simple Strategy of Designing Electronic Heterostructures
Pooja Sindhu and Nirmalya Ballav
122.
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
2022
121.
Charge-transfer interface of insulating metal-organic frameworks with metallic conduction
Pooja Sindhu, K.S. Ananthram, Anil Jain, Kartick Tarafder and Nirmalya Ballav
120.
Unusual Enhancement in Efficiency of DSSCs upon modifying Photoanodes with Reduced Graphene Oxide
Sujit Bhand, Plawan Kumar Jha and Nirmalya Ballav
RSC Adv., 2022, 12, 30041-30044
2021
119.
Chemically Integrating a 2D Metal–Organic Framework with 2D Functionalized Graphene
Pranay Ninawe, Kriti Gupta and Nirmalya Ballav
118.
Kriti Gupta, Pranay Ninawe, Anil Jain, Arun Dadwal, M. Anas, V. K. Malik, S. M. Yusuf, Pattayil A. Joy and Nirmalya Ballav
117.
Debashree Roy, Ranguwar Rajendra, Pranav K. Gangadharan, Ajmal Pandikassala, Sreekumar Kurungot and Nirmalya Ballav
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116.
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
115.
Debashree Roy, Ranguwar Rajendra, Shalini Tripathi and Nirmalya Ballav
114.
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
2020
113.
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
112.
Magnetism in Bimetallic Ni -Co Coordination Polymer
Kriti Gupta, Arun Dadwal, Pattayil A. Joy, and Nirmalya Ballav
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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
110.
Integrating Structurally Perfect S=1/2 Kagome-Lattice with Reduced Graphene Oxide
Kriti Gupta, Arun Dadwal, Pranay Ninawe, Pattayil A. Joy, and Nirmalya Ballav
109.
Emergent Interface in Hetero-Structured Thin Films of Cu(II) and Cu(I) Coordination Polymers
Pooja Sindhu, Anupam Prasoon, Shammi Rana, and Nirmalya Ballav
108.
Niharika Joshi, C. Gaurav, Nirmalya Ballav and Prasenjit Ghosh
107.
Kriti Gupta, Arun Dadwal, Plawan Kumar Jha, Anil Jain, S. M. Yusuf, Pattayil A. Joy and Nirmalya Ballav
106.
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
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Imparting Multifunctionality by Utilizing Biporosity in a Zr-Based MOF
Ashwini Jadhav, Kriti Gupta, Pranay Ninawe and Nirmalya Ballav
2019
103.
Achieving current rectification ratio > 10 across thin film of coordination polymer
Anupam Prasoon, Barun Dhara, Debashree Roy, Shammi Rana, Sujit Bhand and Nirmalya Ballav
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Plawan Kumar Jha, Varchaswal Kashyap, Kriti Gupta, Vikash Kumar, Anil Krishna Debnath, Debashree Roy, Shammi Rana, Sreekumar Kurungot and Nirmalya Ballav
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Facile Synthesis of Concave Cuboid Au NCs with Precisely Tunable Dimensions and Mechanistic Insight
Ranguwar Rajendra, Debashree Roy, Shalini Tripathi and Nirmalya Ballav
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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
98.
3D Mesoporous Reduced Graphene Oxide With Remarkable Supercapacitive Performance
Plawan Kumar Jha, Kriti Gupta, Anil Krishna Debnath, Shammi Rana, Rajendrakumar Sharma, and Nirmalya Ballav
2018
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Stable Red Emission from Nanosheets of Molecularly Doped Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Vikash Kumar, Niharika Joshi, Barun Dhara, Plawan Kumar Jha, Shammi Rana, Prasenjit Ghosh, and Nirmalya Ballav
2017
94.
High-Level Supercapacitive Performance of Chemically Reduced Graphene Oxide
Plawan Kumar Jha, Santosh Kumar Singh, Vikash Kumar, Shammi Rana, Sreekumar Kurungot, Nirmalya Ballav
93.
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
92.
Giant Enhancement of Carrier Mobility in Bimetallic Coordination Polymers
Barun Dhara, Vikash Kumar, Kriti Gupta, Plawan Kumar Jha and Nirmalya Ballav
91.
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
90.
Diamagnetic Molecules Exhibiting Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism in Supramolecular Aggregates
Barun Dhara, Plawan Kumar Jha, Kriti Gupta, Vimlesh Kumar Bind, and Nirmalya Ballav
89.
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. 2017, 53, 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
87.
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
86.
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
85.
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
84.
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. 2016, 45, 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
82.
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
81.
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
80.
Homogeneously-Alloyed Gold−Silver Nanoparticles as per Feeding Moles
Ranguwar Rajendra, Parnika Bhatia, Anita Justin, Shilpy Sharma and Nirmalya Ballav
2014
79.
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
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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
69.
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
67.
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
63.
In situ generation of conducting polymer in a redox-active metal–organic gel
Barun Dhara and Nirmalya Ballav
RSC Adv. 2013, 3, 4909-4913
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Emergence of On-Surface Magnetochemistry
Nirmalya Ballav, Christian Wackerlin, Dorota Siewert, Peter M. Oppeneer and Thomas A. Jung
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
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. 2012, 3, 2582–2587
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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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