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• Outstanding Papers of STAM
• Best Poster Paper, MRSI

Journal
• Temperature-Driven Structural Evolution in N-Doped Carbon Dots for Tailored Electrocatalytic CO2ER HER Pathways by Basu R., Bhattacharya G., Samanta D., Shaw M., Bhattacharya A., Mondal I., Shaik M.A.S., Samanta A.N., Pathak A. Langmuir 42 1436-1449 (2026)
• Sensitive Detection of Hg2+ and l-Cysteine through Optical Asymmetry-Tuned Fluorescence Switch Off-On Behavior in N-Doped Chiral Carbon Dot by Bhattacharya A., Samanta D., Shaw M., Shaik M.A.S., Basu R., Mondal I., Pathak A. ACS Applied Bio Materials 8 503-518 (2025)
• Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots: An Alternative Base Catalyst for Knoevenagel-Doebner and Aldol Condensation Reactions by Basu R., Samanta D., Shaw M., Bhattacharya A., Pathak A. ChemistrySelect 10 - (2025)
• Chemisorbed O2-Driven Radical-Mediated Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation on Cu Surface by Shaw M., Samanta D., Sardar P., Basu R., Shaik M.A.S., Mondal I., Bhattacharya A., Phapale D., Barvalia C., Roy A., Pathak A. Journal of Physical Chemistry C - (2025)
• H-aggregation induced dual emissive carbon nanoparticles for ratiometric detection of uranyl ions through dynamic to static excimer formation by Shaik M.A.S., Samanta D., Shaw M., Sharma A.K., Prodhan S., Mondal I., Basu R., Bhattacharya A., Masood S., Datta P.K., Pathak A. New Journal of Chemistry 49 19763-19777 (2025)
• Chiral carbon dots: a smart choice for inhibition of human serum albumin fibrillation by Konar S., Sen S., Pathak A. New Journal of Chemistry 48 2933-2944 (2024)
• Chirality Cascade and Atomic-Scale Helicity in Hierarchical Chiral CuO Nanostructures by Samanta D., Shaw M., Shaik M.A.S., Basu R., Mondal I., Bhattacharya A., Pathak A. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 128 16072-16084 (2024)
• Influence of Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots on H Radical-Mediated Au-H Formation in the Hydrogenation of 4-Nitrophenol Using NCDs-Au Nanohybrids by Mondal I., Samanta D., Shaik M.A.S., Shaw M., Bhattacharya A., Basu R., Pathak A. Langmuir 40 19228-19238 (2024)
• Biocompatible fluorescent carbon nanoparticles as nanocarriers for targeted delivery of tamoxifen for regression of Breast carcinoma by Puvvada N., Shaik M.A.S., Samanta D., Shaw M., Mondal I., Basu R., Bhattacharya A., Pathak A. Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 321 - (2024)
• Optical Asymmetry and Structural Complexity in Hierarchically Organized Chiral CuO Nanostructures: Insight into the Geometric and Crystallographic Effects on Cooperative Chirality by Mahanty A. (. Inorganic Chemistry 62 16725-16733 (2023)
• White light emission from helically stacked humin-mimic based H-aggregates in heteroatom free carbon dots by Mahanty A. (., Datta P. K. Nanoscale 15 19238-19254 (2023)
• Solvent-induced switching between static and dynamic fluorescence quenching of N, S Co-doped carbon dots in sensing of Crotonaldehyde: A detailed systematic study by Shaw M., Samanta D., Shaik M.A.S., Bhattacharya A., Basu R., Mondal I., Pathak A. Optical Materials 137 113600-113620 (2023)
• Blue-Emissive Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots for Picric Acid Detection: Molecular Fluorescence Quenching Mechanism by Mahto M. K., Samanta D. , Shaw M. , Shaik M. S., Basu R. , Mondal I. , Bhattacharya A. , Mahanty A. (. ACS Applied Nano Materials 8059-8070 (2023)
• Carbon Dots as a Fluorescent Probe for Appraising Morphology Dependent Free Radical Scavenging Properties of CuO Nanostructures by Mahanty A. (. ChemistrySelect 8 - (2023)
• Engineering Hierarchical Self-Assembled PANI-/1T@2H MoS2 Nanostructure toward Ultrahigh Performance Supercapacitor Electrodes by Mahanty A. (., Nath T. K. ACS Applied Energy Materials 6 11012-11029 (2023)
• Pyridinic-N-rich carbon dots in IFE-based Turn-off Fluorometric detection of nerve agent Mimic Diethyl chlorophosphate and multicolor cell imaging by Mondal I., Samanta D., Shaw M., Abdus Salam Shaik M., Kr Mahto M., Basu R., Bhattacharya A., Pathak A. Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 294 122530-122541 (2023)
• Click Chemistry Assisted Synthesis of Magnetite CNT Nanohybrid Supported Gold Nanoparticles for Enhanced Catalytic Reduction of 4 Nitrophenol by Mahanty A. (. ChemistrySelect 8 - (2023)
• Ethanol Gas Sensors Using Semi-Hedgehog-like CuO Nanostructures: Studying the Role of Oxygen Vacancies, Unsaturated Cu-Sites, and Hole Accumulation Layer by Mahanty A. (. ACS Applied Nano Materials 6 21839-21852 (2023)
• Role of Surface Oxygen Vacancies and Oxygen Species on CuO Nanostructured Surfaces in Model Catalytic Oxidation and Reductions: Insight into the Structure-Activity Relationship Toward the Performance by Shaw M., Samanta D., Bera S., Mahto M.K., Salam Shaik M.A., Konar S., Mondal I., Dhara D., Pathak A. Inorganic Chemistry 61 14568-14581 (2022)
• One Order Enhancement of Charge Carrier Relaxation Rate by Tuning Structural and Optical Properties in Annealed Cobalt Doped MoS2 Nanosheets by Rahman R., Karmakar M. , Samanta D. , Pathak A. , Datta P. K., Nath T. K. New Journal of Chemistry 46 1877-1895 (2022)
• Fluorescent N, S co-doped carbon dots for tartrazine sensing and mechanistic perception of their radical scavenging activity by Shaik M.A.S., Samanta D., Shaw M., Mondal I., Basu R., Pathak A. Sensors and Actuators Reports 4 100127- (2022)
• Insights into the multifunctional applications of strategically Co doped MoS 2 nanoflakes by Nath T. K., Mahanty A. (. Materials Advances 3 8740-8759 (2022)
• Tuning of structural and optical properties with enhanced catalytic activity in chemically synthesized Co-doped MoS2nanosheets by Rahman R., Samanta D., Pathak A., Nath T.K. RSC Advances 11 1303-1319 (2021)
• Sensitive detection of auric and sulphide ions using hybrid silver/nitrogen-doped carbon nanoparticles by Tantubay S., Kalita H., Pathak A. Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical 330 129276-129287 (2021)
• N-doped carbon dot as fluorescent probe for detection of cysteamine and multicolor cell imaging by Konar S., Kumar B.N.P., Mahto M.K., Samanta D., Shaik M.A.S., Shaw M., Mandal M., Pathak A. Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical 286 77-85 (2019)
• Selective and sensitive detection of cinnamaldehyde by nitrogen and sulphur co-doped carbon dots: A detailed systematic study by Konar S., Samanta D., Mandal S., Das S., Mahto M.K., Shaw M., Mandal M., Pathak A. RSC Advances 8 42361-42373 (2018)
• Targeting of EGFR, VEGFR2, and Akt by Engineered Dual Drug Encapsulated Mesoporous Silica Gold Nanoclusters Sensitizes Tamoxifen-Resistant Breast Cancer by Kumar B., Nagaprasad P. , Rajput S. , Sarkar S. , Mahto M. K., Yallapu M. M., Pathak A. , Emdad L. , Das S. ., Reis R. ., Kundu S. C., Fisher P. B., Mandal M. Molecular Pharmaceutics 15 2698-2713 (2018)
• N, S doped carbon dots - Plasmonic Au nanocomposites for visible-light photocatalytic reduction of nitroaromatics by Mahto M.K., Samanta D., Konar S., Kalita H., Pathak A. Journal of Materials Research 33 3906-3916 (2018)
• Micellear Gold Nanoparticles as Delivery Vehicles for Dual Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor ZD6474 for Metastatic Breast Cancer Treatment by Sarkar S., Konar S. , Nagaprasad, P. , Shashi Rajputl S. , Kumar B. , Rao R. R., Pathak A. , Pathak, Paul B. Fisher, P. B., Mandal M. Langmuir 33 7649-7659 (2017)
• Morphological Effects of CuO Nanostructures on Fibrillation of Human Serum Albumin by Konar S., Sen S. , Pathak A. J. Phys. Chem. B 121 11437-11448 (2017)
• Inhibition of fibrillation of Human Serum Albumin through interaction with Chitosan-based Biocompatible Silver Nanoparticles by Sen S., Konar S. , Das B. , Pathak A. , Dhara S. , Dasgupta S. , Dasgupta S. RSC Advances 6 43104-43115 (2016)
• Sonochemically synthesized biocompatible zirconium phosphate nanoparticles for pH sensitive drug delivery application by Kalita H., Kumar B. P., Konar S. , Tantubay S. , Mahto M. K., Mandal M. , Pathak A. Materials Science and Engg:C (Mater. for Bio. Appl.) 60 84-91 (2016)
• Preparation of Hollow TiO2 Nanospheres for Biomedical Applications, Himani Kalita and Amita Pathak by Kalita H., Pathak A. Green Chemistry & Technology Letters 2 68-73 (2016)
• Fabrication and Characterization of Polyvinyl alcohol/Metal (Ca, Mg, Ti) Doped Zirconium Phosphate Nanocomposite Films for Scaffold-guided Tissue Engineering Application by Kalita H., Pal P. , Dhara S. , Pathak A. Materials Science & Engineering:C (Mater. for Bio. Appl.) 71 363-371 (2016)
• Fe3O4@Zirconium Phosphate Core-shell Fe3O4@Zirconium Phosphate Core-shell Nanoparticles for pH-Sensitive and Magnetically guided Drug Deliver Applications by Kalita H., Rajput S. , Kumar B. , Mandal M. , Pathak A. RSC Advances 6 2016,6,21285-21292 (2016)
• Shape-dependent catalytic activity of CuO nanostructures by Konar S., Pavvada N. , Tantubay S. , Mahto M. K., Pathak A. Journal of Catalysis 336 11-22 (2016)
• Sequential release of drugs from Hollow Manganese Ferrate nanocarriers for Breast cancer therapy by Pathak A., Mandal M. , Kumar B. , Nagaprasad P. , Rajput S. , Sarkar S. , Das S. K., Emdad L. , Sarkar D. , Venkatesan P. , Pal I. , Dey G. , Konar S. , Brunt K. R., Rao R. R., Mazumdar A. , Kundu S. C. J. Mater. Chem. B 12 4214-4225 (2015)
• Overcoming Akt Induced Therapeutic Resistance in Breast Cancer through siRNA and Thymoquinone Encapsulated Multilamellar Gold Niosomes by Rajput S., Nagaprasad P. , Kumar B. , Sarkar, S. , Suraj Konar S. , Bharti R. , Dey G. , Mazumdar, A. , Pathak A. , Fisher P. B., Mandal M. Molecular Pharmaceutics 12 4214-4225 (2015)
• Phase transformation in Mn-doped titania hollow spheres and their biocompatibility studies by Pathak A., Kalita H. , Konar S. , Tantubay S. , Mahto M. K. Applied Nanoscience 5 901-910 (2015)
• Carboxymethylated chitosan-stabilized copper nanoparticles: a promise to contribute a potent antifungal and antibacterial agent by Pathak A., Tantubay S. , Mukhopadhyay S. K., Kalita H. , Konar S. , Dey S. , Pramanik P. Journal of Nanoparticle Research 17 243-260 (2015)
• Novel ZnO hollow-nanocarriers containing paclitaxel targeting folate-receptors in a malignant pH-microenvironment for effective monitoring and promoting breast tumor regression by Nagaprasad P., Rajput S. , Kumar B. , Sarkar S. , Konar S. , Brunt K. R., Rao R. R., Mazumdar A. , Das S. K., Basu R. , Fisher P. B., Mandal M. , Pathak A. Scientific Reports 5 11760-11775 (2015)
• Effect of functionalized magnetic MnFe2O4 nanoparticles on fibrillation of human serum albumin by Sen S., Konar S. , Pathak A. , Dasgupta S. , Dasgupta S. J.Phys.CHem. B 118 11667-11676 (2014)
• Effect of Functionalized Magnetic MnFe2O4 Nanoparticles on Fibrillation of Human Serum Albumin by Dasgupta S., Dasgupta S. , Sen S. , Konar S. , Patahk A. J. Phys. Chem. B 18 11667-11676 (2014)
Patent
• Fluorescent chiral carbon dots and one-pot synthesis of the same by Mahanty A. (., Konar S. , Samanta D. - (2019)
Symposium
• Investigations on Structural, Optical, Magnetic and Electrical Properties of Transition Metal (Mn) Doped MoS2 for Possible Spintronic and Optoelectronic Applications by Nath T. K., Pathak A. , Rahman R. Research Scholar Day 16- (2009)

Principal Investigator

• SYNTHESIS OF INORGANIC-FULLERENCE-TYPE (MOS2&WS2) NANO-PARTICLES AND STUDY OF THEIR LUBRICATION PROPERTIES

Co-Principal Investigator

• New polymers and polymer composites: design, synthesis and advanced applications (SGDRI)
• STUDIES ON MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLE ASSISTED HYPERTHERMIA ACTIVATION OF ENEDIYNES IN CANCER CELLS