1. Room Temperature Surface Engineering of CuInS2 for Enhanced Optical Properties: Ionic salt vs Hydrophobic ligands, Shivangi Jain, Nidhi Dubey, Bikram Das, Ali Hossain Khan and Suresh Sarkar, 2026, Under Review
2. Surface Engineering of hydrophobic Ag-polyhedral nanocrystals for enhanced electrochemical water splitting, Nidhi Dubey a, Shashwat Bishwanathan , Shivangi Jain , Prashant Kumar Gupta and Suresh Sarkar, 2026, Under Review
3. Quantum Dot Encoding for In-Solution Single-Molecule Biomarker Counting in Metastatic Prostate Cancer, Chia-Wei Kuo, Siva Nalla, Suresh Sarkar, Wonseok Lee, Liang Wang, Manish Kohli, and Andrew M. Smith, 2026, Under Review
4. Arogundade, OH; Kuo, CW, Cui, Y.; Sarkar, S.; Feng, Y.; Kollosov, LV.; James, S.; Lee, W.; Smith, AM “Dynamic Polymer Cross-linking Limits the Homogeneity of Compact Quantum Dots for Single-Particle Tracking’ ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2025, 17, 50476–50489.
5. Guria, AK; Jain, S; Dubbey, N; Sarkar, S “Colloidally Synthesized Near-infrared Emitting Perovskite Nanocrystals for Optoelectronics’ ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2025, 17, 41403–41441.
6. Sarkar, S; Arogundade, OH; Cui, Y; Hernandez Alvarez, EI; Schleife, A; Smith, AM “Nanocrystal syntheses with alkoxy ligands and solvents. Nature Synthesis, 2025, 132, 1-10.
7. Kollosov, LV; Kanakaraju, K; Sarkar, S; Arogundade, OH; Kuo, CW; Mara, N; Smith, AM “Antibody Fragments and Quantum Dots as Compact Immunolabels for Microtubule Imaging and Cell Classification in Cells and Tissues. ACS Nano 2024, 18, 15084−15095
8. Han, Z; Vaidya, RM; Arogundade, OH; Liang, M; Zahid, MU; Sarkar, S; Kuo, CW; Selvin, PR; Smith, AM “Structural Design of Multidentate Copolymers as Compact Quantum Dot Coatings for Live-Cell Single-Particle Imaging. Chem. Mater., 2022, 34, 4621–4632.
9. Deng, H; Konopka, CJ; Prabhu, S; Sarkar, S; Medina ; NG, Fayyaz ; Muhammad, Arogundade, OH; Gamage, HED; Shahoei, HM; Nall, D; Youn, Y; Dobrucka, IT; Audu, CO; Joshi, A; J Melvin, WJ; Gallagher, KA; Selvin, PR; Nelson, ER; Dobrucki, LW; Swanson, KS; Smith AM “Dextran-Mimetic Quantum Dots for Multimodal Macrophage Imaging In Vivo, Ex Vivo, and In Situ. ACS nano 2022, 16, 199-2012.
10. Sarkar, S; Sharp, GC; Finn, TS; Macdonald, EJ “Cracking shells and scrambling eggs: intermediate shell formation and anion rearrangement in the cation exchange from p-SnS to Cu1.8S” Chem. Mater., 2021, 8, 3011–3019.
11. Le, P; Vaidya, R; Smith, LD; Han, Z; Zahid, MU; Winter, J; Sarkar, S; Chung, HJ; Perez-Pinera, P; Selvin, PR; Smith, AM “Optimizing Quantum Dot Probe Size for Single-Receptor Imaging” ACS nano 2020, 14, 8343-8358.
12. Han, Z; Sarkar, S; and Smith, AM ‘’Zwitterion and Oligo (Ethylene Glycol) Synergy Minimizes Nonspecific Binding of Compact Quantum Dots’’ ACS Nano 2020, 14, 3227–3241.
13. Sarkar, S; Le, P; Geng, J; Liu, Y; Han, Z; Mohammad, Z. U; Nall D; Youn, Y; Selvin, PR; Smith, AM ‘’Short-Wave Infrared Quantum Dots with Compact Sizes as Molecular Probes for Fluorescence Microscopy’’ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 3449-3462.
14. Liu, Y; Le, P; Lim SJ, S; Ma, L; Sarkar, S; Han, Z; Murphy; SJ; Kosari, F; Vasmatzis, G; Cheville, JC; Smith, AM “Enhanced mRNA FISH with Compact Quantum dots” Nature Communication. 9, 4461 (2018)
15. Sarkar, S; Leach, ADP; Macdonald, JE “Folded nanosheets: A new mechanism for nanodisk formation” Chem. Mater., 2016, 28, 4324-4330.
16. Hernández-Pagán, EA; Leach, ADP; Rhodes, JM; Sarkar, S; Macdonald, JE “A Synthetic Exploration of Metal−Semiconductor Hybrid Particles of CuInS2” Chem. Mater., 2015, 27, 7969–7976.
17. Patra, BK; Shit, A; Guria, AK; Sarkar, S; Prusty, G; Pradhan, N “Coincident Site Epitaxy at the
Junctions of Au-Cu2ZnSnS4 Hetero-nanostructures” Chem. Mater., 2015, 27, 650–657.
18. Guria, AK; Dey, K; Sarkar, S; Patra, BK; Giri, S; Pradhan, N “Tuning the Growth Pattern in 2D Confinement Regime of Sm2O3 and the Emerging Room Temperature Unusual Superparamagnetism” Sci. Report, 2014 doi:10.1038/srep06514.
19. Sarkar, S; Guria, AK; Patra, BK; Pradhan, N “Chemically Sealing the Nanotubes: A Case Study on Sb2S3” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 12566 –12570.
20. Acharya, S; Sarkar, S; Chacrabarty, S; Pradhan, N “Vortex Pattern Self-Assembly in Mn doped ZnSe Nanorods” Chemistry – Eur. J. 2014, 20, 3922–3926.
21. Guria, AK, Sarkar, S; Patra, BK; Pradhan, N “Efficient Superionic Conductor Catalyst for Solid
in Solution-Solid-Solid Growth of Hetero-nanowires” J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2014, 5, 732–736.
22. Sarkar, S; Guria, AK; Patra, BK; Pradhan, N “Synthesis and Photo-darkening/Photo-brightening of Blue Emitting Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals” Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 3786-3790.
23. Patra, BK; Sarkar, S; Guria, AK; Pradhan, N “Monodisperse SnS Nanocrystals: In Just 5 Seconds” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2013, 4, 3929–3934.
24. Sarkar, S; Maity, AR; Karan, NS; Pradhan, N “Fluorescence Energy Transfer from Doped to Undoped Quantum Dots” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2013, 117, 21988–21994.
25. Sarkar, S; Acharya, S; Chakraborty, A; Pradhan, N “Zinc Blende 0D Quantum Dots to Wurtzite 1D Quantum Wires: The Oriented Attachment and Phase Change in ZnSe Nanostructures” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2013, 4, 3292–3297.
26. Maity, AR; Palmal, S; Basiruddin, Sk; Karan, NS; Sarkar, S; Pradhan, N; Jana NR “Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystal Based Fluorescent Cellular Imaging Probes” Nanoscale 2013, 5, 5506-5513.
27. Sarkar, S; Guria, AK; Pradhan, N “Influence of Doping on Semiconductor Nanocrystals Mediated Charge Transfer and Photocatalytic Organic Reaction” Chem. Comm. 2013, 49, 6018-6020 (Cover page)
28. Acharya S; Sarkar, S; Pradhan, N “Material diffusion and Doping of Mn in Wurtzite ZnSe Nanorods” J. Phys. Chem. C 2013, 117, 6006-6012.
29. Sarkar, S; Patra, BK; Guria, AK; Pradhan, N “The Redox Chemistry at the Interface for Retrieving and Brightening the Emission of Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2013, 4, 2084-2090.
30. Acharya S; Sarkar, S; Pradhan, N “Subnanometer Thin β-Indium Sulfide Nanosheets” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2012, 3, 3812-3817.
31. Acharya S; Dutta, M; Sarkar, S; Basak, D; Chakraborty, S; Pradhan, N “Synthesis of Micrometer Length Indium Sulfide Nanosheets and Study of Their Dopant Induced Photoresponse Properties” Chem. Mat. 2012, 24, 1779-1785.
32. Sarkar, S; Karan, NS; Pradhan, N “Ultrasmall Color-Tunable Copper-Doped Ternary Semiconductor Nanocrystal Emitters” Angew. Chem. 2011, 50, 6065-6069.
33. Karan, NS; Sarkar, S; Sarma, DD; Kundu, P; Ravishankar, N; Pradhan, N “Thermally Controlled Cyclic Insertion/Ejection of Dopant Ions and Reversible Zinc Blende/Wurtzite Phase Changes in ZnS Nanostructures” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 1666-1669.
34. Sarkar, S; Bose, R; Jana, S; Jana, NR; Pradhan, N “Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Organic Dyes: An Efficient and Greener FRET System” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2010, 1, 636–640.
35. Basu, M; Sarkar, S; Pande, S; Jana, S; Sinha, AK; Sarkar, S, Pradhan, M; Pal, A; Pal, T “Hydroxylation of benzophenone with ammonium phosphomolybdate in the solid state via UV photoactivation” Chem. Comm. 2009, 46, 7191-7193.