Publications

2023

1. Site-specific optical encryption via nanoscale integration of carbon on monolayer WS2, Deepa Thakur, Pawan Kumar, Arjun Barwal, Deep Jariwala, Erich Stach, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Carbon, 2023, 214, 118339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2023.118339 

2. Substrate Versatile Roller Ball Pen Writing of Nanoporous MoS2 for Energy Storage Devices, Nitika Arya, Yadu Chandran, Arkaj Singh, Ravinder Sharma, Aditi Halder, Viswanath Balakrishnan, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023, 15, 41447-41456. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c05536 

3. Porosity-Engineered CNT-MoS2 Hybrid Nanostructures for Bipolar Supercapacitor Applications, Nitika Arya, Yadu Chandran, Bhumit Luhar, Priyanka Kajal, Satvasheel Powar, Viswanath Balakrishnan, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023, 15, 34818–34828. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c05098 

4. Multifold stiffness and fracture toughness enhancement in W-doped VO2 microcrystals, Divya Verma, Yadu Chandran, Piyush Uniyal, Navin Kumar, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2023, 106, 4321-4328. https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.19075 

5. Arresting the surface oxidation kinetics of bilayer 1T'-MoTe2 by sulphur passivation, Yadu Chandran, Deepa Thakur, B Raju Naik and Viswanath Balakrishnan, Nanotechnology, 2023, 34, 375702. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6528/acddea 

6. Strain Engineering of Metal Insulator Transition in VO2, Divya Verma and Viswanath Balakrishnan, AIP Publishing LLC, Strain Engineering in Functional Materials and Devices, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1063/9780735425590_004 

7. Fabrication of vertically aligned CNT- vanadium oxide hybrid architecture with enhanced compressibility and supercapacitor performance, Nitika Arya, Divya Verma and Viswanath Balakrishnan, Nanotechnology, 2023, 34, 115401. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6528/aca619

8. Heteroatomic stitching of broken WS2 monolayer with enhanced surface potential, Deepa Thakur, Yukio Sato and Viswanath Balakrishnan, Nanoscale, 2023, 15, 5274-5283. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2NR06288G 

2022

9. Enhanced optical emission at MoS2-WS2 heterostructure interface with nN junction, Deepa Thakur, Yukio Sato, M Sabarigresan, Ranjith Ramadurai, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Applied Surface Science, 2022, 606, 154923. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2022.154923 

10. Frictional Behavior of Alumina-Coated Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Forests: Implications for Micro and Nano Electromechanical Devices, Divya Verma, Himanshu Rai, Nitya Nand Gosvami, Viswanath Balakrishnan, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2022, 5, 8484-8490. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.2c01702 

11. Fracture toughness of VO2 microcrystals across metal-insulator transition, Divya Verma, Davinder Singh, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Materials Letters, 2022, 315, 132006. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2022.132006 

12. Interplay between Thermal Stress and Interface Binding on Fracture of WS2 Monolayer with Triangular Voids, Divya Verma, Pawan Kumar, Sankha Mukherjee, Deepa Thakur, Chandra Veer Singh, Viswanath Balakrishnan, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022, 14, 16876-16884. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c00901 

13. Effect of chemical doping on memristive behavior of VO2 microcrystals, Raju Naik B, Divya Verma, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Applied Physics Letters, 2022, 120, 062101. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0075566 

14. Stacked Stainless Steel Mesh with Iron Oxide Nanostructures as a Substrate for NOx Emission Control of Diesel Engines, Sandeep Yadav, Piyush Avasthi, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Atul Dhar, Metal Nanocomposites for Energy and Environmental Applications, Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, Springer, Singapore, 509–525. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8599-6_22 

15. Reusable piezocatalytic water disinfection activity of CVD-grown few-layer WS2 on sapphire substrate, Deepa Thakur, Moolchand Sharma, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Rahul Vaish, Environmental Science: Nano, 2022, 9, 805-814. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EN00926E 

2021

16. Layer number dependent optical and electrical properties of CVD grown two-dimensional anisotropic WS2, Deepa Thakur, Pawan Kumar, M Sabarigresan, Ranjith Ramadurai, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Surfaces and Interfaces, 2021, 26, 101308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2021.101308 

17. WS2 Monolayer for Piezo–Phototronic Dye Degradation and Bacterial Disinfection, Deepa Thakur, Moolchand Sharma, Rahul Vaish, Viswanath Balakrishnan, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2021, 4, 7879–7887. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.1c01202 

18. Dynamic mechanical response of VO2-UHMWPE polymer composite across the phase transition, Divya Verma, Piyush Uniyal, Davinder Singh, Sanjeev K Verma, Navin Kumar, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Materials Today Communications, 2021, 26, 102003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2020.102003 

19. Light-fostered supercapacitor performance of multi-layered ReS2 grown on conducting substrates, Nitika Arya, Piyush Avasthi, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Nanoscale Advances, 2021, 3, 2089-2102. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0NA00901F 

20. Nickel decorated MoO3 single crystal microflakes with multi-site functionality for enhanced hydrogen evolution reaction, Nitika Arya, Piyush Avasthi, Aditi Halder, Viswanath Balakrishnan, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2021, 46, 1945-1954. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.10.030 

2020

21. Upscaling mechanical properties of Al2O3 coated VACNT forest architecture under compression, Divya Verma, Piyush Avasthi, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Materials Characterization, 2020, 170, 110687. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2020.110687 

22. Fabrication of iron oxide-CNT based flexible asymmetric solid state supercapacitor device with high cyclic stability, Piyush Avasthi, Nitika Arya, Mithilesh Singh, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Nanotechnology, 2020, 31, 435402. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6528/aba2a0 

23. Polymorphic In-Plane Heterostructures of Monolayer WS2 for Light-Triggered Field-Effect Transistors, Pawan Kumar, Kartikey Thakar, Navneet Chandra Verma, Jayeeta Biswas, Takuya Maeda, Ahin Roy, Kenji Kaneko, Chayan Kanti Nandi, Saurabh Lodha, Viswanath Balakrishnan, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2020, 3, 3750-3759. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.0c00027 

24. Carbon Nano Tube Forest on Stainless Steel Mesh as Catalyst Support for Development of Low-cost SCR for Diesel Engine NO Reduction, Akash Kumar, Piyush Avasthi, Gaurav Tripathi, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Atul Dhar, Journal of Energy and Environmental Sustainability, 2020, 9, 67-71. https://www.jees.in/uploads/2020ab67.pdf 

25. Phase selective CVD growth and photoinduced 1T→ 1H phase transition in a WS2 monolayer, Deepa Thakur, Pawan Kumar, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2020, 8, 10438-10447. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0TC02037K 

2019

26. Switchable Friction across Insulator–Metal Transition in VO2, Davinder Singh, Prashant Mittal, Nitya Nand Gosvami, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Advanced Engineering Materials, 2019, 21, 1900616. https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.201900616 

27. Selective Oxidation of WS2 Defect Domain with Sub‐Monolayer Thickness Leads to Multifold Enhancement in Photoluminescence, Pawan Kumar, Jayeeta Biswas, Juhi Pandey, Kartikey Thakar, Ajay Soni, Saurabh Lodha, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2019, 6, 1900962. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201900962 

28. Thermally driven reversible photoluminescence modulation in WS2/VO2 heterostructure, Pawan Kumar, Davinder Singh, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Applied Surface Science, 2019, 480, 680-688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.03.033 

29. Tuning the Wettability of Vertically Aligned CNT–TiO2 Hybrid Electrodes for Enhanced Supercapacitor Performance, Piyush Avasthi, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2019, 6, 1801842. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201801842 

30. Gram scale synthesis of monoclinic VO2 microcrystals by hydrothermal and argon annealing treatment, Divya Verma, Davinder Singh, Pawan Kumar, Piyush Avasthi, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Ceramics International, 2019, 45, 3554-3562. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2018.11.014 

31. Aligned CNT forests on stainless steel mesh for flexible supercapacitor electrode with high capacitance and power density, Piyush Avasthi, Akash Kumar, Viswanath Balakrishnan, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2019, 2, 1484-1495. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.8b02355 

2018

32. In situ thermo-mechanical bending behavior of VO2 microcantilevers across the phase transition, Davinder Singh, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2018, 29, 015002. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6439/aaeab5 

33. Nanomechanical behavior of Pb(Fe0.5-xScxNb0.5)O3 multiferroic ceramics, Davinder Singh, B Mallesham, Akshay Deshinge, Kunal Joshi, R Ranjith, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Materials Research Express, 2018, 5, 116303. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2053-1591/aade3b 

34. Controlled sulfurization of DC sputtered Mo and W thin films for CVD growth of MoS2/WS2 heterostructures, B Raju Naik, Pawan Kumar, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Materials Research Express, 2018, 5, 086405. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2053-1591/aad26d 

35. Photocatalytic Water Disinfection of CVD Grown WS2 Monolayer Decorated with Ag Nanoparticles, Pawan Kumar, Shivangi Kataria, Shounak Roy, Amit Jaiswal, Viswanath Balakrishnan, ChemistrySelect, 2018, 3, 7648-7655. https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.201800997 

36. Electroless growth of high surface area Au dendrites with corrugated edge structure for hybrid supercapacitor applications, Piyush Avasthi, Viswanath Balakrishnan, ChemistrySelect, 2018, 3, 3866-3870. https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.201703132 

37. Growth and microstructural evolution of WS2 nanostructures with tunable field and light modulated electrical transport, Pawan Kumar, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Applied Surface Science, 2018, 436, 846-853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.12.091 

38. Nanosculpting of Atomically Thin 2D Materials for Site‐Specific Photoluminescence Modulation, Pawan Kumar, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Advanced Optical Materials, 2018, 6, 1701284. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201701284 

39. Competing thermal expansion mismatch and lattice strain engineered growth of crack free WS2 in-plane heterostructures, Pawan Kumar, Birender Singh, Pradeep Kumar, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2018, 6, 11407-11415. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8TC04573A 

40. Scalable faceted voids with luminescent enhanced edges in WS2 monolayers, Pawan Kumar, Dipanwita Chatterjee, Takuya Maeda, Ahin Roy, Kenji Kaneko, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 16321-16331. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8NR02246A 

41. Phase engineering of seamless heterophase homojunctions with co-existing 3R and 2H phases in WS2 monolayers, Pawan Kumar, Navneet Chandra Verma, Natasha Goyal, Jayeeta Biswas, Saurabh Lodha, Chayan K Nandi, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 3320-3330. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7NR08303C 

2017

42. Direct measurement of nanomechanical actuation across phase transition in VO2 crystals, Davinder Singh, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Scripta Materialia, 2017, 141, 24-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2017.07.014 

43. Magnetoresistance across metal–insulator transition in VO2 micro crystals, Davinder Singh, CS Yadav, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Materials Letters, 2017, 196, 248-251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2017.03.066 

44. In situ nanomechanical behaviour of coexisting insulating and metallic domains in VO2 microbeams, Davinder Singh, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Journal of Materials Science, 2017, 52, 5589-5599. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-017-0792-4 

45. Horizontally and vertically aligned growth of strained MoS2 layers with dissimilar wetting and catalytic behaviors, Pawan Kumar, Viswanath Balakrishnan, CrystEngComm, 2017, 19, 5068-5078. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CE01162H 

2016

46. Effect of Sulfur Evaporation Rate on Screw Dislocation Driven Growth of MoS2 with High Atomic Step Density, Pawan Kumar, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Crystal Growth & Design, 2016, 16, 7145-7154. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.6b01367 

2023

1. Understanding the impact dynamics of droplets on superhydrophobic surface, Debarshi Debnath, Divya Verma, Parmod Kumar, Viswanath Balakrishnan, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2023, 159, 104344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2022.104344 

2. Nanoscale friction and wear behavior of a CVD-grown aged WS2 monolayer: the role of wrinkles and surface chemistry, Himanshu Rai, Deepa Thakur, Aayush Gadal, Zhijiang Ye, Viswanath Balakrishnan and Nitya Nand Gosvami, Nanoscale, 2023, 15, 10079-10088. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3NR01261A

2022

3. Spatial variation in nanoscale wear behavior of chemical vapor deposited monolayer WS2, Himanshu Rai, Deepa Thakur, Deepak Kumar, Ashutosh Pitkar, Zhijiang Ye, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Nitya Nand Gosvami, Applied Surface Science, 2022, 605, 154783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2022.154783 

4. Microarchitectures of Carbon Nanotubes for Reversible Na Plating/Stripping Toward the Development of Room‐Temperature Na–S Batteries, Chhail Bihari Soni, Nitika Arya, Sungjemmenla, SK Vineeth, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Vipin Kumar, Energy Technology, 2022,10, 2200742.  https://doi.org/10.1002/ente.202200742 

5. Scalable Production of Ultrathin Boron Nanosheets from a Low‐Cost Precursor, Hushan Chand, Ashish Kumar, Preeti Bhumla, Banavath Raju Naik, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Saswata Bhattacharya, Venkata Krishnan, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2022, 9, 2200508.  https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202200508 

6. Anomalous emission behavior of excitons at low temperature in monolayer WS2, Bhuvan Upadhyay, Deepa Thakur, Bulti Pramanick, Sahil Bhandari, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Suman Kalyan Pal, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2022, 55, 235105. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/ac4ec3/meta 

7. Scalable approach to develop high performance chemiresistive nitric oxide sensor, Ravindra Kumar Jha, Aman Nanda, Piyush Avasthi, Nitika Arya, Anshul Yadav, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Navakanta Bhat, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 2022, 21, 177-184. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNANO.2022.3149710  

2021

8. Charge Pumping by Contact Electrification Using Electrostatic Force Microscopy in Bi- and Trilayered MoS2 Nanosheets, Rohini Sanikop, Nitika Arya, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Chandran Sudakar, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2021, 125, 12155-12165.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c02347 

9. Frictional anisotropy of Ag nanocolumnar surfaces, Meenu Pandey, Divya Verma, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Nitya Nand Gosvami, JP Singh, Tribology International, 2021, 153, 106674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.triboint.2020.106674

2019

10. Thermal expansion coefficient and phonon dynamics in coexisting allotropes of monolayer WS2 probed by Raman scattering, Deepu Kumar, Birender Singh, Pawan Kumar, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Pradeep Kumar, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2019, 31, 505403. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-648X/ab3fec 

11. Observations of zero electrical resistance of Au-Ag thin films near room temperature, MK Hooda, P Kumar, Viswanath Balakrishnan, CS Yadav, 2019. https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.00708 

12. Candle soot: Journey from a pollutant to a functional material, Manasi R Mulay, Aditya Chauhan, Satyanarayan Patel, Viswanath Balakrishnan, Aditi Halder, Rahul Vaish, Carbon, 2019, 144, 684-712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2018.12.083 

2018

13. A new insight on the role of 1-D and 2-D reinforcements in TiC during high temperature plastic deformation, M Sribalaji, Davinder Singh, Swarnima Singh, Aminul Islam, Mayank Kumar Pandey, B Viswanath, Anup Kumar Keshri, Ceramics International, 2018, 44, 18389-18399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2018.07.055