Publications, Patents, and Book Chapters

1. 1. G. Hattale, R. Kadam, V. Virole, R. Pandya, A. Paul, A. Kumar, R. Shevate, K. Vanka, A. Saha, R. Kanawade*, "Photoluminescence Decay Lifetime Study of Hydrothermally Synthesized Highly Porous Ruthenium–Silica Composite for Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensing Application", ACS Applied Nano Materials, 9, 937 - 949 (2026), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.5c04307

   2.  J. Jana, * S. Chowdhury, A. Saha, S. G. Kang, S. H. Hur,* C. S. Gopinath*, "Concurrent glycerol oxidation and hydrogen production on Cesingle bondCo oxide/carbon for sustainable biomass valorization", Chemical Engineering Journal., 535, 175707 (2026), DOI:10.1016/j.cej.2026.175707.

   3.  R. Kadam, G. Hattale, V. Virole, S. Pal, A. Abraham, A. Paul, A. Kumar, R. Shevate, A. Banpurkar, R. Kanawade, * A. Saha*, "Polysulfone-Based Polymer Carbon Dot Membrane for Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensing Application", Chemistry-An Asian Journal., 21, e70685 (2026), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/asia.70685.

   4. V. K. Jha, K. N. Salgaonkar, A. Saha, * C. S. Gopinath,* E. S. S. Iyer*, "Enhanced mid-visible light absorption and long-lived charge carriers in an electronically and structurally integrated BiVO4–TiO2 photoanode for efficient artificial photosynthesis applications", Nanoscale., 17, 12738 - 12750 (2025), DOI:DOI: 10.1039/D5NR00723B.

   5. A. Abraham, K. N. Salgaonkar, T. R. Nivedhitha, V. Ashok Ekal, D. Kondhekar, S. Chakraborty, C. S. Gopinath, A Saha*, "Synthesis of Pd-Integrated Carbon Dot@TiO2 Thin Film for Photocatalytic Glycerol Reforming Reaction for Producing Hydrogen", Chemistry An Asian Journal., 20, e00757 (2025), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/asia.202500757.

   6. A. K. Singh, D. Sharma, D. K. Singh, S. Sarraf, A. K. Basu, A. Saha, A. Indra, "Oxidase-like nanozyme activity of ultrathin copper metal-organic framework nanosheets with high specificity for catechol oxidation", ChemCatChem, 17, e202401029, (2025).

   7. M. Kulkarni-Sambhare, K. N Salgaonkar, A. Saha, C. S. Gopinath, "Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Glycerol Oxidation to Value-Added and Highly Selective Glyceric/Lactic Acid", ChemCatChem., , (2025), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202500641.

   8.  A. Saha, V. Murugiah, R. Ranjan, I. Chauhan, K. Patra, H. Bajpai, A. Saha, G. S Chinnakonda, "Design of Bi-functional Oxide Electrode for Selective Oxidative C-C Cleavage of Glycerol to Formate and Synchronized Green Hydrogen Production", Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 8, 2954-2968, (2024).

   9. Manshu Dhillon, Abhishek Naskar, Neha Kaushal, Shekhar Bhansali, Avishek Saha, Aviru Basu, "Novel GO hoisted SnO2-BiOBr bifunctional catalyst for the remediation of organic dyes under the illumination of visible light and electrocatalytic water splitting", Nanoscale, 16, 12445 (2024). 

   10. S. Sarraf, N. Kaushal, V. Chugh, A. Sundar, A.Saha, A. K. Basu, "Visible light-assisted ferro-photocatalytic application of bismuth ferrite nanoparticles synthesized at low temperature", Journal of Materials Science, 59, 1513 (2024)

   11. N. Kaushal, S. Sarraf, A. K. Basu, S. Mishra, A. Saha, "Facile microwave synthesis of Zinc Ferrite@NCDs for photocatalytic degradation of fluoroquinolone antibiotics" Materials Chemistry and Physics, 314, 128823 (2024).

   12. A. K. Singh, K. Bijalwan, N. Kaushal, A. Kumari, A. Saha, A. Indra, “Oxidase like nanozyme activity of ultrathin manganese metal-organic framework nanosheets: A colorimetric and fluorescence sensing platform for L-Cysteine”, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 6, 8036 (2023)

   13. N Kaushal, A Jain, A Kumar, S. Sarraf, A K Basu, C I Raje, A Saha, "Solvent‐Free Synthesis of S, N‐Doped Carbon Dots for Extended Visible‐Light‐Induced Oxidase‐Mimicking Activities and Antimicrobial Applications", ChemPlusChem, 88, e202300125 (2023).

   14. G. Joshi, A. Saha, A. Dutta, S. K. Khatua, “Surface capping ligand-assisted NIR-driven photocatalytic hydrogen production by plasmonic gold nanoprisms” Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14, 38815, (2022).

   15. M-K. Li, A. Riaz, M. Wederhake, K. Fink, A. Saha, S. Dehm, X. He, F. Schöppler, M. M. Kappes, H. Htoon, V. N. Popov, S. K. Doorn, T. Hertel, F. Hennrich, R. Krupke, “Electroluminescence from single-walled carbon nanotubes with quantum defects", ACS Nano, 16, 11742 (2022). 

   16. A. Gupta, A Kumari, N. Kaushal, A. Saifi, G. C. Mohanta, A. Sachdev, K. Kumar, A. Deep, A. Saha, “Recent Advances in the applications of Carbon nanostructures in optical sensing of emerging pollutants”, ChemNanoMat, 8, e202200011, (2022).

   17. K. Bijalwan, A. Kumari, N. Kaushal, A. Indra, A. Saha, "Solid-state synthesis of Cu doped CDs with peroxidase mimicking activity at neutral pH and sensing of antioxidants", ChemNanoMat, 8, e202200044, (2022).

   18. N. Kauhsal, A. L. Sharma, A. Saha, "Visible LED-based photo-redox properties of sulfur and nitrogen doped carbon dots designed by solid-state synthesis", Materials Advances, 3, 355 (2022).

   19. V. Shrivastav, S. Sundriyal, P. Goel, A. Saha, U. K. Tiwary, A. K. Deep,"A novel zinc sulfide impregnated carbon composite derived from zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 for sodium-ion hybrid solid-state flexible capacitors", Nanoscale Advances, 3, 6164 (2021).

   20. S. Majumdar, R. Verma, A. Saha, P. Bhattacharyya, P. Maji, M. Surjit, M. Kundu, J. Basu, S. Saha, "Perspectives about modulating host immune system in targeting SARS-Cov-2 in India", Frontriers in Genectics, 12, 125 (2021).

   21. Y. Kim, S. V. Goupalov, B. M. Weight, B. J. Gifford, X. He, A. Saha, M. Kim, G. Ao, Y. H. Wang, M. Zheng, S. Tretiak, S. K. Doorn, H. Htoon, “Hidden Fine Structure of Quantum Defects Revealed by Single Carbon Nanotube Magneto-Photoluminescence”, ACS Nano, 14, 3, 3451–3460 (2020).

   22. B. J. Gifford, A. Saha, B. Weight, X. He, G. Ao, M. Zheng, H. Htoon, S. Kilina, S. Doorn, S. Tretiak, “Mod(n-m,3) Dependence of Defect-State Emission Bands in Aryl Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes”, Nano. Lett. 19, 8503 (2019).

   23. B. J. Gifford, X. He, M. Kim, H. Kwon, A. Saha, A. Sifain, Y. H. Wang, H. Htoon, S. Kilina, S. K. Doorn, S. Tretiak, "Optical Effects of Divalent  Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes",  Chem. Mater. 31, 6950 (2019).    

   24. B. Wang, S. Bauroth, A. Saha, M. Chen, T. Clark, X. Lu, D. M. Guldi, "Tuning electron transfer in supramolecular architectures made of fullerenes and porphyrins",  Nanoscale, 11, 10782 (2019).             

   25. A. Saha*, B. J. Gifford*, X. He, G. Ao, M. Zheng, H. Kataura, H. Htoon, S. Kilina, S. Tretiak, S. K. Doorn, “Narrow-band single photon emission through selective aryl functionalization of      zigzag carbon nanotubes", Nat. Chem., 10, 1089 (2018) (*equal contribution).

   26. D. Hasenöhrl*, A. Saha*, V. Strauss, L. Wibmer, S. Klein, W. Neuhuber, D.  M.  Guldi, A. Hirsch, “Bulboulus gold-carbon nanodot hybrid nanoclusters for cancer therapy”, J. Mater. Chem. B, 5, 8591 (2017) (* equal contribution).

   27. B. Wang, S. Zheng, A. Saha, L. Bao, X Lu, D. M. Guldi, "Understanding charge transfer characteristics in crystalline nanosheets of fullerene/(metallo)porphyrin co-crystals”, J. Am. Chem. Soc, 139, 10578 (2017).

   28. A. Saha*, A. Moya* , A. Kahnt, D. Iglesias, S. Marchesan, R. Wannemacher, J. J. Vilatella, D. M. Guldi, “Interfacial Charge Transfer at Functionalized  Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube@TiO2  fibers”, Nanoscale, 9, 7911 (2017) (*equal contribution).

   29. R. Soltani, A. A. Katbab, K. Schaumberger, N. Gasparini, C. J. Brabec, S. Fladischer, E. Spiecker, A. G. Alabau, A. Ruland, A. Saha, Dirk M. Guldi,  Vito Sgobba, Tayebeh Ameri, “Light harvesting enhancement upon incorporating alloy structured CdSeXTe1-X quantum dots in DPP:PC61BM bulk heterojunction solar cell”, J. Mater. Chem. C, 5, 654 (2017).

   30. A. Saha*, M. Chen*, M. Lederar, A. Kahnt, D. M. Guldi, X. Lu, “Sulfur Rich Electron Donors – Formation of Singlet versus Triplet Radical Ion Pair States Featuring Different Lifetimes in the Same Conjugate”, Chem. Sci., 8, 1360, (2017) (*equal contribution).

   31. K. Huang* , A. Saha*, K. Dirian, C. Jiang, E. Chu, J. M. Tour, D. M. Guldi, A. A. Martí, “Carbon Nanotubes Dispersed in Aqueous Solution by Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl Complexes" , Nanoscale, 8, 13488, (2016) (* equal contribution).

   32. A. Insuasty, C. Atienza, J. L. López, J. Marco -Martínez, S. Casado, A. Saha, D. M. Guldi, N. Martin, "Supramolecular One-Dimensional n/p-Nanofibers”, Sci. Rep, 5, 14154, (2015).

   33. C. Jiang, A. Saha, A. A. Martí,”Carbon Nanotubides: An Alternative for Dispersion, Functionalization, and Composite Fabrication”, Nanoscale, 7, 15037 (2015).

   34. B. R. Brunes, M. Xu, Y. Zhang, D. E. Gross, A. Saha, D. L. Jacobs, X. Yang, J. S. Moore, L. Zhang, “Photodoping and Enhanced Visible Light Absorption in Single- Walled Carbon Nanotubes Functionalized with a Wide Band Gap Oligomer”, Advanced Material, 27, 162 (2015).

   35. C. Jiang, A. Saha, C. Young, D. P. Hashim, C. Ramirez, M.  Pasquali,  P.  M. Ajayan, A. Martí, “Macroscopic Nanotube Fibers Spun from Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube  Polyelectrolytes”, ACS Nano, 8, 9107 (2014).

   36. A. Saha, C. Jiang, A. A. Martí, “Carbon Nanotube Networks on Different Platforms”, Carbon, 79, 1-18 (2014).

   37. A. Saha, Z. Panos, T. Hanna, K. Huang, M. Rivera-Hernández, A. A. Martí, “Three-dimensional solvent-vapor map generated by supramolecular metal-complex entrapment”, Angew Chem. Int. Ed. 52, 12615 (2013).

   38. C. Jiang* , A. Saha* , C. Xiang, C. Young, J. M. Tour, M. Pasquali, A. A. Martí, “Increased solubility, Liquid-Crystalline phase and Selective Functionalization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Polyelectrolyte Dispersions”, ACS Nano 7, 4503 (2013) (* equal contribution).

   39. A. Saha, S. Ghosh, R. B. Weisman, A. A. Martí, “Films of Bare Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes from Superacids with Tailored Electronic and Photoluminescence Properties”, ACS Nano , 6, 5727 (2012).

   40. B. K. Gupta, T. N. Narayanan, S. A. Vithayathil, Y. Lee, S. Koshy, A. L. M. Reddy, A. Saha, V. Shanker, V. N. Singh, B. A. Kaipparettu, A. A. Martí, P. M. Ajayan, “Highly Luminescent-Paramagnetic Nanophosphor Probes for  In  Vitro  High- Contrast Imaging of Human Breast Cancer Cells”, Small 8, 3028 (2012).

   41. B. K. Gupta, P. Thanikaivelan, T. N. Narayanan, L. Song, W. Gao, T. Hayashi, A. L. M. Redyy, A. Saha, V. Shankar, M. Endo, A. A. Martí, P. M. Ajayan, “Optical Bifunctionality of Europium-Complexed Luminescent Graphene Nanosheets”, Nano Lett. 11, 5227 (2011).

   42. A. Saha, S. Ghosh, N. Behabtu, M. Pasquali, A. A. Martí, “Single-walled carbon nanotubes shell decorating porous silicate materials:A general  platform  for studying the interaction of carbon nanotubes with photoactive molecules”, Chem. Sci. 2, 1682 (2011).

   43. B. K. Gupta, V. Rathee, T. N. Narayanan, P. Thanikaivelan, A. Saha, G. S. P. Singh, A. A. Martí, P. M. Ajayan, “Probing a Bifunctional Luminomagnetic Nanophosphor for Biological Applications: a Photoluminescence and Time-Resolved Spectroscopic study”, Small 7, 1767 (2011).

   44. D. Jain, A. Saha, A. A. Martí, “Non-covalent ruthenium polypyridyl complexes- carbon nanotubes composites: an alternative for funtional dissolution of carbon nanotubes in solution", Chem. Commun. 47, 2246 (2011).      

Patents

1. A. A. Martí, A. Saha, M. Pasquali, “Immobilizing Carbon Nanotubes on Various Surfaces”, United State Patent and Trademark Office; 9,095,876, 2015. 

2. A. A. Martí, C. Jiang, A. Saha, M. Pasquali, C. Young, “Liquid Crystals from Single- Walled Carbon Nanotube Polyelectrolytes and their use for making materials such as fibers and films ”, United State Patent and Trademark Office; 9,249,023, 2016       

Book Chapters

1.  A. Saha, A. Indra, " Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting with Nitride-Based Photoelectrodes"- Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Generation: Theory, Materials Advances, and Challenges (Springer, 2022).