Publications
Reviews and Perspectives
Md Akibul Islam, Peter Serles, Boran Kumral, Pedro Guerra Demingos, Tanvir Qureshi, Ashok Kumar Meiyazhagan, Anand B. Puthirath, Mohammad Sayem Bin Abdullah, Syed Rafat Faysal, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Daman Panesar, Chandra Veer Singh, and Tobin Filleter, Exfoliation mechanisms of 2D materials and their applications, Applied Physics Reviews, 2022, 9, 041301 (DOI: 10.1063/5.0090717)
Aravind Puthirath Balan, Anand B. Puthirath*, Soumyabrata Roy, Gelu Costin, Eliezer Fernando Oliveira, M.A.S.R. Saadi, Vishnu Sreepal, Rico Friedrich, Peter Serles, Abhijit Biswas, Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, Nithya Chakingal, Sohini Bhattacharyya, Sreehari K. Saju, Samuel Castro Pardo, Lucas M. Sassi, Tobin Filleter, Arkady Krasheninnikov, Douglas S Galvao, Robert Vajtai Rahul R. Nair, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Non-van der Waals quasi-2D materials; recent advances in synthesis, emergent properties and applications, Materials Today, 2022 (DOI:10.1016/j.mattod.2022.07.007)
Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, Anand B. Puthirath, Venkataraman Swaminathan, Realizing Quantum Technologies in Nanomaterials and Nanoscience, Advanced Materials, 2022, 2107839 (DOI:10.1002/adma.202107839)
Abhijit Biswas, Varun Natu, and Anand B. Puthirath, Thin film growth of MAX phases as functional Materials, Oxford Open Materials Science, 2021, itab020 (DOI:10.1093/oxfmat/itab020)
Soumyabrata Roy, Xiang Zhang, Anand B. Puthirath*, Ashokkumar Meiyazhagan, Sohini Bhattacharyya, Muhammad M. Rahman, Ganguli Babu, Sandhya Susarla, Sreehari K. Saju, Mai Kim Tran, Lucas M. Sassi, M. A. S. R. Saadi, Jiawei Lai, Onur Sahin, Seyed Mohammad Sajadi, Bhuvaneswari Dharmarajan, Devashish Salpekar, Nithya Chakingal, Abhijit Baburaj, Xinting Shuai, Aparna Adumbumkulath, Kristen A. Miller, Jessica M. Gayle, Alec Ajnsztajn, Thibeorchews Prasankumar, Vijay Vedhan Jayanthi Harikrishnan, Ved Ojha, Harikishan Kannan, Ali Zein Khater, Zhenwei Zhu, Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, Pedro Alves da Silva Autreto, Eliezer Fernando Oliveira, Guanhui Gao, A. Glen Birdwell, Mahesh R. Neupane, Tony G. Ivanov, Jaime Taha-Tijerina, Ram Manohar Yadav, Sivaram Arepalli, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Structure, Properties and Applications of Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Boron Nitride, Advanced Materials, 2021, 2101589 (DOI:10.1002/adma.202101589)
In Peer Reviewed Journals
Abhijit Biswas, Gustavo A Alvarez, Manoj Tripathi, Jonghoon Lee, Tymofii S. Pieshkov, Chenxi Li, Bin Gao, Anand B. Puthirath, Xiang Zhang, Tia Gray, Jacob Elkins, Robert Vajtai, Pengcheng Dai, A. Glen Birdwell, Mahesh R. Neupane, Tony G. Ivanov, Elias Garratt, Bradford Pate, Ajit Roy, Alan B Dalton, Zhiting Tian and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Cubic and hexagonal boron nitride phases and phase boundaries, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2024 (DOI : https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TC00039K)
Avra S Bandyopadhyay, Anand B. Puthirath, Pulickel M Ajayan, Hanyu Zhu, Yuankun Lin, Anupama B Kaul, Intrinsic and Strain-Dependent Properties of Suspended WSe2 Crystallites toward Next-Generation Nanoelectronics and Quantum-Enabled Sensors, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2024 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c13603)
Macy Stavinoha, C.-L. Huang, W. Adam Phelan, Alannah M. Hallas, V. Loganathan, M. Michiardi, J. Falke, Sergey Zhdanovich, D. Takegami, C.-E. Liu, K. D. Tsuei, C. T. Chen, Long Qian, Nicholas J. Ng, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Qingzhen Huang, Franziska Weickert, Vivien Zapf, Katharine R. Larsen, Patricia D. Sparks, James C. Eckert, Anand B. Puthirath, Hsiang-Hsi Kung, Tor M. Pedersen, Sergey Gorovikov, A. Damascelli, L. H. Tjeng, C. Hooley, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, E. Morosan, Conductive surface states and Kondo exhaustion in insulating YbIr3Si7, Physical Review B 109, 035112 (DOI : https://link.aps.orgdoi/10.1103/PhysRevB.109.035112)
Mingfei Xu, Abhijit Biswas, Tao Li, Ziyi He Cheng Chang, Anand B. Puthirath, Robert Vajtai, Shisong Luo, Zhaobo Mei, Jingan Zhou, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Yuji Zhao, Vertical β -Ga2O3 metal–insulator–semiconductor diodes with an ultrathin boron nitride, Applied Physics Letters, 2023, 123, 232107 (DOI : https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0176578)
Samuel Castro Pardo, Anand B. Puthirath*, Shaoxun Fan, Sreehari K. Saju, Guang Yang, Jagjit Nanda, Robert Vajtai, Ming Tang , Pulickel M. Ajayan, VO2 Phase Change Electrodes in Li-ion Batteries, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2023 (DOI : https://doi.org/10.1039/D3TA06286D)
Dipak Maity, Rahul Sharma, Krishna Rani Sahoo, Janmey Jay Panda, Ashique Lal, Anand B Puthirath, Pulickel M Ajayan and Tharangattu N Narayanan, On the electronic and spin-valley coupling of vanadium doped MoS2(1-x)Se2x monolayers, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2023 (DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/acf9d5)
Abhijit Biswas, Rui Xu, Gustavo A. Alvarez, Jin Zhang, Joyce Christiansen-Salameh, Anand B. Puthirath, Kory Burns, Jordan A. Hachtel, Tao Li, Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, Tia Gray, Chenxi Li, Xiang Zhang, Harikishan Kannan, Jacob Elkins, Tymofii S. Pieshkov, Robert Vajtai, A. Glen Birdwell, Mahesh R. Neupane, Elias J. Garratt, Tony G. Ivanov, Bradford B. Pate, Yuji Zhao, Hanyu Zhu, Zhiting Tian, Angel Rubio, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Non-Linear Optics at Twist Interfaces in h-BN/SiC Heterostructures. Advanced Materials, 2023, 2304624. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202304624)
Abhijit Biswas, Gustavo A. Alvarez, Tao Li, Joyce Christiansen-Salameh, Eugene Jeong, Anand B. Puthirath, Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, Chenxi Li, Tia Gray, Xiang Zhang, Tymofii S. Pieshkov, Harikishan Kannan, Jacob Elkins, Robert Vajtai, A. Glen Birdwell, Mahesh R. Neupane, Elias J. Garratt, Bradford B. Pate, Tony G. Ivanov, Yuji Zhao, Zhiting Tian, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Structural, optical, and thermal properties of BN thin films grown on diamond via pulsed laser deposition, Physical Review Materials 7, 094602 (DOI : https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.094602)
Rajsekhar Das, Bhanu Prasad Bhowmik, Anand B. Puthirath, Tharangattu N Narayanan, Smarajit Karmakar, Soft-Pinning: Experimental validation of static correlations in supercooled molecular glass-forming liquids, PNAS Nexus, 277, (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad277)
Chenxi Li, Eliezer F. Oliveira, Abhijit Biswas, Anand B. Puthirath*, Xiang Zhang, Atin Pramanik, Elias J. Garratt, Mahesh R. Neupane, Bradford B. Pate, Anthony Glen Birdwell, Tony G. Ivanov, Tanguy Terlier, Robert Vajtai, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Heteroatom Functionalization of H-Terminated Diamond Surfaces, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2023 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c07102)
Abhijit Biswas, Rui Xu, Joyce Christiansen-Salameh, Eugene Jeong, Gustavo A. Alvarez, Chenxi Li, Anand B. Puthirath, Bin Gao, Arushi Garg, Tia Gray, Harikishan Kannan, Xiang Zhang, Jacob Elkins, Tymofii S. Pieshkov, Robert Vajtai, A. Glen Birdwell, Mahesh R. Neupane, Bradford B. Pate, Tony Ivanov, Elias J. Garratt, Pengcheng Dai, Hanyu Zhu, Zhiting Tian, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Phase Stability of Hexagonal/Cubic Boron Nitride Nanocomposites, Nano Letters, 2023 (DOI : https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c01537)
Gustavo A. Alvarez, Joyce Christiansen-Salameh, Abhijit Biswas, Anand B. Puthirath, Eugene Jeong, Jinha Kwon, Jaejun Lee, Tia Gray; Robert Vajtai, Pulickel M. Ajayan; Zhiting TianCross-plane thermal conductivity of h-BN thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition, Applied Physics Letters, 2023, 122, 232101 (DOI : https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0149508)
Abhijit Biswas, Rishi Maiti, Frank Lee, Cecilia Y. Chen, Tao Li, Anand B. Puthirath, Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, Chenxi Li, Xiang Zhang, Harikishan Kannan, Tia Gray, Md Abid Shahriar Rahman Saadi, Jacob Elkins, A. Glen Birdwell, Mahesh R. Neupane, Pankaj B. Shah, Dmitry A. Ruzmetov, Tony G. Ivanov, Robert Vajtai, Yuji Zhao, Alexander L. Gaeta, Manoj Tripathi, Alan B Dalton and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Unravelling the room temperature growth of two-dimensional h-BN nanosheets for multifunctional applications, Nanoscale Horizons, 2023 (DOI : 10.1039/D2NH00557C)
Abhijit Biswas, Qiyuan Ruan, Frank Lee, Chenxi Li, Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, Anand B. Puthirath, Xiang Zhang, Harikishan Kannan, Tia Gray, A. Glen Birdwell, Mahesh R. Neupane, Pankaj B. Shah, Dmitry A. Ruzmetov, Tony G. Ivanov, Robert Vajtai, Manoj Tripathi, Alan Dalton, Boris I. Yakobson, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Unidirectional domain growth of hexagonal boron nitride thin films, Applied Materials Today, 2023, 30, 101734, (DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2023.101734)
Aravind Puthirath Balan, Eliezer F Oliveira, Gelu Costin, Tia Gray, Nithya Chakingal, Abhijit Biswas, Anand B. Puthirath*, Magneto-structural Phase transition in Exfoliated Pyrrhotite (Fe7S8) Ultra-thin Sheets, Oxford Open Materials Science, 2023,3, itac020 (DOI: 10.1093/oxfmat/itac020)
Siraj Sidhik, Yafei Wang, Michael De Siena, Reza Asadpour, Andrew J. Torma, Tanguy Terlier, Kevin Ho, Wenbin Li, Anand B. Puthirath, Xinting Shuai, Ayush Agrawal, Boubacar Traore, Matthew Jones, Rajiv Giridharagopal, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Joseph Strzalka, David S. Ginger, Claudine Katan, Muhammad Ashraful Alam, Jacky Even, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Aditya D. Mohite, Deterministic fabrication of 3D/2D perovskite bilayer stacks for highly durable and efficient photovoltaics, Science, 2022, 377, 1425–1430 (DOI: 10.1126/science.abq7652)
Abhijit Biswas, Mingfei Xu, Kai Fu, Jingan Zhou, Rui Xu, Anand B. Puthirath, Jordan A. Hachtel, Chenxi Li, Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, Harikishan Kannan, Xiang Zhang, Tia Gray, Robert Vajtai, Glen Birdwell, Mahesh R. Neupane, Dmitry A. Ruzmetov, Pankaj B. Shah, Tony Ivanov, Hanyu Zhu, Yuji Zhao, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Properties and device performance of BN thin films grown on GaN by pulsed laser deposition, Applied Physics Letters, 2022, 121, 092105 (DOI: 10.1063/5.0092356)
Lucas M. Sassi, Aravind Krishnamoorthy, Jordan Hachtel, Sandhya Susarla, Amey Apte, Samuel Castro-Pardo, Alec Ajnsztajn, Robert Vajtai, Priya Vashishta, Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, Anand B. Puthirath*, Pulickel M Ajayan, Low temperature CVD growth of WSe2 enabled by moisture-assisted defects in the precursor powder, 2D Materials, 2022 (DOI : 10.1088/2053-1583/ac8e16)
Anand B. Puthirath*, Xiang Zhang, Aravind Krishnamoorthy, Rui Xu, Farnaz Safi Samghabadi, David C. Moore, Jiawei Lai, Tianyi Zhang, David E. Sanchez, Fu Zhang, Nicholas R. Glavin, Dmitri Litvinov, Robert Vajtai, Venkataraman Swaminathan, Mauricio Terrones, Hanyu Zhu, Priya Vashishta, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Piezoelectricity across Two-dimensional Phase Boundaries, Advanced Materials, 2022 (DOI:10.1002/adma.202206425)
Chenxi Li, Eliezer F. Oliveira, Xiang Zhang, Abhijit Biswas, Soumyabrata Roy, Anand B. Puthirath, Dimitry A. Ruzmetov, Mahesh R. Neupane, James D. Weil, A. Glen Birdwell, Tony G. Ivanov, Tanguy Terlier, Tia Gray, Harikishan Kannan, Robert Vajtai, Douglas S. Galvao, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Amination of Boron-Doped Diamond Surfaces, Chemistry of Materials, 2022 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00711)
Jaime M. Moya, Shiming Lei, Eleanor M. Clements, Caitlin S. Kengle, Stella Sun, Kevin Allen, Qizhi Li, Y. Y. Peng, Ali A. Husain, Matteo Mitrano ,Matthew J. Krogstad, Raymond Osborn, Anand B. Puthirath, Songxue Chi, L. Debeer-Schmitt, J. Gaudet, P. Abbamonte, Jeffrey W. Lynn, and E. Morosan, Incommensurate magnetic orders and topological Hall effect in the square-net centrosymmetric EuGa2Al2 system, Physical Review Materials, 2022, 6, 074201 ( DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.074201)
Abhijit Baburaj, Hemtej Gullapalli, Anand B. Puthirath*, Devashish Salpekar, Jarin Joyner, Suppanat Kosolwattana, Robert Vajtai, Babu Ganguli and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Stacked On-Chip Supercapacitors for Extreme Environments, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2022 ( DOI : 10.1039/D2TA00301E)
Drake Austin, Paige Miesle, Deanna Sessions, Michael Motala, David C. Moore, Griffin Beyer, Adam Miesle, Andrew Sarangan, Amritanand Sebastian, Saptarshi Das, Anand B. Puthirath, Xiang Zhang, Jordan Hachtel, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Tyson Back, Peter R. Stevenson, Michael Brothers, Steve S. Kim, Philip Buskohl, Rahul Rao, Christopher Muratore, and Nicholas R. Glavin High Throughput Data-Driven Design of Laser-Crystallized 2D MoS2 Chemical Sensors: A Demonstration for NO2 Detection, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2022, 5, 5, 7549–7561(DOI:10.1021/acsanm.2c01614)
Pallavi Thakur, Anand B. Puthirath, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Tharangattu N. Narayanan, Iron carbide decorated carbon nanosphere- sheet hybrid based rechargeable high-capacity non-aqueous Li–O2 batteries, Carbon, 2022 (DOI:10.1016/j.carbon.2022.04.080)
Amruta Raghatate, Fernando D. Cortes Vega, Omar Velazquez Meraz, Kamyar Ahmadi, Nikhil M. Chaudhari, Dhaivat Solanki, Anand B. Puthirath, Nathaly Castaneda, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Jose Martin Herrera Ramirez, Venkatesh Balan, Francisco Carlos Robles Hernández, Sustainable Biocomposites for Structural Applications with , Environmental Affinity, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2022 ( DOI : 10.1021/acsami.2c02073)
Eliezer Oliveira, Chenxi Li, Xiang Zhang, Anand Puthirath, Mahesh R. Neupane, James Weil, A. Glen Birdwell, Tony Ivanov, Seoyun Kong, Tia Grey, Harikishan Kannan, Robert Vajtai, Douglas Galvao, Pulickel Ajayan, Stability of oxygenated groups on pristine and defective diamond surfaces, MRS Advances, 2022 (DOI : 10.1557/s43580-022-00242-1)
Shashank Shekhar Mishra, Anurag Bajpai, Thakur Prasad Yadav, Ram Manohar Yadav, Anand B. Puthirath, Liangzi Deng, Moein Adnani, Ching-Wu Chu, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel M Ajayan, Krishanu Biswas, Nilay Krishna Mukhopadhyay, An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation on Structure-Property Correlation of Cu2Mn1Al1-xGax Full-Heusler Alloy, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2021, 162865 (DOI:10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.162865)
Peter Serles, Taib Arif, Anand B. Puthirath, Shwetank Yadav, Guorui Wang, Teng Cui, Aravind Puthirath Balan, Thakur Prasad Yadav, Prasankumar, Thibeorchews, Nithya Chakingal, Gelu Costin, Chandra Veer Singh, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Tobin Filleter, Friction of magnetene, a non–van der Waals 2D material, Science Advances, 2021, 7, eabk2041 (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abk2041)
Amar Kumar, Pallavi Thakur, Rahul Sharma, Anand B. Puthirath, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Tharangattu N. Narayanan, Photo Rechargeable Li-Ion Batteries Using Nanorod Heterostructure Electrodes, Small, 2021 ( DOI : https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202105029)
Sandhya Susarla, Govinda Chilkoor, Jawahar R. Kalimuthu, M. A. S. R. Saadi, Yufei Cui, Taib Arif, Thierry Tsafack, Anand B. Puthirath, Pawan Sigdel, Bharat Jasthi, Parambath M. Sudeep, Leiqing Hu, Aly Hassan, Samuel Castro-Pardo, Morgan Barnes, Soumyabrata Roy, Rafael Verduzco, Md Golam Kibria, Tobin Filleter, Haiqing Lin, Santiago D. Solares, Nikhil Koratkar, Venkataramana Gadhamshetty, Muhammad M. Rahman, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Corrosion Resistance of Sulfur–Selenium Alloy Coatings, Advanced Materials, 2021, 2104467 (DOI: 10.1002/adma.202104467)
Eliezer F Oliveira, Mahesh R Neupane, Chenxi Li, Harikishan Kannan, Xiang Zhang, Anand B. Puthirath, Pankaj B Shah, A Glen Birdwell, Tony G Ivanov, Robert Vajtai, Douglas S Galvao, Pulickel M Ajayan, A reactive molecular dynamics study of the hydrogenation of diamond surfaces, Computational Materials Science, 2021, 200, 110859 (DOI:10.1016/j.commatsci.2021.110859)
Anand B. Puthirath*, Aravind Puthirath Balan, Eliezer F. Oliveira, Vishnu Sreepal, Francisco C. Robles Hernandez, Guanhui Gao, Nithya Chakingal, Lucas M. Sassi, Prasankumar Thibeorchews, Gelu Costin, Robert Vajtai, Douglas S. Galvao, Rahul R. Nair, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Apparent Ferromagnetism in Exfoliated Ultrathin Pyrite Sheets, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2021, 125, 34, 18927–18935 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c04977)
Anku Guha, Rahul Sharma, Krishna Rani Sahoo, Anand B. Puthirath, Naresh Shyaga, Pulickel M. Ajayan, and Tharangattu N. Narayanan, One-Dimensional Hollow Structures of 2O-PdS2 Decorated Carbon for Water Electrolysis, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2021 (DOI : 10.1021/acsaem.1c01703)
Anand B. Puthirath*, Eliezer F. Oliveira, Guanhui Gao, Nithya Chakingal, Harikishan Kannan, Chenxi Li, Xiang Zhang, Abhijit Biswas, Mahesh R. Neupane, Bradford B. Pate, Dmitry A. Ruzmetov, A. Glen Birdwell, Tony G. Ivanov, Douglas S. Galvao, Robert Vajtai, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Oxygenation of Diamond Surfaces via Hummer’s Method, Chemistry of Materials, 2021, 33(13) 4977-4987 (DOI : 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c00772)
Chenxi Li, Xiang Zhang, Eliezer F. Oliveira, Anand B. Puthirath, Mahesh R. Neupane, James D. Weil, A. Glen Birdwell, Tony G. Ivanov, Seoyun Kong, Tia Gray, Harikishan Kannan, Abhijit Biswas, Robert Vajtai, Douglas S. Galvao, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Systematic comparison of various oxidation treatments on diamond surface, Carbon, 2021, 182, 725-734 (DOI : 10.1016/j.carbon.2021.06.050)
Devashish Salpekar, Anand B. Puthirath, Guangmei Hou, Bhuvaneswari Dharmarajan, Babu Ganguli, Pulickel M.Ajayan, An electrolyte with lithium dendrites suppression for high temperature operability, Applied Materials Today, 2021, 24, 101087 (DOI: 10.1016/j.apmt.2021.101087)
Mohammad Sajadi, Shayan Enayat, LíviaVásárhelyi, Alessandro Alabastri, Minghe Lou, Lucas M.Sassi, Alex Kutana, Sanjit Bhowmick, Christian Durante, ÁkosKukovecz, Anand B. Puthirath, Zoltán Kónya, Robert Vajtai, Peter Boulg, Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, Muhammad M.Rahman, Pulickel M.Ajayan, Three-dimensional Printing of Complex Graphite Structures, Carbon, 2021, 181, 260-269 (DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2021.05.003)
Fanshu Yuan, Devashish Salpekar, Abhijit Baburaj, Anand B. Puthirath, Sakib Hassan, Francisco Robles-Hernandez, Hossein Robatjazi, M.A.S.R. Saadi, Soumyabrata Roy, Dongping Sun, Nicholas A Kotov, Muhammad M. Rahman and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Fiber-reinforced Monolithic Supercapacitor with Interdigitated Interfaces, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021, 9, 11033-11041 (DOI:10.1039/D1TA00424G)
Seyed Mohammad Sajadi, Chandra Shekhar Tiwari, Amir Hossein Rahmati, Shannon L Eichmann, Carl J Thaemlitz, Devashish Salpekar, Anand B. Puthirath, Peter J Boul, Muhammad M Rahman, Meiyazhagan AshokKumar, Pulickel M Ajayan, Deformation Resilient Cement Structures using 3D-Printed Molds. iScience, 2021, 24(3), 102174 (DOI:10.1016/j.isci.2021.102174)
Keiko Kato, Anand B. Puthirath*, Ali Mojibpour, Mikhail Miroshnikov, Sitakanta Satapathy, Naresh KumarThangavel, Kiran Mahankali, Liangliang Dong, Leela Mohana Reddy Arava, George John, Palash Bharadwaj, Ganguli Babu and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Light-Assisted Rechargeable Lithium Batteries: Organic Molecules for Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Storage, Nano Letters, 2020, 21(2), 907–913 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c03311)
Amey Apte, Summayya Kouser, Farnaz Safi Samghabadi, Long Chang, Lucas M. Sassi, Dmitri Litvinov, Boris I. Yakobson, Anand B. Puthirath *, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Piezo-Response in two-dimensional α-Tellurene films, Materials Today, 2020, 44, 40-47 (DOI:10.1016/j.mattod.2020.10.030)
Anand B. Puthirath*, Sharmila N. Shirodkar, Guanhui Gao, Francisco C. Robles Hernandez, Liangzi Deng, Rabin Dahal, Amey Apte, Gelu Costin, Nithya Chakingal, Aravind Puthirath Balan, Lucas M. Sassi,Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, Robert Vajtai, Ching-Wu Chu, Boris I. Yakobson and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Scale-enhanced Magnetism in Exfoliated Atomically Thin Magnetite Sheets, Small, 2020, 16, 2004208 (DOI:10.1002/smll.202004208)
S.S. Mishra, T.P. Yadav, R. M. Yadav, Anand B. Puthirath, Liangzi Deng, Moein Adnani, Ching-Wu Chu, Robert Vajtai, P.M. Ajayan, Krishanu Biswas, N.K. Mukhopadhyay and O.N. Srivastava, Effect of Ga substitution on structural and magnetic properties of Fe50Mn25Al25-xGax Heusler alloys, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2020, 156756 (DOI : 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.156756)
Anand B. Puthirath*, Thierry Tsafack , Sudeshna Patra , Pallavi Thakur, Nithya Chakingal , Sreehari K. Saju, Abhijit Baburaj, Keiko Kato , Ganguli Babu, Tharangattu N. Narayanan, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Lithium, sodium and magnesium ion conduction in solid state mixed polymer electrolytes, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020, 22, 19108-19119 (DOI: 10.1039/D0CP02609C)
Abhijit Baburaj, Anand B. Puthirath*, Amit Jain, Duraivelan Palanisamy, Devashish Salpekar, Janakiraman Balachandran, Mohamad A. Kabbani, F. C. Robles Hernandez, Gerry Hughes, Ganguli Babu, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Multilayer Graphene coated Vanadium(V) Oxide as Electrodes for Intercalation Based Brackish Water Desalination, 2D Materials, 2020, 7, 045025 (DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/aba5c9)
Amey Apte, Kosar Mozafari, Farnaz Safi Samghabadi, Jordan A. Hachtel, Long Chang, Sandhya Susarla, Juan Carlos Idrobo, David C. Moore, Nicholas R. Glavin, Dmitri Litvinov, Pradeep Sharma, Anand B. Puthirath*, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, 2D Electrets of Ultrathin MoO2 with Apparent Piezoelectricity, Advanced Materials, 2020, 32(24), 2000006 (DOI: 10.1002/adma.202000006)
Sandhya Susarla, Anand B. Puthirath*, Thierry Tsafack, Devashish Salpekar, Ganguli Babu and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Atomic-level alloying of Sulphur and Selenium for Advanced Lithium batteries, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2020, 12, 1, 1005-1013 (DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b15048 )
Anand B. Puthirath*, Sharmila Shirodkar , Minfei Fei , Abhijit Baburaj , Keiko Kato , Sreehari K Saju, Ranjith Prasannachandran , Nithya Chakingal , Robert Vajtai , Boris Yakobson and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Complementary behaviour of EDL and HER activity in functionalized graphene nanoplatelets, Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 1790-1800 (DOI: 10.1039/C9NR08102J)
Jianan Xu, Ganguli Babu, Keiko Kato, Francisco C. Robles Hernández, Anand B. Puthirath, Alexander Britz, Dennis Nordlund, Sami Sainio, Uwe Bergmann, Pulickel M. Ajayan, High capacity Li/Ni rich Ni-Ti-Mo oxide cathode for Li-ion batteries, Solid State Ionics, 2020, 345 , 115172 (DOI : 10.1016/j.ssi.2019.115172)
Sudeshna Patra, Pallavi Thakur, Bhaskar Soman, Anand B. Puthirath, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Santosh Mogurampelly, V. Karthik Chethan and Tharangattu N. Narayanan, Mechanistic insight into the improved Li ion conductivity of solid polymer electrolytes, RSC Advances, 2019, 9, 38646-38657 (DOI : 10.1039/C9RA08003A )
Guangmei Hou, Caleb Ci, Huanhuan Guo, Xiang Zhang, Qidi Sun, Jun Cheng, Devashish Salpekar, Qing Ai, Long Chen, Anand B. Puthirath, Keiko Kato, Samuel Castro Pardo, Robert Vajtai, Ganguli Babu, Lijie Ci, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Facile Construction of a Hybrid Artificial Protective Layer for Stable Lithium Metal Anode, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019, 123542 (DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2019.123542)
Jayashree Swaminathan, Anand B. Puthirath, Mihir Ranjan Sahoo, Saroj Kumar Nayak, Gelu Costin, Robert Vajtai, Tiva Sharifi, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Tuning the electrocatalytic activity of Co3O4 through discrete elemental doping, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2019, 11, 43, 39706-39714 (DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b06815)
Jiya Jose, Abdulaziz Anas, Bina Jose, Anand B. Puthirath, Sujith Athiyanathil, Chekidhenkuzhiyil Jasmin, Maliemadom RamaswamyIyer Anantharaman, Shanta Nair, Challapalli Subrahmanyam, Vasudevanpillai Biju, The extinction of antimicrobial resistant pathogens using silver embedded silica nanoparticles and an efflux pump blocker, ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2019, 2, 11, 4681-4686 (DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.9b00614)
Sandhya Susarla, Thierry Tsafack, Peter Samora Owuor, Anand B. Puthirath, Jordan A. Hachtel, Ganguli Babu, Amey Apte, BenMaan I. Jawdat, Martin S. Hilario, Albert Lerma, Hector A. Calderon, Francisco C. Robles Hernandez, David W. Tam, Tong Li, Andrew R. Lupini, Juan Carlos Idrobo, Jun Lou, Bingqing Wei, Pengcheng Dai, Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, Pulickel M. Ajayan, High-K dielectric sulfur-selenium alloys, Science Advances , 2019, 5, eaau9785 (DOI :10.1126/sciadv.aau9785)
Muhammad M. Rahman, Anand B. Puthirath*, Aparna Adumbumkulath,Thierry Tsafack, Hossein Robatjazi, Morgan Barnes, Zixing Wang, Sampath Kommandur, Sandhya Susarla, Seyed Mohammad Sajadi, Devashish Salpekar, Fanshu Yuan,Ganguli Babu, Kazuki Nomoto, SM Islam, Rafael Verduzco, Shannon K. Yee, Huili G. Xing, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Fiber Reinforced Layered Dielectric Nanocomposite, Advanced Functional Materials, 2019, 29, 1900056 (DOI:10.1002/adfm.201900056)
Anand B. Puthirath*, Abhijit Baburaj, Keiko Kato, Devashish Salpekar, Nithya Chakingal, Yifan Cao, Ganguli Babu, Pulickel M. Ajayan, High sulfur content multifunctional conducting polymer composite electrodes for stable Li-S battery, Electrochimica Acta, 2019, 306, 489-497 (DOI :10.1016/j.electacta.2019.03.136)
Seyed Mohammad Sajadi, Peter J. Boul, Carl Thaemlitz, Ashok Kumar Meiyazhagan, Anand B. Puthirath, Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, Muhammad M. Rahman, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Direct Ink Writing of Cement Structures Modified with Nanoscale Additive, Advanced Engineering Materials, 2019, 21, 8, 1801380 (DOI: 10.1002/adem.201801380)
Aravind Puthirath Balan, Sruthi Radhakrishnan, Ram Neupane, Sadegh Yazdi, Liangzi Deng, Carlos A. de los Reyes, Amey Apte, Anand B. Puthirath, B. Manmadha Rao, Maggie Paulose, Robert Vajtai, Ching-Wu Chu, Angel A. Martí, Oomman K Varghese, Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, M. R. Anantharaman, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Magnetic Properties and Photocatalytic Applications of 2D Sheets of Nonlayered Manganese Telluride by Liquid Exfoliation, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2018, 1 (11), 6427–6434 (DOI:10.1021/acsanm.8b01642)
Sudeshna Patra , Anand B. Puthirath , Vineesh T V , Sreekanth Narayanaru , Bhaskar Soman , Shruti Suriyakumar , Arul Manuel Stephan and Narayanan Tharangattu Narayanan, On the Development of a Proton Conducting Solid Polymer Electrolyte Using Poly(ethylene oxide), Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2018, 2, 1870-1877 (DOI: 10.1039/C8SE00262B)
Nithya Chakingal, Anand B. Puthirath*, M.V. Mahesh Kumar, Abhilash Ayyappan, S. Jayalekshmi, P.A. Unnikrishnan and Sreedharan Prathapan, Growth of thiophene based oligomers using Stille and direct arylation methods for optoelectronic applications, Dyes and Pigments, 2018 , 159, 367–377 (DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2018.06.013)
Anand B. Puthirath, Shubhadeep Pal, Sudeshna Patra, Manoj. M, Aravind Puthirath Balan, S. Jayalekshmi, and Tharangattu N. Narayanan, Transparent Flexible Lithium Ion Conducting Solid Polymer Electrolyte, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017,5, 11152-11162 (DOI: 10.1039/C7TA02182H)
Anand B. Puthirath, Shijeesh Methattel Raman, Sreekanth Varma, S. Jayalekshmi, Exceptionally crystalline and conduting acid doped polyaniline films by level surface assisted solution casting approach, Applied Physics Letters, 2016, 108, 16, 161901-06 (DOI: 10.1063/1.4947083)
Anand B. Puthirath, Bibin John, C. Gouri, S. Jayalekshmi, Lithium doped Polyaniline and its composites with LiFePO4 and LiMn2O4 - Prospective cathode active materials for environment friendly and flexible Li-ion battery applications, RSC Advances, 2015, 5, 69220-69228 (DOI : 10.1039/C5RA10706G).
Anand B. Puthirath, Bibin John, C. Gouri, S. Jayalekshmi, Lithium doped PEO-a prospective solid electrolyte with high ionic conductivity, developed using n-butyl lithium in hexane as dopant, Ionics, 2015, 21, 2185–2191 (DOI : 10.1007/s11581-015-1406-2).
Anand B. Puthirath, K. Hasna, K. M. Anilkumar and S. Jayalekshmi. On the structural and optical properties of gold-polyaniline nanocomposite synthesized via a novel route, Polymer International, 2012, 61, 12, 1733– 1738 (DOI 10.1002/pi.4262).
Anand B. Puthirath, C. S. Suchand Sandeep, Kishore Sridharan, T. N. Narayanan, Senoy Thomas, Reji Philip and M. R. Anantharaman. An Optical Limiter Based on Silver-Silica Nanocomposites. Advanced Science, Engineering and Medicine, 2012, 4, 33–38,(DOI:10.1166/asem.2012.1115).
M. Rajive Tomy , K.M. Anil Kumar, Anand B. Puthirath, S. Jayalekshmi, Effect of annealing on the electrochemical properties of the Li–Mn–O thin films, prepared by high frequency RF magnetron sputtering, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 2012 , 73 ,559–563 (DOI:10.1016/j.jpcs.2011.12.008).
Augustine M Sajimol, Puthirath B. Anand, K. M. Anilkumar and S. Jayalekshmi, Exceptionally good, transparent and flexible FeS2/poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) and FeS2/poly(vinyl alcohol) nanocomposite thin films with excellent UV-shielding properties, Polymer International, 2012, 62, 4, 670–675 (DOI 10.1002/pi.4348).
Anas, J. Jiya, M.J. Rameez, Anand B. Puthirath, M.R. Anantharaman and S. Nair, Sequential interactions of silver–silica nanocomposite (Ag–SiO2NC) with cell wall, metabolism and genetic stability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a multiple antibiotic-resistant bacterium, Letters in Applied Microbiology, 2012, 56(1),57-62 (DOI:10.1111/lam.12015).
Rajive Tomy , K.M. Anil Kumar, Anand B. Puthirath, S. Jayalekshmi, Effect of annealing on structural and electrical properties of the Li–Mn–O thin films, prepared by high frequency RF magnetron sputtering, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 2011, 72,1251–1255 (DOI:10.1016/j.jpcs.2011.07.018).
Preprints / arXiv
Lucas M Sassi, Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, Anand B. Puthirath*, Yuefei Huang, Xingfu Li, Tanguy Terlier, Ali Mojibpour, Ana Paula C Teixeira, Palash Bharadwaj, Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, Robert Vajtai, Saikat Talapatra, Boris Yakobson, Pulickel M Ajayan, Bottom-up Integration of TMDCs with Pre-Patterned Device Architectures via Transfer-free Chemical Vapor Deposition, 2023, arXiv:2305.14554 ( DOI:https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.14554)
Abhijit Biswas, Gustavo A. Alvarez, Tao Li, Joyce Christiansen-Salameh, Eugene Jeong, Anand B. Puthirath, Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, Pulickel M. Ajayan et al, 2023 Growth of ultrawide-bandgap BN/diamond heterostructures by pulsed laser deposition, 2023, arXiv:2305.13306 (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.13306)
Das, Mayukh, Akshay Wali, Amit Patel, Suyash Rai, Anand B. Puthirath, Pulickel Ajayan, Anchal Srivastava, and Saptarshi Das. "An Atomically Thin and Photosensitive Vanadium Disulfide Memtransistor." 2023. (https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2558699/v1)
Hong Fang, Michael Masaki, Anand B. Puthirath, Jaime M. Moya, Guanhui Gao, Emilia Morosan, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Joel Therrien, Puru Jena, U-carbon: metallic and magnetic, arXiv:2008.01137, 2020 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01137)
Book Chapter Contributed
S Jayalekshmi and Anand B. Puthirath, Supercapacitors-Fundamental Aspects, Nanostructured Ceramic Oxides for Supercapacitor Applications, CRC Press, The Taylor & Francis Group 21st February 2014 (Print ISBN: 978-1-4665-7690-2, eBook ISBN: 978-1-4665-7691-9).
Invention Disclosures
Vanadium dioxide-based electrodes for high energy density storage devices with high-temperature operability, Tech ID No. 2023-015
Thermochromic Polymer Composite Thin Film Coatings for Smart Window and Solar cell Applications, Tech ID No. 2022-068
A Method to Prepare Tunable Schottky-Ohmic Contacts Between Metal and Two-Dimensional Materials, and Semiconductor Devices Thereof, Tech Id No. 2022-055
High-K viscoelastic dielectric material made from brittle materials, Tech ID No. 2018-059
Thermally Conductive High-Temperature Dielectric Nanopaper, Tech ID No. 2019-019
Atomically Thin Functional Coatings as Anticoagulants, Tech ID No.2020-072
Published abstracts and professional presentations
R Das, BP Bhowmik, Anand B. Puthirath, TN Narayanan, Novel Experimental Method to Measure the Static Correlations in Supercooled Molecular Glass-forming Liquids , Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2023
Rajsekhar Das, Bhanu Prasad Bhowmik, Anand B. Puthirath, Tharangattu N Narayanan, Smarajit Karmakar, Novel Experimental Method to Measure the Static Correlations in Supercooled Molecular Glass-forming Liquids, APS March Meeting 2023, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Xiang Zhang, Abhijit Biswas, Anand B. Puthirath, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Growth of carbon-boronnitrogen heterostructures, Government microcircuit applications & critical technology conference (GOMACTech 2022), March 2022, Miami, FL, USA
Eliezer Fernando de Oliveira, Mahesh R. Neupane, Chenxi Li, Harikishan Kannan, Xiang Zhang, Anand B. Puthirath, Pankaj B. Shah, A. Glen Birdwell, Tony G. Ivanov, Robert Vajtai, Douglas S. Galvao, Pulickel M. Ajayan, A Reactive Molecular Dynamics Study of the Hydrogenation of Diamond Surfaces, Electronic Materials (2021 IUMRS-ICEM) and the XIX Brazilian Materials Research Society Meeting (XIX B-MRS) , August 2021, Brazil
Anand B. Puthirath, Pulickel M. Ajayan, 2D Nanomaterials, MRS Virtual Spring/Fall Meeting & Exhibit, November 2020, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Amey Apte, Sandhya Susarla, Anand B. Puthirath, Pulickel Ajayan, Chemical Vapor Deposition Synthesis and Characterization of Ultra-Thin Single-Crystal Metallic Molybdenum Dioxide Nanosheets, MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit, April 2019, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Jiawei Lai, Anand B. Puthirath, Xiang Zhang, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Integrated Sensor Power Coating Utilizing Two Dimensional Materials, Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings (ATOMIC) I/UCRC IAB Meeting, November 2019, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA.
Abhijit Baburaj, Anand B. Puthirath, Amit Jain, Rafel Verduzco, Devashish Salpekar, Babu Ganguli and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Graphene Coated Vanadium Pentoxide: A prospective electrode material of high capacitance for intercalation based brackish water desalination, The 5th Annual SCI Summer Research Colloquium, 2019, Rice University, Houston, USA
Jiawei Lai, Anand B. Puthirath, Xiang Zhang, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Integrated Sensor Power Coating Utilizing Two Dimensional Materials, Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings (ATOMIC) I/UCRC IAB Meeting, May 2019, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
Jianan Xu, Ganguli Babu, Keiko Kato, Anand B. Puthirath, Pulickel M. Ajayan et. al., High Capacity Li/Ni rich Ni-Ti-Mo Oxide Cathode for Li-ion Batteries, CEC Annual Workshop on Electrochemistry , 2019, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA.
Keiko Kato, Jiawei Lai, Anand B. Puthirath, Xiang Zhang, Babu Ganguli, Robert Vajtai Pulickel M. Ajayan, Integrated Sensor Power Coating Utilizing Two Dimensional Materials, Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings (ATOMIC) I/UCRC IAB Meeting, 2018 Rice University, Houston, USA.
Devashish Salpekar, Anand B. Puthirath, Ganguli Babu, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Extreme Temperature Electrolyte for Li-ion Batteries, Materials Today: Materials Science for the Next Two Decades, 2018 Houston, USA.
Anand B. Puthirath, T.N. Narayanan, TIFR Annual Talks, Transparent Flexible Lithium Superionic Conducting Solid Polymer Electrolyte, 2016, Mumbai, India.
Anand B. Puthirath, Bibin John, C. Gouri, S. Jayalekshmi, Role of polyaniline towards realizing polymer based, flexible and environment friendly energy storage devices, International Conference on Energy Harvesting, Storage and Conversion (IC-EEE 2015), Kochi, India.
Anand B. Puthirath, K. M. Anilkumar and S. Jayalekshmi, Electrochemical Characteristics of Li-Ion Cells Using Polyaniline- LiMn2O4 Composite as Cathode Active Material , 2nd International Conference on Advanced Functional Materials (ICAFM 2014), Trivandrum, India.
Anand B. Puthirath, K. M. Anilkumar and S. Jayalekshmi, Electrochemical Characteristics of Li-Ion Cells Using Polyaniline-LiFePO4 Composite as Cathode Active Material, 26th Kerala Science Congress, 2014, Pokkode, India.
P. B. Anand and S. Jayalekshmi, Observation of switching between SA and RSA in silver/gold-polyaniline nanocomposite films, Proc. SPIE 8809, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties XI, 88092B (September 11, 2013); SPIE-Optics+Photonics 2013, San Diego, CA, United States.
P. B. Anand, Ann Mary Jose, Dhanya Rajan, S. Jayalekshmi , On the structural and nonlinear optical properties of polyaniline/silver nanocomposites and its thin films, synthesized via a simple route, Fifth edition of International Symposium for Research Scholars on Metallurgy, Materials Science and Engineering (ISRS 2013) 13-15, IIT Madras, India.
P.B. Anand, S. Jayalekshmi, On the structural and impedance characteristics of Li- doped PEO, using n-butyl lithium in hexane as dopant, 2nd International conference on Optoelectronic Materials and Thin films for Advanced Technology (OMTAT 2013), Kochi, India.
Anand P B, Rajive M. Tomy, Anilkumar K. M. and Jayalekshmi S, On the structural and electrochemical properties of Li-ion cells based on Lithium doped (n-Butyllithium as dopant) polyaniline as cathode active material, Annual International Conference on Optoelectronics, Photonics & Applied Physics (OPAP 2013), Singapore.
P.B. Anand, Sreekanth. J. Varma, S. Jayalekshmi, Structural And Electrical Characterisation Of Exceptionally Crystalline CSA, NSA And HCl Doped Polyaniline (PANI) Thin Films, Fifth International Conference On Electroactive Polymers: Materials and Devices (ICEP 2012), Varanasi, India.
K.K. James, P.B Anand, S. Jayalekshmi and M. K. Jayaraj, Electrical and Di-electric properties of Fe doped BaSnO3, International Seminar on Advanced Materials (ICAM 2011), Coimbatore, India.
Jiya Jose, Bina Jose, Anand P. B., Anas Abdulaziz, M.R. Anantharaman and Shanta Nair, Effect of Ag Nanoparticles on multiple metal – and antibiotic resistant pathogenic bacteria from cochin estuary, Invited Talk, Cochin Nano 2011, Kochi, India.