Raj, R. A., Joseph, A., Bhowmik, R. N., Balan, A. P., & Joy, L. K., "Untangling the Influence of Intrinsic Parameters in Magnetic and Ferroelectric Properties of CoFe2-xGdxO4 System and its Suitability for Magnetoelectric Applications". Materials Research Bulletin, 113410 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.materresbull.2025.113410

A. Puthirath Balan, A. Kumar, P. Reiser, J. Vimal Vas, T. Denneulin, K. D. Lee, T. G. Saunderson, M. Tschudin, C. Pellet-Mary, D. Dutta, C. Schrader, T. Scholz, J. Geuchies, S. Fu, H. Wang, A. Bonanni, B. V. Lotsch, U. Nowak, G. Jakob, J. Gayles, A. Kovacs, R. E. Dunin-Borkowski, P. Maletinsky, M. Kläui, "Identifying the Origin of Thermal Modulation of Exchange Bias in MnPS3/Fe3GeTe2 van der Waals Heterostructures." Adv. Mater. 36, 2403685 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202403685

A. Puthirath Balan, A. Kumar, T. Scholz, Z. Lin, A. Shahee, S. Fu, T. Denneulin, J. Vas, A. Kovács, R. E. Dunin-Borkowski, H. I. Wang, J. Yang, B. V. Lotsch, U. Nowak, M. Kläui, "Harnessing Van der Waals CrPS4 and Surface Oxides for Nonmonotonic Preset Field Induced Exchange Bias in Fe3GeTe2" ACS Nano 18, 8383-8391 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c13034

Lozhkina, Olga, Fabian Kammerbauer, Maria-Andromachi Syskaki, Aravind Puthirath Balan et al. "Tailoring Magnetic Properties and Suppressing Anisotropy in Permalloy Films by Deposition in a Rotating Magnetic Field." Physical Review Applied 20, 014021 (2023). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.014021

Puthirath Balan, Aravind, et al. "Magneto-structural phase transition in exfoliated pyrrhotite (Fe7S8) ultra-thin sheets." Oxford Open Materials Science 3, itac020 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfmat/itac020

Balan, Aravind Puthirath, et al. "Non-van der Waals quasi-2D materials; recent advances in synthesis, emergent properties and applications." Materials Today 58 (2022): 164-200. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2022.07.007

Sam, Shan Abraham, Aravind Puthirath Balan et al. "Nanocomposite Permanent Magnets Based on SrFe 12 O 19-Fe 3 O 4 Hard-Soft Ferrites." Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism 34, 3333-3344 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-021-06070-y

Raj, RS Arun, S. Meenu, Aruna Joseph, Rosmy Jose, D. Sajan, Anku Guha, Rabindra Nath Bhowmik, Aravind Puthirath Balan, and Lija K. Joy. "Study of the modified magnetic, dielectric, ferroelectric and optical properties in Ni substituted GdFe1− x Ni x O3 orthoferrites." Nanotechnology 33, 035705 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ac2c42

Serles, Peter, Taib Arif, Anand B. Puthirath, Shwetank Yadav, Guorui Wang, Teng Cui, Aravind Puthirath Balan et al. "Friction of magnetene, a non–van der Waals 2D material." Science Advances 7, eabk2041 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abk2041

Puthirath, Anand B., Aravind Puthirath Balan, Eliezer F. Oliveira, Vishnu Sreepal, Francisco C. Robles Hernandez, Guanhui Gao, Nithya Chakingal et al. "Apparent Ferromagnetism in Exfoliated Ultrathin Pyrite Sheets." The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125, 18927-18935 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c04977

Archana, V. N., Shan Abraham Sam, Aravind Puthirath Balan, and M. R. Anantharaman. "Magneto-optical properties of a magneto-plasmonic nanofluid based on superparamagnetic iron oxide and gold nanoparticles." Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 536, 168092 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2021.168092

Puthirath, Anand B., Sharmila N. Shirodkar, Guanhui Gao, Francisco C. Robles Hernandez, Liangzi Deng, Rabin Dahal, Amey Apte, Aravind Puthirath Balan et al. "Scale-Enhanced Magnetism in Exfoliated Atomically Thin Magnetite Sheets." Small 16, 2004208 (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202004208

Narayanan, Soorya P., Pallavi Thakur, Aravind Puthirath Balan, Asha Ann Abraham, Femi Mathew, Munaiah Yeddala, Thoufeeq Subair et al. "Two-Dimensional Amorphous Cr2O3 Modified Metallic Electrodes for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction." Physica Status Solidi (RRL)–Rapid Research Letters 13, 1900025 (2019). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pssr.201900025

Aravind, P. B., M. Heigl, M. Fix, F. Groß, J. Gräfe, A. Mary, C. R. Rajgowrav et al. "Bistability of magnetic states in Fe-Pd nanocap arrays." Nanotechnology 30, 405705 (2019). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ab2d7f  

Puthirath Balan, Aravind, Sruthi Radhakrishnan, Ram Neupane, Sadegh Yazdi, Liangzi Deng, Carlos A. de los Reyes, Amey Apte et al. "Magnetic properties and photocatalytic applications of 2D sheets of nonlayered manganese telluride by liquid exfoliation." ACS Applied Nano Materials 1, 6427-6434 (2018). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.8b01642

Puthirath Balan, Aravind, Sruthi Radhakrishnan, Ritesh Kumar, Ram Neupane, Shyam Kanta Sinha, Liangzi Deng, Carlos A. de los Reyes et al. "A Non-van der Waals two-dimensional material from natural titanium mineral ore ilmenite." Chemistry of Materials 30, 5923-5931 (2018). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b01935

Balan, Aravind Puthirath, Sruthi Radhakrishnan, Cristiano F. Woellner, Shyam K. Sinha, Liangzi Deng, Carlos De Los Reyes, Banki Manmadha Rao et al. "Exfoliation of a non-van der Waals material from iron ore hematite." Nature Nanotechnology 13, 602-609 (2018). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-018-0134-y

Puthirath, Anand B., Sudeshna Patra, Shubhadeep Pal, M. Manoj, Aravind Puthirath Balan, and S. Jayalekshmi. "Transparent flexible lithium ion conducting solid polymer electrolyte." Journal of Materials Chemistry A 5, 11152-11162 (2017). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7TA02182H

Lisha, R., T. Hysen, P. Geetha, P. B. Aravind, M. Shareef, A. Shamlath, Sunil Ojha, R. V. Ramanujan, and M. R. Anantharaman. "Defect induced enhancement of exchange bias by swift heavy ion irradiation in zinc ferrite–FeNiMoB alloy-based bilayer films." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 360, 68-74 (2015). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2015.07.129

Origin and Thermal Evolution of Exchange Bias in MnPS3/Fe3GeTe2 antiferromagnetic/ferromagnetic van der Waals Heterostructures, Aravind Puthirath Balan, Aditya Kumar…. Mathias Kläui et al, 2025 Joint MMM-Intermag Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, January 13-17, 2025.

Complex Exchange Bias driven by Natural Oxide Layers in CrPS4/Fe3GeTe2 Antiferromagnetic/Ferromagnetic van der Waals Heterostructures, Aravind Puthirath Balan, Aditya Kumar…. Mathias Kläui et al, 2025 Joint MMM-Intermag Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, January 13-17, 2025.

Thermal cycling induced metamorphosis of exchange bias in MnPS3/Fe3GeTe2 van der Waals heterostructures, Aravind Puthirath Balan, Aditya Kumar…. Mathias Kläui et al, Intermag 2024, 5 - 10 May 2024, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Harnessing van der Waals CrPS4 and surface oxides for unique pre-set field induced Exchange Bias in Fe3GeTe2, Aravind Puthirath Balan, Aditya Kumar…. Mathias Kläui et al, Intermag 2024, 5 - 10 May 2024, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Exchange bias in fully compensated vdW Fe3GeTe2/MnPS3 heterostructures, Aravind Puthirath Balan, Aditya Kumar…. Mathias Kläui et al, WE-Heraeus-Seminar / Towards Functional van der Waals Magnets by Unlocking Synergies with Orbitronics, Magnonics, Altermagnetism, and Optics, 02 - 05 January 2024, Bad Honnef, Germany.

Non-van der Waals quasi 2D materials for Spintronics, Aravind Puthirath Balan, Workshop on Perovskite Spintronics, 21. – 22 August 2023, Mainz, Germany.

Non-van der Waals quasi 2D materials for Spintronics, Aravind Puthirath Balan, 2nd China-Germany bilateral meeting on topological devices, 2D materials and the future of spintronics, 3 - 4 August 2023, Mainz, Germany.

Magnetism in two-dimensions, Aravind Puthirath Balan, Advanced Functional Materials for Energy Harvesting, Storage and Biomedical Applications, E-Summer School, 13-19 May 2020, Bishop Moore College, Kerala, India.

Hematene - A New Non-van-der Waals 2D Material, Douglas Galvao, Aravind Balan, Sruthi Radhakrishnan, Cristiano Woellner, Shyam Sinha, L. Z. Deng, Carlos de los Reyes, B. Manmadha Rao, Maggie Paulose, Ram Neupane, Robert Vajtai, Ching-Wu Chu, Gelu Costin, Angel A. Martí, Peter van Aken, Oomman Varghese, Chandra Tiwary, M Anantharaman, P. M. Ajayan, Proceedings of 2018 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, Nov. 25-30, 2018, EP03.07.05.

Hysteresis free switching between collinear and vortex states in closely packed Fe-Pd nanocap arrays, P. B. Aravind, M. Heigl, M. Fix, J. Gräfe, S. Thomas, M. Krupiński, M. Marszałek, M. R. Anantharaman, M. Albrecht, Proceedings of 9th Joint European Magnetic Symposia 2018 (JEMS 2018), Sep. 3-7, 2018, P-C.105.