51. Amplifying circularly polarized luminescence in chirality-compatible cluster-based light-harvesting systems


Jatish Kumar* and Takuya Nakashima*

Chem. (2024) in press

51. Upconverted Chiral Emission in Hybrid Photonic Nanomaterials: Toward Amplified Circularly Polarized Luminescence with Tunable Chirality


Akshaya Kunnummal, Rasha Acha Parambil, Sonia Maniappan, Jatish Kumar* 

ACS Appl. Opt. Mater. (2024) in press

50. Engineering Copper Plasmonic Chirality via Ligand-Induced Dissolution for Enantioselective Recognition of Amino Acids


Sonia Maniappan, Camelia Dutta, Arunima Cheran, Diego M. Solís, Jatish Kumar* 

Chem. Sci. 15, 7121-7129 (2024)

49. Chiroptically Active Copper Clusters as Platform for Enantioselective Detection of Lysine


Camelia Dutta, Ragul Vivaz Nataraajan, Jatish Kumar*

Chirality 36, e23670 (2024)

48. Boron- and Oxygen-Doped π-Extended Helical Nanographene with Circularly Polarized Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence


Geethu Venugopal, Viksit Kumar, Ashok Badrinarayan Jadhav, Sangram D. Dongre, Abujunaid Khan, Rajesh Gonnade, Jatish Kumar, Santhosh Sukumaran Babu*

Chem. Eur. J. 30, e202304169 (2024)

47. Dual Emissive Optically Active Gold Nanoclusters Endowed with Circularly Polarized Phosphorescence


Camelia Dutta, Sonia Maniappan, Jatish Kumar*

Chem. Commun. 59, 13735-13738 (2023)

46. Zinc Selective Interaction of Porphyrins Aid Conversion of Nanoaggregates into Luminescent Microstructures: Toward the Development of a Sensing Platform 


Hrishikesan K P, Ashok Jadhav, Arunima Cheran, Betsy Marydasan, Jatish Kumar*

J. Phys. Chem. C 127, 17584-17591 (2023) (cover art)

45. Delayed Luminescence Guided Circularly Polarized Emission in Atomically Precise Copper Nanoclusters


Camelia Dutta, Sonia Maniappan, Jatish Kumar*

Chem. Sci. 14, 5593-5601 (2023) (cover art)

44. Surfactant Directed Synthesis of Intrinsically Chiral Plasmonic Nanostructures and Precise Tuning of their Optical Activity through Controlled Self-Assembly


Sonia Maniappan, Camelia Dutta, Diego M. Solís, José M. Taboada, Jatish Kumar*

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 62, e202300461 (2023) (cover art)

43. Transmitting Biomolecular Chirality into Carbon Nanodots: A Facile Approach to Aquire Chiral Light Emission at the Nanoscale 


Sonia Maniappan, Kumbam Lingeshwar Reddy, Jatish Kumar*

Chem. Sci. 14, 491-498 (2023) (cover art)

41. Mandelic Acid Appended Chiral Gels as Efficient Templates for Multicolour Circularly Polarized Luminescence


Kumbam Lingeshwar Reddy, Jikson Pulparayil Mathew, Sonia Maniappan, Catherine Tom, Elizabeth Shiby, Ravi Kumar Pujala, Jatish Kumar*

Nanoscale 14, 49464956 (2022) (cover art)

41. Chiral Nanostructures Derived from Europium (III) Complexes for Enhanced Circularly Polarised Luminescence and Antibacterial Activity 


Betsy Marydasan, Karthika Suryaletha , Amrutha Manoj Lena, Alida Sachin, Tsuyoshi Kawai, Sabu Thomas, Jatish Kumar*

J. Mater. Chem. C 10, 13954−13963 (2022).

40. A Facile Approach for the Ligand Free Synthesis of Biocompatible Upconversion Nanophosphors


Elizabeth Shiby, Kumbam Lingeshwar Reddy, Jatish Kumar*

Front. Chem. 9, 904676 (2022).

39. Protein Fibril Assisted Chiral Assembly of Gold Nanorods 


Angel Rose Thomas, K. Swetha, Aparna C. K., Rahail Ashraf, Jatish Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, Soumit Sankar Mondal*

J. Mater. Chem. B 10, 6360−6371 (2022).

38. Spectral Engineering and Morphological Tuning of Amino Acid Capped Hydrophilic Upconversion Nanophosphors


Kumbam Lingeshwar Reddy, Jikson Pulparayil Mathew, Elizabeth Shiby, Jatish Kumar*

J. Phys. Chem. C 125, 26263−26273 (2021).

37. Template Assisted Generation of Chiral Luminescence in Organic Fluorophores

Sonia Maniappan, Ashok Badrinarayan Jadhav and Jatish Kumar*

Front. Chem. 8, 557650 (2021).

36. In Vivo Evaluation of Multifunctional Gold Nanorods for Boron Neutron Capture and Photothermal Therapies


K. R. Pulagam, M. Henriksen-Lacey, K. B. Uribe, C. Renero-Lecuna, Jatish Kumar, A. Charalampopoulou, A. Facoetti, N. Protti, V. Gómez-Vallejo, Z. Baz, V. Kumar, A. Sánchez-Iglesias, S. Altieri, U. Cossío, D. Di Silvio, A. M. Martínez-Villacorta, A. R. de Angulo, L. Rejc, L. M. Liz-Marzán and J. Llop*

ACS App. Mater. Interfaces 13, 4958949601  (2021).

35. Plasmon-Enhanced Optical Chirality through Hotspot Formation in Surfactant-Directed Self-Assembly of Gold Nanorods 

E. Severoni,# Sonia Maniappan,# L. M. Liz-Marzán, Jatish Kumar,* F.J. García de Abajo,* L. Galantini* (#equal contribution)

ACS Nano 14, 16712−16722 (2020).

34. Silver Assisted Stereo-Directed Assembly of Branched Peptide Nucleic Acids into Four-Point Nanostars

Bharath Raj Madhanagopal, Jatish Kumar and Krishna N. Ganesh*

Nanoscale 12, 2166521673 (2020).

33. Impact of Enantiomeric Ligand Composition on the Photophysical Properties of Chiral Ag29 Nanoclusters

Hiroto Yoshida, Jatish Kumar, Masahiro Ehara, Yasuo Okajima, Fumio Asanoma, Tsuyoshi Kawai, and Takuya Nakashima*  

Bull. Chem. Soc. Japan 93, 834840 (2020).

Prior to joining IISER Tirupati

32. Charge Induced Shifts in Chiral Surface Plasmon Modes in Gold Nanorod Assemblies 

Jatish Kumar,* Elena López-Martínez, Aitziber L. Cortajarena, Diego M. Solís, J. M. Taboada, B. Díez-Buitrago, Valery Pavlov, Luis M. Liz-Marzán* 

Part. Part. Syst. Charact., 36, 1800368 (2019).

31. Recent Advances in Chiral Plasmonics-Towards Biomedical Applications 

Jatish Kumar,* Luis M. Liz-Marzán*

Bull. Chem. Soc. Japan, 92, 30−37 (2019) (cover art)

30. Mechano-responsive circularly polarized luminescence of organic solid-state chiral emitters 

Marine Louis, Ramarani Sethy, Jatish Kumar, Shohei Katao, Régis Guillot, Takuya Nakashima, Clemence Allain, Tsuyoshi Kawai, Remi Metivier

Chem. Sci., 10, 843-847 (2019)

29. Detection of Amyloid Fibrils in Parkinson´s Disease using Plasmonic Chirality

Jatish Kumar, Hasier Eraña, Elena López-Martínez, Natalie Claes, Víctor F. Martín, Diego M. Solís, Sara Bals, Aitziber L. Cortajarena, Joaquín Castilla, Luis M. Liz-Marzán

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 115, 3225−3220 (2018).

28. Probing the bilayer-monolayer switching of capping agents on Au nanorods and its interaction with guest molecules 

Jatish Kumar and K. George Thomas

J. Chem. Sci. 130, 138 (2018).

27. Coupled Plasmon Resonances and Gap Modes in Laterally Assembled Gold Nanorod Arrays

Jatish Kumar, Xingzhan Wei, Steven J. Barrow, Alison M. Funston, K. George Thomas and Paul Mulvaney

Z. Phys. Chem, 232, 1607−1617 (2018).

26. Plasmonic Nanoassemblies with Environment Responsiveness for Biosensing,

Xiaoling Wu, Changlong Hao, Jatish Kumar, Hua Kuang, Nicholas A. Kotov, Luis M. Liz-Marzán, Chuanlai Xu

Chem. Soc. Rev., 47, 4677−4696 (2018).

25. Coupling of Elementary Electronic Excitations: Drawing Parallels Between Excitons and Plasmons, 

Reshmi Thomas, Jatish Kumar, Jino George, M. Shanthil, G. Narmada Naidu, R. S. Swathi, K. George Thomas

J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 9, 919−932 (2018) (cover art).

24. Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Chiral Silver Nanoclusters

Jatish Kumar, Takuya Nakashima and Tsuyoshi Kawai

Chem. Commun., 53, 1269–1272 (2017).

23. Enantioselective Light Harvesting with Perylenediimide Guests on Self-Assembled Chiral Naphthalenediimide Nanofibers 

Ramarani Sethy, Jatish Kumar, Rémi Métivier, Marine Louis, Keitaro Nakatani, Nila Mohan T. M., Akhila Subhakumari, K. George Thomas, Tsuyoshi Kawai and Takuya Nakashima

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 56, 15053–15057 (2017) (cover art).

22. Bis(dipyrrinato)zinc(II) Complex Helical Wires: Exfoliation into Single Strands and Intensification of Circularly Polarized Luminescence

Risa Aoki, Ryojun Toyoda, Julius F. Kögel, Ryota Sakamoto, Jatish Kumar, Yasutaka Kitagawa, Koji Harano, Tsuyoshi Kawai, Hiroshi Nishihara  

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 16024–16027 (2017).

21. Nanoscale Chirality in Metal and Semiconductor Nanoparticles

Jatish Kumar,* K. George Thomas and Luis M. Liz-Marzán* 

Chem. Commun., 52, 12555–12569 (2016).

20. Chiral Supramolecular Polymerization Leading to Eye Differentiable Circular Polarization in Luminescence

Jatish Kumar, Betsy Marydasan, Takuya Nakashima, Tsuyoshi Kawai and Junpei Yuasa, 

Chem. Commun., 52, 9885–9888 (2016) (cover art).

19. Two-Step Synthesis of Boron-Fused Double Helicenes

Takazumi Katayama, Soichiro Nakatsuka, Hiroki Hirai, Nobuhiro Yasuda, Jatish Kumar, Tsuyoshi Kawai and Takuji Hatakeyama 

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 5210–5213 (2016).

18. Self-Discriminating Termination of Chiral Supramolecular Polymerization: Tuning the Length of Nanofibers,

Jatish Kumar, Hiroyuki Tsumatori, Junpei Yuasa, Tsuyoshi Kawai and Takuya Nakashima 

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54, 5943–5947 (2015).

17. Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Chiral Molecules and Supramolecular Assemblies 

Jatish Kumar, Takuya Nakashima and Tsuyoshi Kawai, 

J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 6, 3445−3452 (2015). 

16. Novel Helical Assembly of a Pt(II) Phenylbipyridine Complex Directed by Metal–Metal Interaction and Aggregation-Induced Circularly Polarized Emission

Toshiaki Ikeda, Midori Takayama, Jatish Kumar, Tsuyoshi Kawai, and Takeharu Haino 

Dalton Trans., 44, 13156−13162 (2015).

15. Highly Fluorescent [7] Carbohelicene Fused by Asymmetric 1,2-Dialkyl-Substituted Quinoxaline for Circularly Polarized Luminescence and Electroluminescence

Hayato Sakai, Sho Shinto, Jatish Kumar, Yasuyuki Araki, Tomo Sakanoue, TaishiTakenobu, Takehiko Wada, Tsuyoshi Kawai, and Taku Hasobe

J. Phys. Chem. C, 119, 13937−13947 (2015).

14. Isolation of a 1,4-diketone Intermediate in Oxidative Dimerization of 2-Hydroxyanthracene and its Conversion to Oxahelicene

Takashi Matsuno, Yutaro Koyama, Satoru Hiroto, Jatish Kumar, Tsuyoshi Kawai and Hiroshi Shinokubo

Chem. Commun., 51, 4607–4610 (2015).

13. Photocatalytic Activity of Acid-Catalyst-Modified Sol–Gel Processed Nanocrystalline Titania: On Dual-Role of Active Surface-Sites

Manu Jose, Harsha Narayani, Jatish Kumar, and Satyajit Shukla

Sci. Adv. Mater., 7, 729–745 (2015).

12. Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Chiral Aggregates: Dependence of Morphology on Luminescence Dissymmetry,

Jatish Kumar, Takuya Nakashima, Hiroyuki Tsumatori, and Tsuyoshi Kawai,

J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 5, 316−321 (2014). 

11. Au Nanorod Quartets and Raman Signal Enhancement: Towards the Design of Plasmonic Platforms,

Jatish Kumar, Reshmi Thomas, R. S. Swathi and K. George Thomas,

Nanoscale, 6, 10454–10459 (2014) (front cover art)

10. Inversion of Supramolecular Chirality in Bichromophoric PeryleneBisimides: Influence of Temperature and Ultrasound

Jatish Kumar, Takuya Nakashima, and Tsuyoshi Kawai,

Langmuir, 30, 6030−6037 (2014).

9. Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Supramolecular Assemblies of Chiral Bichromophoric Perylenebisimides

Jatish Kumar, Takuya Nakashima, Hiroyuki Tsumatori, Midori Mori, Masanobu Naito and Tsuyoshi Kawai, 

Chem. Eur. J., 9, 14090–14097 (2013).

8. Surface Plasmon Coupling in End-to-End Linked Gold Nanorod Dimers and Trimers

Jatish Kumar, Xingzhan Wei, Steven Barrow, Alison M. Funston, K. George Thomas and Paul Mulvaney,

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 15, 4258–4264 (2013).

7. Highest Photocatylitic Activity Observed for Nanocrystalline Anatase-Titania having Lowest Crystallinity

Manu Jose, Jatish Kumar and Satyajit Shukla,

Nano Bulletin, 2, 130104-1–130104-8 (2013).

6. Optical Effects near Metal Nanostructures: Towards Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy, 

Reshmi Thomas, Jatish Kumar, R. S. Swathi and K. George Thomas,

Current Science, 102, 85–96 (2012).

5. Laser Immunotherapy with Gold Nanorods Causes Selective Killing of Tumour Cells, 

Rejiya C.S., Jatish Kumar, Raji. V, Vibin. M and Annie Abraham,

Pharmacol. Res., 65, 261–269 (2012).

4. Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: Investigations at the Nanorod Edges and Dimer Junctions,

Jatish Kumar and K. George Thomas,

J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2, 610–615 (2011).

3. Selective Photothermal Efficiency of Citrate Capped Gold Nanoparticles for Destruction of Cancer Cells,

V. Raji, Jatish Kumar, C.S. Rejiya, M. Vibin, Vinesh N. Shenoi and Annie Abraham, 

Exp. Cell. Res., 14, 2052–2058 (2011).

2. Synthesis, Characterization and Biocompatibility of Surface-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles

V. Raji, Jatish Kumar, C.S. Rejiya, M. Vibin, Annie John and Annie Abraham

J. Exp. Nanosci., 7, 174–188 (2011).

1. Tunable Photophysical Properties of Phenyleneethynylene Based Bipyridine Ligands,

P. V. James, K. Yoosaf, Jatish Kumar, K. George Thomas, A. Listorti, G. Accorsi and Nicola Armaroli, 

Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 8, 1432–1440 (2009).