Publications

Carbon Dots fundamentals

  1. Verma, N. C.; Yadav, A.; Nandi, C. K. Paving the Path to the Future of Carbogenic Nanodots. Nat. Commun. 2019, 10 (1), 2391. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10394-8. Impact Factor = 12.121.

  2. Khan, S.; Gupta, A.; Verma, N. C.; Nandi, C. K. Time-Resolved Emission Reveals Ensemble of Emissive States as the Origin of Multicolor Fluorescence in Carbon Dots. Nano Lett. 2015, 15 (12), 8300–8305. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03915. Impact Factor = 12.344.

  3. Khan, S.; Verma, N. C.; Gupta, P.; Jain, S.; Ghosh, S.; Nandi, C. K. Mechanistic Insight into the Carbon Dots: Protonation Induced Photoluminescence. J. Mater. Sci. Eng. 2018, 07 (03). https://doi.org/10.4172/2169-0022.1000448. Impact Factor = 5.447.

Carbon Dots Superresolution imaging

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  1. Verma, N. C.; Yadav, A.; Rao, C.; Mishra, P. M.; Nandi, C. K., V. Emergence of Carbon Nanodots as a Probe for Super-Resolution Microscopy. J. Phys. Chem. C 2021,. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c09695. Impact Factor = 4.189.

  2. Verma, N. C.; Rao, C.; Singh, A.; Garg, N.; Nandi, C. K. Dual Responsive Specifically Labelled Carbogenic Fluorescent Nanodots for Super Resolution and Electron Microscopy. Nanoscale 2019, 11 (14), 6561–6565. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9nr00457b. Impact Factor = 6.895.

  3. Verma, N. C.; Rao, C.; Nandi, C. K. Nitrogen-Doped Biocompatible Carbon Dot as a Fluorescent Probe for STORM Nanoscopy. J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122 (8), 4704–4709. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b12773. Impact Factor = 4.189.

  4. Verma, N. C.; Khan, S.; Nandi, C. K. Single-Molecule Analysis of Fluorescent Carbon Dots towards Localization-Based Super-Resolution Microscopy. Methods Appl. Fluoresc. 2016, 4 (4), 044006. https://doi.org/10.1088/2050-6120/4/4/044006. Impact Factor = 2.840.

  5. Verma, N. C. Single Molecule Blinking and Localization Based Superresolution Microscopy of Carbogenic Fluorescent Nanodots (PhD), IITMandi, 2020. http://odr.iitmandi.ac.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/275/1/TH0226%28Phd%29.pdf.

  6. Butkevich, E.; Verma, N. C.; Oleksiievets, N.; Gregor, I.; Schmidt, C. F.; Enderlein, J.; Nandi, C. K.; Chizhik, A. I. Carbon Dots for Studying Muscle Architecture. ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2019, 2 (12), 7466–7472. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.9b01815. Impact Factor = Waiting.

  7. Rao, C.; Khan, S.; Verma, N. C.; Nandi, C. K. Labelling Proteins with Carbon Nanodots. ChemBioChem 2017, 18 (24), 2385–2389. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.201700440. Impact Factor = 2.576.

  8. Khan, S.; Verma, N. C.; Gupta, A.; Nandi, C. K. Reversible Photoswitching of Carbon Dots. Sci. Rep. 2015, 5, 11423. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep11423. Impact Factor = 3.998.

  9. Khan, S.; Verma, N. C.; Chethana; Nandi, C. K. Carbon Dots for Single-Molecule Imaging of the Nucleolus. ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2018, 1 (2), 483–487. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.7b00175. Impact Factor = Waiting.

  10. Patent: Title of the invention: CARBOGENIC FLUORESCENT NANODOT AS NEW PROBE FOR SUPER RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY AND METHOD OF APPLICATION THEREOF, Application No: 202011019980 A, Issue 25/2020, Publication Date : 19/06/2020, Name of Inventor : 1. Dr. Chayan Kanti Nandi, 2. Dr. Navneet Chandra Verma, 3. Ms. Chethana Rao, 4. Mr. Aditya Yadav.

Carbon Dots Sensors


  1. Gupta, A.; Verma, N. C.; Khan, S.; Nandi, C. K. Carbon Dots for Naked Eye Colorimetric Ultrasensitive Arsenic and Glutathione Detection. Biosens. Bioelectron. 2016, 81, 465–472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2016.03.018. Impact Factor = 10.257.

  2. Gupta, A.; Verma, N. C.; Khan, S.; Tiwari, S.; Chaudhary, A.; Nandi, C. K. Paper Strip Based and Live Cell Ultrasensitive Lead Sensor Using Carbon Dots Synthesized from Biological Media. Sensors Actuators, B Chem. 2016, 232, 107–114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2016.03.110. Impact Factor = 7.100.

  3. Gupta, A.; Chaudhary, A.; Mehta, P.; Dwivedi, C.; Khan, S.; Verma, N. C.; Nandi, C. K. Nitrogen-Doped, Thiol-Functionalized Carbon Dots for Ultrasensitive Hg(Ii) Detection. Chem. Commun. 2015, 51 (53), 10750–10753. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cc03019f. Impact Factor = 5.996.

Carbon Dots Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM)

  1. Rao, C.; Verma, N. C.; Nandi, C. K. Unveiling the Hydrogen Bonding Network of Intracellular Water by Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging. J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123 (4), 2673–2677. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b12439. Impact Factor = 4.189.

  2. Rao, C.; Singh, A.; Verma, N. C.; Garg, N.; Nandi, C. K. One Pot Synthesis of Amphiphilic Carbogenic Fluorescent Nanodots for Bioimaging. ChemNanoMat 2019, 5 (4), 417–421. https://doi.org/10.1002/cnma.201800663. Impact Factor = 3.380.

  3. Khan, S.; Gupta, A.; Verma, N. C.; Nandi, C. K. Kinetics of Protein Adsorption on Gold Nanoparticle with Variable Protein Structure and Nanoparticle Size. J. Chem. Phys. 2015, 143 (16), 164709. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4934605. Impact Factor = 2.991.

Magnetic nano-particle


  1. Yadav, A.; Rao, C.; Verma, N. C.; Mishra, P. M.; Nandi, C. K. Magnetofluorescent Nanoprobe for Multimodal and Multicolor Bioimaging. Mol. Imaging 2020, 19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1536012120969477. Impact Factor = 2.763.

  2. Tiwari, A.; Verma, N. C.; Turkkan, S.; Debnath, A.; Singh, A.; Draeger, G.; Nandi, C. K.; Randhawa, J. K. Graphitic Carbon Coated Magnetite Nanoparticles for Dual Mode Imaging and Hyperthermia. ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2020, 3 (1), 896–904. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.9b02501. Impact Factor = Waiting.

  3. Tiwari, A.; Verma, N. C.; Randhawa, J. K.; Nandi, C. K. Real-Time Observation of Magnetic Field-Induced Fluorescence Engineering in SPIONs. J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123 (45), 27759–27764. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b07261. Impact Factor = 4.189.

  4. Tiwari, A.; Verma, N. C.; Singh, A.; Nandi, C. K.; Randhawa, J. K. Carbon Coated Core-Shell Multifunctional Fluorescent SPIONs. Nanoscale 2018, 10 (22), 10389–10394. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8nr01941j. Impact Factor = 6.895.

2D Materials

  1. Kumar, P.; Thakar, K.; Verma, N. C.; Biswas, J.; Maeda, T.; Roy, A.; Kaneko, K.; Nandi, C. K.; Lodha, S.; Balakrishnan, V. Polymorphic In-Plane Heterostructures of Monolayer WS2 for Light-Triggered Field-Effect Transistors. ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2020, 3 (4), 3750–3759. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.0c00027. Impact Factor = Waiting.

  2. Kumar, P.; Verma, N. C.; Goyal, N.; Biswas, J.; Lodha, S.; Nandi, C. K.; Balakrishnan, V. Phase Engineering of Seamless Heterophase Homojunctions with Co-Existing 3R and 2H Phases in WS2 Monolayers. Nanoscale 2018, 10 (7), 3320–3330. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7nr08303c. Impact Factor = 6.895

  3. Yadav, A.; Verma, N. C.; Rao, C.; Mishra, P. M.; Jaiswal, A.; Nandi, C. K. Bovine Serum Albumin-Conjugated Red Emissive Gold Nanocluster as a Fluorescent Nanoprobe for Super-Resolution Microscopy. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11 (14), 5741–5748. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01354. Impact Factor = 6.710.

  4. Yadav, A.; Verma, N. C.; Rao, C.; Mishra, P. M.; Jaiswal, A.; Nandi, C. K. Bovine Serum Albumin-Conjugated Red Emissive Gold Nanocluster as a Fluorescent Nanoprobe for Super-Resolution Microscopy. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11 (14), 5741–5748. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01354. Impact Factor = 6.710.