Publications

A. Journals

2025

• Amit Kumar, Julaiba Tahsina Mazumder, Kenza Joyen, Frédéric Favier, Ali Mirzei, Jin-Young Kim, Monika Kwoka, Mikhael Bechelany, Ravindra Kumar Jha, Mahesh Kumar, Hyoun Woo Kim, and Sang Sub Kim Defect engineering approaches for metal oxide semiconductor-based chemiresistive gas sensing, Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2025, 541, 216836.

• Jency Rubia, Julaiba Tahsina Mazumder, Arun Aloshious, and Ravindra Kumar Jha. Single Electron Transistor based Charge Sensors: Fabrication Challenges and Opportunities, Nanoscale, April-2025 (Accepted).

• Julaiba Tahsina Mazumder, Tushar Shivam, Arindam Majhi, Rajesh Kumar Jha, Moti Kumar Jha, Supriya Khatoniar, Shubham Pandey, and Ravindra Kumar Jha. Advancements in 2D-TMD Heterostructures for Next Generation Electronic Chemical Sensors, Material Today Nano, 2025,30, 100615.

• Julaiba Tahsina Mazumder, Mohammed M. Hasan, Fahim Parvez, Tushar Shivam, Dobbidi Pamu, Alamgir Kabir, Mainul Hossain, and Ravindra Kumar Jha. Unlocking the Sensing and Scavenging Potential of Sc2CO2 and Sc2CO2/ TMD Heterostructures for Phosgene Detection, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP), March-2025 (Accepted).

2024

• Pawan Kumar, Julaiba Tahsina Mazumder, and Ravindra Kumar Jha. Ab-initio Study on Vertical and Lateral Heterostructures of WS2-MoS2 for Gas Sensing, IEEE Sensors Letters, 2024, 8,11, 2001104.

• Julaiba Tahsina Mazumder, Aman Nanda, Jyoti R. Mandal; Anshul Yadav, and Ravindra Kumar Jha. Bias Potential Mediated No2 Gas Sensor With NiCO2O4 Hollow Micro-Sphere, IEEE Electron Device Letters, 2024, 45,5, 885-888.

• Julaiba Tahsina Mazumder; Shubham Pandey, and Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Homoatomic Flatlands Beyond Graphene: A New Avenue for Gas Sensors, Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2024, 507, 215747 .

2023

• Julaiba Tahsina Mazumder; and Ravindra Kumar Jha. Theoretical Insights into Gas Sensing Properties of MXene, Sensors and Actuators Reports, 2023, 6, 100174.

• Aman Nanda; Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Anshul Yadav, Ankit Rao, and Navakanta Bhat. Arsenic Trioxide Nanostructures for Selective Detection of NO Gas at Room Temperature, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023,23,19, 22225 - 22232. 

• Julaiba Tahsina Mazumder; Ravindra Kumar Jha.;, Hyoun Woo Kim, and Sang Sub Kim. Capacitive Toxic Gas Sensors based on Oxide Composites: A Review, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023, 23,16, 17842 – 17853.

• Nazia Fatima.; Ravindra Kumar Jha.; and Navakanta Bhat. A sustainable approach towards the Development of Next-Generation Gas Sensors, ACS Sustainable Chem & Engineering, 2023, 2023,11,22, 8217–8228.

2022

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Aman Nanda; Anshul Yadav; Ranajit Sai; and Navakanta Bhat. 2D-MoSe2/0D-ZnO Nanocomposite for Improved H2S Gas Sensing in Dry Air Ambience, Journal of Alloys & Compounds, 2022, 926, 166825.

• Neha Sakhuja.; Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Ranajit Sai; and Navakanta Bhat.ZnO Nanorods Grown on WS2 Nanosheets for Chemiresistive H2S Sensing, ACS Applied Nanomaterials, 2022, 5(7), 9241-9251.

• Nazia Fatima.; Ravindra Kumar Jha.; and Navakanta Bhat. Co3O4/MoS2 Nanostructures for NOx Sensing, ACS Applied Nanomaterials, 2022, 5(6), 7754-7776.

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; and Navakanta Bhat. Effect of Ethyl Cellulose on Ammonia Sensing Abilities of Gas Sensors Fabricated using MoS2 Functional Ink for Printed Electronics Application, IEEE Sensors Letters 2022, 6(8), 1-4 . 

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.;Meenu Murali.; and Navakanta Bhat. Gas sensing Behavior of Metal-Catecholates based MOFs, IOP Nanotechnology, 2022, 33, 295501.

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Aman Nanda; Ranajit Sai.; Kaushal Kishore.; Anshul Yadav.; R. D. Ralandinliu Kahmei.; and Navakanta Bhat. Development of a Ferrite Film Based Solid State Sensor System for Ultra Low Concentration Hydrogen Sulfide Gas Detection, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022, 22, 8402-8409.

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Aman Nanda; Piyush Avasthi; Nitika Arya; Anshul Yadav.; Viswanath Balakrishnan; and Navakanta Bhat. Scalable Approach to Develop High Performance Chemiresistive Nitric Oxide Sensor, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 2022, 21, 177 - 184.

• Neha Sakhuja.; Aashi Gupta.; Ravindra Kumar Jha.; and Navakanta Bhat. Noble Metal Nanoparticle Decorated Tungsten Diselenide Nanosheets for ultrasensitive detection of NO2 at room temperature, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2022, 899, 163166. 

• Ravindra Kumar Jha. Non-Dispersive Infrared Gas Sensing Technology: A Review, IEEE Sensors Journal 2022, 22, 1, 6-15.  

2021 & Before

• Aashi Gupta, Neha Sakhuja, Ravindra Kumar Jha.; and Navakanta Bhat. Ultrasensitive chemiresistive humidity sensor based on gold functionalized WS2 nanosheets, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2021, 331, 113008. 

• Neha Sakhuja, Ravindra Kumar Jha.; and Navakanta Bhat. Facile Green Synthesis of 2D Hexagonal MoO3 for Selective Detection of Ammonia at Room Temperature, Materials Science and Engineering B, 2021. 

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Aman Nanda; and Navakanta Bhat. Sub-ppm Sulfur Dioxide Detection Using MoS2 modified Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes at Room Temperature, Nano Select (Wiley), 2021.

• Aman Nanda; Vivek Singh; Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Jyoti Sinha; Sushobhan Avasthi; and Navakanta Bhat. Growth-Temperature Dependent Unpassivated Oxygen Bonds Determine the Gas Sensing Abilities of Chemical Vapor Deposition-Grown CuO Thin Films, ACS Applied Materials Interfaces, 2021,13, 21936–21943. 

• Kazi Hanium Maria, Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Neha Sakhuja.; and Navakanta Bhat Ultra-sonication assisted synthesis of 2D SnS2 nanoflakes for Room-temperature NO gas detection, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021, 21, 10420-10427.

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Aman Nanda; and Navakanta Bhat. Ammonia Sensing Performance of RGO based Chemiresistive Gas Sensor decorated with Exfoliated MoSe2 Nanosheets, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021, 21, 10211 - 10218. (Featured Article)

• Rahul Prajesh; Ravindra Kumar Jha; Vikas Saini; Mohd Nahid; Vinay Goyal; Pubali Chaudhary; Jitendra Bhargava; Ashok K Sharma; Ajay Agarwal. Assessing Simultaneous Effect of Ar/O2 Ratio and Process Pressure on ammonia Sensing Properties of Reactive DC Magnetron Sputtered SnO2 Thin Films, Materials Letters, 2021, 286, 129239.

• Jun Lin.; Scott Monaghan.; Neha Sakhuja.; Farzan Gity.; Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Emma Coleman.;James Connolly.; Conor Cullen.; Lee Walsh.; Teresa Mannarino.; Michael Schmidt.; Brendan Sheehan; Georg Duesberg.;, Niall McEvoy; Navakanta Bhat.; Paul Hurley.; Ian Povey; Shubhadeep Bhattacharjee. Large-Area Growth of MoS2 at Temperatures Compatible with Integrating Back-End-of-Line Functionality, IOP 2D Materials, 2021, 8(2), 025008.

• Neha Sakhuja, Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Suvra Santa Laha.; Ankit Rao.; and Navakanta Bhat. Fe3O4 Nanoparticle-Decorated WSe2 Nanosheets for Selective Chemiresistive Detection of Gaseous Ammonia at Room Temperature, ACS Applied Nanomaterials, 2020,3, 11, 11160-11171. 

• Sharmi Ganguly,; Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Prasanta K Guha,; and Chacko Jacob. Synthesis of CuO Nanoflowers and Their Application Towards Inflammable Gas Sensing, Journal of Electronic Materials, 2020, 1-7 .

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Aman Nanda; and Navakanta Bhat. Ultrasonication Assisted Fabrication of Tungsten Sulfide/Tungstite Heterostructure for ppb-level Ammonia Detection at Room Temperature, RSC Advances, 2020,10, 21993-22001. 

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Aman Nanda; and Navakanta Bhat. Boron Nanostructures Obtained via Ultrasonic Irradiation for High Performance Chemiresistive Methane Sensors, Nanoscale Advances, 2020, 2 , 1837-1842 .

• Neha Sakhuja,; Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Rajneesh Chaurasia.; Ambesh Dixit.; and Navakanta Bhat. 1T-Phase Titanium Disulfide Nanosheets for Sensing H2S and O2, ACS Applied Nanomaterials, 2020, 3, 3382– 3394 .

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; and Navakanta Bhat. Recent Progress in Chemiresistive Gas Sensing Technology Based on Molybdenum and Tungsten Chalcogenide Nanostructures, Advanced Materials Interfaces,2020, 7, 1901992.

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Neha Sakhuja.; Samridhi Jakhar.; and Navakanta Bhat. Hydrogen Sulfide Gas sensing capabilities of liquid processed layered oxide nanosheets, IEEE Transaction on Nanotechnology, 2019, 18, 932 – 939.

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Vivek Singh; Jyoti Sinha; Sushobhan Avasthi; and Navakanta Bhat. CVD Grown Cuprous Oxide Thin Film Based Highly Selective and Stable Chemiresistive Ammonia Gas Sensors, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019, 19, 11759 - 11766.

• Neha Sakhuja; Ravindra Kumar Jha.; and Navakanta Bhat. Tungsten Disulphide Nanosheets for high performance Chemiresistive Ammonia gas sensor, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019,19, 11767 – 11774.  

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Jostin Vinroy D’Costa, Neha Sakhuja, and Navakanta Bhat. MoSe2 Nanoflakes Based Chemiresistive Sensors for ppb-level Hydrogen Sulfide gas Detection. Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical 2019, 297, pp. 126687.

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; and Prasanta Kumar Guha. Humidity Sensing Properties of Co-Exfoliated Heterogeneous WS2/WSe2 Nanosheets. IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 2018, 17, 582 – 589.

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Meher Wan; Chacko Jacob; and Prasanta Kumar Guha. Enhanced Gas Sensing Properties of Liquid-Processed Semiconducting Tungsten Chalcogenide (WXi, X= O and S) based Hybrid Nanomaterials. IEEE Sensors Journal 2018, 18, 3494-3501.

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Meher Wan; Chacko Jacob; and Prasanta Kumar Guha. Ammonia vapour sensing properties of in situ polymerized conducting PANI-nanofiber/WS2 nanosheet composites. Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) New Journal of Chemistry (NJC) 2018, 42, 735-745.

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Debasree Burman; Sumita Santra; and Prasanta Kumar Guha. WS2/GO Nanohybrids for Enhanced Relative Humidity Sensing at Room Temperature IEEE Sensors Journal 2017, 17, 7340-7347.

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Prasanta Kumar Guha. An effective liquid-phase exfoliation approach to fabricate tungsten disulfide into ultrathin two-dimensional semiconducting nanosheets. Springer-Nature Journal of Materials Science 2017, 52, 7256-7268.

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Prasanta Kumar Guha. Liquid exfoliated pristine WS2 nanosheets for ultrasensitive and highly stable chemiresistive humidity sensors. IOP Nanotechnology 2016, 27, 475503.

• Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Sumita Santra.; and Prasanta Kumar Guha. Green synthesis route for WS2 nanosheets using water intercalation. IOP Materials Research Express 2016, 3, 095014.

B. Patents

•  Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Debasree Burman; Sumita Santra; Ruma Ghosh; and Prasanta Kumar Guha. Indian Patent Application No-201731010676 “Humidity Sensor Based on Nano-Composite Sensing Layers and Method Of Fabrication Thereof” (Status: Granted)

• Neha Sakhuja.; Ravindra Kumar Jha.; Ranajit Sai; and Navakanta Bhat. Indian Patent Application No-202041034329 “Chemiresistive Gas Sensors and Method of Fabrication” (Status:Filed)

• Ravindra Kumar Jha, Neha Sakhuja, Ranajit Sai, and Navakanta Bhat. US Patent Application No.17/398,169 Heterostructure Semiconductor, Chemiresistive Gas Sensor Made Thereof, And Method Of Fabrication Thereof. (Filed Dec. 2021)