Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
2024
46. "Ruddlesden-Popper 2D Perovskite-MoS2 Hybrid Heterojunction Photocathodes for Efficient and Scalable Photo-Rechargeable Li-Ion Batteries", Rashid M. Ansari, Shubham Chamola and Shahab Ahmad*, Small (2024) 2401350. (link)
45. "Photo-Enhanced Li-Ion Batteries based on Conversion Type Hematite Phase Iron Oxide Nanostructures", Shubham Chamola and Shahab Ahmad*, Springer Conference Proceedings, National Conference on Energy Materials and Devices (2024) 71-79. (link)
2023
44. "Smallest Organic Spacers based Ruddlesden-Popper and Dion-Jacobson Perovskites: Which one is better for Optoelectronics?", Abhishek Yadav, Rishabh Vashist, Mohammad Rahil, Zhixiang Ren, Yichen Yang, Baodan Zhao and Shahab Ahmad*, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 127 (2023) 45, 22190–22203. (link) (Appeared in virtual special issue “The Physical Chemistry of Perovskites” )
43. "PCBM Functionalized WS2 Hybrid Nanostructures for High Performance Li-Ion Battery Anodes: Towards Binder-Free Electrodes" , Bikram Mondal, Ameer Azam and Shahab Ahmad*, Energy & Fuels 37 (2023) 20, 16105-16118. (link)
42. "High Performance Photorechargeable Li-Ion Batteries based on Nanoporous Fe2O3 Photocathodes", Shubham Chamola and Shahab Ahmad*, Advanced Sustainable Systems (2023) 2300043 . (link) (Media Coverage: Tech Xplore)
41. "Strong Photocurrent from Solution Processed Ruddlesden Popper 2D Perovskite-MoS2 Hybrid Heterojunctions", Rashid M. Ansari, Akshaykumar D. Salunke, Mohammad Rahil and Shahab Ahmad*, Advanced Materials Interfaces 10 (2023) 2202170 (1-12). (link)
40. "Nanostructured Ruddlesden-Popper Layered Lead Bromide Perovskites with Stable and Selected Wavelength for Photodetection Applications", Mohammad Rahil, Rashid M. Ansari, Shahab Ahmad* and S. S. Islam, ACS Applied Nano Materials 6 (2023) 5187-5199. (link)
39. "Facile and Effective Bandgap Engineering of 2D Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskites with Improved Structural and Optoelectronic properties", Abhishek Yadav, Mohammad Rahil and Shahab Ahmad*, ACS Applied Electronic Materials 5 (2023) 1024-1034. (link)
2022
38. "Photo-Rechargeable Li-ion Batteries: Device Configurations, Mechanisms and Materials", Akshaykumar D. Salunke, Shubham Chamola, Angus Mathieson, Buddha Deka Boruah, Michael de Volder and Shahab Ahmad*, ACS Applied Energy Materials 5 (2022) 7891−7912. (link)
37. "Ruddlesden-Popper 2D perovskites of type (C6H9C2H4NH3)2(CH3NH3)n−1PbnI3n+1 (n = 1–4) for Optoelectronic Applications", Mohammad Rahil, Rashid Malik Ansari, Chandra Prakash, S. S. Islam, Ambesh Dixit and Shahab Ahmad*, Scientific Reports 12 (2022) 2176. (link) (Most downloaded materials science paper published by the journal in 2022)
2021
36. "Ruddlesden Popper 2D perovskites as Li-ion battery electrodes", A. Mathieson, Mohammad Rahil, Y. Zhang, W. M. Dose, J.T. Lee, Felix Deschler*, Shahab Ahmad* and Michael De Volder*, Materials Advances 2 (2021) 3370-3377. (link) (Featured in Editor’s choice web collection on luminescent metal halides by Journal of Materials Chemistry C).
2020
35. “Lanthanide-doped inorganic nanoparticles turn molecular triplet excitons bright”, S. Han, R. Deng, Q. Gu, L. Ni, U. Huynh, J. Zhang, Z. Yi, B. Zhao, H. Tamura, A. Pershin, H. Xu, Z. Huang, Shahab Ahmad, M. Abdi-Jalebi, A. Sadhanala, M. Lee Tang, A. Bakulin, D. Beljonne, Xiaogang Liu and Akshay Rao, Nature 587 (2020) 594-599 .(link) (Media Coverage: phys.org/news/2020)
34. "Exciton tunability in mixed halide hybrid layered perovskites", Mohammad Rahil, Nahiya Mushtaq, H. R. Ansari, Mohd. K. Alam, and Shahab Ahmad*, AIP Conference Proceedings 2276 (2020) 020043. (link)
33. “Highly Tunable Single-Phase Excitons in Mixed Halide Layered Perovskites”, Mohammad Rahil, Pramod Rajput, Dibyajyoti Ghosh and Shahab Ahmad*, ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2, 10 (2020) 3199-3210. (link)
32. “New Generation Energy Storage”, Shahab Ahmad*, Science and Education Magazine TechScape: IIT Jodhpur 01 , 01, (2020). (link)
31. “Investigation of structural, optical, dielectric and magnetic properties of LaNiO3 and LaNi1−xMxO3 (M=Fe, Cr & Co; x=5%) nanoparticles”, A. A. Shah, Shahab Ahmad, Ameer Azam, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 494 (2020) 165812. (link)
2019
30. “Triple Cation based Perovskite Photocathodes with AZO Protective Layer for Hydrogen Production Applications”, Shahab Ahmad*, A. Sadhanala, R.L.Z. Hoye, V. Andrei, M. H. Modarres, B. Zhao, J. Rongé, Richard H Friend and Michael De Volder*, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11 (2019) 23198-23206. (link)
29. “Hydrothermal Coating of Patterned Carbon Nanotube Forest for Structured Lithium‐Ion Battery Electrodes”, S. Jessl, D. Copic, S. Engelke, Shahab Ahmad and Michael De Volder, Small (2019) 1901201 (1-6). (link) (Selected for the Front Cover of Small)
28. “Strongly coloured thiocyanate frameworks with perovskite-analogue structures”, M. Cliffe, E. Keyzer, M. T. Dunstan, Shahab Ahmad, Michael De Volder, Felix Deschler, Andrew James Morris, Clare P Grey, Chemical Science 10 (2019) 793. (link)
27. “Isostructural series of [{Al(H2O)6}{Ln(pda)3}].10H2O: Synthesis, structure and photoluminescence”, D. Kumar, S. Tewari, M. Adnan, Shahab Ahmad, G. Vijaya Prakash and Arunachalam Ramanan, Inorganica Chimica Acta 487 (2019) 81–91 (link).
26. “Scalable Photoelectrochemical Perovskite-BiVO4 Tandem Devices for Solar Fuel Synthesis”, V. Andrei, H. Lu, S. D. Pike, R. L. Z. Hoye, B. Reuillard, Shahab Ahmad, D. S. Wright, Michael De Volder, Richard Friend, Erwin Reisner, Proceedings of nanoGe Fall Meeting19 (NFM19) 104 (2019) (link)
2018
25. “Photo-Rechargeable Organo-Halide Perovskite Batteries”, Shahab Ahmad*, C. George, D. Beesley, Jeremy Baumberg and Michael De Volder*, Nano Letters 18 (2018) 1856-1862. (link)
24. "Reduced Graphene Oxide based wideband optical sensor operation at 123-303K: Analysis of interdependency among Temperature, Defect States and Quantum Efficiency", Abid, P. Sherawat, S. S. Islam, P. Mishra and Shahab Ahmad, Nature Scientific Reports 8 (1) (2018) 3537. (link) (Top 100 in Materials Science articles published in Scientific Reports)
23. “Scalable Triple Cation Mixed Halide Perovskite-BiVO4 Tandems for Bias‐Free Water Splitting”, V. Andrei, R. LZ Hoye, M. Crespo‐Quesada, M. Bajada, Shahab Ahmad, Michael De Volder, Richard Friend, Erwin Reisner, Advanced Energy Materials (2018) 1801403. (link)
22. “Exciton–Phonon Interactions Govern Charge-Transfer-State Dynamics in CdSe/CdTe Two-Dimensional Colloidal Heterostructures”, R Pandya, R. YS Chen, A. Cheminal, M. Dufour, J. M. Richter, T. H. Thomas, Shahab Ahmad, A. Sadhanala, E. P. Booker, G. Divitini, F. Deschler, N. C. Greenham, S. Ithurria and Akshay Rao, Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) 140 (2018) 14097-14111. (link)
21. “Opal-like Multicolor Appearance of Self-Assembled Photonic Array”, Z. A. Arnon, D. Pinotsi, M. Schmidt, S. Gilead, T. Guterman, A. Sadhanala, Shahab Ahmad...., ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10 (2018) 20783-20789. ( link)
20. "Lead-Free Perovskite Semiconductors Based on Germanium-Tin Solid Solutions: Structural and Optoelectronic Properties", S. Nagane, D. Ghosh, R. Hoye, B. Zhao, Shahab Ahmad, A. B. Walker, M. Saiful Islam, Satishchandra Ogale, and Aditya Sadhanala, J. Phys. Chem. C 122 (2018) 5940-5947. (link)
19. “Carbon nanotube conductive additives for improved electrical and mechanical properties of flexible battery electrodes”, S. Jessl, D. Beesley, S. Engelke, C. J. Valentine, J. C. Stallar, N. Fleck, Shahab Ahmad, Matthew T. Cole and Michael De Volder, Materials Science & Engineering A (2018) 735, 269-274. (link)
2017
18. "Real-Time Observation of Exciton-Phonon Coupling Dynamics in Self-Assembled Hybrid Perovskite Quantum Wells", Limeng Ni, Uyen Huynh, Alexandre Cheminal, Tudor H. Thomas, Ravichandran Shivanna, Ture F. Hinrichsen, Shahab Ahmad, Aditya Sadhanala and Akshay Rao, ACS Nano 11 (2017) 10834-10843. (link)
17. "Rare earth-based photoluminescent materials", A Ramanan, D Kumar, Shahab Ahmad, G Vijay Prakash, Acta Cryst. (2017) A73, C182. (link).
2016
16. “Hierarchical Assemblies of Carbon Nanotubes for Ultraflexible Li-Ion Batteries”, Shahab Ahmad, D. Copic, C. George and Michael De Volder, Advanced Materials 28 (2016) 6705-6710. (link) (Selected for Frontispiece of Advanced Materials)
2015
15. “Strong photocurrent from 2D excitons in solution-processed stacked perovskite semiconductor sheets”, Shahab Ahmad*, P. K. Kanaujia, H. J. Beeson, A. Abate, F. Deschler, D. Credgington, Ullrich Steiner, G Vijaya Prakash* and Jeremy J Baumberg*, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7 (2015) 25227. (link)
14. “Blue-Green Colour Tunable Solution Processable Organolead Chloride-Bromide Mixed Halide Perovskites for Optoelectronic Applications”, A. Sadhanala, Shahab Ahmad, B. Zhao, S. E. Dutton, F. Deschler, P. M. Pearce, N. Giesbrecht, R. L. Z. Hoye, K. C. Goedel, T. Bein, P. Docampo, Michael F. L. De Volder and Richard H. Friend, Nano Letters 15 (2015) 6095. (link)
2014
13. “In-situ intercalation dynamics in inorganic-organic layered perovskite thin films”, Shahab Ahmad, P. K. Kanaujia, W. Niu, Jeremy J. Baumberg and G. Vijaya Prakash, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 6 (2014) 10238. (link) (Selected as ACS Editors’ Choice Article)
12. “Direct deposition of highly ordered inorganic organic perovskite thin films: optimization and optoelectronic applications”, Shahab Ahmad, C. Hanmandlu, P. K. Kanaujia and G. Vijaya Prakash, Optical Materials Express 4 (2014) 1313. (link) (One of the top Downloads of the Journal)
11. “Two-step fabrication of R-PbI4(1-y)Br4y type light emitting inorganic-organic hybrid photonic structures”, Shahab Ahmad and G. Vijaya Prakash, Optical Materials Express 4 (1) (2014) 101. (link)
10. “Strong room-temperature UV to red excitons from inorganic organic layered perovskites, (R-NH3)2MX4 (M=Pb2+, Sn2+, Hg2+; X=I-, Br-)", Shahab Ahmad and G. Vijaya Prakash, Journal of Nanophotonics 8 (2014) 083892. (link)
9. “Photoluminescent chromium molybdate cluster coordinated with rare earth cations: synthesis, structure, optical and magnetic properties”, D. Kumar, Shahab Ahmad, G. Vijaya Prakash, K.V. Ramanujachary and Arunachalam Ramanan, CrystEngComm. 16 (2014) 7097. (link)
8. “Narrow band photoconductivity response from partially phase separated a-SiNx:H thin films”, R. K. Bommali, Shahab Ahmad, N. Sharma, P. Srivastava and G.Vijaya Prakash, Journal of Applied Physics 116 (2014) 113501. (link)
2013
7. “Structural tunability and switchable exciton emission in inorganic-organic hybrids with mixed halides”, Shahab Ahmad, Jeremy J. Baumberg, and G. Vijaya Prakash, Journal of Applied Physics 114 (2013) 233511. (link)
6. "Naturally self-assembled nano systems and their templated structures for photonic applications", K. Pradeesh, N. Rao Kotla, Shahab Ahmad, V. K. Dwivedi and G. Vijaya Prakash, Journal of Nanoparticles 531871 (2013)13. (link)
2012
5. "Fabrication of excitonic luminescent Inorganic-Organic hybrid Nano and Microcrystals", I. Saikumar, Shahab Ahmad, Jeremy J. Baumberg and G. Vijaya Prakash, Scripta Materialia 67 (2012) 834. ( link)
4. “Fabrication of excitonic luminescent inorganic-organic hybrid nano and microcrystals”, Shahab Ahmad and G.Vijaya Prakash, OSA Technical Digest (online) (2012) MPo.40. (link)
3. "Influence of the annealing temperatures on the photoluminescence of KCaBO3: Eu3+ phosphor”, A. A. Reddy, Subrata Das, Shahab Ahmad, S. Babu, J.M.F.Ferreira and G. Vijaya Prakash, RSC Advances 2 (2012) 8768. (link)
2. "An Inexpensive Route to Synthesize High-Purity CrO𝟐 for EMI Shielding in X-Band Frequencies", V. Verma, Shahab Ahmad, A. Dar, R. K. Kotnala, ISRN Materials Science (2012) 948219. (link)
1. “Investigation of structural, dielectric, and magnetic properties of hard and soft mixed ferrite composites”, R. K. Kotnala, Shahab Ahmad, A. S. Ahmed, J. Shah and Ameer Azam, Journal of Applied Physics 112 (2012)054323. (link)