47. Unveiling Halide Perovskites: An Emerging Electrocatalyst for Oxygen and Hydrogen Electrocatalysis, Adv. Sustainable Syst. (2025): e00713.  DOI: Link 

46. Effect of Anions in Zn-Based Aqueous Electrolyte on Electrochemical Performance of Prussian Blue Analogue, Batteries & Supercaps 2025, early view, e202500488. DOI: Link 

45. Reinforced perfluorosulfonic acid membrane with improved water holding capacity in low humidity polymer electrolyte fuel cells: its future significance in unitized regenerative fuel cells, J. Electrochem 2024,  Indian Vol. (73) 5 & 6, 220-225. DOI: Link 

44. Short-side-chain composite membranes with polyaminobenzene sulfonic acid-enriched single-walled carbon nanotubes for polymer electrolyte fuel cells,  RSC Appl. Polym., 2025, Advance Article . DOI: Link 

43. Strategies for electrolyte modification in aqueous zinc-ion batteries: an antisolvent approach,  Chem. Commun., 2025, 61, 9780-9801. DOI: Link  (HIGHLIGHT)

42. Tailored concave platinum nanocrystals for the selective electro-oxidation of formic acid, New Journal of Chemistry, 2025,  49, 11001-11009. DOI: Link 

      41. Baskaran Mohan Dass, Maniprakundil Neeshma, Sreekuttan M. Unni, Vishal M. Dhavale, Dhanasekaran Prabhakaran, Santoshkumar D. Bhat, Functionalized Ceria Nanoparticles Reinforced with Short Side Chain-Based Composite Membrane for Low-Humidity Hydrogen-Powered Fuel Cells, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2024, 6, 19, 11691–11705.  DOI:Link

         40. Bikash K. Mahapatra, Pranjit Barman, Dipti R. Panigrahi, Sachin Kochrekar, Bappi Paul, Abhishek Panghal, Anil Kumar U., Vishal M. Dhavale, Mukul Gupta, Deepak Kumar, Vijay Kumar, Santosh K. Singh, Acidic and alkaline controlled Oxygen reduction reaction over Co-N4C Catalyst, Small 2024, 2405530.  DOI:Link

         39. A. Sethi, C. Rajeev, A. U. Kumar, P. Sharma, A. P. Sunda and Vishal M. Dhavale, Assessing the Impact of Antisolvent-Regulated ZnCl2 Water-in-Salt Electrolyte on Solvation Structure: A Multiscale Computational Validation for Aqueous Zn-ion Battery Application, Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2024,12, 23049-23058.  DOI:Link

      38. A. U. Kumar and Vishal M. Dhavale, Substrate-Free Growth of N-Doped Bamboo Tube Morphology on CoNi Alloy Nanoparticles as an Electrocatalyst for Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2024,12, 22820-22831.  DOI: Link 

37. P. Jhariat, A. K. U, A. Warrier, A. P. Sunda, S. Das, S. Sarfudeen, Vishal M. Dhavale and T. Panda, Hydroxide Ion Conduction through Viologen-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks (vCOFs): An Approach toward the Advancement, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2024, 16, 18, 23387–2339. DOI:Link.

         36. A. Sethi, A. K. U and Vishal M. Dhavale, Reverse Dual‐Ion Battery Enabled by Reversing the Cation/Anion Storage Mechanism in an Aqueous ZnCl2 Water‐in‐Salt Electrolyte, ChemPhysChem, 2023, 24, e202300098.  DOI:Link

        35. A. K. U, R. Sakthivel, A. Sethi, B. M. Dass, S. D. Bhat and Vishal M. Dhavale, Special tailoring of a copper–pyromellitic acid complex with sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) to form a composite membrane for polymer electrolyte fuel cells, New Journal of Chemistry, 2023, 47, 14960–14971.  DOI:Link

      34. H. G. Kuppusamy, P. Dhanasekaran, N. Nagaraju, M. Neeshma, B. M. Dass, Vishal M. Dhavale, S. M. Unni and S. D. Bhat, Anion Exchange Membranes for Alkaline Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells—A Concise Review, Materials, 2022, 15, 5601.  DOI:Link

      33. A. K. U, A. Sethi, R. M. Lawrence and Vishal M. Dhavale, Co–Co3O4 nanostructure with nitrogen-doped carbon as bifunctional catalyst for oxygen electrocatalysis, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2021, 46, 34701–34712.  DOI:Link

       32. N. Niluroutu, A. Shukla, Vishal M. Dhavale, S. M. Unni and S. D. Bhat, Sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) reinforced with polystyrene sulfonic acid functionalized micelle templated mesoporous MCM-41 for direct methanol fuel cells, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2021, 46, 20640–20649.  DOI:Link

        31. D. D. Narulkar, A. Ansari, A. K. Vardhaman, S. S. Harmalkar, G. Lingamallu, Vishal M. Dhavale, M. Sankaralingam, S. Das, P. Kumar and S. N. Dhuri, A side-on Mn(iii)–peroxo supported by a non-heme pentadentate N3Py2ligand: synthesis, characterization and reactivity studies, Dalton Transactions, 2021, 50, 2824–2831. DOI:Link

2020

        30. D. D. Narulkar, K. Devulapally, A. K. U, S. N. Dhuri, Vishal M. Dhavale, A. K. Vardhaman and L. Giribabu, A novel nonheme manganese(ii) complex for (electro) catalytic oxidation of water, Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2020, 4, 2656–2660. DOI:Link

2019

        29. K. H. Gopi, Vishal M. Dhavale and S. D. Bhat, Development of polyvinyl alcohol/chitosan blend anion exchange membrane with mono and di quaternizing agents for application in alkaline polymer electrolyte fuel cells, Materials Science for Energy Technologies, 2019, 2, 194–202. DOI:Link

        28. R. Babu, A. K. Vardhaman, Vishal M. Dhavale, L. Giribabu and S. P. Singh, MA2CoBr4: lead-free cobalt-based perovskite for electrochemical conversion of water to oxygen, Chemical Communications, 2019, 55, 6779–6782. DOI:Link

2018

          27. J. V. S. Krishna, N. V. Krishna, S. K. Singh, P. K. Shaw, Vishal M. Dhavale, A. K. Vardhaman and L. Giribabu, Substituent‐Induced Deformed Ni–Porphyrin as an Electrocatalyst for the Electrochemical Conversion of Water into Dioxygen, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2018, 1549–1555. DOI:Link  

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         26. S. B. Tayade, S. S. Bhat, R. Illathvalappil, Vishal M. Dhavale, V. A. Kawade, A. S. Kumbhar, S. Kurungot and C. Näther, Water mediated proton conductance in a hydrogen-bonded Ni(ii)-bipyridine-glycoluril chloride self-assembled framework, CrystEngComm, 2018, 20, 1094–1100. DOI:Link

2017

        25. S. K. Singh, Vishal M. Dhavale, R. Boukherroub, S. Kurungot and S. Szunerits, N-doped porous reduced graphene oxide as an efficient electrode material for high performance flexible solid-state supercapacitor, Applied Materials Today, 2017, 8, 141–149. DOI:Link

     24. A. Nadeema, Vishal M. Dhavale and S. Kurungot, NiZn double hydroxide nanosheet-anchored nitrogen-doped graphene enriched with the γ-NiOOH phase as an activity modulated water oxidation electrocatalyst, Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 12590–12600. DOI:Link

     23. R. Illathvalappil, Vishal M. Dhavale, S. N. Bhange and S. Kurungot, Nitrogen-doped graphene anchored with mixed growth patterns of CuPt alloy nanoparticles as a highly efficient and durable electrocatalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction in an alkaline medium, Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 9009–9017. DOI:Link

       22. S. B. Tayade, Vishal M. Dhavale, A. S. Kumbhar, S. Kurungot, P. Lönnecke, E. Hey-Hawkins and B. Pujari, Proton conduction in a hydrogen-bonded complex of copper(ii)-bipyridine glycoluril nitrate, Dalton Transactions, 2017, 46, 6968–6974. DOI:Link

2016

        21. F. Chekin, S. K. Singh, A. Vasilescu, Vishal M. Dhavale, S. Kurungot, R. Boukherroub and S. Szunerits, Reduced Graphene Oxide Modified Electrodes for Sensitive Sensing of Gliadin in Food Samples, ACS Sensors, 2016, 1, 1462–1470. DOI:Link

         20. S. K. Singh, D. Kumar, Vishal M. Dhavale, S. Pal and S. Kurungot, Strategic Preparation of Efficient and Durable NiCo Alloy Supported N‐Doped Porous Graphene as an Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalyst: A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2016, 3, 1600532.  DOI:10.1002/admi.201600532. DOI:Link

    19. S. Shalini, Vishal M. Dhavale, K. M. Eldho, S. Kurungot, T. G. Ajithkumar and R. Vaidhyanathan, 1000-fold enhancement in proton conductivity of a MOF using post-synthetically anchored proton transporters, Scientific Reports, 2016, 6, 32489. DOI:Link

      18. D. Mullangi, Vishal M. Dhavale, S. Shalini, S. Nandi, S. Collins, T. Woo, S. Kurungot and R. Vaidhyanathan, Low‐Overpotential Electrocatalytic Water Splitting with Noble‐Metal‐Free Nanoparticles Supported in a sp3 N‐Rich Flexible COF, Advanced Energy Materials, 2016, 6, 1600110 . DOI:10.1002/aenm.201600110.  DOI:Link

2015

         17. S. Nandi, Vishal M. Dhavale, S. Shalini, U. Werner‐Zwanziger, H. Singh, S. Kurungot and R. Vaidhyanathan, Lithium‐Assisted Proton Conduction at 150°C in a Microporous Triazine‐Phenol Polymer, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2015, 2 , 1500301. DOI:Link

      16. S. K. Singh, Vishal M. Dhavale and S. Kurungot, Surface-Tuned Co3O4 Nanoparticles Dispersed on Nitrogen-Doped Graphene as an Efficient Cathode Electrocatalyst for Mechanical Rechargeable Zinc–Air Battery Application, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2015, 7, 21138–21149.  DOI:Link

         15. D. B. Shinde, Vishal M. Vishal, S. Kurungot and V. K. Pillai, Electrochemical preparation of nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dots and their size-dependent electrocatalytic activity for oxygen reduction, Bulletin of Materials Science, 2015, 38, 435–442.  DOI:Link

         14. Vishal M. Dhavale and S. Kurungot, Cu–Pt Nanocage with 3-D Electrocatalytic Surface as an Efficient Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalyst for a Primary Zn–Air Battery, ACS Catalysis, 2015, 5, 1445–1452. DOI:Link

      13. S. K. Singh, Vishal M. Dhavale and S. Kurungot, Low Surface Energy Plane Exposed Co3O4Nanocubes Supported on Nitrogen-Doped Graphene as an Electrocatalyst for Efficient Water Oxidation, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2014, 7, 442–451.  DOI:Link

         12. C. G. Nardele, Vishal M. Dhavale, K. Sreekumar and S. K. Asha, Ionic conductivity probed in main chain liquid crystalline azobenzene polyesters, Journal of Polymer Science Part a Polymer Chemistry, 2014, 53, 629–641.  DOI:Link

       11. Vishal M. Dhavale, S. K. Singh, A. Nadeema, S. S. Gaikwad and S. Kurungot, Nanocrystalline Fe–Fe2O3 particle-deposited N-doped graphene as an activity-modulated Pt-free electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction, Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 20117–20125. DOI:Link

       10. M. Dubey, A. Kumar, Vishal M. Dhavale, S. Kurungot and D. S. Pandey, Can enantiomer ligands produce structurally distinct homochiral MOFs?, CrystEngComm, 2015, 17, 8202–8206.  DOI:Link

2014

         9. A. P. Sunda, Vishal M. Dhavale, S. Kurungot and A. Venkatnathan, Structure and Dynamics of Benzyl-NX3 (X = Me, Et) Trifluoromethanesulfonate Ionic Liquids, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2014, 118, 1831–1838. DOI:Link

        8. Vishal M. Dhavale, S. S. Gaikwad, L. George, R. N. Devi and S. Kurungot, Nitrogen-doped graphene interpenetrated 3D Ni-nanocages: efficient and stable water-to-dioxygen electrocatalysts, Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 13179–13187.  DOI:Link

         7.  Vishal M. Dhavale, S. S. Gaikwad and S. Kurungot, Activated nitrogen doped graphene shell towards electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction by its encapsulation on Au nanoparticle (Au@N-Gr) in water-in-oil “nanoreactors,” Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2014, 2, 1383–1390. DOI:Link

2013

      6. P. Pachfule, Vishal M. Dhavale, S. Kandambeth, S. Kurungot and R. Banerjee, Porous‐Organic‐Framework‐Templated Nitrogen‐Rich Porous Carbon as a More Proficient Electrocatalyst than Pt/C for the Electrochemical Reduction of Oxygen, Chemistry - a European Journal, 2012, 19, 974–980.  DOI:Link

2012

         5. Vishal M. Dhavale and S. Kurungot, Tuning the Performance of Low-Pt Polymer                  Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell Electrodes Derived from Fe2O3@Pt/C Core–Shell Catalyst Prepared by an in Situ Anchoring Strategy, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2012, 116, 7318–7326. DOI:Link

         4. R. S. Diggikar, Vishal M. Dhavale, D. B. Shinde, N. S. Kanbargi, M. V. Kulkarni and B. B.        Kale, Morphology controlled synthesis of LiV205/Ag nanocomposite nanotubes with enhanced electrochemical performance, RSC Advances, 2012, 2, 3231. DOI:Link

2011

       3. Vishal M. Dhavale, S. M. Unni, H. N. Kagalwala, V. K. Pillai and S. Kurungot, Ex-situ        dispersion of core–shell nanoparticles of Cu–Pt on an in situ modified carbon surface    and their enhanced electrocatalytic activities, Chemical Communications, 2011, 47, 3951.  DOI:Link

2010

          2. A. B. Deshmukh, V. S. Kale, Vishal M. Dhavale, K. Sreekumar, K. Vijayamohanan and M. V.      Shelke, Direct transfer of micro-molded electrodes for enhanced mass transport and      water management in PEMFC, Electrochemistry Communications, 2010, 12, 1638–1641.     DOI:Link

1. S. M. Unni, Vishal M. Dhavale, V. K. Pillai and S. Kurungot, High Pt Utilization Electrodes for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells by Dispersing Pt Particles Formed by a Preprecipitation Method on Carbon “Polished” with Polypyrrole, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2010, 114, 14654–14661.  DOI:Link