List of publications

List of publications 82) Insight mechanism revealing the peroxidase mimetic catalytic activity of quaternary CuZnFeS nanocrystals: colorimetric biosensing of hydrogen peroxide and glucose Amit Dalui, Bapi Pradhan, Umamahesh Thupakula, Ali Hossain Khan, Gundam Sandeep Kumar, Tanmay Ghosh, Biswarup Satpati and Nanoscale (DOI: 10.1039/C5NR01728A, Paper) 81) Easy extraction of water soluble graphene quantum dots for light emitting diodes Gundam Sandeep Kumar, Umamahesh Thupakula, Piyush Kanti Sarkar and RSC Advances 5, 27711 27716 (2015) 80) Self oriented β crystalline phase in the polyvinylidene fluoride ferroelectric and piezo sensitive ultrathin Langmuir Schaefer film Subrata Maji, Piyush Kanti Sarkar, Leena Aggarwal, Sujoy Kumar Ghosh, Dipankar Mandal*, Goutam Sheet* and Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17, 8159 8165 (2015) 79) Efficient Solid State Light Emitting CuCdS Nanocrystals Synthesized in Air Ali Hossain Khan, Amit Dalui, Soham Mukherjee, Carlo U. Segre, D. D. Sarma, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition 54, 2643 2648 (2015) 78) Mechanism of Versatile Catalytic Activities of Quaternary CuZnFeS Nanocrystals Designed by a Rapid Synthesis Route Amit Dalui, Umamahesh Thupakula, Ali Hossain Khan, Tanmay Ghosh, Biswarup Satpati and Small 11, 1829 1839 (2015) Listed in top 15 most accessed articles 77) Micrometer long oriented one dimensional wires and twodimensional sheets from a bis urea functionalized dialkoxynaphthalene organogelator Subrata Maji, Anindita Das, Piyush Kanti Sarkar, Amaresh Metya, Suhrit Ghosh* and

RSC Advances 4, 44650 44653 (2014) 76) Demonstration of Ultrarapid Interfacial Formation of 1D Fullerene Nanorods with Photovoltaic Properties Rekha Goswami Shrestha, Lok Kumar Shrestha*, Ali Hossain Khan, Gundam Sandeep Kumar, and Katsuhiko Ariga ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 6, 15597 15603 (2014) 75) First principles study of the electronic structure of CdS/ZnSe coupled quantum dots Nirmal Ganguli, Somobrata Acharya and I. Dasgupta Physical Review B 89, 245423 (2014) 74) Aligned 1 D Nanorods of a п Gelator Exhibit Molecular Orientation and Excitation Energy Transport Different from Entangled Fiber Networks Keita Sakakibara, Parayalil Chithra, Bidisa Das, Taizo Mori, Misaho Akada, Jan Labuta, Tohru Tsuruoka*, Subrata Maji, Seiichi Furumi, Lok Kumar Shrestha, Jonathan P. Hill,, Katsuhiko Ariga* and Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh* Journal of the American Chemical Society 136, 8548 8551 (2014) 73) ZnS nanorod as an efficient heavy metal ion extractor from water Arindam Malakar, Bidisa Das, Sucheta Sengupta, Somobrata Acharya and Sugata Ray Journal of Water Process Engineering 3, 74 81 (2014) 72) Shape Dependent Synthesis and Field Emission Induced Rectification in Single ZnS Nanocrystals Umamahesh Thupakula, Amit Dalui, Anupam Debangshi, Jayanta Kumar Bal, Gundam S. Kumar and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 6, 7856 7863 (2014) 71) Polymer based Nanoformulation of Methylglyoxal as an Antimicrobial Agent: Efficacy against Resistant Bacteria Srabanti Ghosh, Prabal Chakraborty, Partha Saha, Somobrata Acharya and Manju Ray RSC Advances 4, 23251 23261 (2014)

70) Modulation of Glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate dehydrogenase Activity by Surface Functionalized Quantum Dots Srabanti Ghosh*, Manju Ray, Mahua Rani Das, Adrita Chakraborty, Ali Hossain Khan, D. D. Sarma and Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 16, 5276 5283 (2014) 69) Current rectification by a single ZnS nanorod probed using scanning tunneling microscopic technique Umamahesh Thupakula, Jayanta Kumar Bal, Amit Dalui, Anupam Debangshi, D. D. Sarma and Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2, 1158 1164 (2014) 68) Improved Mechanical Stability of Acetoxypropyl Cellulose upon Blending with Ultra Narrow PbS Nanowires in Langmuir Monolayer Matrix Subrata Maji, Sudarshan Kundu, L. F. V. Pinto, Maria Helena Godinho*, Ali Hossain Khan and Langmuir 29, 15231 15230 (2013) 67) Lead between the lines Nature Chemistry 5, 894 (2013) 66) Origin of chains of Au PbS Nano Dumbbells in space Chandana Mondal, Ali Hossain Khan, Bidisa Das, and Surajit Sengupta* Scientific Reports 3, 2612 2618 (2013) 65) Effect of Point Defects and Impurities on the Electronic Structure and Transport Properties of Au Tipped PbS Nanorods Bidisa Das and Somobrata Acharya Asian Journal of Chemistry 25, 414 416 (2013) 64) Evolution of Long Range Bandgap Tunable Lead Sulfide Nanocrystals with Photovoltaic Properties Ali Hossain Khan, Umamahesh Thupakula, Amit Dalui, Subrata Maji, Anupam Debangshi and

Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117, 7934 7939 (2013) 63) Alkyl Imidazolium Ionic Liquid Mediated Formation of Gold Particle Superstructures Qingmin Ji, Somobrata Acharya, Gary J. Richards, Shaoling Zhang, Julien Vieaud, Jonathan P. Hill and Katsuhiko Ariga Langmuir 29, 7186 7194 (2013) 62) A Bottom up Approach toward Fabrication of Ultrathin PbS Sheets, Bidisa Das, Umamahesh Thupakula, Katsuhiko Ariga, D. D. Sarma, Jacob Israelachvili and Yuval Golan Nano Letters 13, 409 415 (2013) Listed in top 20 most read articles 61) Ultra Narrow PbS Nanorod Field Emitter Umamahesh Thupakula, Jayanta Kumar Bal, Anupam Debangshi, Ali Hossain Khan, Amit Dalui and Journal of Physical Chemistry C 116, 18564 18570 (2012) 60) Effect of Point Defects and Impurities on the Electronic Transport of Au Tipped Ultranarrow PbS Nanorods Bidisa Das* and Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 12, 6258 6264 (2012) 59) Fabrication of Highly Stable, Hybrid PbS Nanocomposites in PAMAM Dendrimer Matrix for Photodetection Srabanti Ghosh, Ali Hossain Khan and Journal of Physical Chemistry C 116, 6022 6030 (2012) 58) Structure and Rheology of Charge Free Reverse Micelles in Aromatic Liquid Phenyloctane Lok Kumar Shrestha, Rekha Goswami Shrestha, Kenji Aramaki, Somobrata Acharya and Katsuhiko Ariga Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 12, 3701 3715 (2012)

57) Structural characterizations of diglycerol monomyristate reverse micelles in aromatic solvent ethylbenzene Lok Kumar Shrestha, Rekha Goswami Shrestha, Kenji Aramaki, Somobrata Acharya, Jonathan P. Hill and Katsuhiko Ariga Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 12, 3716 3724 (2012) 56) Synthesis, structure and electronic properties of ultranarrow CdS nanorods Umamahesh Thupakula, Amitav Jena, Ali Hossain Khan, Amit Dalui and Journal of Nanoparticle Research 14, 701(1 11) (2012) 55) Water Induced Microstructure Transformation of Diglycerol Monolaurate Reverse Micelles in Ethylbenzene R. G. Shrestha, L. K. Shrestha, Somobrata Acharya, K. Aramaki and K. Ariga, Journal of Oleo Science 61, 575 584 (2012) 54) Multidimensional self assembly of peanut shaped PbS nanostructures Ali Hossain Khan, Sasanka Maji, S. Chakraborty, N. B. Manik and RSC Advances 2, 186 191 (2012) 53) Synthesis and Metallic Probe Induced Conductance of Au Tipped Ultranarrow PbS Rods Ali Hossain Khan, Qingmin Ji, Katsuhiko Ariga, Bidisa Das, D. D. Sarma and Chemical Communications 47, 8421 8423 (2011) 52) Coalescence of magic sized CdSe into rods and wires and subsequent energy transfer Sucheta Sengupta, D. D. Sarma* and Journal of Materials Chemistry 21, 11585 11591 (2011), published in the

themed issue Chemical Transformations of Nanoparticles 51) Tuning of Long range Visible Emissions Using Coupled Quantum Dots Sucheta Sengupta, Nirmal Ganguli, I. Dasgupta, D. D. Sarma and AIP Proceedings 1349, 277 278 (2011) 50) Size Selective Excitonic Transition Energies in Strongly Confined CdSe Quantum Dots Umamahesh Thupakula, Ali Hossain Khan, Jayanta Kumar Bal, Katsuhiko Ariga and Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 11, 7709 7714, (2011) 49) Large scale assembly of ordered donor acceptor heterojunction molecular wires using the Langmuir Blodgett technique Richard Charvet*, Katsuhiko Ariga, Jonathan P. Hill, Qingmin Ji, Ali Hossain Khan and Chemical Communications 47, 6825 6827 (2011) 48) Long Range Visible Fluorescence Tunability Using Component Modulated Coupled Quantum Dots Sucheta Sengupta, Nirmal Ganguli, I. Dasgupta, D. D. Sarma and Advanced Materials 23, 1998 2003 (2011) Highlighted in Nature India doi:10.1038/nindia.2011.68. 47) Size controlled ultranarrow PbS nanorods: spectroscopy and robust stability Ali Hossain Khan, Qingmin Ji, Katsuhiko Ariga, Umamahesh Thupakula and Journal of Materials Chemistry 21, 5671 5676 (2011) 46) Crystallographic Phase induced Electro Optic Properties of Nanorod Blend Nematic Liquid Crystal Sudarshan Kundu, Jonathan P. Hill, Gary J. Richards, Katsuhiko Ariga, Ali Hossain Khan, Umamahesh Thupakula and Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 11, 7729 7734 (2011)

Appeared in the cover page 45) Ultra narrow PbS Nanorod Nematic Liquid Crystal Blend for Enhanced Electro optic Properties Sudarshan Kundu, Jonathan P. Hill, Gary J. Richards, Katsuhiko Ariga, Ali Hossain Khan, Umamahesh Thupakula and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2, 2759 2766 (2010) 44) Formation of Calcium Carbonate Crystal Using Phospholipid Monolayer Template under Ambient Condition Prabir Pal,Tapanendu Kamilya, Somobrata Acharya and G. B. Talapatra Journal of Physical Chemistry C 114, 8348 8352 (2010) 43) Nanorod blends for liquid crystal displays in polarization tuning electrooptical devices and liquid crystal displays Somobrata Acharya, Jonathan Hill and Katsuhiko Ariga Jpn. Kokai Tokkyo Koho JP 2010144032 A 20100701 (2010) 42) Chemically Programmed Ultrahigh Density Two Dimensional Semiconductor Superlattice Array Narayan Pradhan, Somobratra Acharya*, Katsuhiko Ariga, Niladri Karan, Dipankar Das Sarma, Yoshiki Wada, Shlomo Efrima and Yuval Golan Journal of the American Chemical Society 132, 1212 1213 (2010) 41) The origin of ferromagnetism in Ni doped ZnO and SnO 2 I. Felner, R. Herber, Somobrata Acharya and V. P. S. Awana Modern Physics Letters B 24, 125 134 (2010) 40) Block Copolymer Nanowires with Nanosized Domain Segregation and High Charge Mobilities as Stacked p/n Heterojunction Arrays for Repeatable Photocurrent Switching Richard Charvet, Somobrata Acharya, Jonathan P. Hill, Misaho Akada, Meiyong Liao, Shu Seki, Yoshihito Honsho, Akinori Saeki and Katsuhiko Ariga

Journal of the American Chemical Society 131, 18030 18031 (2009) 39) Macromolecules Containing Metal and Metal Like Elements, Volume 9 K. Ariga, A. Vinu, J. P.; Hill, P. Srinivasu, Somobrata Acharya, Qingmin Ji Editor: Alaa S. Abd El Aziz, Charles E. Carraher, Jr., Charles U. Pittman, Jr., and Martel Zeldin Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, 1 33 (2009) 38) Atomic Positional versus Electronic Order in Semiconducting ZnSe Nanoparticles S. Cadars, B. J. Smith, J. D. Epping, Somobrata Acharya, N. Belman, Y. Golan and B. F. Chmelka Physical Review Letters 103, 136802 136806 (2009) 37) Shape Dependent Confinement in Ultrasmall Zero, One, and Two Dimensional PbS Nanostructures, D. D. Sarma, Yuval Golan, Sucheta Sengupta and Katsuhiko Ariga Journal of the American Chemical Society 131, 11282 11283 (2009) 36) Synthesis of New Red Emitting Single phase Europium Oxycarbonate Vilas Pol, Jose Moreno Calderon, Somobratra Acharya, Katsuhiko Ariga, P. Thiyagarajan and Monica Popa Inorganic Chemistry 48, 5569 5573 (2009) 35) Hierarchic Nanostructure for Auto Modulation of Material Release: Mesoporous Nanocompartment Films Qingmin Ji, Somobrata Acharya, Jonathan P. Hill, Ajayan Vinu, Suk Bon Yoon, Jong Sung Yu, Kazutami Sakamoto and Katsuhiko Ariga Advanced Functional Materials 19, 1792 1799 (2009) 34) Superconducting Nanocrystalline Tin Protected by Carbon Vilas G. Pol, P. Thiyagarajan, Somobrata Acharya, Katsuhiko Ariga and Israel Felner

Langmuir 25, 2582 2584 (2009) 33) Hydrogen-Bond-Assisted Gold Cold Fusion for Fabrication of 2D Web Structures Saikat Mandal, Atsuomi Shundo, Somobrata Acharya, Jonathan P. Hill, Qingmin Ji and Katsuhiko Ariga Chemistry An Asian Journal 4, 1055 1058 (2009) 32) Soft Langmuir Blodgett Technique for Hard Nanomaterials, Jonathan P. Hill and Katsuhiko Ariga* Advanced Materials 21, 2959 2981 (2009) 31) Nanorod Driven Orientational Control of Liquid Crystal for Polarization Tailored Electro optic Devices, Sudarshan Kundu, Jonathan P. Hill, Gary J. Richards and Katsuhiko Ariga Advanced Materials 21, 989 993 (2009) NPG Asia Materials research highlight http://www.nature.com/am/journal/2009/200905/full/am2009139a.html 30) Langmuir Films of Unusual Components, Atsuomi Shundo, Jonathan P. Hill and Katsuhiko Ariga Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 9, 3 18 (2009) 29) Hierarchical Assembly of Ultranarrow Alkylamine Coated ZnS Nanorods: A Synchrotron Surface X Ray Diffraction Study Nataly Belman, Somobrata Acharya, Oleg Konovalov, Alexei Vorobiev, Jacob Israelachvili, Shlomo Efrima and Yuval Golan Nano Letters 8, 3858 3864 (2008) 28) Multi dimensional Control of Surfactant Guided Assemblies of Quantum Gold Particle

Qingmin Ji,, J. P. Hill, Gary J. Richards and Katsuhiko Ariga* Advanced Materials 20, 1 6 (2008) 27) A Layered Mesoporous Carbon Sensor Based on Nanopore Filling Cooperative Adsorption in the Liquid Phase Katsuhiko Ariga, Ajayan Vinu, Qingmin Ji, Osamu Ohmori, Jonathan P. Hill, Somobrata Acharya, Jun Koike and Seimei Shiratori Angewandte Chemie International Edition 47, 7254 7257 (2008) 26) Ultranarrow PbS nanorods with intense fluorescence, Ujjal K. Gautam, Toshio Sasaki, Yoshio Bando, Yuval Golan and Katsuhiko Ariga Journal of the American Chemical Society 130, 4594 4595 (2008) 25) A 16 bit parallel processor in a molecular assembly Anirban Bandyopadhyay and Somobrata Acharya Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105, 3668 3672 (2008) Highlighted by several news agencies 24) Stimuli Free Auto Modulated Material Release from Mesoporous Nano Compartment Films Qingmin Ji, Masahiko Miyahara, Jonathan P. Hill, Somobrata Acharya, Suk Bon Yoon, Jong Sung Yu, Kazutami Sakamoto and Katsuhiko Ariga Journal of the American Chemical Society 130, 2376 2377 (2008) Highlighted in Nature Materials Nat. Mater. 7, 169 (2008) 23) Challenges and breakthroughs in recent research on self assembly Katsuhiko Ariga, Jonathan P. Hill, Michael V. Lee, Ajayan Vinu, Richard Charvet and Somobrata Acharya Science and Technology of Advanced Materials 9, 014109 (2008) Cited > 500 times

22) Supramolecular Chemistry as a Versatile Tool for Advanced Sciences in Nanospace Katsuhiko Ariga, Jonathan P Hill, Atsuomi Shundo, Ajayan Vinu, Richard Charvet and Somobrata Acharya Advanced Science Letters 1, 28 58 (2008) 21) Electric field Assisted Assembly of Ultra narrow CdS Nanomaterials (invited article) and Katsuhiko Ariga Asian Journal of Physics 17, 97 104 (2008) 20) Supramolecular Nanofabrications with Inorganic Building Blocks; Macromolecules Containing Metal and Metal Like Elements Katuhiko Ariga, Jonathan P. Hill, Ajayan Vinu, Pavuluri Srinivas, Somobrata Acharya and Qingmin Ji Supramolecular Structures, Volume 9, Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken (Book Chapter) 19) Synthesis, Assembly and Optical Properties of Shape and Phase Controlled ZnSe Nanocrystals Asit Baran Panda, Somobrata Acharya, Shlomo Efrima and Yuval Golan Langmuir 23, 765 770 (2007) 18) Synthesis, Two Dimensional Assembly and Surface Pressure Induced Coalescence of Ultra Narrow PbS Nanowires Israel Patla, Somobrata Acharya, L. Zeiri, Jacob Israelachvili, Shlomo Efrima and Yuval Golan Nano Letters 7, 1459 1462 (2007) 17) Role of Carbon in Enhancing the Performance of MgB 2 superconductor V.P.S. Awana, Monika Mudgel, R. Rawat, Somobrata Acharya, H. Kishan, E. Takayama Muromachi, A. V. Narlikar and I. Felner Physica C 467, 62 72 (2007)

16) Raman spectroscopy of ultra narrow CdS nanostructures L. Zeiri, Israel Patla, Somobrata Acharya, Yuval Golan, Shlomo Efrima Journal of Physical Chemistry C 111, 11843 11848 (2007) 15) Polarization Properties and Switchable Assembly of Ultranarrow ZnSe Nanorods Somobrata Acharya, Asit Baran Panda, Shlomo Efrima and Yuval Golan Advanced Materials 19, 1105 1108 (2007) 14) Photophysical properties of 4 methyl 3 phenyl coumarin organized in Langmuir Blodgett films: Formation of aggregates Somobrata Acharya, Tapanendu Kamilya, Jyotirmoy Sarkar, Tapan K. Parichha, Prabir Pal and G. B. Talapatra Materials Chemistry and Physics 104, 88 92 (2007) 13) Switchable Assembly of Ultra Narrow CdS Nanowires and Nanorods Somobrata Acharya, Israel Patela, Shlomo Efrima and Yuval Golan Journal of the American Chemical Society 128, 9294 9295 (2006) 12) A Semiconductor Nanowire Assembly of Ultrahigh Junction Density by the Langmuir Blodgett Technique Somobrata Acharya, Asit Baran Panda, Nataly Belman, Shlomo Efrima and Yuval Golan Advanced Materials 18, 210 213 (2006) 11) Two Dimensional Pressure Driven Nanorod to Nanowire Reactions in Langmuir Monolayers at Room Temperature Somobrata Acharya and Shlomo Efrima Journal of the American Chemical Society 127, 3486 3490 (2005)

10) Studies of Langmuir and Langmuir Blodgett Films of NLO Active Amphiphilic 1,3 Indandione Derivatives Somobrata Acharya, Pnina Krief, Vladimir Khodorkovsky, Zvi Kotler, Gerry Berkovic, Jacob T. Klug, Shlomo Efrima New Journal of Chemistry 29, 1049 1057 (2005) 9) Ultra Narrow ZnSe Nanorods and Nanowires: Structure, Spectroscopy and One Dimensional Properties Asit Baran Panda*, and Shlomo Efrima Advanced Materials 17, 2471 2474 (2005) 8) Spectroscopic study of non amphiphilic 2 (4 biphenylyl) 5 (4 tertbutylphenyl) 1,3,4 oxadiazole aggregates at air water interface and in Langmuir Blodgett films. Somobrata Acharya, D. Bhattacharjee, Jyotirmoy Sarkar and G. B. Talapatra Chemical Physics Letters 393, 1 6 (2004) 7) Spectroscopic study of non amphiphilic 9 phenyl fluorene assembled in Langmuir Blodgett films in two different matrices: dimer and excimer formation. Somobrata Acharya, D. Bhattacharjee and G. B. Talapatra Chemical Physics Letters 372, 97 103 (2003) 6) Monolayer characteristics and spectroscopic study of benz(b)fluoranthene assembled in Langmuir Blodgett films mixed with stearic acid. Somobrata Acharya, D. Bhattacharjee and G. B. Talapatra Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 64, 651 657 (2003) 5) Photophysical properties of hexamethoxytriphenylene mixed with stearic acid assembled in Langmuir Blodgett films. Somobrata Acharya, Tapan K. Parichha and G. B. Talapatra

Journal of Luminescence 96, 177 184 (2002) 4) Spectroscopic characteristics of 9 cyanoanthracene mixed with polymethyl methacrylate and stearic acid in Langmuir Blodgett films. Somobrata Acharya, D. Bhattacharjee and G. B. Talapatra Chemical Physics Letters 352, 429 434 (2002) 3) Spectroscopic study of Pentacene assembled in Langmuir Blodgett film mixed with stearic acid Somobrata Acharya, Tapan K. Parichha and G. B. Talapatra Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics 40, 12 17 (2002) 2) Spectroscopic investigation of mixed LB films of benzo(k)fluoranthene Somobrata Acharya, D. Bhattacharjee, M. Ghosh and G. B. Talapatra Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 244, 313 318 (2001) 1) Spectroscopic properties of decacyclene assembled in Langmuir Blodgett film mixed with stearic acid Somobrata Acharya, T. K. Parichha and G. B. Talapatra Molecular Crystals Liquid Crystals 12, 91 100 (2000) Corresponding author