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Research Areas

1. New Materials (3D Soft) 
   
2. Hybrid Materials
3. Sensors (UV, Force, Heat, Gas, Environmental, Biological) 
4. Smart Composites
5. Biomaterials
6. Energy Materials
7. Plasmonics, Photonics, Metamaterials (Ion Beam Irradiation)
8. Catalysis, Heavy Metal Adsorption, Water purification, Filter
   

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New Materials (3D Soft)  

The zinc oxide tetrapods and their porous three-dimensional networks are suitable candidates as the sacrificial backbone for creating hollow tetrapodal nanostructures and 3D architectures from other materials. Key articles in the direction of new 3D materials are as below:

1. Conversionless Efficient and Broadband Laser Light Diffusers for High Brightness Illumination Applications, Nature Communications 11, 1-10 (2020).

2. Necklace-like Nitrogen-doped Hollow Carbon 3D Frameworks for Electrochemical Energy Storage, Advanced Functional Materials 30, 1909725 (2020).

3. Aero-ZnS Architectures with Dual Hydrophilic-Hydrophobic Properties for Microfluidic Applications, APL Materials 8, 061105 (2020).

4. Self-organized and Self-propelled Aero-GaN with Dual Hydrophilic-hydrophobic Behavior, Nano Energy 56, 759-769 (2019).

5. Wet-Chemical Assembly of 2D Nanomaterials into Lightweight, Microtube-Shaped and Macroscopic 3D Networks, ACS Applied Materials Interfaces 11, 44652-44663 (2019).

6. Biomimetic Carbon-Fiber Systems Engineering: A Modular Design Strategy to Generate Biofunctional Composites from Graphene and Carbon Nanofibers, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11, 5325-5335 (2019).

7. Systematically designed periodic electrophoretic deposition for decorating 3D carbon-based scaffolds with bioactive nanoparticles, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 5, 4393-4404 (2019).

8. 3D Hydrogels Containing Interconnected Microchannels of Subcellular Size for Capturing Human Pathogenic Acanthamoeba Castellanii, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 5, 1784-1792 (2019).

9. Crystalline Width and Mechanical Properties of Annealed 3D Carbon Foam Composites, Carbon 142, 60-67 (2019).

10. Growth Model and Thermodynamic Calculations of a 3D Interconnected Hollow Carbon Foam Aerographite via Ex-situ Analysis, Applied Surface Science 470, 535-542 (2019).

11. Bioactive Carbon Based hybrid 3D Scaffolds for Osteoblast Growth, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10, 43874-43886 (2018).

12. Fundamentals of the Temperature-Dependent Electrical Conductivity of a 3D Carbon Foam-Aerographite, Synthetic Metals 235, 145-152 (2018).

13. Hierarchical Self-entangled Carbon Nanotube Tube Networks, Nature Communications 8, 1215 (2017).

14. Nanomechanics of Individual Aerographite Tetrapods, Nature Communications 8, 14982 (2017).

15. Direct Synthesis of Electrowettable Carbon Nanowall-diamond Hybrid 3D Materials from Sacrificial Ceramic Templates using HFCVD, Advanced Materials Interface 4, 1700019 (2017).

16. Sacrificial Template Synthesis and Properties of 3-D Hollow-silicon Nano- and Microstructures, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8, 20491-20498 (2016).

17. Three-dimensional SnO2 Nanowire Networks for Multifunctional Applications: From High Temperature Stretchable Ceramics to Ultraresponsive Sensors, Advanced Electronic Materials 1, 1500081 (2015).

18.  Fabrication of Macroscopically Flexible and Highly Porous 3D Semiconductor Networks from Interpenetrating Nanostructures by Simple Flame Transport Approach, Particle Particle Systems Characterization 30, 775-783 (2013).

19.  Aerographite: Ultra Lightweight Flexible Nanowall Carbon Microtube Material with Outstanding Mechanical Performance, Advanced Materials 24, 3486-3490 (2012).

20. Solvent Free Fabrication of Micro and Nanostructured Drug Coatings by Thermal Evaporation for Controlled Release and Increased Effects, PLoS ONE 7, e40746 (2012).

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Hybrid Materials

The zinc oxide tetrapods micro- and nanostructures offers the opportunity as solid backbone to integrate foreign nanostructures to functionalize them further in form of hybrid multifunctional nanomaterials. Key publications in the direction are listed below:

1. ZnAl₂O₄ Decorated Al-doped ZnO Tetrapodal 3D Networks: Microstructure, Raman and Detailed Temperature Dependent Photoluminescent Analysis, Nanoscale Advances 2, 2114-2126 (2020).                       

2. The role Ge2Sb2Te5 in Enhancing the Performance of Functional Plasmonic Devices, Materials Today Physics 100178 (2020).

3. Molecules Vs nanoparticles: Identifying a Reactive Molecular Intermediate in the Synthesis of Ternary Coinage Metal Chalcogenides, Inorganic Chemistry 59, 7727-7738 (2020).

4. Visible Light Photocatalysis by Carbon-nano-onions-functionalized ZnO Tetrapods: Degradation of 2,4-Dinitrophenol and Plant-model-based Ecological Assessment, Nature Asia Materials 11, 8 (2019).

5. Probing Surface States in C₆₀ Decorated ZnO Microwires: Detailed Photoluminescence and Cathodoluminescence Investigations, Nanoscale Advances 1, 1516-1526 (2019).

6. Thermal and Electrical Transport Properties in Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube-coated ZnO Tetrapods and Self-entangled Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube Tubes, Carbon 144, 423-432 (2019).

7. Optically Controlled Abnormal Photovoltaic Current Modulation with Temperature in BiFeO3, Advanced Electronic Materials 5,1800791 (2019).

8. Crystalline Width and Mechanical Properties of Annealed 3D Carbon Foam Composites, Carbon 142, 60-67 (2019).

9. Growth Model and Thermodynamic Calculations of a 3D Interconnected Hollow Carbon Foam Aerographite via Ex-situ Analysis, Applied Surface Science 470, 535-542 (2019).

10. Buckminsterfullerene Hybridized Zinc Oxide Tetrapods: Defects and Charge Transfer Induced Optical and Electrical Response, Nanoscale 10, 10050-10062 (2018).

11. Light-Mediated Growth of Noble Metal Nanostructures (Au, Ag, Cu, Pt, Pd, Ru, Ir, Rh) from Micro- and Nanoscale ZnO Tetrapodal Backbones, Frontiers in Chemistry 6, 411 (2018).

12. Hierarchical Aerographite 3D Flexible Networks Hybridized by InP Micro/Nanostructures for Strain Sensor Applications, Scientific Reports 8, 13880 (2018).

13. Properties of a Single SnO2:Zn2SnO4 – Functionalized Nanowire based Nanosensor, Ceramics International 44, 4859-4867 (2018).

14. Multifunctional Electronic Devices: A Case Study of Effects of Metal Doping on the ZnO Tetrapods with Bismuth and Tin Oxides, Advanced Functional Materials 27 1604676 (2017).

15. Sensing Performances of Pure and Hybridized Carbon Nanotubes-ZnO Nanowire Interconnected Networks: A Detailed Study, Scientific Reports 7, 14715 (2017).

16. Tunable Strain in Magnetoelectric ZnO Micro Rods Composite Interface, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 9, 25571-25577 (2017).

17. 3-D Hybrid Networks of ZnO Tetrapods Doped and Alloyed by Me_xO_y and Zn_xMe_1-xO_y for Selective Gas Sensing Applications, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 9, 4084-4099 (2017).

18. Carbon based Flexible 3D Nanocomposites: Fabrication and Electromechanical Investigations of Neat Aerographite and Aerographite-epoxy Composites under Compression, Carbon 111, 103-112 (2017).

19. UV Detection Properties of Hybrid ZnO Tetrapod 3-D Network, Vacuum 146, 492-500 (2017).

20. Strong Light Scattering and Broadband (UV to IR) Photoabsorption in Stretchable 3D Hybrid Architectures based on Aerographite Decorated by ZnO Nanocrystallites, Scientific Reports 6, 32913 (2016).

21. Electro-mechanical Piezoresistive Properties of Three Dimensionally Interconnected Carbon Aerogel (Aerographite)- epoxy Composites, Composites Science & Technology 134, 226-233 (2016).

22. Enhanced Ethanol Vapour Sensing Performances of Copper Oxide Nanocrystals with Mixed Phases, Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical 244, 434-448 (2016).

23. Ultra-wide Bandwidth with Enhanced Microwave Absorption of Electroless Ni-P Coated Tetrapod-Shaped ZnO Nano- and Microstructures, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics 17, 22923-22933 (2015).

24. Three-dimensional Aerographite-GaN Hybrid Networks: Single Step Fabrication of Porous and Mechanically Flexible Materials for Multifunctional Applications, Scientific Reports 5, 8839 (2015).

25. Rapid Switching and Ultra-responsive Nanosensors based on Individual Shell-core Ga2O3/GaN:O_x@SnO₂ Nanobelt with Nanocrystalline Shell in Mixed Phases, Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical 221, 544–555 (2015).

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Sensors (UV, Force, Heat, Gas, Environmental, Biological) 

These pure and functionalized zinc oxide nano- and microstructures have shown interesting sensing capabilities in many directions. Some key publications in the direction of sensing technologies are listed below:

1. Terahertz Plasmonics: The Rise of Toroidal Metadevices towards Immunobiosensings, Materials Today 32, 108-130 (2020).

2. Self-reporting Mechanochromic Coating: A Glassfiber Reinforced Polymer Composite that Predicts Impact Induced Damage, Materials Horizons 7, 598-604 (2020).

3. Toroidal Metaphotonics and Metadevices, Lasers and Photonics Reviews (2020).

4. Detection of Prostate Cancer using Tetrapods based Disposable Paper Ecofriendly Biosensor Device, Medical Devices Sensors (2020).

5. Nanotechnology-assisted Liquid Crystals-based Biosensors: Towards Fundamental to Advanced Applications, Biosensors Bioelectronics 168, 112562 (2020).

6. Functional Gas Sensing Nanomaterials: A Panoramic View, Applied Physics Reviews 7, 021301 (2020).

7. A Flower-like ZnO-Ag₂O Nanocomposite for Label and Mediator Free Direct Sensing of Dinitrotolune, RSC Advances 10, 27764-27774 (2020).

8. Three-Dimensional tetrapodal ZnO Microstructured Network based Flexible Surface Acoustic Wave Device for Ultraviolet and Respiration Monitoring Applications, ACS Applied Nano Materials 3, 1468-1478 (2020).

9. Conjuncted Photo-thermoelectric Effect in ZnO-graphene Nanocomposite Foam for Self-powered Simultaneous Temperature and Light Sensing, Scientific Reports 10, 11864 (2020).

10. Highly Selective and Ultra-low Power Consumption Metal Oxide Based hydrogen Gas Sensor Employing Graphene Oxide as Molecular Sieve, Sensor Actuators B: Chemical 320, 128363(2020).

11. Carbon-phosphide Monolayer with High Carrier Mobility and Perceptible I-V Responsible for Superior Gas Sensing, New Journal of Chemistry 44, 3777-3785 (2020).

12. Aero-gel based CeO2 Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Structural Properties and Detailed Humidity Sensing Response, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 7, 5477-5487 (2019).

13. Nanogenerator and Piezotronic Inspired Concepts for Energy Efficient Magnetic Field Sensors, Nano Energy 56, 420-425 (2019).

14. Achieving Ultrahigh Light-induced Pyroelectric Charge Density for Self-powered UV Light Detection, Advanced Electronic Materials 5, 1800413 (2019).

15. Optically Controlled Abnormal Photovoltaic Current Modulation with Temperature in BiFeO3, Advanced Electronic Materials 5,1800791 (2019).

16. Improving Gas Sensing by CdTe Decoration of Individual Aerographite Microtubes, Nanotechnology 30, 065501 (2019).

17. Sensing up to 40 atm using Pressure-Sensitive Aero-GaN, Physica Status Solidi-RRL 13, 1900012 (2019).

18. Biosensors for Epilepsy Management: State-of-Art and Future Aspects, Sensors 19, 1525 (2019).

19. Stretchable CNTs-Ecoflex Composite as Variable Transmittance Skin for Ultrasensitive Strain Sensing, Advanced Materials Technologies 3, 1800248 (2018).

20. Zinc Oxide Tetrapods Based Biohybrid Interface for Voltammetric Sensing of Helicobacter pylori, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10, 30631-30639 (2018).

21. Zinc Oxide Nanotetrapods with Four Different Arm Morphologies for Versatile Nanosensors, Sensors Actuators B: Chemical 262, 425-435 (2018).

22. Multifunctional Electronic Devices: A Case Study of Effects of Metal Doping on the ZnO Tetrapods with Bismuth and Tin Oxides, Advanced Functional Materials 27 1604676 (2017).

23. Piezoresistive Response of Quasi One- dimensional ZnO Nanowires using An In-situ Electromechanical Device, ACS Omega 2, 2985-2993 (2017).

24. Tunable Strain in Magnetoelectric ZnO Micro Rods Composite Interface, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 9, 25571-25577 (2017).

25. 3-D Hybrid Networks of ZnO Tetrapods Doped and Alloyed by Me_xO_y and Zn_xMe_1-xO_y for Selective Gas Sensing Applications, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 9, 4084-4099 (2017).

26. Fabrication and Response of Alpha-hydroxybutyrate Sensors for Rapid Assessment of Cardiometabolic Disease Risk, Biosensors & Bioelectronics 89, 334-342 (2017).

27. Palladium Decorated Silicon Carbide Nanocauliflowers for Hydrogen Gas Sensing Application, Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical 242, 694-699 (2017).

28. Ultra-light Aero-graphite for Climate Relevant Gas Monitoring, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 4, 16723-16730 (2016).

29. Synthesis, Characterization and DFT Studies of Zinc-doped Copper Oxide Nanocrystals for Gas Sensing Applications, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 4, 6527-6539 (2016).

30. Enhanced Ethanol Vapour Sensing Performances of Copper Oxide Nanocrystals with Mixed Phases, Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical 244, 434-448 (2016).

31. Direct Growth of Freestanding ZnO Tetrapod Networks for Multifunctional Applications in Photocatalysis, UV Photodetection and Gas Sensing, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7, 14303-14316 (2015).

32. Rapid Switching and Ultra-responsive Nanosensors based on Individual Shell-core Ga2O3/GaN:O_x@SnO₂ Nanobelt with Nanocrystalline Shell in Mixed Phases, Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical 221, 544–555 (2015).

33. Integration of Individual TiO₂ Nanotube on the Chip: Nanodevice for Hydrogen Sensing, physica status solidi-Rapid Research Letters 9, 171–174 (2015).

34. Rapid Fabrication Technique for Interpenetrated ZnO Nanotetrapod Networks for Fast UV Sensors, Advanced Materials 26, 1541-1550 (2014).

35. Versatile Growth of Freestanding Orthorhombic alpha-Molybdenum Trioxide Nano- and Microstructures by Rapid Thermal Processing for Gas Nanosensors, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118, 15068–15078(2014).

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Smart Composites

The complex shaped zinc oxide tetrapods and their based hybrid/new nano-microstructures are excellent fillers candidates to engineer the properties of composite materials. Key publications in the direction of smart composites are as below:  

1. Self-reporting Mechanochromic Coating: A Glassfiber Reinforced Polymer Composite that Predicts Impact Induced Damage, Materials Horizons 7, 598-604 (2020).

2. Perfect Polymer Interlocking by Spherical Particles: Capillary Force Shapes Hierarchical Composite Undercuts, Nanoscale Horizons 4,947-952 (2019).

3. Crystalline Width and Mechanical Properties of Annealed 3D Carbon Foam Composites, Carbon 142, 60-67 (2019).

4. Stretchable CNTs-Ecoflex Composite as Variable Transmittance Skin for Ultrasensitive Strain Sensing, Advanced Materials Technologies 3, 1800248 (2018).

5. ZnO Tetrapods Materials for Functional Applications, Materials Today 21, 631-651 (2018).

6. Nanocarbon Reinforced Rubber Nanocomposites: Detailed Insights about Mechanical, Dynamical Mechanical Properties, Payne and Mullin Effects, nanomaterials 8, 945 (2018).

7. Nanostructured Fibrous Membranes with Rose Spike Like Architecture, Nano Letters 17, 6235-6240 (2017).

8. Light, Force and Heat: A Multi-Stimuli Composite that Reveals its Violent Past, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 9, 38000-38007 (2017).

9. Carbon based Flexible 3D Nanocomposites: Fabrication and Electromechanical Investigations of Neat Aerographite and Aerographite-epoxy Composites under Compression, Carbon 111, 103-112 (2017).

10. Complex Shaped ZnO Nano- microstructures based Polymer Composites: Mechanical Stable and Environmentally Friendly Coatings for Potential Antifouling Applications, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17, 7114-7123 (2016).

11. Ultra-wide Bandwidth with Enhanced Microwave Absorption of Electroless Ni-P Coated Tetrapod-Shaped ZnO Nano- and Microstructures, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics 17, 22923-22933 (2015).

12. Study of Tetrapodal ZnO-PDMS Composites: A Comparison of Fillers Shapes in Stiffness and Hydrophobicity Improvements, PLoS ONE 9, e106991 (2014).

13. A Novel Concept for Self-Reporting Materials: Stress Sensitive Photoluminescence in ZnO Tetrapod Filled Elastomers, Advanced Materials 25, 1342-1347 (2013).

14. Joining the Un-Joinable: Adhesion Between Low Surface Energy Polymers Using Tetrapod ZnO Linkers, Advanced Materials 24, 5676-5680 (2012).

15. Crystal Growth Behaviour in Au-ZnO Nanocomposite under Different Annealing Environments and Photoswitchability, Journal of Applied Physics 112, 64308 (2012).

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Biomaterials

The ZnO oxide tetrapodal micro- and nanostructures have shown remarkable responses towards several biomedical engineering applications. Their utilization as sacrificial templates, many new porous 3D nanomaterials have been synthesized which opened many application avenues in biomedical engineering. Key publications in this direction are as below:

1. Light‐Controlled Growth Factors Release on Tetrapodal ZnO‐Incorporated 3D‐Printed Hydrogels for Developing Smart Wound Scaffold, Advanced Functional Materials (2021).

2. Detection of Prostate Cancer using Tetrapods based Disposable Paper Ecofriendly Biosensor Device, Medical Devices Sensors (2020).
3. Structure-based drug designing and immunoinformatics approach for SARS-CoV-2, Science Advances 6, eabb8097 (2020).
4. Core-Shell Nanostructures: Perspectives towards Drug Delivery Applications, Journal of Materials Chemistry B (2020).
5. Macroscopic PDMS Microchannel Matrix for Tailored Drug Release and Localized Glioblastoma Therapy, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 6, 3288-3289(2020).
6. Glial Cell Responses on Tetrapod-shaped Graphene Oxide and Reduced Graphene Oxide 3D Scaffolds in Brain in-vitro and ex-vivo Models of Indirect Contact, Biomedical Materials (2020).
7. In-situ plasma-assisted Synthesis of Polydopamine-functionalized Gold Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications, Green Chemistry (2020).
8. Investigation of the Factors That Dictate the Preferred Orientation of Lexitropsins in the Minor Groove of DNA, ACS Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 62, 10423-10440 (2019).
9. Biomimetic Carbon-Fiber Systems Engineering: A Modular Design Strategy to Generate Biofunctional Composites from Graphene and Carbon Nanofibers, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11, 5325-5335 (2019).
10. Systematically Designed Periodic Electrophoretic Deposition for Decorating 3D Carbon-based Scaffolds with Bioactive Nanoparticles, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 5, 4393-4404 (2019).
11. 3D Hydrogels Containing Interconnected Microchannels of Subcellular Size for Capturing Human Pathogenic Acanthamoeba Castellanii, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 5, 1784-1792 (2019).
12. An Intra-Vaginal Zinc Oxide Tetrapod Nanoparticles (ZOTEN) and Genital Herpesvirus Cocktail can provide a Novel Platform for Live Virus Vaccine, Frontiers in Immunology 10, 500 (2019).
13. Preventing the Solid Cancer Progression via Release of Anticancer-Cytokines in Co-Culture with Cold Plasma-Stimulated Macrophages, Cancers 11, 842 (2019).
14. ZnO Tetrapods Materials for Functional Applications, Materials Today 21, 631-651 (2018).
15. A Multifunctional Polymeric Membrane with Osteogenic and Antibacterial Characteristics, Advanced Functional Materials 28, 1703437 (2018).
16. Bioactive Carbon Based hybrid 3D Scaffolds for Osteoblast Growth, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10, 43874-43886 (2018).
17. Nanostructured Fibrous Membranes with Rose Spike Like Architecture, Nano Letters 17, 6235-6240 (2017).
18. Intravaginal Zinc Oxide Tetrapod Nanoparticles as Novel Immunoprotective Agents against Genital Herpes, Journal of Immunology 196, 4566-4575 (2016).
19. Toxicity of Functional Zinc Oxide Nano-Micro Tetrapods: Impact of Cell Culture Conditions, Celluar Age and Material Properties, PLoS ONE 9, e84983 (2014).
20. Solvent Free Fabrication of Micro and Nanostructured Drug Coatings by Thermal Evaporation for Controlled Release and Increased Effects, PLoS ONE 7, e40746 (2012).
21. Virostatic Potential of Micro-nano Filopodia-like ZnO Structures Against Herpes Simplex Virus-1, Antiviral Research 92, 305-312 (2011).

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Energy Materials

These 3D nanomaterials with very high surface area and interesting electrical properties open up many avenues in the direction of energy technologies, e.g., supercapacitors, air capacitors, batteries, advanced electrodes, etc. The possibility of post-functionalizations offers further opportunities, including advanced energy harvesting technologies (including piezo).

1. Necklace-like Nitrogen-doped Hollow Carbon 3D Frameworks for Electrochemical Energy Storage, Advanced Functional Materials 30, 1909725 (2020).

2. 1D Semiconductor Nanowires for Energy Conversion, harvesting and Storage Applications, Nano Energy 76, 104991 (2020).

3. Recent Advances in Self-powered Tribo-/Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters: All-in-One Package for Future Smart Technologies, Advanced Functional Materials (2020).

4. Progress in Supercapacitors: Role of Two Dimensional Nanotubular Materials, Nanoscale Advances 70-108 (2020).

5. Rational Design of 2D h-Bas Monolayer as Advanced Sulfur Hosts for High Energy Density Li-S Batteries, ACS Applied Energy Materials 3, 7306-7317 (2020).

6. High Performance Flexible Supercapacitors Based on Secondary Doped PEDOT-PSS-Graphene nanocomposite Films for Large Area Solid State Devices, RSC Advances 10, 140526-10539 (2020).

7. Nanogenerator and Piezotronic Inspired Concepts for Energy Efficient Magnetic Field Sensors, Nano Energy 56, 420-425 (2019).

8. ZnO Tetrapods Materials for Functional Applications, Materials Today 21, 631-651 (2018).

9. Fundamental and Scopes of Doped Carbon Nanotubes Towards Energy and Biosensing Applications, Materials Today Energy 9, 154-186 (2018).

10. Piezoresistive Response of Quasi One- dimensional ZnO Nanowires using An In-situ Electromechanical Device, ACS Omega 2, 2985-2993 (2017).

11. Electrocatalytic Biofuel Cell based on Highly Efficient Metal-polymer Nano-architectured Bioelectrodes, Nano Energy 39, 601-607 (2017).

12. Nano to Microtubular Networks of Aerographite for Lightweight Supercapacitors, Nano Energy 34, 570-577 (2017).

13. Binder Free High Energy Density Electrode as Symmetric Supercapacitor based on Sputtered MnO2 Nanorods, ChemistrySelect 1, 3885-3891 (2016).

14. Silicon Carbide nano-Cauliflowers for Symmetric Supercapacitor Devices, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 55, 9452-9458 (2016).

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Plasmonics, Photonics, Metamaterials (Ion Beam Irradiation)

Along with inherent physical properties, these specially architectured materials in highly porous 3D network forms, offer additional features towards their novel photonics/plasmonics responses with possibility to tune them in real-time. Few representative works are as below:   

1. Terahertz Plasmonics: The Rise of Toroidal Metadevices towards Immunobiosensings, Materials Today 32, 108-130 (2020).

2. Toroidal Metaphotonics and Metadevices, Lasers and Photonics Reviews (2020).

3. The role Ge2Sb2Te5 in Enhancing the Performance of Functional Plasmonic Devices, Materials Today Physics 100178 (2020).

4. Fabrication of 3D Polymeric Photonic Arrays and Related Applications, Materials Today Chemistry 15, 100208 (2020).

5. Gated Graphene Enabled Tunable Charge-Current Configurations in Hybrid Plasmonic Metamaterials, ACS Applied Electronic Materials 5, 1800791 (2019).

6. Microstructural and Plasmonic Modifications in Ag-TiO₂ and Au-TiO₂ Nanocomposites Through Ion Beam Irradiation, Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 5, 1491-1431(2014).

7. Plasmonic and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Ag:ZrO₂ Nanocomposite Thin Films, Plasmonics 9, 129-136 (2014).

8. Formation of Self-organized Silver Nanocup Type Structures and Their Plasmonic Absorption, Plasmonics 8, 811-815 (2013).

9. Crystal Growth Behaviour in Au-ZnO Nanocomposite under Different Annealing Environments and Photoswitchability, Journal of Applied Physics 112, 64308 (2012).

10. Plasmonic, Low-Frequency Raman, and Nonlinear Optical-Limiting Studies in Copper-Silica Nanocomposites, Plasmonics 7, 25-31 (2012).

11. Ion Tracks in Silica for Engineering the Embedded Nanoparticles, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 268, 3027-3024 (2010).

12. Au: ZnO-A Tunable Localized Surface Plasmonic Nanocomposite, Applied Physics Letters 92, 43107(2008).

13. Synthesis of Gold-silicon Core-shell Nanoparticles with Tunable Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance, Applied Physics Letters 92, 10315 (2008).

14. Controlled Reduction of Size of Ag Nanoparticles Embedded in Teflon Matrix by MeV Ion Irradiation, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 266, 1804-1809 (2008).

15. Controlled Growth of Gold Nanoparticles Induced by Ion Irradiation: An In-situ X-ray Diffraction Study, Applied Physics Letters 90, 73110 (2007).

16. Synthesis of Elongated Au Nanoparticles in Silica Matrix by Ion Irradiation, Applied Physics Letters 91, 63103 (2007).

17. Gold-silica Nanocomposites for the Detection of Human Ovarian Cancer Cells: A Preliminary Study, Nanotechnology 18, 345606 (2007).

18. Synthesis and Characterization of Ag Nanoparticles in Silica Matrix by Atom Beam Sputtering, Scripta Materialia 56, 629-632 (2007).

19. Synthesis of Metal-polymer Nanocomposite for Optical Applications, Nanotechnology 18, 125604 (2007).

20. Synthesis and Characterization of Gold Nanorings, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 7, 1878-1881 (2007).

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Catalysis, Heavy Metal Adsorption, Water purification, Filter  

High surface and its easy accessibility are the key factors towards the use of nanomaterials in chemical applications.  In form of 3D interconnected networks, these engineered porous materials offer advanced scopes in the direction of catalysis, CO2 reduction, water purification, etc. Few examples are listed as below: 

1. Solar Light Assisted Degradation of Dyes and Adsorption of Heavy Metal Ions from Water by CuO-ZnO Tetrapodal Hybrid Nanocomposite, Materials Today Chemistry 17, 100336 (2020).

2. Impact of Edge on Interfacial Interactions and Efficient Visible-light Photocatalytic Activity of Metal-semiconductor Hybrid 2D Materials, Catalysis Science & Technology 10, 3279-3289(2020).

3. Tuning Wettability of TiO₂ Thin Film by Photocatalytic Deposition of 3D Flower- and Hedgehog-like Au Micro- and Nanostructures, Applied Surface Science (2020).

4. Efficient Oil Removal from Wastewater based on Polymer Coated Superhydrophobic Tetrapodal Magnetic Nanocomposite Adsorbent, Applied Materials Today 17, 130-141 (2019).

5. Mutual Interplay of ZnO Micro- and Nanowires and Methylene Blue during Cyclic Photocatalysis Process, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 7, 103016 (2019).

6. Visible Light Photocatalysis by Carbon-nano-onions-functionalized ZnO Tetrapods: Degradation of 2,4-Dinitrophenol and Plant-model-based Ecological Assessment, Nature Asia Materials 11, 8 (2019).

7. ZnO Tetrapods and Activated Carbon based Hybrid Composite: Adsorbents for Enhanced Decontamination of Hexavalent Chromium from Aqueous Solution, Chemical Engineering Journal 358, 540-551 (2019).

8. ZnO Tetrapods Materials for Functional Applications, Materials Today 21, 631-651 (2018).

9. Light-Mediated Growth of Noble Metal Nanostructures (Au, Ag, Cu, Pt, Pd, Ru, Ir, Rh) from Micro- and Nanoscale ZnO Tetrapodal Backbones, Frontiers in Chemistry 6, 411 (2018).

10. Porous Ceramics based on Hybrid Inorganic Tetrapodal Networks for Efficient Photocatalysis and Water Purification, Ceramics International 43, 14915-14922 (2017).

11. Three-dimensional Flexible Ceramics based on Interconnected Network of Highly Porous Pure and Metal Alloyed ZnO Tetrapods, Ceramics International 42, 8664-8676 (2016).

12. Direct Growth of Freestanding ZnO Tetrapod Networks for Multifunctional Applications in Photocatalysis, UV Photodetection and Gas Sensing, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7, 14303-14316 (2015).

13. Single Step Integration of ZnO Nano- and Microneedles in Si Trenches by Novel Flame Transport Approach: Whispering Gallery Modes and Photocatalytic Properties, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 6, 7806-7815 (2014).

14. Magnetron Sputtering and Characterization of Doped Zinc Oxide Nanofibrous Films and Their Applications, Journal of Nanoelectronics & Optoelectronics 9, 257-264 (2014).

15. Fabrication of Macroscopically Flexible and Highly Porous 3D Semiconductor Networks from Interpenetrating Nanostructures by Simple Flame Transport Approach, Particle Particle Systems Characterization 30, 775-783 (2013).