Publications

Five Selected Publications in the Last Five Years

1. “Tetraethylammonium Cation Tuned Electrochemical CO2 Reduction and Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Activities on Transition Metals (Cu, Ag, Ni, and Fe)”, A. K. Ummireddi, S. K. Sharma, and Raj Ganesh S. Pala. J. Catal., 406, 213–221(2022)

2. “Climbing up the volcano through support-electrocatalyst interaction in electrodeposited thin metal oxides for oxygen evolution reactions”, S. Saha, K. Kishor and Raj Ganesh S. Pala, Catal. Sci. Technol. (Back cover feature), 11, 4342 – 4352 (2021)

3. “Higher Voltage, Wider Voltage Plateau, Longer Cycle Life, and Faster Kinetics via Thermally Modulated Intergrowth Structure of Ramsdellite and Pyrolusite MnO2 for Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes”, P. K. Gupta, A. Bhandari, J. Bhattacharya and Raj Ganesh S. Pala, J of Power Sources, 450, 227619 (2020)

4. “Coherency and Lattice Strain Critically Constrains Electron-Hole Separation in Isomaterial and Heteromaterial Type-II Heterostructures” R. Khan, S. Sivakumar and R. G. S. Pala, J. Phys. Chem. C (Inside cover feature), 123, 28620-28630 (2019)

5. “Dissolution Induced Self-Selective Zn- and Ru-doped TiO2 Structure for Electrochemical Generation of KClO3”, S. Saha, K. Kishor and Raj Ganesh S. Pala, Catal. Sci. Technol. 8, 878-886 (2018)

Research Manuscripts in Journals

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1. S. Yadav, R. K. Sahu and R. G. Pala, "Single Response Electroplated Metal Microwires-Based Microfluidic Electronic Tongue for Taste Discrimination," in IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 1-4, Dec. 2023, Art no. 5504204, doi: 10.1109/LSENS.2023.3334745.

2. “Tetraethylammonium Cation Tuned Electrochemical CO2 Reduction and Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Activities on Transition Metals (Cu, Ag, Ni, and Fe)”, A. K. Ummireddi, S. K. Sharma, and Raj Ganesh S. Pala. J. Catal., 406, 213–221(2022)

3. “Ammonium Ionic Liquid Cation promotes Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to Ethylene over formate while inhibiting Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Inhibition on Copper Electrode”, A. K. Ummireddi, S. K. Sharma, and Raj Ganesh S. Pala. Catal. Sci. Technol., 12, 519 – 529 (2022)

4. “Even partially amorphous Pd2Ni2P metallic glass significantly promotes hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis”, A. Sahu, P. Rani, Anandh Subramaniam, and Raj Ganesh S. Pala, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 47, 2354-2351(2022)

5. “Deconvoluting Photoelectrochemical Activity in Monoclinic–Scheelite BiVO4 Facet Selected Thin Films”, Rashmi, M. Gyanprakash, M. Gadhewal, R.G. S Pala, S.Sivakumar, J. Phys. Chem. C.,126 (38), 16477-16491 (2022)

6. “Upper bound in fusion products and transmutation enhancement in alloys” A. Kumar, P. Jain, K. P. Rajeev and R. G. S. Pala, J. Condensed Matter Nuclear Science, 36, 327–335 (2022)

7. “Low Energy Nuclear fusion with Two Photon Emission” Pankaj Jain, Ankit Kumar, K. Ramkumar, K. P. Rajeev and R. G. S. Pala, J. Condensed Matter Nucl. Sci. 36, 302–304 (2022)

8. “Stabilizing nonnative polymorphs at the nanoscale as surface energy is inversely correlated to bulk energies”, A. Bhandari, J. Bhattacharya and Raj Ganesh S. Pala CrystEngComm,24, 3603 – 3611 (2022)

9. “Photon-induced low-energy nuclear reactions”, Pankaj Jain, Ankit Kumar, Raj Ganesh S. Pala and K. P. Rajeev, Pramana J. Phys, 96(2),1-14 (2022)

10. “Low Energy Nuclear fusion with Two Photon Emission” Pankaj Jain, Ankit Kumar, K. Ramkumar, K. P. Rajeev and R.G.S. Pala, J. Condensed Matter Nucl. Sci. 35, 1–20 (2022)

11. “Climbing up the volcano through support-electrocatalyst interaction in electrodeposited thin metal oxides for oxygen evolution reactions”, S. Saha, K. Kishor and Raj Ganesh S. Pala, Catal. Sci. Technol. (Back cover feature), 11, 4342 – 4352 (2021)

12. “Inhibition of Hydrogen Evolution without debilitating electrochemical CO2 reduction via the local suppression of proton concentration and blocking of step-edges by pyridine functionalization on Cu electrocatalysts”, A. K. Ummireddi, S. K. Sharma, and Raj Ganesh S. Pala, Catal. Sci. Technol. 11, 4857 (2021)

13. “Size induced extrinsic pseudocapacitance in ultrasmall CoMoO4 nanocluster”, Gyan Prakash Sharma, Vikas, Raj Ganesh S Pala and Sri Sivakumar, Energy & Fuels (Supplementary cover feature),35, 23, 19765–19774 (2021)

14. “Chalcogenide dopant induced lattice expansion in cobalt vanadium oxide nanosheets for enhanced supercapacitor performance” Gyan Prakash Sharma, Prashant Kumar Gupta, Shailendra Kumar Sharma, Raj Ganesh S Pala and Sri Sivakumar, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 4, 4758-4771 (2021)

15. “Terbium ions mediated host to Europium ions energy transfer in WO3: Eu3+ and Tb3+ for UV sensitized white light emission”, Chandresh Kumar Rastogi, Shilendra Kumar Sharma, Sayantan Sasmal, Raj Ganesh S Pala, Jitendra Kumar, and Sri Sivakumar, J. Phys. Chem. C., 125, 6163-6175(2021)

16. “Effect of Sodium on Ni-promoted MoS2(100) catalyst for hydrodesulfurization reaction: Combined Experimental and Simulation Study”, S. Mundotiya, S. Pal, R. Khakar, R. Singh, S. Saha, D. Kunzru, Raj Ganesh S. Pala and S. Sivakumar, Energy & Fuels, 35(3), 2368-2378 (2021)

17. “Size reducing rupture during “growth” of LnF3 (Ln= La, Lu, Y) nanocrystals due to cogeneration of structure and stress", Debadrita Bhattacharya, Ganesh Iyer, Sayantan Sasmal, Sulay Saha, Anandh Subramaniam, Raj Ganesh S. Pala and Sri Sivakumar, Crystal Growth and Design, 21(1)94-102 (2021)

18. “Operating the Stacked Photoanode at the Thickness of Exciton Diffusion Length Enhances the Efficiency of Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting”, A. K. Ummireddi and Raj Ganesh S Pala, J. Chem. Sci., 133(2) 1-10 (2021)

19. “Selective mesitylene oxidative coupling reaction by metastructured electrocatalysts comprised of zeolitic imidazole framework derived carbonaceous scaffold coated with Pd”, A. Sahu. S. Sivakumar and R. Pala, Catalysis Letters, 151, 685-697(2021)

20. “Hollow zeolites encapsulated with ultra-low amount of noble metal nanoparticles for remarkable HMF oxidation”, S. Saxena, K. Tiwari,V. Venkatesh, S. Verma, Raj Ganesh S Pala and Sri Sivakumar, Catalysis Letters,151(4)921-931(2021)

21. “Surface-enhanced OER activity in Co3V2O8 using cyclic charge-discharge to balance electrocatalytic active site generation and degradation, Maurya Gyanprakash, Prashant Kumar Gupta, Gyan Prakash Sharma , Raj Ganesh S Pala, Electrochimica Acta, 367, 137538 (2021)

22. “Design of Isomaterial Heterostructures of TiO2 via seed mediated growth and arrested phase transitions, D. S. De, D. K. Behara, S. Saha, A. Kumar, Anandh Subramanium, Sri Sivakumar and Raj Ganesh S Pala, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 22, 25366 (2020)

23. “Development of activated porous highly enriched Pd and Pt surface for enhanced hydrogen evolution reaction from quasicrystalline melt spun ribbon”, A. Sahu, K. Mondal and Raj Ganesh S. Pala , ChemElectroChem, 7(21), 4405-4416 (2020)

24. “Higher Voltage, Wider Voltage Plateau, Longer Cycle Life, and Faster Kinetics via Thermally Modulated Intergrowth Structure of Ramsdellite and Pyrolusite MnO2 for Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes”, P. K. Gupta, A. Bhandari, J. Bhattacharya and Raj Ganesh S. Pala J of Power Sources, 450, 227619 (2020)

25. “Variable Air Gap Membrane Distillation for Hybrid Solar Desalination”, G. Shirsath, K. Muralidhar and R. G. S. Pala Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering,8, 103751(2020)

26. “Adsorption preference of HF over ethylene carbonate leads to dominant presence of fluoride products in LiFePO4 cathode-electrolyte interface in Li-Ion batteries”, A. Bhandari, J. Bhattacharya and Raj Ganesh S. Pala, J. Phys. Chem. C., 124 (17), 9170-9177 (2020)

27. “Reduction in lithiation-induced stresses in Si nanopillar anodes through alloying with Ge and hallowing”, Abhishek Bansal, Arihant Bhandari, Pritam Chakraborty, Jishnu Bhattacharya and Raj Ganesh S. Pala J. Electrochem. Soc.,167, 013542 (2020)

28. “Coherency and Lattice Strain Critically Constrains Electron-Hole Separation in Isomaterial and Heteromaterial Type-II Heterostructures” R. Khan, S. Sivakumar and R. G. S. Pala, J. Phys. Chem. C (Inside cover feature), 123, 28620-28630 (2019)

29. “Gas Induced Confinement-Deconfinement Interplay in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite Thin Film Results in Systematic Band Modulation”, Sayantan Sasmal, S. K. Sharma, S. Chatterjee, A. J. Pal, S. P. Turaga, A. A. Bettiol, Raj Ganesh S. Pala, Sri Sivakumar, Suresh Valiyaveettil, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 11 (46), 43708-43718 (2019)

30. “Higher Energy Barrier for interfacial Li-ion transfer from EC/LiPF6 Electrolyte into (010) LiFePO4 cathode surface than bulk Li-ion diffusion within both cathode and electrolyte”, A. Bhandari, P. K. Gupta, J. Bhattacharya and Raj Ganesh S. Pala, J. Electrochem. Soc., 166 (13) A2966-A2972 (2019)

31. “Increasing oxygen evolution reactivity in MnO2 through polymorphic engineering”, S. Saha, P. K. Gupta, A. Bhandari, J. Bhattacharya and Raj Ganesh S. Pala, J. Phys. Chem. C, 123, 22345−22357 (2019)

32. “Electrochemical Cycling Induced Amorphization of Cobalt (II, III) Oxide (Co3O4) for Stable High Surface Area Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts”, P. K. Gupta, S. Saha and R. G. S. Pala, ChemElectroChem, 6, 4031-4039 (2019)

33. “Ultrasmall NiMoO4 sinter resistance nanoclusters for high performance asymmetric supercapacitors” G. P. Sharma, Raj Ganesh S Pala and Sri Sivakumar, Electrochim Acta., 318, 607-616 (2019)

34. “All Precursor Are Not Equal: Morphology Control via Differential Precursor-Facet Interaction in Eu3+-doped NaLa(WO4)2” C. K. Rastogi, S. Saha, Raj Ganesh S. Pala, Jitendra Kumar and Sri Sivakumar, Cryst. Growth Des., 19 (7), 3945-3954 (2019)

35. “Condensation of water vapor underneath an inclined hydrophobic textured surface machined by laser and electric discharge”, G. B. Shirsath, K. Muralidhar, Raj Ganesh S. Pala, J. Ramkumar, Applied Surface Science, 484, 999-1009 (2019)

36. “A critical analysis of the X-Ray diffraction intensities in concentrated multicomponent alloys”, R. Naorem, A. Gupta, S. Mantri, G. Sethi, K.V. Mani Krishna, Raj Ganesh Pala, Kantesh Balani and Anandh Subramaniam International Journal of Materials Research, 110 (5) 393-405 (2019)

37. “Increasing chlorine selectivity in seawater electrolysis through weakening of oxygen absorbates at surface in Cu doped RuO2”, K. Kishor, S. Saha, A. Parashtekar and Raj Ganesh S. Pala, J. Electrochem. Soc.,165 (15), J3276-J3280 (2018)

38. “Effect of salinity and water depth on the performance of doubly inclined solar still”, G. B. Shirsath, Raj Ganesh S Pala, K. Muralidhar, S. Khandekar Desalination and water treatment, 124, 72-87(2018)

39. “Catalyzing cubic-to-hexagonal phase transition in NaYF4 via ligand enhanced surface ordering”, Sulay Saha, Raj Ganesh S. Pala and Sri Sivakumar, Cryst. Growth Des., 18 (9), 5080-5088 (2018)

40. “Correlating Voltage Profile to Molecular Transformations in Ramsdellite MnO2 and Its Implication for Polymorph Engineering of Lithium Ion Battery Cathodes”, P. K. Gupta, A. Bhandari, Jishnu Bhattacharya and Raj Ganesh S. Pala, J. Phys. Chem. C,122, 11689-11700 (2018)

41. “Designing coupled quantum dot with ZnS-CdSe hybrid structure for enhancing exciton lifetime”, Debadrita Bhattacharya, Sulay Saha, Vishnu Prasad Shrivastava, Raj Ganesh S. Pala and Sri Sivakumar, J. Phys. Chem. C 122 (16), 9198-9208 (2018)

42. “Dissolution Induced Self-Selective Zn- and Ru-doped TiO2 Structure for Electrochemical Generation of KClO3”, S. Saha, K. Kishor and Raj Ganesh S. Pala, Catal. Sci. Technol. 8, 878-886 (2018)

43. “Alkyne modified water stable ammonium lead (II) Iodide perovskites”, S. Sasmal, A. P. Upadhyay, D. Sornadurai, C. S. Sundar, Raj G. S. Pala, S. Sivakumar, S.Valiyaveettil, MRS Communications, 8(2), 289-296 (2018)

44. “Volatility and Chain Length Interplay of Primary Amines: Mechanistic Investigation on the Stability and Reversibility of Ammonia Responsive Hybrid Perovskites”, Sayantan Sasmal, Arup Sinha, Bruno Donnadieu, Raj Ganesh S. Pala, Sri Sivakumar, Suresh Valiyaveettil, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 10, 6711-6718 (2018)

45. “Rational design strategy for optimization of clamping pressure to minimize contact resistance between electrode and current collector while preserving porosity of electrode in water electrolyzers", K. Kishor, A. Parashtekar, S. Saha, S. Sivakumar, J. Ramkumar and R. G. S. Pala, Can. J. Chem. Eng. (Selected for issue highlights) 96,881-885 ( 2018)

46. “Thickness dependent energetics for Pb adatoms on low-index Pb nanofilm surfaces: First-principles calculations”, W. Li, L. Huang, R. G. S. Pala, G-H.Lu, F. Liu, J. W. Evans, Y. Han, Phys. Rev. B , 96 (20), 205409: 1-14 (2017)

47. “Dopant induced stabilization of metastable Zircon-type Tetragonal LaVO4”, C. K. Rastogi, S. K. Sharma, A. Patel, G. Parthasarathy, R. G. S. Pala and J. Kumar and S. Sivakumar, J. Phys. Chem. C, 121, 16501-16512 (2017)

48. “Poisson Effect Driven Anomalous Lattice Expansion in Metal Nanoshells”, G. Iyer, S. Shervani, G. Mishra, D. De, S. Sivakumar, K. Balani, R. Pala and A. Subramaniam, Appl. Phys. Lett., 110, 131603: 1-4 (2017)

49. “Enhanced water oxidation activity of Co3O4 electrocatalyst on earth abundant metal interlayered hybrid porous carbon support”. K. Kishor, S. Saha, S. Sivakumar and R. G. S. Pala, ChemElectroChem,3,1899-1907 (2016)

50. “Fabricating Appropriate Band-Edge-Staggered Hetero-Semiconductors with Optically Activated Au Nanoparticles via Click Chemistry for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting”, A. Upadhyay, D. K. Behara, G. P. Sharma, M. Gyanprakash, R. Pala and S. Sivakumar, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 4(9), 4511-4520(2016)

51. “Synchronization of charge carrier separation by tailoring the interface of Si-Au-TiO2 heterostructures via click chemistry for PEC water splitting”, D. K. Behara, G. P. Sharma, A. Upadhyay, M. Gyanprakash, R. Pala and S. Sivakumar, Chem. Eng. Sci.,154, 150-169 (2016)

52. “Desorption Retarded Optically Complemented Multiple Dye-Sensitized Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting System with Enhanced Performance”, A. Upadhyay, C. K. Rastogi, R. Pala and S. Sivakumar, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 41, 10727-10736 (2016)

53. “Two scale simulation of surface stress in solids and its effects”, G. Iyer, D. De, A. Kumar, R. Pala and A. Subramaniam, Applied Surface Science, 371, 343-348 (2016)

54. “Coupled optical absorption, charge carrier separation and surface electrochemistry in surface disordered/hydrogenated TiO2 for enhanced PEC water splitting reaction”, D. K. Behara, A. K. Ummireddi, V. Aragonda, P.K, Gupta, R. Pala and S. Sivakumar, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18, 8364-8377 (2016)

55. “Sinter-resistant gold nanoparticles encapsulated by zeolite nanoshell for oxidation of cyclohexane”, S. Saxena, R. Singh, R.G. S. Pala and S. Sivakumar, RSC Advances, 6(10), 8015-8020 (2016)

56. “A unified graphical formulation for synthesis of basic and subcolumn distillation sequences”, M. Agarwal and R. G. S. Pala, Separation Science and Technology, 51(3), 502-516 (2016)

57. “Roughened Zn-doped Ru-Ti oxide water oxidation electrocatalysts by blending of active and activated passive components”, K. Kishor, S. Saha, M. K. Gupta, A. Bajpai, M. Chatterjee, S. Sivakumar and R. G. S. Pala, ChemElectroChem, 2 (11), 1839-1846 (2015)

58. “Kinetically Stabilized Aliovalent Europium-Doped Magnesium Oxide as UV Sensitized Phosphor”, C. K. Rastogi, S. Saha, S. Sivakumar, R. Pala and J. Kumar, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 17, 4600 (2015)

59. “Brownian Motion Retarded Polymer-Encapsulated Liquid Crystal Droplets Anchored over Patterned Substrate via Click Chemistry”, A. Upadhyay, R. Pala and S. Sivakumar, RSC Advances, 4, 27135 (2014)

60. “Technoeconomic Analysis of Solar H2 Production in the Vicinity of Indian Refineries”, M. Agrawal, R. Mishra and R. G. S. Pala, 56( 3),258. Indian Chemical Engineer (2014)

61. “Generic Process for Highly Stable Metallic Nanoparticle-Semiconductor Heterostructures via “Click” Chemistry for Electro/Photocatalytic Applications”, A. Upadhyay, D. Behara, G. Sharma, A. Bajpai, N. Sharac, R. Ragan, R. Pala and S. Sivakumar, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 5, 9554 (2013)

62. “Hydroxylation induced stabilization of near-surface rocksalt nanostructure on wurtzite ZnO structure”, M. Pandey and R. G. S. Pala, J. Chem. Phys.,138, 224701 (2013)

63. “Increased loading of Eu3+ in monazite LaVO4 nanocrystals via pressure driven phase transitions”, P. Gangwar, M. Pandey, S. Sivakumar, R. G. S. Pala, G. Parthasarathy, Cryst. Growth Des., 13 (3),2344-2349(2013)

64. “Stabilization of non-native Rocksalt CdSe at atmospheric pressures by pseudomorphic growth”, M. Pandey and R. G. S. Pala, J. Phys. Chem. C, 117, 7643-7647 (2013)

65. “Stabilization and growth of non-native nanocrystals at low and atmospheric pressures”, M. Pandey and R. Pala, J. Chem. Phys., 136, 044703 (2012)

66. “A First-Principles Study of Photo-Induced Water-Splitting on Fe2O3”, (Selected by the American Chemical Society for a special virtual collection on “Solar Fuels: Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation” highlighting recent advances in physical chemistry)A. Hellman and R. G. S. Pala, J. Phys. Chem. C, 115 (26), 12901 (2011)

67. “Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Methanol to Formaldehyde by Isolated Vanadium, Molybdenum, and Chromium Oxide Clusters Supported on Rutile TiO2(110)”, Kim HY, Lee HM, R.G. S. Pala and H. Metiu, J. Phys. Chem. C, 113, 16083-16093 (2009)

68. “CO oxidation by Ti-and Al-doped ZnO: Oxygen activation by adsorption on the dopant”, R. G. S. Pala, W. Tang, M.M. Sushchikh, J.N. Park, A.J. Forman, G.Wu, A.K-Shwarschtein, J. Zhang, E. McFarland and H. Metiu, J. Catal. 266, 50-58 (2009)

69. “Selective promotion of a specific methanol adsorption mode via the cation substitutional doping of the ZnO surface”, R. G S. Pala and H. Metiu, J. Catal. 254, 325-331(2008)

70. “CO oxidation by Rutile TiO2 (110) Doped With V, W, Cr, Mo and Mn”, H.Y. Kim, H.M. Lee, R.G.S. Pala, V. Shapovalov, H. Metiu, J. Phys. Chem. C, 112, 12398-12408 (2008)

71. “Modification of the oxidative power of ZnO surface by substituting some surface Zn atoms with other metals”, R.G S. Pala and H. Metiu, J. Phys. Chem. C., 111, 8617 (2007)

72. “The structure and energy of oxygen vacancy formation in clean and doped, very thin films of ZnO”, R. G. S. Pala and H. Metiu , J. Phys. Chem. C., 111, 12715 (2007)

73. “Nature of reactive O2 and slow CO2 evolution kinetics in CO oxidation by TiO2 supported Au cluster”, R. G. S. Pala and F. Liu, J. Chem. Phys., 125, 14, 144714 (2006)

74. “Critical epi-nucleation on reconstructed surfaces and a model study of Si(001) homoepitaxy”, R. G. S. Pala and F. Liu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136106 (2005)

75. “Determining the adsorptive and catalytic properties of strained metal surface using adsorption-induced stress”, R. G. S. Pala and F. Liu, J. Chem. Phys., 120, 16, 7720 (2004)

76. “Modeling of ion permeation in calcium and sodium channel selectivity filter”, R. G. S. Pala, B.Chanda, S.K. Gupta, M.K.Mathew and J.Chandrasekhar, Proteins: structure, function and genetics, 38, 384 (2000)

Reviews in Journal

1. “Practical semiconductor physics perspective of materials photoelectrochemistry” A. Verma and R. G. S. Pala, Curr. Opin. Electrochem., 36:101160 (2022)

2. “Stabilization of Non-native Structures for electrocatalysis and energy storage systems” S. Saha, P. K. Gupta and Raj Ganesh S. Pala, WIREs: Energy and Environment, V-10 (2) (2021)

3. “Should All Electrochemical Energy Materials Be Isomaterially Heterostructured to Optimize Contra and Co-varying Physicochemical Properties?”, Raj Ganesh S. Pala, Frontiers in Chemistry, V-8, 515 (2020)

4. “Models and mechanisms of oxygen evolution reaction on electrocatalytic surface”, (Journal cover, Special issue on “Materials Electrochemistry, Electrochemical Processes and Systems”) S. Saha, K. Kishor, S. Sivakumar and R. G S. Pala, J. Ind. Inst. Sci., Springer Pubs., V-96 (4), 325-349 (2016)

5. “Advances in solid acid electrolytes for fuel cell applications”, A. Bajpai, V. S. Chandel and R. Pala, Nanomaterials and Energy, 1, 5 (2012)

6. “Computer aided design of doped oxide catalysts”, (Journal cover, Special issue on “Catalysis at interface”) R. G S. Pala, J. Ind. Inst. Sci., 90, 163 (2010)

Reviews in book chapters

1. “Solar Hydrogen as a “Renewable Reductant”: Points and Counterpoints”, R. G. S. Pala, CRC Handbook of Thermal Engineering, 1369-1385 (2017)

2. “Fundamental aspects of photoelectrochemical water splitting”, G. P. Sharma, A. P. Upadhyay, D. K. Behera, S. Sivakumar and R. G. S. Pala, The Water-Food-Energy Nexus: Processes, Technologies and Challenges, 677-690, CRC Press (2017)

3. “Photoelectrochemical Approaches to Solar-H2 generation”, G. P. Sharma, A. P. Upadhyay, D. K. Behera, S. Sivakumar and R. G. S. Pala, The Water-Food-Energy Nexus: Processes, Technologies and Challenges, 691-715, CRC Press (2017)

4. “Silicon and TiO2 Semiconductor Photocatalyst for Water Splitting Reaction” Dilip Kumar Behara, Arun Prakash Upadhyay, Gyan Prakash Sharma, B. V. Sai Krishna Kiran, Sri Sivakumar and Raj Ganesh S Pala, Advanced Functional Materials, Edited by Ashutosh Tiwari and Lokman Uzun (Scrivener Publishing LLC), 219-281, ISBN 978-1-118-99827- (2015)

5. “Self-Directed Assembly of Nanoparticles: A Review on Various Approaches”. Arun Prakash Upadhyay, Dilip Kumar Behara, Gyan Prakash Sharma, Raj Ganesh S Pala, Sri Sivakumar. Advanced Theranostic Materials, Edited by Ashutosh Tiwari and Jeong-Woo Choi (Scrivener Publishing LLC) ISBN: 978-1-118-99829-8, 319-359 (2015)

Patent Application and Patent Granted

1. “Moisture and Water resistant Self-assembled Encapsulant for Perovskite”, S. Sasmal, R. G. S. Pala, S. Valiyaveettil, S. Sivakumar (Provisional International patent filed) (2018)

2. “A method for synthesis of metal nanoparticle encapsulated with a plurality of shells of zeolite”, S. Saxena, R. G. S. Pala, S. Sivakumar (Indian Patent Application No 201811020842)

3. “A method for synthesis of metal nanoparticle encapsulated with a plurality of shells of zeolite”, S. Saxena, R. G. S. Pala, S. Sivakumar (Indian Patent Application No 201811020842)

4. “A Click chemistry based approach to improve the photostability of dyes for long term stability dye sensitized photoelectrochemical water splitting ", A. P. Upadhyay, D. K. Behara, S. Sivakumar, R. G. S Pala Indian Patent filed. (2014)

5. “Immobilaztion of liquid crystal droplets on glass surface via click chemistry for bio-sensing application ", A. P. Upadhyay, P. Sadhukhan, S. Sivakumar, R. G. S. Pala Indian Patent No. 1128/DEL/2014

6. “Surfaces Having Nanoparticulate Layers and Assembly and Use Thereof”, A. P. Upadhyay, R. Ragan, R. G. S. Pala, S. Sivakumar, US Application No: 14/474,035 (2015)

7. “A photoelectrochemical water splitting device”, A. P. Upadhyay, R. G. S. Pala, Sri Sivakumar, Indian Patent (Application no 109/DEL/2015)

8. “Click Chemistry based Approach to Improve the Photostability of Dyes for Long Term Stability Dye Sensitized Photoelectrochemical Water splitting”, Arun Prakash Upadhyay, Dilip Kumar Behara, Sri Sivakumar, Raj Ganesh S Pala, Indian Patent Application No: 109/DEL/2015

9. “Solar based water purification”, A. Anand, A. Bhandari, S. Prakash, M. Sharma, R. G. S. Pala and K. Muralidhar, Indian patent filed (2014)

10. “Immobilization of Liquid Crystal Droplets on Glass Surface via Click Chemistry for Bio-sensing Application”, Arun Prakash Upadhyay, Prasenjit Sadhukhan, Sri Sivakumar, Raj Ganesh S Pala, Indian Patent Application No: 1128/DEL/2014. “Process for production of directed assembly of tailored monolayer and multilayers of nanoparticles on a substrate” A. P. Upadhyay, R. G. S. Pala, S. Sivakumar, Indian Patent (filed, 19th July 2013; granted, 30th April 2019):311933