PUBLICATIONS
Jain, V.; Santra, A. and Pillai, P. P. "Photocatalytic Ammonia Synthesis Boosted by Inorganic Metal–Solvent Complexes on Indium Phosphide Quantum Dots" ACS Nano 2026, 20, 13748-13757. Link
Chakraborty, I. N.; Sury, A. S.; Chaturvedi, A.; Wang, K.; Dhankhar, A.; Mandal, P.; Dietzek-Ivanšić, B and Pillai, P. P. "Photon upconversion with indium phosphide quantum dots enables high-energy photoreactions using visible light" Chem. Sci. 2026, 17, 626-633. Link
Roy, P.; Yadav, K. K.; Dasgupta, J. and Pillai, P. P. "Bright, Stable, and Active: Surface Engineered Blue-Emitting InP Quantum Dots for Photoinduced Charge Separation in Water" J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2025, 16, 9346–9352. Link
Jain, V. and Pillai, P. P. "A Path to Perpetual Chemical Synthesis via Photocatalytic Cofactor Regeneration" Chem. Sci. 2025, 16, 11184-11203. Link
Koner, K.; Das, K.; Paitandi, R. P.; Mahapatra, R.; Sarkar, A.; Sury, A.; Koo, Y. H.; Zhang, Y.; Heine, T.; Kuc, A.; Pillai, P. P., Seki, S.; Reddy, C. M. and Banerjee, R. "Photoconductivity Switching in Semiconducting Two-Dimensional Crystals via Molecular Tetris" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 9972-9980. Link
Jain, V.; Tyagi, S.; Roy, P. and Pillai, P. P. "Ammonia Synthesis with Visible Light and Quantum Dots" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 32356-32365. Link
Dhankhar, A.; Pillai, P. P. "Plasmonic Antenna–Reactor Photocatalysts Based on Anisotropic Gold–Rhodium Superstructures for Biological Cofactor Regeneration" Chem. Mater. 2024, 36, 10227-10237. Link
Tyagi, S.; Kashyap, R. K.; Dhankhar, A.; Pillai, P. P. "Plasmon-Powered Chemistry with Visible-Light Active Copper Nanoparticles" Chem. Sci. 2024, 15, 16997-17006. Link
Roy, P.; Sury, A. S.; Pillai, P. P. "Electrostatics Enable Resonance Energy Transfer in All-InP Quantum Dot Containing Donor–Acceptor Assembly" Appl. Phys. Lett. 2024, 124, 222104. Link
Kashyap, R. K.; Pillai, P. P. "Plasmonic Nanoparticles Boost Solar-to-Electricity Generation at Ambient Conditions" Nano Lett. 2024, 24, 5585–5592. Link
Ghosh, M.; Saha, P.; Roy, S.; Barman, S.; Pillai, P. P.; Dey, A.; Khan, S. "Cyclic(alkyl)(amino)carbene-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles for Selective CO2 Reduction" ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 7011-7019. Link
Chakraborty, I. N.; Jain, V.; Roy, P.; Kumar, P.; Vinod, C. P.; Pillai, P. P. "Photocatalytic Regeneration of Reactive Cofactors with InP Quantum Dots for the Continuous Chemical Synthesis" ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 6740-6748. Link
Deepak, N.; Jain, V.; Pillai, P. P. "Metal-semiconductor heterojunction accelerates the plasmonically powered photoregeneration of biological cofactors" Photochem. Photobiol. 2024, 100, 1000-1009. Link
Kashyap, R. K.; Tyagi, S.; Pillai, P. P. "Plasmon enabled Claisen rearrangement with sunlight" Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 13293-13296. Link
Roy, P.; Sury, A. S.; Pillai, P. P. "Resonance Energy Transfer in Electrostatically Assembled Donor-Acceptor System Based on Blue-Emitting InP Quantum Dots" Chem. Phys. Impact 2023, 7, 100334. Link
Roy, S.; Pillai, P. P. "What Triggers the Dynamic Self-Assembly of Molecules and Materials?" Langmuir 2023, 39, 12967–12974. Link
Roy, S.; Kashyap, R. K.; Pillai, P. P. "Thermoplasmonics Enable the Coupling of Light into the Solvent-Mediated Self-Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles" J. Phys. Chem. C 2023, 127, 10355–10365. Link
Chakraborty, I. N.; Roy, P. and Pillai, P. P. "Visible Light-Mediated Quantum Dot Photocatalysis Enables Olefination Reactions at Room Temperature" ACS Catal. 2023, 13, 7331–7338. Link
Roy, P.; Virmani, M. and Pillai, P. P. "Blue-Emitting InP Quantum Dots Participate in an Efficient Resonance Energy Transfer Process in Water" Chem. Sci. 2023,14, 5167-5176. Link
Jain, V.; Chakraborty, I. N.; Raj, R. B. and Pillai, P. P. "Deciphering the Role of Light Excitation Attributes in Plasmonic Photocatalysis: The Case of Nicotinamide Cofactor Regeneration" J. Phys. Chem. C 2023, 127, 5153-5161. Link
Dhankhar, A.; Jain, V.; Chakraborty, I. N. and Pillai, P. P. "Enhancing the photocatalytic regeneration of nicotinamide cofactors with surface engineered plasmonic antenna-reactor system" J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem. 2023, 437, 114472. Link
Jain, V.; Roy, S.; Roy, P.; and Pillai, P. P. "When Design Meets Function: The Prodigious Role of Surface Ligands in Regulating Nanoparticle Chemistry" Chem. Mater. 2022, 34, 7579-7597. Link
Kashyap, R. K.; Dwivedi, I.; Roy, S. Roy, S.; Rao, A.; Subramaniam, C. and Pillai, P. P. "Insights into the Utilization and Quantification of Thermoplasmonic Properties in Gold Nanorod Arrays" Chem. Mater. 2022, 34, 7369–7378. Link
Kashyap, R. K.; Parammal, M. J.; Pillai, P. P. "Effect of Nanoparticle Size on Plasmonic Heat-Driven Organic Transformation". ChemNanoMat 2022, 8, e202200252. Link
Rao, A.; Roy, S.; Jain, V.; Pillai, P. P. "Nanoparticle Self-Assembly: From Design Principles to Complex Matter to Functional Materials" ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, 15, 25248–25274. Link
Jain, V.; Kashyap, R. K.; Pillai, P. P. "Plasmonic Photocatalysis: Activating Chemical Bonds through Light and Plasmon". Adv. Optical Mater. 2022, 10, 2200463. Link
Roy, S.; Adury, V. S. S.; Rao, A.; Roy, S.; Mukherjee, A.; Pillai, P. P. "Electrostatically Directed Long-Range Self-Assembly of Nucleotides with Cationic Nanoparticles To Form Multifunctional Bioplasmonic Networks". Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202203924. Link
Chakraborty, I. N.; Roy, P.; Rao, A.; Devatha, G.; Roy, S.; Pillai, P. P. "The unconventional role of surface ligands in dictating the light-harvesting properties of quantum dots". J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 7422-7457 Link
Rao, A.; Roy, S.; Pillai, P. P. "Temporal Changes in Interparticle Interactions Drive the Formation of Transiently Stable Nanoparticle Precipitates". Langmuir 2021, 37, 1843–1849. Link
Shirin, S.; Roy, S.; Rao, A.; Pillai, P. P. "Accelerated Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol: Bridging Interaction Outplays Reducing Power in the Model Nanoparticle-Catalyzed Reaction". J. Phys. Chem. C. 2020,. 124, 19157–19165. Link
Roy, P.; Devatha, G.; Roy, S.; Rao, A.; Pillai, P. P. "Electrostatically Driven Resonance Energy Transfer in an All-Quantum Dot Based Donor-Acceptor System". J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 5354-5360. Link
Devatha, G.; Roy, P.; Rao, A.; Roy, S.; Pillai, P. P. "Multicolor Luminescent Patterning via Photoregulation of Electron and Energy Transfer Processes in Quantum Dots". J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 4099-4106. Link
Roy, S.; Jain, V.; Kashyap, R. K.; Rao, A.; Pillai, P. P. "Electrostatically Driven Multielectron Transfer for the Photocatalytic Regeneration of Nicotinamide Cofactor". ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 5522-5528. Link
Rao, A.; Kumar, G. S.; Roy, S.; Rajesh, A. T.; Devatha, G.; Pillai, P. P. "Turn-On Selectivity in Inherently Nonselective Gold Nanoparticles for Pb2+ Detection by Preferential Breaking of Interparticle Interactions". ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2019, 2, 9, 5625-5633. Link
Devatha, G.; Rao, A.; Roy, S.; Pillai, P. P. "Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Regulated Multicolor Photopatterning from Single Quantum Dot Nanohybrid Films". ACS Energy Lett. 2019, 4, 1710−1716. Link
Chakraborty, I. N.; Roy, S.; Devatha, G.; Rao. A.; Pillai P. P. "InP/ZnS Quantum Dots as Efficient Visible-Light Photocatalysts for Redox and Carbon–Carbon Coupling Reactions". Chem. Mater. 2019, 31, 2258-2262. Link
Roy, S.; Roy, S.; Rao, A.; Devatha, G.; Pillai P. P. " Precise Nanoparticle - Reactant Interaction Outplays Ligand Poisoning in Visible-Light Photocatalysis". Chem. Mater. 2018, 30, 8415-8419. Link
Xavier, J. A. M.; Devatha, G.; Roy, S.; Rao, A.; Pillai P. P. " Electrostatically Regulated Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Cationic Eco-friendly CuInS2/ZnS Quantum Dots in Water". J. Mater. Chem. A 2018, 6, 22248-22245. (Invited article for themed collection of JMCA Emerging Investigators 2018.) Link
Mududli, S.; Pandey, P.; Devatha, G.; Babar, R.; Kothari, T. M. D. C.; Kabir, M.;* Pillai, P. P.;* Ogale, S. B.* "Photoluminescence Quenching in Self-assembled CsPbBr3 Qunatum Dots on Few Layer Black Phosphorous Sheets". Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 7682-7686. Link
Roy, S.; Rao, A; Devatha, G.; Pillai, P. P. "Revealing the Role of Electrostatics in Gold-Nanoparticle-Catalyzed Reduction of Charged Substrates". ACS Catal. 2017, 7, 7141-7145. Link
Devatha, G.; Roy, S.; Rao, A; Mallick, A.; Basu, S.; Pillai, P. P. "Electrostatically Driven Resonance Energy Transfer in “Cationic” Biocompatible Indium Phosphide Quantum Dots". Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 3879-3884. Link
Timonen, J. V. I.; Raimondo, C.; Pilans, D.; Pillai, P. P.; Grzybowski, B. A. "Trapping, manipulation, and crystallization of live cells using magnetofluidic tweezers" Nanoscale Horiz. 2017, 2, 50. Link
Rao, A.; Roy, S.; Unnikrishnan, M.; Bhosale, S. S.; Devatha, G.; Pillai, P. P.* "Regulation of Interparticle Forces Reveals Controlled Aggregation in Charged Nanoparticles" Chem. Mater. 2016, 28, 2348-2355. Link
Pillai, P. P.; Kowalczyk, B.; Kandere-Grzybowska,K.; Borkowska, M.; Grzybowski, B. A. "Engineering the Gram Selectivity of Mixed-Charge Gold Nanoparticles by Tuning the Balance of Surface Charges" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 8610-8614. Link
Pillai, P. P.; Kowalczyk, B.; Grzybowski, B. A. "Electrostatic Titrations Reveal Surface Compositions of Mixed, On-Nanoparticle Monolayers Comprising Positively and Negatively Charged Ligands" J. Phys. Chem. C 2016, 120, 4139. Link
Pillai, P. P.; Kowalczyk, B.; Grzybowski, B. A. "Self-assembly of like-charged nanoparticles into microscopic crystals" Nanoscale 2016, 8, 157. Link
Yan, Y.; Pillai, P. P.; Timonen, J. V. I.; Emami, F. S.; Vahid, A.; Grzybowski, B. A. "Synthesis of Toroidal Gold Nanoparticles Assisted by Soft Template" Langmuir 2014, 30, 9886. Link
Zhuang, Q.; Warren, S. C.; Baytekin, B.; Demirörs. A. F.; Pillai, P. P.; Kowalczyk, B.; Grzybowski, B. A. “Mechanical Control of Surface Adsorption by Nanoscale Cracking” Adv. Mater. 2014, 26, 3667. Link
Demirörs. A. F.; Pillai, P. P.; Kowalczyk, B.; Grzybowski, B. A. “Colloidal Assembly Directed by Virtual Magnetic Moulds” Nature 2013, 503, 99. Link
Pillai, P. P.; Huda, S.; Kowalczyk, B.; Grzybowski, B. A. “Controlled pH Stability and Adjustable Cellular Uptake of Mixed-Charge Nanoparticles” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 6392. Link
Pillai, P. P.; Pacławski, K.; Kim, J.; Grzybowski, B. A. “Nanostructural Anisotropy Underlies Electrical Anisotropy” Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, 1623. Link
Pramod, P.; Soumya, C. C.; Thomas, K. G. “Gold Nanoparticle-Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes for Light-Induced Electron Transfer Process” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2011, 2, 775. Link
Pillai, P. P.; Reisewitz, S.; Schroeder, H.; Niemeyer, C. M. “Quantum Dot-Encoded Silica Nanospheres for Nucleic Acid Hybridization” Small 2010, 6, 2130. Link
Pramod, P.; Thomas, K. G.; George, M. V. “Organic Nanomaterials: Morphological Control for Charge Stabilization and Charge Transport” Chem. Asian J. 2009, 4, 806. Link
Pramod, P.; Thomas, K. G. “Plasmon Coupling in Dimers of Au Nanorods” Adv. Mater. 2008, 20, 4300. Link
Jebb, M.; Sudeep, P. K.; Pramod, P.; Thomas, K. G; Kamat, P. “Interaction of Thiol Derivative of Ru(II)trisbipyridylComplex with Gold Nanorods. Morphological Changes and Excited State Interactions” J. Phys. Chem. B 2007, 111, 6839. Link
Pramod, P.; Joseph, S. T. S.; Thomas, K. G. “Preferential End Functionalization of Au nanorods Through Electrostatic Interactions” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 6712. Link
Pramod, P.; Sudeep, P. K.; Thomas, K. G.; Kamat, P. V. “Photochemistry of Ruthenium Trisbipyridine Functionalized on Gold Nanoparticles” J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110, 20737. Link
Joseph, S. T. S.; Ipe, B. I.; Pramod, P.; Thomas, K. G. “Gold Nanorods to Nanochains: Mechanistic Investigations on their Longitudinal Assembly Using α,ω-Alkanedithiols and Interplasmon Coupling” J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110, 150. Link