Institute of Physics
"Ing. Luis Rivera Terrazas"

Dr. Umapada Pal

 Researcher      SNI III
Functional Nanomaterials and Optoelectronic Devices
Building IF2, Office 310
+52 (222) 229 55 00, Ext. 2047
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Publications

  1. Francisco Enrique Cancino-Gordillo, José-Luis Ortiz-Quiñonez, Mou Pal, Rutilo Silva González, Umapada Pal. Removal of secondary phases and its effect on the transport behavior of Cu2ZnSn1-xGexS4 kesterite nanoparticles, Applied Surface Science , vol. 617 (2023), Pp. 1-12, ELSEVIER, 2023, ISSN: 0169-4332.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2023.156617
  2. Andrés Guzmán-Cruz, Dr. Ma. Lourdes Ruiz-Peralta, Prof. Umapada Pal, Dr. F. Paraguay-Delgado, Prof. Mou Pal. Green Synthesis of TiO2 Nanoparticles in a Deep Eutectic Solvent for High-Performance Photocatalysis: The Role of the Cosolvent, ChemistrySelect , vol. 8, Issue 13, Pp. 1-12, Chemistry Europe, 2023, ISSN: 2365-6549.
    DOI: 10.1002/slct.202300185
  3. Umapada pal. Bio-active composites as scaffold materials for bone tissue engineering: Performance and prospects, Journal of Phase Change Materials , Vol. 3, No.1, Pre-impresión, Platform & workflow by OJS/PKP, 2023, ISSN: 2788-7170 on line
    DOI: 10.58256/jpcm.v3i1.32
  4. Daniel Montalvo, Grisel Corro, Fortino Bañuelos, Octavio Olivares-Xometl, Paulina Arellanes, Umapada Pal. Selective alcohols production through CO2 photoreduction using Co3O4 /TiO2 photocatalyst exploiting synergetic interactions between Ti3+, Co2+ and Co3+, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental , vol. 330, Pp. 1-17, Science Direct, 2023, ISSN: 0926-3373 Print 1873-3883 On line
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2023.122652
  5. Siva Kumar Krishnan, Nandini Nataraj, M. Meyyappan, and Umapada Pal. Graphene-Based Field-Effect Transistors in Biosensing and Neural Interfacing Applications: Recent Advances and Prospects, Analytical Chemistry , vol. 95 Issue 5, Pp. 2590-2622, ACS Publications, 2023, ISSN: 0003-2700 (print); 1520-6882 (web.)
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c03399
  6. Hieu Ngo, Umapada Pal, Young Soo Kang Min. DFT-Based Study for the Enhancement of CO2 Adsorption on Metal Doped Nitrogen-Enriched Polytriazines, ACS OMEGA , Vol 8, No. 9, Pp. 8876-8884, ACS Publications, 2023, ISSN: 2470-1343.
    DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c00395
  7. Chang Woo Kim, Edgardo Gabriel Santoro, Amol Uttam Pawar, Don Keun Lee, Ovidio Peña-Rodriguez, Umapada Pal, Young Soo Kang. Swift Photochromic Smart Window Based on Plasmonic Yolk-Shell Nanophosphors, Advanced Optical Materials, 2022, Wiley, ISSN: 2195-1071
    DOI: 10.1002/adom.202202171
  8. Jorge Cruz-Mérida, Grisel Corro, Fortino Bañuelos, Daniel Montalvo, Umapada Pal. Production of biodiesel from waste frying oil using waste calcareous-onyx as unique esterification and transesterification catalytic source, Catalysis Communications, vol. 172, Pp. 1-13, Elsevier, 2022, ISSN: ISSN: 1566-7367
    DOI: 10.1016/j.catcom.2022.106534
  9. Ortiz-Quinonez, J. L., Das S., & Pal U. Catalytic and pseudocapacitive energy storage performance of metal (Co, Ni, Cu and Mn) ferrite nanostructures and nanocomposites, Progress in Materials Science, vol. 130(100995), PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 2022, ISSN: ISSN: 0079-6425 e ISSN: 1873-2208.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.pmatsci.2022.100995
  10. Paskalis Sahaya Murpin Kumar, Subramanian Arulmani, Hyoung-il Kim, Deepthi Koolath Ramakrishnan, Vinoth Kumar Ponnusamy, Umapada Pal, Siva Kumar Krishnan. An Efficient and Durable Electrocatalyst Based on Strongly Coupled Pt Nanoparticles on CeO2 Microspheres for CO-Resilient Methanol Oxidation, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 126(44), Pp. 18670-18682, American Chemical Society, 2022, ISSN: ISSN: 1932-7447 e ISSN: 1932-7455.
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c05069
  11. C. Ornelas-Gutierrez, P. Olalde-Velasco, R. Borja-Urby, G. Herrera-Pérez, & U. Pal. Optoelectronic Properties of Hexagonal Wurtzite Yb-doped ZnO using VEELS, Microscopy and Microanalysis, vol. 28(1), Pp. 2420-2421, Cambridge University Press, 2022, ISSN: 1431-9276 ISSN:1435-8115 (Online).
    DOI: 10.1017/S143192762200928X
  12. Sudip Chakraborty, & U. Pal. Photocatalysts for Environmental Applications-a new horizon for Phase Change Materials, Journal of Phase Change Materials, vol. 2(1), Pp. 1-3, Published by Royallite Global , UK, 2022, ISSN: eISSN : 2788-7170.
    DOI: 10.6084/jpcm.v2i1.22
  13. Paskalis Sahaya Murpin Kumar, Subramanian Arulmani, Hyoung-il Kim, Deepthi Koolath Ramakrishnan, Vinoth Kumar Ponnusamy, Umapada Pal, Siva Kumar Krishnan. An Efficient and Durable Electrocatalyst Based on Strongly Coupled Pt Nanoparticles on CeO2 Microspheres for CO-Resilient Methanol Oxidation, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 126, (2022) 44.
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c05069
  14. Jorge Cruz-Mérida, Grisel Corro, Fortino Bañuelos, Daniel Montalvo, Umapada Pal. Production of biodiesel from waste frying oil using waste calcareous-onyx as unique esterification and transesterification catalytic source, Catalysis Communications 172, (2022) 106534.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156673672200139X
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  15. C. Ornelas-Gutierrez, P. Olalde-Velasco, R. Borja-Urby, G. Herrera-Pérez, U. Pal. Optoelectronic Properties of Hexagonal Wurtzite Yb-doped ZnO using VEELS, Microscopy and Microanalysis vol. 28, (2022) 2420-2421.
    DOI: 10.1017/S143192762200928X
  16. Sudip Chakraborty, Umapada Pal. Photocatalysts for Environmental Applications-a new horizon for Phase Change Materials, Journal of Phase Change Materials vol. 2, (2022) 1-3.
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  17. Francesco Petrosino, S Ranil Wickramasinghe, Umapada Pal. Computational modeling in studying phase change materials, Journal of Phase Change Materials 1, (2021) 1-4.
    https://j-pcm.org/index.php/jpcm/article/view/18/19
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  18. Grisel Corro, Jorge Cruz-Mérida, Daniel Montalvo, Umapada Pal. Performance of Pt/Cr2O3, Pt/ZrO2, and, Pt/γ-Al2O3 Catalysts in Total Oxidation of Methane: Effect of Metal–Support Interaction, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 60, (2021) 18841-18852.
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.1c02902
  19. M Arellano-Cortaza, E Ramirez-Morales, U Pal, G Pérez-Hernández, L Rojas-Blanco. pH dependent morphology and texture evolution of ZnO nanoparticles fabricated by microwave-assisted chemical synthesis and their photocatalytic dye degradation activities, Ceramics International 47, (2021) 27469-27478.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272884221019155
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  20. Atanu Roy, Francisco Enrique Cancino Gordillo, Samik Saha, Umapada Pal, Sachindranath Das. Performance of asymmetric supercapacitor fabricated with perovskite-type Sr2+‐incorporated LaMnO3 (La0.7Sr0.3MnO3) nanostructures in neutral 1M Na2SO4 aqueous electrolyte, International Journal of Energy Research 45,(2021) 14021-14033 .
    DOI: 10.1002/er.6727
  21. Jose Luis Ortiz-Quiñonez, Jesús Alberto Ramos Ramón, Ma Eunice de Anda Reyes, Apurba Ray, Sachindranath Das, Umapada Pal. Structure and magnetic behavior of sol-gel grown spinel NixMn3-xO4 nanoparticles: Effect of Ni fraction and induction of superparamagnetism at room temperature, Materials Research Bulletin 139, 139 (2021) 111267.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025540821000647
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  22. Siva Kumar Krishnan, Rodrigo Esparza, Daniel Bahena Uribe, Sundeep Mukherjee, Umapada Pal. Facile Seed-Mediated Growth of Ultrathin AuCu Shells on Pd Nanocubes and Their Enhanced Nitrophenol Degradation Reactions, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125, (2021) 13759-13769.
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c00646
  23. Rosalía Torralba, Grisel Corro, Fer Rosales, Fortino Bañuelos, Umapada Pal, Octavio Olivares-Xometl, Emmanuel Guilleminot, José Luis G Fierro. Total Oxidation of Methane Over Sulfur Poisoning Resistant Pt/ZrO2 Catalyst: Effect of Pt2+–Pt4+ and Pt2+–Zr4+ Dipoles at Metal-Support Interface, Catalysis Letters 151, (2021) 1592-1603.
    DOI: 10.1007/s10562-020-03411-9
  24. Sudip Chakraborty, Umapada Pal. Towards growth and sustainable researches in phase change materials, Journal of Phase Change Materials 1, (2021) 7-8.
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  25. Catia Algieri, Sudip Chakraborty, Umapada Pal. Efficacy of phase inversion technique for polymeric membrane fabrication, Journal of Phase Change Materials 1, (2021) 1-3.
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  26. Francesco Petrosino, Debolina Mukherjee, Gerardo Coppola, Maria Teresa Gaudio, Stefano Curcio, Vincenza Calabro, Francesco Marra, Prosun Bhattacharya, Umapada Pal, Nabil Khélifi & Sudip Chakraborty. Transmission of SARS-Cov-2 and other enveloped viruses to the environment through protective gear: a brief review, Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration 6, (2021) 1-13.
    DOI: 10.1007/s41207-021-00251-w
  27. Shrabani Paul, Umapada Pal, Swapan Kumar Pradhan. Grain size mediated electrical and thermoelectric performances of mechanically alloyed Sb2Te3 nanoparticles, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 858, (2021) 157732.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925838820340962
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  28. NKR Bogireddy, U Pal, MK Kumar, JM Domínguez, L Martinez Gomez, V Agarwal. Green fabrication of 2D platinum superstructures and their high catalytic activity for mitigation of organic pollutants, Catalysis Today 360 , (2021) 185-193.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920586119303219
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  29. Hae-Woong Kwon and Young Soo Kang Hieu Minh Ngo, Gyutae Lee, Syed Kamran Haider, Umapada Pal, Thomi Hawari, Kyung Min Kim, Jongryoul Kim. Chemical synthesis of Nd2Fe14B/Fe–Co nanocomposite with high magnetic energy product , RSC Advances 11, (2021) 32376–32382.
    https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2021/ra/d1ra03760a
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  30. Hong Ryeol Park, Amol Uttam Pawar, Umapada Pal, Tierui Zhang, Young Soo Kang. Enhanced Solar Photoreduction of CO2 to Liquid Fuel over rGO Grafted NiO-CeO2 Heterostructure Nanocomposite, Nano Energy 79 (2021) 105483.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211285520310582
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  31. Ortiz-Quiñones, J. L.; Das, S.; and Pal U. Catalytic and Pseudocapacitive Energy Storage Performance of Metal (Co, Ni, Cu and Mn) Ferrite Nanostructures and Nanocomposites, Progress in Materials Science, V. 130, Pergamon, 2022.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.pmatsci.2022.100995
  32. U. Pal; P. S. Murphin Kumar; V. Ponnusamy; H-il Kim; M. A. Hernández and S.Kumar Krishnan. Molybdenum-Doped Nickel Disulfide (NiS2:Mo) Microspheres as an Active Anode Material for High-Performance Durable Lithium-Ion Batteries, ACS Appl. Energy Mater. Pp.11-12, 2022.
    DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.2c00340
  33. Romero-Contreras, A.; Lezama-Pacheco, J. S.; Alvarado, J.; Pal, U. and Villanueva-Cab,J. Water-Induced Fine-Structure Disorder and Its Effect on the Performance of Photoelectrodes in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, ACS Applied Energy Materials, v. 5, Pp. 4817-4828, American Chemical Society, ISSN: 4817-4828, 2022.
    DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.2c00245
  34. U. Pawar, Umapada Pal, Jin You Zheng, Chang Woo Kim, Young Soo Kang. Thermodynamically Controlled Photo-electrochemical CO2 Reduction at Cu/rGO/PVP/Nafion Multi-layered Dark Cathode for Selective Production of Formaldehyde and Acetaldehyde, APPLIED CATALYSIS B: Environmental, vol. 30, pag. 120921 Editor Elsevier, 2022.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120921
  35. Francisco Enrique Cancino-Gordillo, Julio Villanueva Cab, Umapada Pal. Structure and transport behavior of hydrothermally grown phase pure Cu2ZnSn1-xGexS4 (x= 0.0, 0.3) nanoparticles, APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE, Volumen 571 Páginas 151261, Editor North-Holland, 2022/1/1.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.151261
  36. Paul, S.; Pal Umapada and Pradhan, S. K. Improved thermoelectric performance of nanostructured Bi2Te3 fabricated by solvent-free mechanical alloying, MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS, 279, pp. 125736, Mar 1 2022 .
    DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2022.125736
  37. Corro Grisel; Flores Juan Angel; Pacheco-Aguirre Francisco; Pal Umapada; Banuelos Fortino; Torralba Rosalia; Olivares-Xometl Octavio. Effect of the Electronic State of Cu, Ag, and Au on Diesel Soot Abatement: Performance of Cu/ZnO, Ag/ZnO, and Au/ZnO Catalysts, ACS OMEGA 4, 3, pp. 5795-5804, 25 MAR 2019.
    DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b03142
  38. Viktor Chabanenko, Adam Nabitłek, Roman Puzniak, Olena Kuchuk, Oleksandr Chumak, Felipe Pérez-Rodríguez, Umapada Pal, Valentin Garcia-Vazquez, Raul Cortés-Maldonado, Jun Qian, Xin Yao and Henryk Szymczak. Magnetic moment inversion at giant flux jump: dynamical property of critical state in type-II superconductors, Scientific Reports 9, 6233, 1-8, 17 April 2019.
    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-42699-5
  39. Fernando Arteaga Cardona, Nery Gabriela Martha Aguilar, José Octavio Estevez, Umapada Pal, Miguel Ángel Méndez Rojas, Ulises Salazar Kuri. Variations in magnetic properties caused by size dispersion and particle aggregation on CoFe2O4, SN Applied Sciences 1:412, April 2019.
    DOI: 10.1007/s42452-019-0447-y
  40. Ray Apurba; Roy Atanu; Ghosh Monalisa; Ramos-Ramon Jesús Alberto; Saha Samik; Pal Umapada; Bhattacharya Swapan Kumar; Das Sachindranath. Study on charge storage mechanism in working electrodes fabricated by sol-gel derived spinel NiMn2O4 nanoparticles for supercapacitor application, APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE 463, 513-525, JAN 1 2019.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2018.08.259
  41. Corro Grisel; Torralba Rosalia; Pal Umapada; Olivares-Xometl Octavio; Fierro Jose Luis G. Total Oxidation of Methane over Pt/Cr2O3 Catalyst at Low Temperature: Effect of Pt-0-Ptx+ Dipoles at the Metal-Support Interface, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C 123, 5, 2882-2893, FEB 7 2019.
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b09748
  42. S.K. Krishnan, R. Esparza, F.J. Flores-Ruiz, E. Padilla-Ortega, G. Luna-Bárcenas, I.C. Sanchez, U. Pal. Seed-Mediated Growth of Ag@Au Nanodisks with Improved Chemical Stability and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering, ACS Omega., 3, (2018) 12600–12608.
    DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b02333
  43. U. Salazar-Kuri, J.O. Estevez, N.R. Silva-González, U. Pal. Large magnetostriction in chemically fabricated CoFe2O4 nanoparticles and its temperature dependence, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 460, pp. 141–145, (2018).
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2018.03.074
  44. Mou Pal, Y. Torres Luna, R. Silva González, N. R. Mathews, F. Paraguay-Delgado and U. Pal Phase controlled synthesis of CuSbS2 nanostructures: Effect of reaction conditions on phase purity and morphology, Materials & Design, Vol. 136, 15 December 2017, Pages 165-173.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2017.09.059
  45. Raúl Sánchez Zeferino, Jesús Alberto Ramos Ramón, Ma. Eunice de Anda Reyes, Rutilo Silva González and Umapada Pal, Large Scale Synthesis of ZnO Nanostructures of Different Morphologies through Solvent-free Mechanochemical Synthesis and their Application in Photocatalytic Dye Degradation, American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 9 (1) 41-52 (2016).
    DOI: 10.3844/ajeassp.2016.41.52
  46. F. I. Lizama-Tzec, R. García-Rodríguez, G. Rodríguez-Gattorno, E. J. Canto-Aguilar, A. G. Vega-Poot, B. E. Heredia-Cervera, J. Villanueva-Cab, N. Morales-Flores, U. Pal, and G. Oskam, Influence of morphology on the performance of ZnO-based dye-sensitized solar cells, RSC Advances, 6 37424-37433 (2016).
    DOI: 10.1039/C5RA25618F
  47. Julio Villanueva-Cab, José Luis Montaño-Priede, and Umapada Pal, Effects of plasmonic nanoparticle incorporation on electrodynamics and photovoltaic performance of dye sensitized solar cells, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120 (19) 10129-10136 (2016).
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b01053
  48. F. Arteaga-Cardona, E. Gutiérrez-García, S. Hidalgo-Tobón, C. López-Vásquez, Y. A. Brito-Barrera, J. Flores-Tochihuitl, A. Angulo-Molina, J. R. Reyes-Leyva, R. González-Rodríguez, J. L. Coffer, U. Pal, M. Pérez-Peña Díaz-Conti, D. Platas-Neri, P. Dies-Suarez, R. Sosa Fonseca, O. Arias-Carrión, and M. A. Méndez-Rojas, Cell viability and MRI performance of highly efficient polyol-coated magnetic nanoparticles, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 18 345 (2016).
    DOI: 10.1007/s11051-016-3646-0
  49. Fernando Arteaga Cardona, Esmeralda Santillán Urquiza, Patricia de la Presa, Silvia Hidalgo Tobón, Umapada Pal, Patricia Horta Fraijo, Miguel José Yacaman, José Daniel Lozada Ramírez, Robert Ivkov, Aracely Angulo-Molina, and Miguel Ángel Méndez-Rojas, Enhanced magnetic properties and MRI performance of bi-magnetic core–shell nanoparticles, RSC Advances, 6 77558-777568 (2016).
    DOI: 10.1039/c6ra14265f
  50. Fernando Arteaga-Cardona, Silvia Hidalgo-Tobón, Umapada Pal, and Miguel Ángel Méndez-Rojas, Ferrites as magnetic fluids for hyperthermia and MRI contrast agents, American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conference Proceedings, 1747 070002 (2016).
    DOI: 10.1063/1.4954118
  51. Luis Montaño-Priede, Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez, Antonio Rivera, Andrés Guerrero-Martínez, and Umapada Pal, Optimizing the electric field around solid and core–shell alloy nanostructures for near-field applications, Nanoscale, 8 14836-14845 (2016).
    DOI: 10.1039/c6nr03801h
  52. Umapada Pal, Alberto Sandoval, Sergio Isaac Uribe Madrid, Grisel Corro, Vivek Sharma, and Paritosh Mohanty, Mixed titanium, silicon, and aluminum oxide nanostructures as novel adsorbent for removal of rhodamine 6G and methylene blue as cationic dyes from aqueous solution, Chemosphere, 163 142–152 (2016).
    DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.08.020
  53. Fernando Arteaga-Cardona, Eric Gutiérrez-García, Silvia Hidalgo-Tobón, Ciro López-Vasquez, Yasmín A. Brito-Barrera, Julia Flores-Tochihuitl, Aracely Angulo-Molina, Julio R. Reyes-Leyva, Roberto González-Rodríguez, Jeffery L. Coffer, Umapada Pal, Mario Pérez-Peña Díaz-Conti, Diana Platas-Neri, Pilar Dies-Suarez, Rebeca Sosa Fonseca, Oscar Arias-Carrión, Miguel A. Méndez-Rojas, Cell viability and MRI performance of highly efficient polyol-coated magnetic nanoparticles, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 18 345 (2016).
    DOI: 10.1007/s11051-016-3546-0
  54. P. Sahare, M. Ayala, R. Vazquez-Duhalt, U. Pal, A. Vazquez-Duhalt, L.T. Canham, I. Osorio and V. Agarwal, Enhancement of peroxidase stability against oxidative self-inactivation by co-immobilization with a redox-active protein in mesoporous silicon and silica microparticles, Nanoscale Research Letters, 11 417 (2016).
    DOI: 10.1186/s11671-016-1605-4
  55. Sudip Mondal, Apurba Dey and Umapada Pal, Low temperatura wet-chemical synthesis of spherical hydroxyapatite nanoparticles and their in situ cytotoxicity study, Advances in Nano Research, 4 No. 4 309-321 (2016).
    DOI: 10.12989/anr.2016.4.4.295
  56. S.K. Krishnan, A.H. Rangel, U. Pal, O.C. Sánchez, F.J. Flores-Ruiz, and Y. Prokhorov, Surface functionalized halloysite nanotubes decorated with silver nanoparticles for enzyme immobilization and biosensing, Journal of Materials Chemestry B, 4 2553-2560 (2016).
    DOI: 10.1039/C6TB00051G
  57. G. Corro, S. Cebada, F. Bañuelos, J.L.G. Fierro, U. Pal, E. Guilleminot, Low cost Cu/ZnO as low temperatura (150°C) catalyst for diesel particulate matter oxidation, Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 70 41-46 (2016).
    DOI: 10.1007/s112474-016-0596-9
  58. Grisel Corro, Nallely Sánchez, Umapada Pal, Fortino Bañuelos, Biodiesel production from waste frying oil using waste animal bone and solar heat, Waste Management, 47 105-113 (2016).
    DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2015.02.001
  59. Fernando Arteaga-Cardona, Silva Hidalgo-Tobón, Umapada Pal, and Miguel Ángel Méndez-Rojas, Ferrites as magnetic fluids for hyperthermia and MRI contrast agents, Medical Physics: Fourteenth Mexican Symposium on Medical Physics , AIP Conference Proceedings, 1747 07002 (2016).
    DOI: 10.1063/.1.4954118
  60. F.I. Lizama-Tzec, R. García-Rodríguez, G. Rodríguez-Gattorno, E.J. canto-Aguilar, A.G. Vega-Poot, B.E. Heredia-Cervera, J. Villanueva-Cab, N. Morales-Flores, U. Pal and G. Oskam, Influence of morphology on the performance of ZnO-based dye-sensitized solar cells, Royal Society of Chemistry Advances, 6 37424-37433 (2016).
    DOI: 10.1039/c5ra25618f
  61. Amol Pawar, Abhijit Jadhav, Chang Woo Kim, Hyun Gil Cha, Umapada Pal, Young Soo Kang, Emission controlled dual emitting Eu-doped CaMgSi2;O6;, Journal of Luminescence, 157 131-136 (2015).
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2014.08.034
  62. Grisel Corro, Surinam Cebada, Umapada Pal, José Luis García Fierro, Josefina Alvarado, Hydrogen-reduced Cu/ZnO composite as efficient reusable catalyst for diesel particulate matter oxidation, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 165 555-565 (2015).
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apctab.2014.10.048
  63. M. Pal, N. R. Mathews, E. Sánchez-Mora, U. Pal, F. Paraguay-Delgado, and X. Mathew, Synthesis of CuS nanoparticles by a wet chemical route and their photocatalytic activity, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 17 301 (2015).
    DOI: 10.1007/s11051-015-3103-5
  64. Jesús Alberto Ramos Ramón, Diego León Sánchez, Manuel Herrera Zaldívar, Umapada Pal, Morphology and defect evolution in vapor-grown In2O3:Sn micro-/nanoparticles, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 40 943-953 (2015).
    DOI: 10.1016/j.mssp.2015.08.021
  65. Sergio I. Uribe Madrid, Umapada Pal, Young soo Kang, Junghoon Kim, Hyungjin Kwon and Jungho Kim, Fabrication of Fe3;O4;@mSiO2; core-shell composite nanoparticles for drug delivery applications, Nanoscale Research Letters, 10 217 (2015).
    DOI: 10.1186/s11671-015-0920-5
  66. Efrain Meneses-Juárez, César Márquez-Beltrán, Juan Francisco Rivas-Silva, Umapada Pal, and Minerva González-Melchor, The structure and interaction mechanism of a polyelectrolyte complex: a dissipative particle dynamics study, Soft Matter, 11 5889-5897 (2015).
    DOI: 10.1039/C5SM00911A
  67. Umapada Pal, Multifunctional metal oxide nanostructures and application potentials, Memorias de la XIX Reunión Universitaria de Investigación en Materiales (RUIM 2014), realizada por la Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, México, del 19-21 de noviembre, página 19, sesión CI9 (2014).
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  68. Francisco Iván Lizama-Tzec, Geonel Rodríguez-Gattorno, U. Pal and Gerko Oskam, Application of ZnO with different morphologies to DSSCs, Proc. 2014 ECS and SMEQ Joint International Meeting Abstract MA2014-02 2063, Octubre 5-9, página 19, sesión CI9 (2014).
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  69. Sergio I. Uribe Madrid, Umapada Pal and Félix Sánchez-De Jesús, Controlling size and magnetic properties of Fe3;O4 clusters in solvothermal process, Advances in Nano Research, 2 No. 4 187-198 (2014).
    DOI: 10.1289/anr.2014.2.4.187
  70. Grisel Corro, Umapada Pal & Surinam Cebada, Enhanced biogas production from coffee pulp through deligninocellulosic photocatalytic pretreatment, Energy Science & Engineering, 2 177-187 (2014).
    DOI: 10.1002/ese3.44
  71. S. Saravanakumar, A. Escobedo-Morales, U. Pal, r.J. Aranda, R. Saravanan, Doping-induced electron density modification at lattice sites of ZnO:Ga nanostructures: effects on vibrational and optical properties, Journal of Material Science, 16 No. 49:5529-5536 (2014).
    DOI: 10-1007/s10853-014-8242-z
  72. D.N. Castillo-López, U. Pal, Green synthesis of Au nanoparticles using potato extract: stability and growth mechanism, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 16 2571 (2014).
    DOI: 10.1007/s11051-014-2571-3
  73. Natalia Morales Flores, Umapada Pal, Reina Galeazzi and Alberto Sandoval, Effects of morphology, Surface área, and defect contento n the photocatalytic dye degradation performance of ZnO nanostructures, RSC Advances, 4 No. 77 41099-41110 (2014).
    DOI: 10.1039/c4ra04522j
  74. A. P. Jadhav, A. U. Pawar, U. Pal and Y. S. Kang, Red emitting Y2O3:Eu3+ nanophosphors with >80% down conversion efficiency, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2 496-500 (2014).
    DOI: 10.1039/C3TC31939C
  75. S. Saravanakumar, A. Escobedo-Morales, U. Pal, R. J. Aranda, and R. Saravanan, Doping-induced electron density modification at lattice sites of ZnO:Ga nanostructures: effects on vibrational and optical properties, Journal of Materials Science, 49 5529 (2014).
    DOI: 10.1007/s10853-014-8242-z
  76. T. Mendoza-Dorantes, U. Pal, J.R. Vega-Acosta, C. Márquez-Beltrán, Encapsulation and surface charge manipulation of organic and inorganic coloidal substrates by multilayered polyelectrolyte films, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering aspects, 434 253-259 (2013).
    DOI: 10.1016/j.consulfa.2013.05.027
  77. T. Mendoza-Dorantes, U. Pal, J.R. Vega-Acosta, and C. Márquez-Beltrán, Encapsulation and surface charge manipulation of organic and inorganic colloidal substrates by multilayered polyelectrolyte films, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 434 253-259 (2013).
    DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2013.05.027
  78. M. Ocampo-Fernández, J. García-Serrano, A.M. Herrera-González, A.R. Hernández-Sosa, U. Pal, Síntesis de nuevos monómeros y polímeros con grupos ácido fosfónico para aplicaciones en celdas de combustible, en “Temas actuales de la Física y la Ciencia de Materiales”, pp. 92-99 (2013).
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  79. D. Cornejo-Monroy, U. Pal, M.P. González-Araoz, and J.F. Sánchez-Ramírez, Effects of synthesis conditions on the control of morphology and size of silica nanoparticles, en “Temas actuales de la Física y la Ciencia de Materiales”, pp. 50-56 (2013).
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  80. Grisel Corro, Umapada Pal, Edgar Ayala, Esmeralda Vidal, Emmanuel Guillerminot, Effect of Ag, Cu, and Au incorporation on the diesel soot oxidation behavior of SiO2: Role of metallic Ag, Topics on Catalysis, 56 Issue 1-8,467-472 (2013).
    DOI: 10.1007/s11244-013-9998-0
  81. Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez and Umapada Pal, Exploiting the tunable optical response of metallic nanoshells, en UV-VIS and Photoluminescence Spectroscopy for Nanomaterials Characterization, pp. 99-149 (2013).
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  82. R. Sánchez Zeferino, U. Pal, R. Meléndrez, H.A. Durán-Muñoz, and M. Barboza Flores, Dose enhancing behavior of hydrothermally grown Eu-doped SnO2 nanoparticles, Journal of Applied Physics, 113 064306 (2013).
    DOI: 10.1063/1.4790486
  83. Grisel Corro, Laura Paniagua, Umapada Pal, Fortino Bañuelos, and Minerva Rosas, Generation of biogas from coffee-pulp and cow-dung co-digestion: Infrared studies of postcombustion emissions, Energy Conversion and Management, 74 471-481 (2013).
    DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2013.07.017
  84. R. Sánchez Zeferino, U. Pal, R. Meléndrez, and M. Barboza Flores, PL and TL behaviors of Ag-doped SnO2 nanoparticles: effects of thermal annealing and Ag concentration, Advances in Nano Research, 1 (4) 193-202 (2013).
    DOI: 10.12989/anr.2013.1.4.193
  85. Grisel Corro, Umapada Pal, Edgar Ayala, and Esmeralda Vidal, Diesel soot oxidation over silver-loaded SiO2 catalysts, Catalysis Today, 212 63-69 (2013).
    DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2012.10.005
  86. G. Corro, U. Pal, E. Ayala, E. Vidal, E. Guillerminot, Effect of Ag, Cu, and Au incorporation on the diesel soot oxidation behavior of SiO2: Role of metallic Ag, Topics on Catalysis, 56 467 (2013).
    DOI: 0.1007/s11244-013-9998-0
  87. N. Morales-Flores, R. Galeazzi, E. Rosendo, T. Diaz, S. Velumani, and U. Pal, Morphology control and optical properties of ZnO nanostructures grown by ultrasonic synthesis, Advances in Nano Research, 1 (1) 59-70 (2013).
    DOI: 10.12989/anr.2013.1.1.059
  88. Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez, Antonio Rivera, Mariano Campoy-Quiles, and Umapada Pal, Tunable Fano resonance in symmetric multilayered gold nanoshells, Nanoscale, 5 209-216 (2013).
    DOI: 10.1039/C2NR32281A
  89. Grisel Corro, Umapada Pal, and Nallely Tellez, Biodiesel production from Jatropha Curcas crude oil using ZnO/SiO2 photocatalyst for free fatty acids esterification, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 129 39-47 (2013).
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2012.09.004
  90. Chang Woo Kim, Umapada Pal, Sangji Park, Young Hwan Kim, Jinheung Kim and Young Soo Kang, Crystallization induced porosity control and photocatalytic activity of ordered mesoporous TiO2;, The Royal Society of Chemistry Advance, 2 11969-11975 (2012).
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  91. 17. Guadalupe Pineda-Hernández, Alejandro Escobedo-Morales, Umapada Pal, and Ernesto Chigo-Anota, Morphology evolution of hydrothermally grown ZnO nanostructures on gallium doping and their defect structures, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 135 810-817 (2012).
    DOI: 10.1016/jmatchemphys.2012.05.062
  92. Umapada Pal, Mou Pal, Raú Sánchez Zeferino, Gram-scale synthesis of highly crystalline, 0-D and 1-D SnO2; nanostructures through surfactant-free hydrothermal process, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 14 No. 7 969 (2012).
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  93. Ma. de Lourdes Ruiz Peralta, U. Pal, and R. Sánchez Zeferino, Photoluminescence (PL) quenching and enhanced photocatalytic activity of Au-decorated ZnO nanorods fabricated through microwave-assisted chemical synthesis, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 4 4807-4816 (2012).
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  94. Chang Woo Kim, Umapada Pal, Sangji Park, Jinheung Kim, and Young Soo Kang, Synthesis of Multifunctional metal- and metal oxide core@mesoporous silica shell structures by using a wet chemical approach changes ok?, Chemistry and European Journal, 18 Issue 39, pages 12314–12321 (2012).
    DOI: 10.100h2/chem.201200293
  95. A.U. Pawar, Abhijit P. Jadhav, U. Pal, Byung Kyu Kim, Young Soo Kang, Blue and red dual emission nanophosphor CaMgSi2;O6;:Eun+; crystal structure and electronic configuration, Europhysics Letters (EPL), 98 27003-27008 (2012).
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  96. M. Pal, U. Pal, J.M. Gracia, and F. Pérez-Rodríguez, Effects of crystallization and dopant concentration on the emission behavior of TiO2:Eu nanophosphors, Nanoscale Research Letters, 7 1 (2012).
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  97. Ma. De Lourdes Ruiz Peralta, J. García Serrano, U. Pal, Morphology defined ZnO nanostructures through microwave assisted chemical synthesis: Growth mechanism, defect structure, and emission behaviours, Advanced Science Letters, 6 pp. 159-166 (8) (2012).
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  98. E. Sánchez-Zeferino, U. Pal, M. Barboza-Flores, P. Santiago, L. Rendón, and V. Garibay Febles, Hydrothermally grown ultra-fine SnO2 and SnO2:Ag nanoparticles and their optical characteristics, Science of Advanced. Materials, 4 Nos. 5-6, 581-596 (2012).
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  99. Abhijit P. Jadhav, Amol Pawar, U. Pal, Byung Kyu Kim and Young Soo Kang, Synthesis of monodispersed red emitting LiAl5O8:Fe3+ nanophosphors, Science of Advanced. Materials, 4 Nos. 5-6, 581-596 (2012).
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  100. Nitin A. Jadhav, Chang Woo Kim, Umapada Pal, and Yang Soo Kang, Concentration and temperature effect on Controlling pore size and surface area of mesoporous titania by using template of F-68 and F-127 Co-Polymer in the sol-gel process, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 12 no. 7 5638-5643 (2012).
    DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2012.6314
  101. S.I. Uribe Madrid, U. Pal and C.L. Gómez Muñoz, Fabrication of porous composite nanostructures for drug-delivery applications, en Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials-XXI, Volume 1, editado por P.S. Robi, N. Bhatnagar, T.S. Srivatsan y publicado por I.K. International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 1 P 256-261 (2012).
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  102. Chang Woo Kim, Umapada Pal, Young Hwan Kim and Young Soo Kang, Facile synthesis and magnetic phase transformation of Nd-Fe-B nanoclusters by oxygen bridging, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 1 275 (2012).
    DOI: 10.1039/c2tc00083k
  103. C. W. Kim, U. Pal, S. Park, J. Kim, and Y. S. Kang, Synthesis of Multifunctional metal- and metal oxide core@mesoporous silica shell structures by using a wet chemical approach, Chemistry a European Journal, 18 12314-12321 (2012).
    DOI: 10.1002/chem.201200293
  104. Mou Pal, Umapada Pal, Justo Miguel Gracia y Jiménez, and Felipe Pérez-Rodríguez, Effects of crystallization and dopant concentration on the emission behavior of TiO2:Eu nanophosphors, Nanoscale Research Letters, 7 1 (2012).
    DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-1
  105. Umapada Pal and Ovidio Peña Rodríguez., Ion implantation for the fabrication of plasmonic nanocomposites: A Brief Review, en el libro: Ion Implantation editado por Mark Goorsky y publicado por InTech en Croacia, mayo, (2012).
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  106. Umapada Pal, Chang Woo Kim, Kyujoon Lee, Myung-Hwa Jung and Young Soo Kang, Single-crystal like mesoporous ZnO:Mn2+ nanorings of High optoelectronic quality formed by self-assembly of nanoparticles in ultrasonic hydrolysis process, Nanoscale (Diciembre 2), 3 4962-4965 (2011).
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  107. Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez and Umapada Pal, Effects of surface oxidation on the linear optical properties of Cu nanoparticles, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 28 2735-2739 (2011).
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  108. A. Escobedo-Morales and U. Pal, Effect of In, Sb and Ga doping on the structure and vibrational modes of hydrothermally grown ZnO nanostructures, Current Applied Physics, 11 Issue 3 525-531 (2011).
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  109. Umapada Pal Ovidio Peña Rodríguez, Enhanced Plasmonic behavior of incomplete nanoshells: Effect of local field irregularities on the far-field optical response, Journal of Phys. Chem. C (ACS Publication), 115 22271-22275 (2011).
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  110. Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez, Umapada Pal, Vladimir Rodríguez-Iglesias, Luis Rodríguez-Fernández, and Alicia Oliver, Configuring Au and Ag nanorods for sensing applications, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 28 No. 4 714-720 (2011).
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  111. Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez and Umapada Pal, Enhanced plasmonic behavior of bimetallic (Ag-Au) multilayered spheres, Nanoscale Research Letters, 6 279 (2011).
    DOI: 10.11869/1556-276X-6-279
  112. O. Peña-Rodríguez, U. Pal, M. Campoy-Quiles, L. Rodríguez-Fernández, M. Garriga, and M.I. Alonso, Enhanced fano resonance in asymmetrical Au:Ag heterodimers, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115 6410-6414 (2011).
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  113. J. M. O-Rueda de León, D. R. Acosta, U. Pal, L. Castañeda, Improving electrochromic behavior of spray pyrolised WO3; thin solid films by Mo doping, Electrochimica Acta, 56 2599-2605 (2011).
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  114. Ovidio Peña-Rodriguez and Umapada Pal, Au@Ag core-shell nanoparticles: Efficient all-plasmonic Fano-resonance generators, Nanoscale, 3 3609-3612 (2011).
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  115. R. Sánchez Zeferino, M. Barboza Flores, and U. Pal, Photoluminescence and Raman scattering in Ag-doped ZnO nanoparticles, Journal of Applied Physics, 109 014308 (6 pages) (2011).
    DOI: 10.1063/1.3530631
  116. A. González-Carrazco, M. Herrera-Zaldivar, J. Valenzuela-Benavides, A. Escobedo-Morales and U. Pal, Cathodoluminescence evaluation of defect structure in hydrothermally grown ZnO:Sb nanorods, Journal of Nanocience and Nanotechnology, 11 No. 6 pp. 5526-5531 (2011).
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  117. Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez, Pedro Pablo González Pérez, and Umapada Pal, MieLab: A software tool to perform calculations on the doubling of electromagnetic waves by multilayered spheres, International Journal of Spectroscopy, 2011 10 Pages (2011).
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  118. N. Morales-Flores, U. Pal, and E. Sánchez-Mora, Photocatalytic behavior of ZnO and Pt-incorporated ZnO nanoparticles in phenol degradation, Applied Catalysis A: General, 394 (1) 269-275 (2011).
    DOI: 10/1016/j.apcata.2011.01.011

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