• Structural, Magnetic, and Catalytic Evaluation of Spinel Co, Ni, and Co-Ni Ferrite Nanoparticles Fabricated by Low-Temperature Solution Combustion Process. - Jose-Luis Ortiz-Quiñonez, Umapada Pal, and Martin Salazar Villanueva; ACS Omega 2018, 3, 14986-15001.

 

• Seed-Mediated Growth of Ag@Au Nanodisks with Improved Chemical Stability and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering. - Siva Kumar Krishnan, Rodrigo Esparza, F. J. Flores-Ruiz, Erika Padilla-Ortega, Gabriel Luna-Bárcenas, Isaac. C. Sanchez, and Umapada Pal; ACS Omega 2018, 3, 12600-12608.

 

• Photocharging and Band Gap Narrowing Effects on the Performance of Plasmonic Photoelectrodes in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. - Julio Villanueva-Cab, Paul Olalde-Velasco,Alfredo Romero-Contreras, Zengqing Zhuo,Feng Pan, Sandra E. Rodil, Wanli Yang, and Umapada Pal; ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018, 10, 31374-31383.

 

• Large magnetostriction in chemically fabricated CoFe₂O₄ nanoparticles and its temperature dependence. - U. Salazar-Kuri, J.O. Estevez, N.R. Silva-González, U. Pal; Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 460 (2018) 141-145.

 

• Size controlled green synthesis of gold nanoparticles using Coffea arabica seed extract and their catalytic performance in 4-nitrophenol reduction. - N. K. R. Bogireddy, U. Pal, L. Martinez Gomez and V. Agarwal ; RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 24819.

 

• Recent progress on fabrication and drug delivery applications of nanostructured hydroxyapatite. - Sudip Mondal, Sergy V. Dorozhkin and Umapada Pal; WIREs Nanomed Nanobiotechnol 2018.

 

• Structure, magnetic and cytotoxic behaviour of solvothermally grown Fe₃O₄@Au core-shell nanoparticles. - A. Ángeles-Pascual, J.R. Piñón-Hernández, M. Estevez-González, U. Pal, S. Velumani, R. Pérez, R. Esparza; Materials Characterization 142 (2018) 237-244.

 

• Effects of Oxidizing/Reducing Agent Ratio on Phase Purity, Crystallinity, and Magnetic Behavior of Solution-Combustion-Grown BiFeO₃ Submicroparticles. - José-Luis Ortiz-Quiñonez, Umapada Pal, and Martin Salazar Villanueva; Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 6152-6160.

 

• Effect of Ga incorporation on morphology and defect structure evolution in VLS grown 1D In₂O₃ nanostructures. - Jesús Alberto Ramos-Ramón, Umapada Pal, Ana Cremades, David Maestre; Applied Surface Science 439 (2018) 1010-1018.

 

• Waveguiding behavior of VLS-grown one-dimensional Ga-doped In₂O₃ nanostructures. - Jesús Alberto Ramos Ramón, Umapada Pal, David Maestre, Ana Cremades; Current Applied Physics 18 (2018) 785-792.

 

• Controlled synthesis of Pt nanoparticle supported TiO₂ nanorods as efficient and stable electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction. - Paskalis Sahaya Murphin Kumar, Vinoth Kumar Ponnusamy, Koolath Ramakrishnan Deepthi, Gopalakrishnan Kumar, Arivalagan Pugazhendhi, Hideki Abe, Sivakumar Thiripuranthagan, Umapada Pal, and Siva Kumar Krishnan; J. Mater. Chem. A,2018, 6, 23435.

 

• Effect of Nb Doping on Morphology, Optical and Magnetic Behaviors of Ultrasonically Grown ZnO Nanostructures. - U. Pal, N. Morales-Flores, and E. Rubio-Rosas; Materials Science Research India 4 No. 2 (2017) 79-88.

 

• Evaluation of thermally and chemically reduced graphene oxide films as counter electrodes on dye-sensitized solar cells. - Manuel Rodríguez-Pérez, Julio Villanueva-Cab, and Umapada Pal; Advances in Nano Research 5 No. 3 (2017) 231-244.

 

• Near-Electric-Field Tuned Plasmonic Au@SiO₂ and Ag@SiO₂ Nanoparticles for Efficient Utilization in Luminescence Enhancement and Surface-Enhanced Spectroscopy. - José Luis Montaño-Priede, Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez, and Umapada Pal; The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 121 No. 41 (2017) 23062-23071.

 

• Phase controlled synthesis of CuSbS₂ nanostructures: Effect of reaction conditions on phase purity and morphology. - Mou Pal, Y. Torres Luna, R. Silva González, N.R. Mathews, F. Paraguay-Delgado, and U. Pal; Materials & Design 136 (2017) 165-173.

 

• Fabricating Necklace-, Tower-, and Rod-Shaped In₂O₃ Nanostructures by Controlling Saturation Kinetics of Catalyst Droplets in a Vapor-Liquid-Solid Process. - J. Alberto Ramos Ramón, Ana Cremades, David Maestre, Rutilo Silva González, and Umapada Pal; Crystal Growth & Design 17 No. 9 (2017) 4596-4602.

 

• Structure and magnetic properties of the Co_1-xNi_xFe₂O₄-BaTiO₃ core-shell nanoparticles. - U. Salazar-Kuri, J.O. Estevez, N.R. Silva-González, U. Pal, and M.E. Mendoza; Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 442 (2017) 247-254.

 

• Electronic state of silver in Ag/SiO₂ and Ag/ZnO catalysts and its effect on diesel particulate matter oxidation: An XPS study. - Grisel Corro, Esmeralda Vidal, Surinam Cebada, Umapada Pal, Fortino Bañuelos, Diana Vargas, and Emmanuel Guilleminot; Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 216 (2017) 1-10.

 

• Unusual variation of blocking temperature in bi-magnetic nanoparticles. - Fernando Arteaga-Cardona, Esmeralda Santillán-Urquiza, Umapada Pal, M.E. Méndoza-Álvarez, Cristina Torres-Duarte, Gary N. Cherr, Patricia de la Presa, and Miguel Á. Méndez-Rojas; Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 441 (2017) 417-423.

 

• Fabrication of Monodispersed Au@SiO₂ Nanoparticles with Highly Stable Silica Layers by Ultrasound-Assisted Stöber Method. - José Luis Montaño-Priede, João Paulo Coelho, Andrés Guerrero-Martínez, Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez, and Umapada Pal; The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 121 No. 17 (2017) 9543-9551.

 

• Plasmon induced enhanced photocatalytic activity of gold loaded hydroxyapatite nanoparticles for methylene blue degradation under visible light. - Sudip Mondal, Ma. E. De Anda Reyes, and Umapada Pal; RSC Advances 7 No. 14 (2017) 8633-8645.

 

• Near- and Far-Field Optical Response of Eccentric Nanoshells. - Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez, Pablo Díaz-Núñez, Vladimir Rodríguez-Iglesias, Luis Montaño-Priede, Antonio Rivera, and Umapada Pal; Nanoscale Research Letters 12 (2017) 16.

 

• Solar-irradiation driven biodiesel production using Cr/SiO₂ photocatalyst exploiting cooperative interaction between Cr⁶⁺ and Cr³⁺ moieties. - Grisel Corro, Nallely Sánchez, Umapada Pal, Surinam Cebada, and José Luis García Fierro; Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 203 (2017) 43-52.

 

• Mie calculation of electromagnetic near-field for a multilayered sphere. - Konstantin Ladutenko, Umapada Pal, Antonio Rivera, Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez; Computer Physics Communications 214 (2017) 225-230.

 

• Au⁰–Au³⁺ bifunctional site mediated enhanced catalytic activity of Au/ZnO composite in diesel particulate matter oxidation. - Grisel Corro, Surinam Cebada, Umapada Pal, and Jose Luis García Fierro; Journal of Catalysis 347 (2017) 148-156.

 

• Low temperature wet-chemical synthesis of spherical hydroxyapatite nanoparticles and their in situ cytotoxicity study. - Sudip Mondal, Apurba Dey, and Umapada Pal; Advances in Nano Research 4 No. 4 (2016) 295-307.

 

• Cell viability and MRI performance of highly efficient polyol-coated magnetic nanoparticles. - Fernando Arteaga-Cardona, Eric Gutiérrez-García, Silvia Hidalgo-Tobón, Ciro López-Vasquez, Yazmín A. Brito-Barrera, Julia Flores-Tochihuitl, Aracely Angulo-Molina, Julio R. Reyes-Leyva, Roberto González-Rodríguez, Jeffery L. Coffer, Umapada Pal, Mario Pérez-Peña Diaz-Conti, Diana Platas-Neri, Pilar Dies-Suarez, Rebeca Sosa Fonseca, Oscar Arias-Carrión, and Miguel A. Méndez-Rojas; Journal of Nanoparticle Research 18 No. 11 (2016) 345.

 

• Natural origin hydroxyapatite scaffold as potential bone tissue engineering substitute. - Sudip Mondal, Umapada Pal, Apurba Dey; Ceramics International 42 No. 16 (2016) 18338-18346.

 

• Enhancement of Peroxidase Stability Against Oxidative Self-Inactivation by Co-immobilization with a Redox-Active Protein in Mesoporous Silicon and Silica Microparticles. - P. Sahare, M. Ayala, R. Vazquez-Duhalt, U. Pal, A. Loni, L. T. Canham, I. Osorio, and V. Agarwal; Nanoscale Research Letters 11 (2016) 417.

 

• Enhanced magnetic properties and MRI performance of bi-magnetic core-shell nanoparticles. - 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; RSC Advances 6 No. 81 (2016) 77558-77568.

 

• Optimizing the electric field around solid and core–shell alloy nanostructures for near-field applications. - Luis Montaño-Priede, Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez, Antonio Rivera, Andrés Guerrero-Martínez, and Umapada Pal; Nanoscale 8 No. 31 (2016) 14836-14845.

 

• Low Cost Cu/ZnO as Low Temperature (150°C) Catalyst for Diesel Particulate Matter Oxidation. - G. Corro, S. Cebada, F. Bañuelos, J. L. G. Fierro, U. Pal, E. Guilleminot; Topics in Catalysis 59 No. 10-12 (2016) 1090-1094

 

• Influence of morphology on the performance of ZnO-based dye-sensitized solar cells. - 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; RCS Advances 6 No. 44 (2016) 37424-37433

 

• Effects of Plasmonic Nanoparticle Incorporation on Electrodynamics and Photovoltaic Performance of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells. - Julio Villanueva-Cab, Jose Luis Montaño-Priede, and Umapada Pal; The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120 No. 19 (2016)10129-10136

 

• Large Scale Synthesis of ZnO Nanostructures of Different Morphologies through Solvent-free Mechanochemical Synthesis and their Application in Photocatalytic Dye Degradation. - Raúl Sánchez Zeferino, Jesús Alberto Ramos Ramón, Ma. Eunice de Anda Reyes, Rutilo Silva González, and Umapada Pal; American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences 9 No. 1 (2016) 41-52

 

• Mixed titanium, silicon, and aluminum oxide nanostructures as novel adsorbent for removal of rhodamine 6G and methylene blue as cationic dyes from aqueous solution. - Umapada Pal, Alberto Sandoval, Sergio Isaac Uribe Madrid, Grisel Corro, Vivek Sharma, and Paritosh Mohanty; Chemosphere 163 (2016) 142-152.

 

• Surface funcionalized halloysite nanotubes decorated with silver nanoparticles for enzyme immobilization and biosensing. - Siva Kumar-Krishnan, A. Hernandez-Rangel, Umapada Pal, O. Ceballos-Sanchez, F. J. Flores-Ruiz. E. Prokhorov, O Arias de Fuentes, Rodrigo Esparza, and M. Meyyappan; Journal of Materials Chemistry B 4 No. 15 (2016) 2553-2560

 

• Biodiesel production from waste frying oil using waste animal bone and solar heat. - Grisel Corro, Nallely Sánchez, Umapada Pal, and Fortino Bañuelos; Waste Managment 47 (2016) 105-113

 

• Morphology and defect evolution in vapor-grown In₂O₃:Sn micro-/nanoparticles. - Jesús Alberto Ramos Ramón, Diego León Sánchez, Manuel Herrera Zaldívar, and Umapada Pal; Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 40 (2015) 943-953

 

• Structure and optical properties of vapor grown In.₂O₃:Ga nano-/microcrystals. - Diego León Sánchez, Jesús Alberto Ramos Ramón, Manuel Herrera Zaldívar, Umapada Pal, and Efraín Rubio Rosas; Advances in Nano Research 3 No. 2 (2015) 81-96

 

• The structure and interaction mechanism of a polyesletrolyte complex: a dissipative particle dynamics study. - Efrain Meneses-Juárez, César Márquez-Beltrán, Juan Francisco Rivas-Silva, Umapada Pal, and Minerva González Melchor; Soft Matter 11 No. 29 (2015) 5889-5897

 

• Synthesis of CuS nanoparticles by a wet chemical route and their photocatalytic activity. - Mou Pal, N. R. Mathews, E. Sanchez-Mora, U. Pal, F. Paraguay-Delgado, and X Mathew; Journal of Nanoparticle Research 17 No. 7 (2015) 301

 

• Fabrication of Fe₃O₄@mSiO₂ Core-Shell Composite Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery Applications. - Sergio I. Uribe Madrid, Umapada Pal, Young Soo Kang, Junghoon Kim, Hyungjin Kwon, and Jungho Kim; Nanoscale Research Letters 10 (2015) 217.

 

• Hydrogen-reduced Cu/ZnO composite as efficient reusable catalyst for diesel particulate matter oxidation. - Grisel Corro, Surinam Cebada, Umapada Pal, Jose Luis García Fierro, and Josefina Alvarado; Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 165 (2015) 555-565

 

• Emission controlled dual emitting Eu-doped CaMgSi₂O₆ nanophosphors. - Amol Pawar, Abhijit Jadhav, Chang Woo Kim, Hyun Gil Cha, Umapada Pal, and Young Soo Kang; Journal of Luminescence 157 (2015) 131-136.

 

• Effects of morphology, surface area, and defect content on the photocatalytic dye degradation performance of ZnO nanostructures. - Natalia Morales Flores, Umapada Pal, Reina Galeazzi, and Alberto Sandoval; RSC Advances 4 No. 77 (2014) 41099-41110.

 

• Controlling size and magnetic properties of Fe₃O₄ clusters in solvothermal process. - Sergio I. Uribe Madrid, Umapada Pal, and Félix Sánchez-De Jesús; Advances in Nano Research 2 No. 4 (2014) 187-198.

 

• Enhanced biogas production from coffee pulp through deligninocellulosic photocatalytic pretreatment. - Grisel Corro, Umapada Pal, and Surinam Cebada; Energy Science & Engineering 2 No. 4 (2014) 177-187.

 

• Green synthesis of Au Nanoparticles using potato extract: stability and growth mechanism. - D. N. Castillo-López and U.Pal; Journal of Nanoparticle Research 16 No. 8 (2014) 2571.

 

• Doping-induced electron density modification at lattice sites of ZnO:Ga nanostructures: effects on vibrational and optical properties. - S. Saravanakumar, A. Escobedo-Morales, U. Pal, R. J. Aranda and R. Saravanan; Journal of Materials Science 49 No. 16 (2014) 5529-5536.

 

• Red emitting Y₂O₃:Eu nanophosphors with >80% down conversion efficiency. - A. P. Jadhav, A. U. Pawar, U. Pal and Y. S. Kang; Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2 No. 3 (2014) 496-500.

 

• PL and TL behaviors of Ag-doped SnO₂ nanoparticles: effects of thermal annealing and Ag concentration. - R. Sánchez Zeferino, U. Pal, R. Meléndrez and M. Barboza Flores; Advances in Nano Research 1 No. 4 (2013) 193-202.

 

• Generation of biogas from coffee-pulp and cow-dung co-digestion: Infrared studies of postcombustion emissions. - Grisel Corro, Laura Paniagua, U. Pal, Fortino Bañuelos, and Minerva Rosas; Energy Conversion and Management 74 (2013) 471-481.

 

• Diesel soot oxidation over silver-loaded SiO₂ catalysts. - Grisel Corro, U. Pal, Edgar Ayala, and Esmeralda Vidal; Catalysis Today 212 (2013) 63-69.

 

• Encapsulation and surface charge manipulation of organic and inorganic colloidal substrates by multilayered polyelectrolyte films. - T. Mendoza-Dorantes, U. Pal, J. R. Vega-Acosta, and C. Márquez-Beltrán; Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 434 (2013) 253-259.

 

• Effect of Ag, Cu, and Au Incorporation on the Diesel Soot Oxidation Behavior of SiO₂: Role of Metallic Ag. - Grisel Corro, U. Pal, E. Ayala, Edgar Vidal, Emmanuel Guilleminot; Topics in Catalysis 56 No. 1-8 (2013) 467-472.

 

• Dose enhancing behavior of hydrothermally grown Eu-doped SnO₂ nanoparticles. - R. Sánchez Zeferino, U. Pal, R. Meléndrez, H. A. Durán-Munoz, and M. Barboza Flores; Journal of Applied Physics 113 No. 6 (2013) 064306.

 

• Morphology control and optical properties of ZnO nanostructures grown by ultrasonic synthesis. - U. Pal, N. Morales-Flores, R. Galeazzi, and E. Rosendo; Advances in Nano Research 1 No. 1 (2013) 59-70.

 

• Síntesis de nuevos monómeros y polímeros con grupos ácido fosfónico para aplicaciones en celdas de combustible. - M Campos (2013) 99-99.

 

• Tunable Fano resonance in symmetric multilayered gold nanoshells. - O. Peña-Rodríguez, A. Rivera, M. Campoy-Quiles, and U. Pal; Nanoscale 5 No. 1 (2013) 209-216.

 

• Facile synthesis and magnetic phase transformation of Nd-Fe-B nanoclusters by oxygen bridging. - Chang Woo Kim, Young Hwan Kim, U. Pal, and Young Soo Kang; Journal of Materials Chemistry C 1 No. 2 (2013) 275-281.

 

• Effects of crystallization and dopant concentration on the emission behavior of TiO₂: Eu nanophosphors. - M. Pal, U. Pal, J. M. G. Y. Jiménez, F. Pérez-Rodríguez; Nanoscale research letters 7 No. 1 (2012) 1-12.

 

• Synthesis of Multifunctional Metal and Metal Oxide Core@ Mesoporous Silica Shell Structures by Using a Wet Chemical Approach. - C. W. Kim, U. Pal, S. Park, J. Kim, Y. S.  Kang; Chemistry - A European Journal 18 No. 39 (2012) 12314-12321.

 

• Biodiesel production from Jatropha Curcas crude oil using ZnO/SiO₂ photocatalyst for free fatty acids esterification. - G. Corro, U. Pal, N. Tellez; Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 129 (2012) 39-47.

 

• Photoluminescence (PL) Quenching and Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity of Au-Decorated ZnO Nanorods Fabricated through Microwave-Assisted Chemical Synthesis. - M. D. L. Ruiz Peralta, U. Pal, R. Sanchez Zeferino; ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 4 No. 9 (2012) 4807-4816.

 

• 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 SolGel Process. - N. A. Jadhav, C. W. Kim, U. Pal, J. Kim, Y. S. Kang; Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 12 No. 7 (2012) 5638-5643.

 

• Gram-scale synthesis of highly crystalline, 0-D and 1-D SnO₂ nanostructures through surfactant-free hydrothermal processor. - U. Pal, M. Pal, R. S. Zeferino; Journal of Nanoparticle Research 14 No. 7 (2012) 1-10.

 

• Morphology evolution of hydrothermally grown ZnO nanostructures on gallium doping and their defect structures. - G. Pineda-Hernández, A. Escobedo-Morales, U. Pal, E. Chigo-Anota; Materials Chemistry and Physics 135 No. 2-3 (2012) 810-817.

 

• Synthesis of Monodispersed Red Emitting LiAl5O8: Fe³⁺ Nanophosphors. - A. P. Jadhav, A. Pawar, U. Pal, B. K. Kim, Y. S. Kang; Science of Advanced Materials 4 No. 5-6 (2012) 5-6.

 

• Hydrothermally Grown Ultra-Fine SnO₂ and SnO₂: Ag Nanoparticles and Their Optical Characteristics. - R. Sánchez-Zeferino, U. Pal, M. Barboza-Flores, P. Santiago, V. G. Febles; Science of Advanced Materials 4 No. 5-6 (2012) 5-6.

 

• Blue and red dual emission nanophosphor CaMgSi₂O₆: Eun+; crystal structure and electronic configuration. - A. U. Pawar, A. P. Jadhav, U. Pal, B. K. Kim, Y. S. Kang; Journal of Luminescence 132 No. 3 (2012) 659-664.

 

• Morphology Defined ZnO Nanostructures Through Microwave Assisted Chemical Synthesis: Growth Mechanism, Defect Structure, and Emission Behaviorus. - M. Peralta, R. de Lourdes, J. G. Serrano, U. Pal; Advanced Science Letters 6 No. 1 (2012) 159-166.

 

• Crystallization Induced Porosity Control and Photocatalytic Activity of Ordered Mesoporous TiO₂. - C. W. Kim, U. Pal, S. Park, Y. H. Kim, J. Kim, Y. S. Kang; RSC Advances 2 No. 31 (2012) 11969-11975.