M.  Parthasarathy, Gopinath, C. S., and Pillai, V. K., ?Autoreduction of cyanoferrate(III) ions in a polymer electrolyte membrane: all solid state electrochemical and spectroscopic investigations?, Chemistry of Materials, vol. 18, no. 22, pp. 5244-5252, 2006.

N. S.  Ramgir, Late, D. J., Bhise, A. B., Mulla, I. S., More, M. A., Joag, D. S., and Pillai, V. K., ?Field emission studies of novel ZnO nanostructures in high and low field regions?, Nanotechnology, vol. 17, pp. 2730-2735, 2006.

M.  Parthasarathy, Pillai, V. K., Mulla, I. S., Shabab, M., and Khan, M. Islam, ?All-solid-state' electrochemistry of a protein-confined polymer electrolyte film?, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 364, no. 1, pp. 86-91, 2007.

A. A.  Al-Tabbakh, More, M. A., Joag, D. S., Ramgir, N. S., Mulla, I. S., and Pillai, V. K., ?Energy analysis of field emitted electrons from a ZnO tetrapod?, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 90, no. 16, p. Article No. 162102, 2007.

A. B.  Bhise, Late, D. J., Ramgir, N. S., More, M. A., Mulla, I. S., Pillai, V. K., and Joag, D. S., ?Field emission investigations of RuO2-doped SnO2 wires?, Applied Surface Science, vol. 253, no. 23, pp. 9159-9163, 2007.

M.  Parthasarathy, Ramgir, N. S., Sathe, B. R., Mulla, I. S., and Pillai, V. K., ?Surface-state-mediated electron transfer at nanostructured ZnO multipod/electrolyte interfaces?, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 111, no. 35, pp. 13092-13102, 2007.

M.  Subhramannia, Balan, B. K., Sathe, B. R., Mulla, I. S., and Pillai, V. K., ?Template-assisted synthesis of ruthenium oxide nanoneedles: electrical and electrochemical properties?, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 111, no. 44, pp. 16593-16600, 2007.

B. A.  Kakade and Pillai, V. K., ?Efficient route towards the covalent functionalization of single walled carbon nanotubes?, Applied Surface Science, vol. 254, no. 16, pp. 4936-4943, 2008.

B. R.  Sathe, Risbud, M. S., Mulla, I. S., and Pillai, V. K., ?Electrochemical sensing of sulphur dioxide: a comparison using dodecanethiol and citrate capped gold nanoclusters?, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 3184-3190, 2008.

B. R.  Sathe, Kakade, B. A., Mulla, I. S., Pillai, V. K., Late, D. J., More, M. A., and Joag, D. S., ?Enhanced field emission from hexagonal rhodium nanostructures?, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 92, no. 25, p. 253106, 2008.

B. A.  Kakade, Sahoo, S., Halligudi, S. B., and Pillai, V. K., ?Highly selective catalytic hydrogenation of arenes using rhodium nanoparticles supported on multiwalled carbon nanotubes?, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 112, no. 35, pp. 13317-13319, 2008.

B. A.  Kakade, Allouche, H., Mahima, S., Sathe, B. R., and Pillai, V. K., ?High-purity synthesis of scrolled mats of multi-walled carbon nanotubes using temperature modulation?, Carbon, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 567-576, 2008.

M.  Parthasarathy, Singh, S., Hazra, S., and Pillai, V. K., ?Imaging the stomatal physiology of somatic embryo-derived peanut leaves by scanning electrochemical microscopy?, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol. 391, no. 6, pp. 2227-2233, 2008.

D.  Bagal-Kestwal, Karve, M. S., Kakade, B. A., and Pillai, V. K., ?Invertase inhibition based electrochemical sensor for the detection of heavy metal ions in aqueous system: application of ultra-microlelectrode to enhance sucrose biosensor's sensitivity?, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 657-664, 2008.

R.  Kannan, Kakade, B. A., and Pillai, V. K., ?Polymer electrolyte fuel cells using nafion-based composite membranes with functionalized carbon nanotubes?, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, vol. 47, no. 14, pp. 2653-2656, 2008.

A. B.  Bhise, Late, D. J., Ramgir, N. S., More, M. A., Mulla, I. S., Pillai, V. K., and Joag, D. S., ?RuO(2) doped SnO(2) nanobipyramids on Si (100) as a field emitter?, Thin Solid Films, vol. 516, no. 18, pp. 6388-6391, 2008.

M.  Subhramannia and Pillai, V. K., ?Shape-dependent electrocatalytic activity of platinum nanostructures?, Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 18, no. 48, pp. 5858-5870, 2008.

M.  Parthasarathy, Kakade, B. A., and Pillai, V. K., ?Tuning the transport properties of Poly(oxyethylene)bisamine - Nafion polyelectrolyte complexes by dielectric manipulation?, Macromolecules, vol. 41, no. 10, pp. 3653-3658, 2008.

B. A.  Kakade and Pillai, V. K., ?Tuning the wetting properties of multiwalled carbon nanotubes by surface functionalization?, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 112, no. 9, pp. 3183-3186, 2008.

R.  Kannan, Parthasarathy, M., Maraveedu, S. U., Kurungot, S., and Pillai, V. K., ?Domain size manipulation of perflouorinated polymer electrolytes by sulfonic acid-functionalized MWCNTs to enhance fuel cell performance?, Langmuir, vol. 25, no. 14, pp. 8299-8305, 2009.

A. B.  Bhise, Late, D. J., Sathe, B. R., More, M. A., Mulla, I. S., Pillai, V. K., and Joag, D. S., ?Field emission investigation of single Fe-doped SnO2 wire?, Solid State Sciences, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 1114-1117, 2009.

M.  Parthasarathy and Pillai, V. K., ?Imaging hydrogen oxidation activity of catalyst-coated perfluoro sulfonic acid-polymer electrolyte membranes using scanning electrochemical microscopy?, Journal of Chemical Sciences, vol. 121, no. 5, pp. 719-725, 2009.

B. R.  Sathe, Shinde, D. B., and Pillai, V. K., ?Preparation and characterization of rhodium nanostructures through the evolution of microgalvanic cells and their enhanced electrocatalytic activity for formaldehyde oxidation?, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 113, no. 22, pp. 9616-9622, 2009.

B. R.  Sathe, Patil, M., Walke, P. S., Vivek, J. P., Lele, A. K., Pillai, V. K., and Mulla, I. S., ?Synthesis of Sb-doped SnO2 nanowires and hyperbranched structures?, Science of Advanced Materials, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 38-43, 2009.

N.  Kamaraju, Kumar, S., Karthikeyan, B., Kakade, B. A., Pillai, V. K., and Sood, A. K., ?Ultrafast switching time and third order nonlinear coefficients of microwave treated single walled carbon nanotube suspensions?, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 5550-5554, 2009.

M.  Subhramannia, Ramaiyan, K., Aslam, M., and Pillai, V. K., ?Y-junction nanostructures of palladium: enhanced electrocatalytic properties for fuel cell reactions?, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, vol. 627, no. 1-2, pp. 58-62, 2009.

R.  Kannan, Aher, P. P., Palaniselvam, T., Kurungot, S., Kharul, U. K., and Pillai, V. K., ?Artificially designed membranes using phosphonated multiwall carbon nanotube-polybenzimidazole composites for polymer electrolyte fuel cells?, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 1, no. 14, pp. 2109-2113, 2010.

M.  Parthasarathy, Kannan, R., Sreekumar, K., and Pillai, V. K., ?Bio-inspired catalyst compositions for enhanced oxygen reduction using nanostructured Pt electrocatalysts in polymer electrolyte fuel cells?, Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 20, no. 43, pp. 9651-9657, 2010.

B. R.  Sathe, Walke, P. S., Mulla, I. S., and Pillai, V. K., ?Effect of Fe3O4 on morphology of Fe-SnO2 hyperbranched heterostructures?, Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 493, no. 1-3, pp. 121-125, 2010.

A. B.  Bhise, Late, D. J., Sathe, B., More, M. A., Mulla, I. S., Pillai, V. K., and Joag, D. S., ?Fabrication of In-doped SnO2 nanowire arrays and its field emission investigations?, Journal of Experimental Nanoscience, vol. 5, no. 6, p. PII 931283663, 2010.

A. A.  Al-Tabbakh, More, M. A., Joag, D. S., Mulla, I. S., and Pillai, V. K., ?Fowler-nordheim plot behavior and mechanism of field electron emission from ZnO tetrapod structures?, ACS Nano, vol. 4, no. 10, pp. 5585-5590, 2010.

B. K.  Balan, Kale, V. S., Aher, P. P., Shelke, M. V., Pillai, V. K., and Kurungot, S., ?High aspect ratio nanoscale multifunctional materials derived from hollow carbon nanofiber by polymer insertion and metal decoration?, Chemical Communications, vol. 46, no. 30, pp. 5590-5592, 2010.

B. A.  Kakade, Pillai, V. K., Late, D. J., Chavan, P. G., Sheini, F. J., More, M. A., and Joag, D. S., ?High current density, low threshold field emission from functionalized carbon nanotube bucky paper?, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 97, no. 7, p. 073102, 2010.

S. K. M.  Unni, Dhavale, V. M., Pillai, V. K., and Kurungot, S., ?High pt utilization electrodes for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells by dispersing pt particles formed by a preprecipitation method on carbon ``polished'' with polypyrrole?, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 114, no. 34, pp. 14654-14661, 2010.

B. R.  Sathe, Kakade, B. A., Kushwaha, A., Aslam, M., and Pillai, V. K., ?Synthesis of Rh-carbon nanotube based heterostructures and their enhanced field emission characteristics?, Chemical Communications, vol. 46, no. 31, pp. 5671-5673, 2010.

M.  Parthasarathy, Debgupta, J., Kakade, B. A., Ansary, A. Ayoobul, Khan, M. Islam, and Pillai, V. K., ?Carbon nanotube-modified sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for molecular weight determination of proteins?, Analytical Biochemistry, vol. 409, no. 2, pp. 230-235, 2011.

J.  Debgupta, Kakade, B. A., and Pillai, V. K., ?Competitive wetting of acetonitrile and dichloromethane in comparison to that of water on functionalized carbon nanotube surfaces?, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 13, no. 32, pp. 14668-14674, 2011.

D. B.  Shinde, Debgupta, J., Kushwaha, A., Aslam, M., and Pillai, V. K., ?Electrochemical unzipping of multi-walled carbon nanotubes for facile synthesis of high-quality graphene nanoribbons?, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 133, no. 12, pp. 4168-4171, 2011.

R.  Kannan, Bipinlal, U., Kurungot, S., and Pillai, V. K., ?Enhanced electrocatalytic performance of functionalized carbon nanotube electrodes for oxygen reduction in proton exchange membrane fuel cells?, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 13, no. 21, pp. 10312-10317, 2011.

B. R.  Sathe, Balan, B. K., and Pillai, V. K., ?Enhanced electrocatalytic performance of interconnected Rh nano-chains towards formic acid oxidation?, Energy & Environmental Science, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 1029-1036, 2011.

V. M.  Dhavale, Unni, S. K. M., Kagalwala, H. N., Pillai, V. K., and Kurungot, S., ?Ex-situ dispersion of core-shell nanoparticles of Cu-Pt on an in situ modified carbon surface and their enhanced electrocatalytic activities?, Chemical Communications, vol. 47, no. 13, pp. 3951-3953, 2011.

S.  Kumari, Malvi, B., Ganai, A. Kumar, Pillai, V. K., and Gupta, S. Sen, ?Functionalization of SBA-15 mesoporous materials using ``thiol-ene click'' michael addition reaction?, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 115, no. 36, pp. 17774-17781, 2011.

R.  Kannan, Kagalwala, H. N., Chaudhari, H. D., Kharul, U. K., Kurungot, S., and Pillai, V. K., ?Improved performance of phosphonated carbon nanotube-polybenzimidazole composite membranes in proton exchange membrane fuel cells?, Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 21, no. 20, pp. 7223-7231, 2011.

C. S. Suchand Sangeeth, Kannan, R., Pillai, V. K., and Menon, R., ?Charge transport in functionalized multi-wall carbon nanotube-Nafion composite?, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 112, no. 5, p. 053706, 2012.

D. B.  Shinde and Pillai, V. K., ?Electrochemical preparation of luminescent graphene quantum dots from multiwalled carbon nanotubes?, Chemistry-A European Journal, vol. 18, no. 39, pp. 12522-12528, 2012.

R.  Vellacheri, Pillai, V. K., and Kurungot, S., ?Hydrous RuO2-carbon nanofiber electrodes with high mass and electrode-specific capacitance for efficient energy storage?, Nanoscale, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 890-896, 2012.

J.  Debgupta, Shinde, D. B., and Pillai, V. K., ?In situ electrochemical organization of CdSe nanoclusters on graphene during unzipping of carbon nanotubes?, Chemical Communications, vol. 48, no. 25, pp. 3088-3090, 2012.

S. K. M.  Unni, Pillai, V. K., and Kurungot, S., ?3-Dimensionally self-assembled single crystalline platinum nanostructures on few-layer graphene as an efficient oxygen reduction electrocatalyst?, RSC Advances, vol. 3, no. 19, pp. 6913-6921, 2013.

D. B.  Shinde and Pillai, V. K., ?Electrochemical resolution of multiple redox events for graphene quantum dots?, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, vol. 52, no. 9, pp. 2482-2485, 2013.

H.  Kalita, Harikrishnan, V., Shinde, D. B., Pillai, V. K., and Aslam, M., ?Hysteresis and charge trapping in graphene quantum dots?, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 102, no. 14, p. 143104, 2013.

B. P.  Biswal, Shinde, D. B., Pillai, V. K., and Banerjee, R., ?Stabilization of graphene quantum dots (GQDs) by encapsulation inside zeolitic imidazolate framework nanocrystals for photoluminescence tuning?, Nanoscale, vol. 5, no. 21, pp. 10556-10561, 2013.

N.  Venkatathri, Pillai, V. K., Rajini, A., M. Raju, N., and Reddy, I. A. K., ?Structural and catalytic properties of a novel vanadium containing solid core mesoporous silica shell catalysts for gas phase oxidation reaction?, Journal of Chemical Sciences, vol. 125, no. 1, pp. 63-69, 2013.

J.  Debgupta and Pillai, V. K., ?Thiolated graphene - a new platform for anchoring CdSe quantum dots for hybrid heterostructures?, Nanoscale, vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 3615-3619, 2013.

D. B.  Shinde, Majumder, M., and Pillai, V. K., ?Counter-ion dependent, longitudinal unzipping of multi-walled carbon nanotubes to highly conductive and transparent graphene nanoribbons?, Scientific Reports, vol. 4, p. Article No. : 4363, 2014.

R. Reddy Devarapalli, Debgupta, J., Pillai, V. K., and Shelke, M. V., ?C@SiNW/TiO2 core-shell nanoarrays with sandwiched carbon passivation layer as high efficiency photoelectrode for water splitting?, Scientific Reports, vol. 4, p. 4897, 2014.

J.  Debgupta, Devarapalli, R. Reddy, Rahman, S., Shelke, M. V., and Pillai, V. K., ?Electrochemical preparation of vertically aligned, hollow CdSe nanotubes and their p-n junction hybrids with electrodeposited Cu2O?, Nanoscale, vol. 6, no. 15, pp. 9148-9156, 2014.

A.  Chandra, Deshpande, S., Shinde, D. B., Pillai, V. K., and Singh, N., ?Mitigating the cytotoxicity of graphene quantum dots and enhancing their applications in bioimaging and drug delivery?, ACS Macro Letters, vol. 3, no. 10, pp. 1064-1068, 2014.

R.  John, Shinde, D. B., Liu, L., Ding, F., Xu, Z., Vijayan, C., Pillai, V. K., and Pradeep, T., ?Sequential electrochemical unzipping of single-walled carbon nanotubes to graphene ribbons revealed by in situ Raman spectroscopy and imaging?, ACS Nano, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 234-242, 2014.

R. M.  Ramsundar, Debgupta, J., Pillai, V. K., and Joy, P. Alias, ?Co3O4 nanorods-efficient non-noble metal electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution at neutral pH?, Electrocatalysis, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 331-340, 2015.

D. B.  Shinde, Dhavale, V. M., Kurungot, S., and Pillai, V. K., ?Electrochemical preparation of nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dots and their size-dependent electrocatalytic activity for oxygen reduction?, Bulletin of Materials Science, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 435-442, 2015.

S.  Kundu, Ghosh, S., Fralaide, M., Narayanan, T. N., Pillai, V. K., and Talapatra, S., ?Fractional photo-current dependence of graphene quantum dots prepared from carbon nanotubes?, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 17, no. 38, pp. 24566-24569, 2015.

R. T.  Khare, Shinde, D. B., Bansode, S., More, M. A., Majumder, M., Pillai, V. K., and Late, D. J., ?Graphene nanoribbons as prospective field emitter?, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 106, no. 2, p. Article Number: 023111, 2015.

M. Raj Mani, Chellaswamy, R., Marathe, Y. N., and Pillai, V. K., ?Role of the molecular structure of carboxylate-alumoxanes in the enhanced nucleation of polypropylene?, Chemical Communications, vol. 51, no. 49, pp. 10026-10029, 2015.

S.  Kundu, Yadav, R. Manohar, Narayanan, T. N., Shelke, M. V., Vajtai, R., Ajayan, P. M., and Pillai, V. K., ?Synthesis of N, F and S co-doped graphene quantum dots?, Nanoscale, vol. 7, no. 27, pp. 11515-11519, 2015.

M. Raj Mani, Chellaswamy, R., Marathe, Y. N., and Pillai, V. K., ?Enhanced nucleation of polypropylene by metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) based on aluminium dicarboxylates: influence of structural features?, RSC Advances, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 1907-1912, 2016.

I.  Karbhal, Devarapalli, R. Reddy, Debgupta, J., Pillai, V. K., Ajayan, P. M., and Shelke, M. V., ?Facile green synthesis of BCN nanosheets as high-performance electrode material for electrochemical energy storage?, Chemistry-A European Journal, vol. 22, no. 21, pp. 7134-7140, 2016.

M. Raj Mani, Chellaswamy, R., Marathe, Y. N., and Pillai, V. K., ?New understanding on regulating the crystallization and morphology of the beta-polymorph of isotactic polypropylene based on carboxylate-alumoxane nucleating agents?, Macromolecules, vol. 49, no. 6, pp. 2197-2205, 2016.

M. Ozhukil Valappil, Joshi, K., John, L., Krishnamurthy, S., Jana, B., Patra, A., Pillai, V. K., and Alwarappan, S., ?Role of structural distortion in stabilizing electrosynthesized blue emitting phosphorene quantum dots?, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 973-980, 2019.