Publications by authors named "Manavalan Rajesh Kumar"

In the bustling metropolis of tomorrow, where pollution levels are a constant concern, a team of innovative researchers embarked on a quest to revolutionize air quality monitoring. In pursuit of this objective, this study embarked on the synthesis of indium oxide materials via a straightforward solvothermal method purposely for NO detection. Through meticulous analysis of their gas-sensing capabilities, a remarkable discovery came to light.

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Dye-sensitized solar cells, represent the alternate technology in solar research due to their cost effective, easy fabrication processes, higher efficiencies, and design flexibility. In this research, dual donor group modified zinc porphyrin dyes, have been synthesized for DSSCs. The complexes of zinc porphyrin functioned as acceptor or attaching groups within each mesophenyl ring and carboxylic acid.

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MXenes have garnered research attention in the field of biomedical applications due to their unique properties, such as a large surface area, low toxicity, biocompatibility, and stability. Their optical behavior makes them versatile for a wide range of biomedical applications, from diagnostics to therapeutics. Nonetheless, MXenes have some minor limitations, including issues with restacking, susceptibility to oxidation, and a non-semiconducting nature.

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We developed novel zinc-cadmium-bismuth sulfide (Zn-Cd-BiS) and Zn-Cd-SnS nanocomposites to fabricate a heterojunction by an easy chemical technique to improve photocatalytic degradation of textile dye. Crystalline size and lattice parameter are analyzed using X-ray diffraction (XRD) spectrometer. The obtained strong diffraction peaks with various diffraction planes confirm the fabrication of a high crystal quality nanocomposite as well as the identification of its mixed crystal structure.

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Doping transition metal ions into cerium oxide (CeO) results in interesting modifications to the material, including an increase in surface area, a high isoelectric point, biocompatibility, greater ionic conductivity, and catalytic activity. Herein, various concentrations (1-5%, 10% and 20%) of nickel (Ni) doped CeO nanoparticle have been made by a facile chemical process. Using a variety of cutting-edge analytical techniques, the structural, optical, and photocatalytic properties of undoped and varied concentrations (1-5%, 10%, and 20%) of Ni doped CeO nanoparticles have been investigated.

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Cerium copper metal nanostructures have received extensive attention as promising electrode materials for energy storage applications due to its attractive structure, and good conductivity. Herein, CeO-CuO nanocomposite was prepared via chemical method. The crystal structure, dielectric, and magnetic properties of the samples were characterized using by different techniques.

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Modifying wide band gap ZnO nanoparticles surface by combine narrow bandgap semiconductors is a novel route to promote the ZnO to diverse applications. Herein, different metal sulfides (CdS, AgS and BiS) were decorated on ZnO surface using facile a chemical route for photocatalytic application. Crystal structure, surface morphology and optical changes for the surface modified ZnO were studied by using various characterization techniques.

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Reduced graphene oxide (rGO) with metal sulfides is an efficient photocatalyst for treating textile effluent. Herein, a hydrothermal technique was used to synthesize transition metal sulfide with rGO nanocomposite. Under 120 min of sunlight exposure, the cerium-nickel sulfide/rGO nanocomposite (CeS-NiS/rGO) photodegraded the methyl orange (MO) dye with an efficiency of 89.

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Metal free visible light active photocatalysts of covalent organic polymers (COPs) and polymeric graphitic carbon nitride (g-CN) are interesting porous catalysts that have enormous potential for application in organic pollutant degradation. Imine condensation for COPs, and thermal condensation for g-CN were used to produce the catalysts. FT-IR, Raman, NMR, UV-Vis Spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and scanning electron microscopy studies were used to investigate the structural, optical, and morphological features of the metal free catalysts.

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Development of hybrid graphitic carbon nitride (GCN) nanocomposite is an emerging research area in wastewater treatment. Herein, hybrid visible light active photocatalyst of silver decorated polymeric graphitic carbon nitride and (Ag-GCN) with cerium oxide (CeO) nanocomposite was prepared and characterized in detail. The Ag-GCN/CeO photocatalyst has successfully prepared by an electrostatic self-assembly approach.

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With the maturing techniques for advanced synthesis and engineering of two-dimensional (2D) materials, its nanocomposites, hybrid nanostructures, alloys, and heterostructures, researchers have been able to create materials with improved as well as novel functionalities. One of the major applications that have been taking advantage of these materials with unique properties is biomedical devices, which currently prefer to be decentralized and highly personalized with good precision. The unique properties of these materials, such as high surface to volume ratio, a large number of active sites, tunable bandgap, nonlinear optical properties, and high carrier mobility is a boon to 'onics' (photonics/electronics) and 'omics' (genomics/exposomics) technologies for developing personalized, low-cost, feasible, decentralized, and highly accurate medical devices.

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Current research is paying much attention to heterojunction nanostructures. Owing to its versatile characteristics such as stimulating morphology, affluent surface-oxygen-vacancies and chemical compositions for enhanced generation of reactive oxygen species. Herein, we report the hydrothermally synthesized TiO@MoS heterojunction nanostructure for the effective production of photoinduced charge carriers to enhance the photocatalytic capability.

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Electrochemical supercapacitor fabrication using heterogeneous nanocomposite is one of the most promising pathways for energy storage technology. Herein, heterostructure based nickel-molybdenum (NiO@Ni(OH)-α-MoO) nanocomposites have been successfully prepared on nickel foil via hydrothermal route for supercapacitor application. The mixed phases of cubic, hexagonal, and orthorhombic crystal structure for NiO, Ni(OH), and α-MoO, respectively were observed by X-ray diffraction.

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In recent years, nanomaterials and nanotechnology have emerged as vital factors in the medical field with a unique contribution to cancer medicine. Given the increasing number of cancer patients, it is necessarily required to develop innovative strategies and therapeutic modalities to tackle hypoxia, which forms a hallmark and great barrier in treating solid tumors. The present review details the challenges in nanotechnology-based hypoxia, targeting the strategies and solutions for better therapeutic performances.

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The 2D layered structured material with unique surface terminations and properties have showed great potential in variety of biomedical research fields including drug delivery and cancer therapeutics which forms the major focus of this review. MXenes as a multifunctional two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterial, has also received momentous research interest in oncology resulting from its intriguing structure and fascinating properties of magnetism and photodynamic properties such as luminescent, conductivity, magnetism, non-toxicity and its bio compatibility. This reported review intends to cover exclusively the synthesis and utilization of MXenes in oncological applications, and subsequently its future outlook in cancer therapeutic, diagnostic and theranostics.

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Article Synopsis
  • A CeO@NiO nanocomposite was created using a hydrothermal method, showing potential as an electrode for energy storage and as an electrochemical sensor.
  • The structural analysis was conducted through various characterization techniques, revealing that the CeO@NiO nanocomposite outperforms pristine CeO in electrochemical performance with high capacitance and energy density values.
  • Additionally, the composite-modified electrode demonstrated strong electrocatalytic activity for NO oxidation with good sensitivity, selectivity, and stability, marking it as a promising candidate for future applications in energy storage and sensing technologies.
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