Publications
Book contributions
• Written a book chapter entitled ‘Recent advances in biomedical applications of multifunctional composites’ in the book Recent Developments in Bio-Nanocomposites for Biomedical Applications, ISBN 978-1-61761-008-0 ©2010 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
• Written a book chapter entitled, “Functionalized biocompatible nanoparticles for site specific imaging and therapeutics” for upcoming book by Science Direct.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS/PATENTS
Patents Filed
1. “Novel luminescent magnetic nanoparticles: synthesis, characterization and their bio-medical implications”, Ranu K Dutta, Prashant K Sharma and Avinash C Pandey (Applied for Indian Patent in JAN 2009).
2. ‘Vitamin Encapsulated Magnetofluores as Target Specific MRI Contrast Agents”, Ranu K Dutta, Prashant K Sharma and Avinash C Pandey, Applied for Indian Patent.
3. “A Novel Up-scalable Solution Combustion Synthesis of Bright Blue Luminescent BAM:Eu2+ Nanophosphors for PDP Applications”, Prashant K Sharma, Ranu K Dutta and Avinash C Pandey, Applied for Indian Patent in March 2010.
4. “Combustion Synthesis and Fluorescent Properties of Eu3+ and Tb3+ Doped YBO3 Nanorods under VUV excitations”, Prashant K Sharma, Ranu K Dutta and Avinash C Pandey, Applied for Indian Patent in March 2010.
5. “Reverse Micelles Synthesis of Quantum Confined Rare-Earth Ortho-botare Nanocrystals for High-Definition Display Devices”, Prashant K Sharma, Ranu K Dutta and Avinash C Pandey, Applied for Indian Patent in March 2010.
6. “Enhanced Luminescence Characteristics of YBO3:Eu3+ Nanophosphors co-doped with Gd3+ under VUV and UV excitation”, Prashant K Sharma, Ranu K Dutta and Avinash C Pandey, Applied for Indian Patent in March 2010.
Papers Published/Communicated
1. "DNA base (cytosine) modified/capped ultrasmall Gd2S3:Eu3+ gadofluoroprobes for platelet isolation," Ranu K Dutta, Prashant K Sharma and Avinash C Pandey. APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 97, 253702 (2010).
2. “Differential susceptibility of Escherichia coli cells towards TM doped and matrix embedded ZnO nanoparticles”, Ranu K Dutta, Prashant K Sharma, Richa Bhargava, Naresh Kumar and Avinash C Pandey, J. Phys. Chem. B, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2010, 114 (16), pp 5594–5599.
3. Size Dependence of Eu–O Charge Transfer Process on Luminescence Characteristics of YBO3:Eu3+ Nanocrystals Prashant K Sharma, Ranu K Dutta and Avinash C. Pandey, Optics Letters, Vol. 35, No. 14, 2331, 2010.
4. “Design and surface modification of potential luminomagnetic nanocarriers for biomedical applications” Ranu K Dutta, Prashant K Sharma and Avinash C Pandey, J. Nanopart. Res. DOI 10.1007/s11051-009-9801-0, Article in press, 2010.
5. "Engineering of Highly Susceptible Paramagnetic Nanostructures of Gd2S3:Eu3+: Potentially an Efficient Material for Room Temperature Gas Sensing Applications, Ranu K Dutta, Prashant K Sharma and Avinash C Pandey." Sensors & Transducers Journal, Vol. 122, Issue 11, November 2010, pp. 36-45.
6. “Luminescence studies of uniformly mono dispersed symmetric ZnO quantum dots and ZnO/SiO2 core shell structure”, Prashant K Sharma, Ranu K Dutta, Manvendra Kumar, Prashant K. Singh and Avinash C. Pandey, Journal of Luminescence: 129(6) 605-610 (2009).
7. “Effect of iron doping concentrations on magnetic properties of ZnO nanoparticles”, Prashant K Sharma, Ranu K Dutta, Avinash C. Pandey, Samer Layek and H C Verma, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. Volume 321, Issue 17, September 2009, Pages 2587-2591.
8. “Surfactant Mediated Optical Properties of Cytosine Capped CdSe Quantum Dots”, Prashant K Sharma, Ranu K Dutta, Chun hui Liu, Ravindra Pandey and Avinash C Pandey, Materials Letters, Volume 64, Issue 10, 31 May 2010, Pages 1183-1186.
9. “Alteration of magnetic and optical properties of ultrafine dilute magnetic semiconductor ZnO:Co2+ nanoparticles”, Prashant K. Sharma, Ranu K. Dutta, Avinash C. Pandey, J. Colloid Interface Sci. (2010), Volume 345, Issue 2, 15 May 2010, Pages 149-153.
10. “Influence of Co-doping on the thermal, structural, and optical properties of sol–gel derived ZnO nanoparticles”, Richa Bhargava, Prashant K. Sharma, Ranu K. Dutta, Sanjeev Kumar, Avinash C. Pandey, Naresh Kumar, Mater. Chem. Phys. (2009), Volume 120, Issues 2-3, 15 April 2010, Pages 393-398.
11. “Highly Stabilized Monodispersed Citric Acid Capped ZnO:Cu2+ Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Characterization for their Applications in White Light Generation from UV LEDs”, Prashant K. Sharma, Ranu K Dutta, Manvendra Kumar, Prashant K. Singh, Avinash C Pandey and V N Singh, IEEE Trans. Nanotech, VOL. 10, NO. 1, page 163, 2011.
12. “Effect of nickel doping concentration on structural and magnetic properties of ultrafine diluted magnetic semiconductor ZnO nanoparticles”, Prashant K Sharma, Ranu K Dutta, and Avinash C. Pandey, J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 321, 20, 2009, 3457.
13. “Improved color purity in nanosized Eu3+ doped YBO3 red phosphor”, Raghvendra S Yadav, Ranu K Dutta, Manvendra Kumar and Avinash C Pandey, Journal of Luminescence, Volume 129, Issue 9, September 2009, Pages 1078-1082.
14. “Doping Dependent Room Temperature Ferromagnetism and Structural Properties of Dilute Magnetic Semiconductor ZnO:Cu2+ Nanorods”, Prashant K Sharma, Ranu K Dutta, and Avinash C. Pandey, J. Magn. Magn. Mater, 321, 4001 (2009).
15. “Surface enhanced Raman spectra of Escherichia coli cells using ZnO nanoparticles”, Ranu K Dutta, Prashant K Sharma, and Avinash C. Pandey, (Digest journal of nanomaterials and biostructures, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2009).
16. “Fine encapsulated nanophosphors and their potential antibacterial evaluation on the gram negative bacillus Escherichia coli”, Ranu K. Dutta, Prashant K Sharma and Avinash C. Pandey, AIP Conf. Proc. June 29, 2009 Volume 1147, pp. 528-535.
17. “Vital biomolecules passivated Gadofluoroprobes: Surface engineering and platelet surface specificity estimation by in vitro platelet aggregation studies”, Ranu K Dutta, Prashant K Sharma and Avinash C Pandey. (Under revision, Molecular Pharmaceutics, ACS).
18. “Moving towards table top MRI Contrast Agents”, Ranu K Dutta, Prashant K Sharma, Avinash C. Pandey. (Under review, Science).
19. “Assessing the conformational and cellular changes of ZnO impregnated Escherichia coli Cells”, Ranu K Dutta, Prashant K Sharma and Avinash C Pandey (Under review, Advanced Material Letters).
20. “Size dependent emission color tunability of ZnO Quantum Dots”, Prashant K Sharma, Ranu K Dutta, and Avinash C Pandey, (Communicated Applied Physics Letters).
21. “Intrinsic magnetic fluoroprobes of superparamagnetic Gd2O3:Eu3+ nanoparticles: Their Luminescence, Magnetic and Platelet aggregation studies”, Ranu K Dutta, Prashant K Sharma and Avinash C Pandey, (Communicated to Nanoscale, RSC).
22. “Carbon nanotubes induce asbestos like toxicity: Threat of lung cancer, asbestosis and malignant mesothelioma”, Ranu K Dutta, Vandana Tiwari and Avinash C Pandey. (communicated to J of Bionanoscience).
