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- Silpa S.; Nidha M.; Kritika Sharu; Saptak Majumder; J Mitra; Novel CuCo₂O₄ Photonic Crystals for Optical Hydrogen Sensing: Catalyst-Free Detection and Mechanistic insights via in-situ Raman Spectroscopy, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2025, Just accepted.
- Mohammed Salman C K; Muskan Beura; Archana Singh; Anil Dahuja, Vinayak B. Kamble, Rajendra Prasad Shukla and Veda Krishnan Biomimic Models for In Vitro Glycemic Index: Scope of Sensor Integration and Artificial Intelligence, Food Chemistry X, 2025
- Dharsana P. D., Sheetal Kathayat Bisht, Saptak Majumder, Dipanjana Mondal, Pintu Singha, Gaurav G. Bolegave, Vinayak B. Kamble, Ajay Venugopal*, Bi[Se-(2-Me2NC6H4)]3: Single Source Precursor for Preparing Pure-Phase, 2-Dimensional Bismuth Selenide Films, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2024, e202400762, 2024.
- Soumya Biswas, Keshav Dabral, Saptak Majumder, Rajasekhar Parsuraman and Vinayak Kamble. Predicting of the realizable maximum power factor using the Jonker and Ioffe formulation: Al-doped ZnO Triangular microcrystals with graphite inclusion case study. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 7 (19), 8991-9002, 2024.
- Tathagata Sarkar, Soumya Biswas, Sonali Kakkar, A. V. Raghu, S. D. Kaushik, Chandan Bera, Vinayak B. Kamble* Coexistence of Multiple Magnetic Interactions in Oxygen Deficient V2O5 Nanoparticles. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 36, 495803, 2024.
- Abin Tom, D. K. Singh, V. K. Shaw, Abhijith P. V., Sajana S.1, Kirandas P.S., Viney Dixit, Vinayak Kamble, S. P. Pai, and D. Jaiswal-Nagar*, Feedback based gas sensing setup for ppb to ppm level sensing, Review of Scientific Instruments, 95, 085003, 2024.
- Shivam Kumar Singh, Sajana S, Poornima Varma, Sreelekha Gajje, Chandranath Adak, Rajendra Tiwary, Vinayak Kamble. Metal oxide-based gas sensor array for VOCs determination in complex mixtures using machine learning, Microchimica Acta 191 (196), 2024.
- Soumya Biswas, Noora Naushad, Kalyani S and Vinayak Kamble. Resistive Avalanches in La1–xSrxCoO3−δ (x = 0, 0.3) Thin Films and Their Reversible Evolution by Tuning Lattice Oxygen Vacancies (δ), ACS Materials Au. 2024.
- Tathagata Sarkar, Saptak Majumder, Soumya Biswas, Sona S Rose, Vinayak Kamble*, Engineering Lattice Oxygen defects and Polaronic transport in Vanadium pentoxide via isovalent phosphorous doping, Applied Physics Letters, 123, 222106, 2023.
- Silpa S., Srinivas G., Arup Biswas, Harish C. Barshilia, Vinayak B. Kamble Realizing Optical Micro-cavity in CuCo2O4-W-CuCo2O4 thin film stack for Spectrally Selective Solar Absorbers. Advanced Optical Materials 2023
- Abhijith PV, Abin Tom, Kusuma Urs, K N Prajapati, Sajana S, J Mitra, Deepshikha Jaiswal-Nagar, Vinayak Kamble* Frequency dependent Impedance Response Analysis of Nanocrystalline ZnO Chemiresistors, Nanotechnology, 34, 365501, 2023.
- Anakha Anson, Dipanjana Mondal, Varsha Biswas, Kusuma Urs MB, Vinayak Kamble, Suppressed Polaronic Conductivity induced Sensor Response enhancement in Mo doped V2O5 Nanowires, Journal of Applied Physics. 133, 194505, 2023.
- Jyothish Raj, Soumya Biswas, Vinayak Kamble, Crossover from small polaron tunneling to correlated barrier hopping and its evolution with thermal instability of SnO surface, Applied Surface Science, 624, p.157078, 2023.
- Arghya Dutta, Sanjay Mondal, Soumya Biswas, Vinayak B Kamble, Shubhamoy Chowdhury and Rajarshi Ghosh*, Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and solid-state electrical behavior of [Ni(L)2](L=bis(1,2-di(4-methoxyphenyl)ethene-1,2-dithiolate)): A computational investigation on UV-Vis-NIR absorption and electrical transport. Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 76.5-6, 771-782, 2023.
- Sourav Biswas, Anish Kumar Das, Arthur C. Reber, Soumya Biswas, Subhrajyoti Bhandary, Vinayak B. Kamble, Shiv N. Khanna, Sukhendu Mandal*, A new Ag-S Cluster [Ag50S13(StBu)20][CF3COO]4 with its Unique hcp Ag14 Kernel and Ag36 Keplerian Shell-based Structural Architecture and its Photoresponsivity, Nano Letters, 22, 9, 3721–3727, 2022.
- P. Manju, Ashna Babu, Sruthy S. P., Dumpala Tirumalarao, Abhijith P.V., Vinayak B. Kamble, D. Jaiswal-Nagar*, Variation of citrate to metal cation ratio for dense and phase pure BaZrO3 via auto-combustion synthesis, Journal of the American Ceramic Society 105(8), 5082-5101, 2022.
- Jishnu V, Shashank Mishra, Kusuma MB, Sanchu Thomas, Chandra Shekhar Tiwary, Krishanu Biswas, Vinayak B Kamble, Highly Sensitive and Selective Triethylamine Sensing through High Entropy Alloy (Ti-Zr-Cr-V-Ni) Nanoparticles induced Fermi Energy Control of MoS2 Nanosheets ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 14, 11, 1–13664, 2022.
- Kusuma MB Urs, Krutikesh Sahoo, Navakanta Bhat, Vinayak Kamble, Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor-Compatible Top-Down Fabrication of a Ni/NiO Nanobeam Room Temperature Hydrogen Sensor Device, ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 4, 1, 87–91, 2022.
- Adithya Jayakumar, Viney Dixit, Sarath Jose, Praveen S. G., Vinayak B. Kamble, and D. Jaiswal-Nagar*, Charge transport variation from Bloch-Grüneisen to Mott variable range hopping and transport change due to hydrogenation in Palladium thin films, Scientific Reports, 11, 22298, 2021.
- Kusuma Urs MB, Vinayak B Kamble. Protonic Conduction Induced Selective Room Temperature Hydrogen Response in ZnO/NiO Heterojunction Surfaces. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 348 (12), 130605, 2021.
- Arghya Dutta, Arnab Chatterjee, Tathagata Sarkar, Vinayak B Kamble*, Rajarshi Ghosh*, Synthesis, structural characterization and variable temperature electrical conductivity of a pentanuclear Pd(II) dithiolato complex. Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 133, 108889, 2021.
- Soumya Biswas, Saurabh Singh, Shubham Singh, Shashwata Chattopadyay, K. Kanishka H. De Silva, M. Yoshimura, J. Mitra, Vinayak B Kamble *, Selective Enhancement in Phonon Scattering leads to High Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in Graphene Oxide encapsulated ZnO nanocomposites, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13 (20), 23771–23786 2021.
- Soumya Biswas, Aditya Dutt, Nirmal Sebastian and Vinayak B Kamble*, Simple, Reversible Gradient Seebeck Coefficient Measurement System for 300 – 600 K with COMSOL simulations, Review of Scientific Instruments, 92 (4), 044903, 2021.
- Christina Antony, Praveen S.G., Adithya Jayakumar, Gaana K., Akshay Yadav, Nikhil Sivakumar, Niranjan Kamath, Suma M. N., Vinayak Kamble and Deepshikha Jaiswal-Nagar*, Polyvinylpyrrolidone-Stabilized Palladium Nanocrystals as Chemiresistive Sensors for Low Concentration Hydrogen Detection, ACS Applied Nanomaterials, 4(2), 1643–1653, 2021.
- Kusuma Urs MB and Vinayak B Kamble*, Surface Photovoltage Response of Zinc Oxide Microrods on prismatic planes: Effect of UV, Temperature and Oxygen ambience, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 32, 6414–6424, 2021
- Soumya Biswas, Madhujith M K and Vinayak B Kamble *, Proof-of-concept thermoelectric oxygen sensor exploiting oxygen mobility of GdBaCo2O5+δ, Journal of Applied Physics, 129, 5, 054502, 2021.
- Dharmendra K. Singh, Praveen S. G., Adithya Jayakumar, Vinayak B Kamble, J. Mitra, and D. Jaiswal-Nagar*, Thickness induced metal to insulator charge transport and unusual hydrogen response in granular palladium nanofilms, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 22, 27861-27872, 2020.
- Parikshit Moitra, Deepa Bhagat, Vinayak B. Kamble, Arun M.Umarji, Rudra Pratap, Santanu Bhattacharya*, First example of engineered β-cyclodextrinylated MEMS devices for volatile pheromone sensing of olive fruit pests, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 173, 112728, 2020.
- Shubham Yadav, Archa Nair, Kusuma Urs MB, and Vinayak B Kamble*, Protonic Titanate Nanotube–Reduced Graphene Oxide Composites for Hydrogen Sensing, ACS Applied Nanomaterials, 3(10) 10082–10093, 2020.
- Nithin P, Kusuma Urs MB, Sukhendu Mandal and Vinayak B Kamble*, Underpinning the Conductivity Mechanism in Wide Bandgap Metal Organic Framework through Chemical Sensing, AIP Advances, 10, 085105, 2020.
- Kusuma Urs MB, Nirmal Katiyar, Ritesh Kumar, Abhishek Singh, Krishanu Biswas, C S Tiwary and Vinayak Kamble*: Multi-component (Ag-Au-Cu-Pd-Pt) Alloy Nanoparticles Decorated p-type 2D-Molybdenum Disulphide (MoS2) for Enhanced Hydrogen Sensing, Nanoscale, 12, 11830-11841, 2020.
- Anjana James, Prajisha P, Harish Barshilia, Vinayak Kamble*, Effect of surface roughness on the solar photothermal conversion efficiency of spray-coated CuCo2O4 films. Journal of Applied Physics 127 (14), 145303, 2020.
- Manju P., Neeraj Rajak, Alex Andrews, Vinayak Kamble, Deepshikha Jaiswal-Nagar*: Orthorhombic crystal structure and oxygen deficient cluster distribution model for YBa2Cu3-xAlxO6+δ superconductor.”, Scientific Reports, 10 (1), 1-13, 2020.
- Sreya Suresh, Kusuma Urs., Anupama T. Vasudevan, Sharath Sriram, Vinayak Kamble*, Analysis of unusual and instantaneous overshoots in response transients of gas sensors, Physica Status Solidi RRL, 13: 1800683, 2019.
- Vinayak Kamble*, Facile and in-situ Spray Deposition of SnO2 – Reduced Graphene Oxide Heterostructure Sensor devices, Journal of Physics Communications, 3 (1), 011001, 2019.
- Kusuma URS, S. V. Bhat, Vinayak Kamble*: On exceeding the solubility limit of Cr+3 dopants in SnO2 nanoparticles based Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors, Journal of Applied Physics, 123, 161518, 2018.
- Sukanti Behera, Vinayak Kamble, S Vitta, A Umarji*, C Shivakumara: Synthesis, structure and thermoelectric properties of La1-xNaxCoO3 perovskite oxides, Bulletin of Materials Science, 40, 1291, 2017.
- Vinayak Kamble*, Arun M. Umarji: Achieving selectivity from the synergistic effect of Cr and Pt activated SnO2 thin film Gas Sensors. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 236, 208, 2016.
- Srinatha N, Y S No, Vinayak Kamble, Sujay Chakravarty, Suriya Murthy, Basavaraj Angadi, A. M. Umarji, Won-Kook Choi: Effect of RF power on the structural, optical and gas sensing properties of RF-sputtered Al doped ZnO thin films. RSC Advances 6, 9779, 2016.
- Seema Joshi, Vinayak Kamble, Manoj Kumar, A.M. Umarji, Geetika Srivastava: Nickel Substitution Induced Effects on Gas Sensing Properties of Cobalt Ferrite Nanoparticles. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 654, 460, 2016.
- Vinayak Kamble*, Arun M. Umarji: Effect of Pt doping on Gas Sensing properties of porous Chromium Oxide films through Kinetic Response Analysis Approach. RSC Advances 5, 27509, 2015.
- Vinayak Kamble*, Arun Umarji: Analyzing the kinetic response of tin oxide-carbon and tin oxide-CNT composites gas sensors for alcohols detection. AIP Advances 5, 037138, 2015.
- Vinayak Kamble*, Arun M. Umarji: Correlating defect induced ferromagnetism and gas sensing properties of undoped tin oxide sensors. Applied Physics Letters 104, 251912, 2014.
- Vinayak Kamble*, Arun M. Umarji: Defect induced optical bandgap narrowing in undoped SnO2 nanocrystals. AIP Advances 3, 082120, 2013.
- Vinayak Kamble*, S. V. Bhat, A. M. Umarji: Investigating thermal stability of structural defects and its effect on d0 ferromagnetism in undoped SnO2. Journal of Applied Physics 113, 244307, 2013.
- Vinayak Kamble*, Arun M. Umarji: Gas sensing response analysis of p-type porous Chromium Oxide thin films. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 01, 8167, 2013.
Book chapters
- Rohini Bhalerao-Panajkar, A. D. Sheikh and Vinayak Kamble and Sulabha K Kulkarni, Size, shape and structure tuned metal, metal-oxide and hybrid nanomaterials for ultra-sensitive gas sensors. Handbook of Materials Science Editors: R. S. Ningthoujam and A. K. Tyagi 2023 Publisher: Springer Nature. (Just accepted)
- Role of point defects in gas sensing effects of metal oxides, Vinayak Kamble, Book Title: Metal Oxide Defects: Fundamentals, Design, Development and Applications, Publisher Elsevier, Editors: Vijay Kumar, Sudipta Som, Vishal Sharma, Hendrik C Swart,, 2022. Publisher Elsevier.
- Reduced graphene oxide photodetector devices for infra-red sensing, Vinayak Kamble, Soumya Biswas, Appu VR, Arun Kumar, Book title: Carbon Nanomaterial Electronics: Devices and Applications, Editors: Rupam goswami and Arnab Hazra, pp 349-369, 2021. Publisher Spinger.
- Nanocrystalline Oxides as alternative materials for spectrally selective solar absorber coatings, Vinayak Kamble, Soumya Biswas and Dhruv M. Book title: Nano Tools & Devices for Enhanced Renewable Energy, Editors: Sheila Devasahayam and Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, 447-472, 2020. Publisher Elsevier.
Conference Proceedings
- Silpa, S., and Vinayak B. Kamble. Achieving spectral selectivity in all oxide metal-dielectric hybrid thin film stacks for optical solar reflectors. Oxide-based Materials and Devices XVI. Vol. 13367. SPIE, 2025.
- Anand Ajayan, Sandesh S. Chougule, Abhijith S., Silpa S., Christos N. Markides and Vinayak B. Kamble, Improved spectral selectivity and stability of novel ZnO nanosheet – Au nanofluids for hybrid PV-T applications. 37th International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems (ECOS 2024)
- Sandesh Surendra Chougule, Gaurav Bolegave, Bhaskar Soni, Vinayak Kamble, Christos N. Markides, An Investigation of the Synthesis and Optical Properties of Novel Ag/ZnO Hybrid Nanofluids for Spectral Splitting in Photovoltaic-Thermal Systems, 36th International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems (ECOS 2023) https://doi.org/10.52202/069564-0158
- Shivam Tyagi, Shubham Yadav, Vaibhav Wani, Shivam Singh, Soumya Biswas, Krishna Nand Prajapati, Vinayak Kamble*, CVD Growth of Tin Selenide Thin Films for Optoelectronic Applications, IEEE proceedings of The IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP) 2022.
- Archa Nair and Vinayak Kamble*, Large area coverage and Controlled Photoluminescence from vertically aligned ZnO nanorods on Cu substrates, Materials Today proceedings, 47, 5223-5227, 2021.
- Aditya S Dutt, Soumya Biswas, Keshav Dabral, Rajasekar P and Vinayak Kamble*, High Thermoelectric Figure of Merit of Aluminum doped Zinc Oxide through Unintentional Graphite Inclusion, AIP conference proceedings, 2297 (1), 020005, 2020.
- Vinayak Kamble*, A. M. Umarji: Chromium oxide thin films by Ultrasonic Nebulized Spray Pyrolysis of Aqueous Combustion Mixture for gas sensing application. IEEE Proceedings of International symposium on physics and technology of sensors; 03/2012.