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  1. Gajal Singla, Milan K. Bera, Monika, Soumen Basu, Nikhil Kumar, Manickam Selvaraj, Parmeshwar Lal Meena, Sasanka Chakrabarti. Near-neutral Plantago ovata-derived double cross-linked nanocomposite gel polymer electrolytes for sustainable, biodegradable, and flexible zinc-air batteries. Journal of Power Sources 2026, 692, 241080. [Impact Factor: 8.4] Link 

  2. Nikhil Kumar, Pranav Anunay, Sunil Kumar, Lalit Kumar Meena, Dharmender Singh. An overview on emerging green organic corrosion inhibitors: sustainable solution for oil and gas industrial applications. RSC Advances 2026, 16, 3909-3948. [Impact Factor: 6.1] Link 

  3. Arsalan Haider, Nikhil Kumar, Yu Qian, Jun Chen, Sobia Tariq, Zhongxin Chen, Baode Ma, Runtong Zhang. Hydroxide-Anchored Ruthenium on N-Doped Biomass-Derived Carbon for Stable CO2 Hydrogenation to Formate. Advanced Sustainable System 2026, 10, e70453. [Impact Factor: 5.6] Link 

  4. Kuldeep Singh Gour, B Charubala, Nikhil Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Paritosh Dubey. Temperature-dependent thin film growth and properties correlation of antimony selenide photoabsorber for solar cells. Inorganic Chemistry Comm 2026, 186, 116300. [Impact Factor: 5.9] Link

  5. S. Sengupta , Phenome India Consortium (Nikhil Kumar). Burden of MASLD and liver fibrosis: evidence from Phenome India cohort. The LANCET Regional Health Southeast Asia 2026, 45, 100723. [Impact Factor: 6.4] Link

  6. Nitin, Milan Kumar Bera, Gajal Singla, Soumen Basu, Kumar Venkatesan, Manickam Selvaraj, Nikhil Kumar, S. Chakrabarti. Synthesis and electrochemical performance of phenylamine tin chloride nanocrystals/reduced graphene oxide (PhASn2Cl5 NCs/rGO) nanocomposite-based electrode materials for advanced supercapacitors. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 2026, 1003, 119774. [Impact Factor: 4.6] Link

  7. Sunil Kumar, Ammasi Ayyandurai, Nikhil Kumar, Kuldeep Singh Gour, Swati Bishnoi, Sudip K. Pattanayek. Temperature accelerated reactive molecular dynamics simulation of magnesium nanoparticles during hydrolysis: Core-shell evolution and implications for hydrogen storage. Journal of Energy Storage 2026, 154, 121238. [Impact Factor: 10.7] Link

  8. Monika, Milan Kumar Bera, Gajal Singla, Pritam Hait, Soumen Basu, Nikhil Kumar, Saifeldin M. Siddee, Manickam Selvaraj, Gurjaspreet Singh, Sasanka Chakrabarti. Harnessing the synergistic effects of green-synthesized Sn2ZnO₄ nanoparticles in biodegradable PVA nanocomposites for high-output triboelectric nanogenerators enabling sustainable energy harvesting. Journal of Alloys & Compounds 2026, 1060, 187339. [Impact Factor: 6.7] Link

  9. Gajal Singla, Milan Kumar Bera, Pritam Hait, Soumen Basu, Isha, Arvind Kumar Yogi, Nikhil Kumar, Manickam Selvaraj, Mohammed A. Assiri, Sasanka Chakrabarti. Impact of biosynthesized heteroatom-doped α-MnO₂ nanocatalyst loading on the performance of nanocomposite bio-sponge air electrode for wearable and biodegradable zinc-air batteries. Journal of Energy Storage 2025, 134, 118110. [Impact Factor: 10.7] Link

  10. Sunil Kumar, Nikhil Kumar,  Lalit K. Meena, Arun Kumar, Roshan Kumar, Vivek S. Yadav, Lalit Mohan Pandey. Atomistic simulation and experimental study of water induced iron corrosion and its prevention mechanism: Estimation of excess pair entropy and atomic charge migration at interface. Surfaces and Interfaces 2025, 74, 107647. [Impact Factor: 6.0] Link

  11. Nikhil Kumar, Pallab Bhattacharya, Animesh Jana, Sunil Kumar. Synergism induced multifunctional electroactivity of Co-Ni bimetallic metal-organic frameworks towards oxygen evolution reaction and supercapacitors. Inorganic Chemistry Comm 2025, 177, 114445. [Impact Factor: 5.9] Link

  12. S. Sengupta , Phenome India Consortium (Nikhil Kumar). Study research protocol for Phenome India-CSIR Health Cohort Knowledgebase: A prospective multi-modal follow-up study on a nationwide employee cohort. Biology Methods and Protocols 2025, 10, bpaf061. [Impact Factor: 2.4] Link

  13. Dharmender Singh, Deepika, S. Choudhary, S. Sharma, A. K. Paul, M. Singh, S. Nain, Nikhil Kumar, V. Singh. C-N/N-N Bonds Formation to Access [1,2,3]Triazolopyrido[3,4-b]indoles and [1,2,3]Triazolo[1,5-a]pyridines. Chemistry -An Asian Journal 2025, 20, e202401453. [Impact Factor: 3.2] Link

  14. Varnika Singh, Gajal Singla, Vishal Kansay, V.D. Sharma, Anita Bhatia, Nikhil Kumar, M.K. Bera. Luminescent bioplastic nanocomposite based on N, K, Ca-doped carbon quantum dots derived from ice plant flower extract for applications in quantum dot-based optical displays. Carbon Letters 2025, 35, 1167-1185. [Impact Factor: 6.2] Link

  15. Nikhil Kumar, Kuldeep Singh Gour, Arsalan Haider, Ravan Kumar, Sungjin Park. Nanoporous Metal–Organic Frameworks for Electroreduction of Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide: A Review. ACS Appl. Nano Materials 2024, 7, 28074–28097. [Impact Factor: 5.8]  Link

  16. Gajal Singla, Vishal, V.D. Sharma, Varnika Singh, Anita Bhatia, Arghya Bera, Nikhil Kumar, M.K. Bera. Harnessing Hetero-atom Doped Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots and its Nanocomposites from Pyrostegia Venusta Flower Extract for Advancing Latent Fingerprint and Anti-Counterfeit Applications. Microchemical Journal 2024, 207, 111831 [Impact Factor: 5.2] Link

  17. Shubham Sharma, Pooja Sharma, Virender Singh, Vaishali, Vinod K. Vashistha, DK Das, Kunwar Pal, Nikhil Kumar, Priyanka Devi. Exploitation of pyrazole C-3/5 carbaldehydes towards the development of therapeutically valuable scaffolds: a review. Chemical Papers 2024, 78, 6287–6314. [Impact Factor: 2.7] Link

  18. Varun Dutt Sharma, Vishal Kansay, G Chandan, Anita Bhatia, Nikhil Kumar, S Chakrabarti, M.K. Bera. Down-conversion luminescence nanocomposites based on nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots@bioplastic for applications in optical displays, LEDs and UVC tubes. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2024, 312, 124065. [Impact Factor: 4.8] Link

  19. Varun Dutt Sharma, Vishal Kansay, G Chandan, Anita Bhatia, Nikhil Kumar, S Chakrabarti, M. K. Bera. Solid-state fluorescence based on nitrogen and calcium co-doped carbon quantum dots@ bioplastic composites for applications in optical displays and light-emitting diodes. Carbon, 2023, 201, 972-983. [Impact Factor: 12.7] Link

  20. Nikhil Kumar, Tanmay Rom, Mukesh Kumar, Tharamani C Nagaiah, Eoyoon Lee, Hyung Chul Ham, Sun Hee Choi, Sudhindra Rayaprol, Vasudeva Siruguri, Tapas Kumar Mandal, Brendan J Kennedy, Avijit Kumar Paul. Unraveling the Effect of A-Site Sr-Doping in Double Perovskites Ca2–xSrxScRuO6 (x = 0 and 1): Structural Interpretation and Mechanistic Investigations of Trifunctional Electrocatalytic Effects. ACS Appl. Energy Materials 2022, 5 (9), 11632-11645. [Impact Factor: 5.5]  Link

  21. Tanmay Rom, Nikhil Kumar, Anant Agrawal, Anurag Gaur, Avijit Kumar Paul. Syntheses, crystal structures, topology and dual electronic behaviors of a family of amine-templated three-dimensional zinc-organophosphonate hybrid solids. J. Mol. Str., 2022, 1263, 133087. [Impact Factor: 4.9] Link

  22. Y Gupta, Z Zaidi, S Mehta, P R Chandewar, Nikhil Kumar, A K Paul, D Shee, A Mondal, L G Sorokhaibam, A Banerjee. Assembly of a coordination polymer with sulphate-capped pentamolybdate units and copper: Synthesis, Structure, Magnetic and Catalytic studies. Dalton Trans. 2022, Advance Article. [Impact Factor: 3.3] Link

  23. T Rom, Nikhil Kumar, P K Maji, A K Paul. Synthesis, Structure and Topology of Copper (I) Tetrazolate Framework: Facile Approach to Design Multiple Dye Adsorbent with Carbon Composites. ChemistrySelect 2022, 7, e202103520. [Impact Factor: 2.3] Link

  24. Nikhil Kumar, T Rom, B Mallick, R Kaushik, A Ghosh, P. D. Babu, SK. Panda, AK Paul. Antiferromagnetically Coupled Double Perovskite as an Efficient and Robust Catalyst for Visible Light Driven Water Splitting at Neutral pH.Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2022 24, 5083-5093. [Impact Factor: 3.0] Link

  25. Nikhil Kumar, R Bhowal, D Chopra, AK Paul. Structural Enhancement under X-ray Irradiation in an Octanuclear Uranium-Based 3D Metal-Organic Framework. Cryst. Growth & Design 2021, 21, 5503-5507. [Impact Factor: 3.6] Link

  26. J Devi, J Yadav, K Lal, Nikhil Kumar, AK Paul, D Kumar, PP Dutta, DK Jindal. Design, synthesis, crystal structure, molecular docking studies of some diorganotin (IV) complexes derived from the piperonylic hydrazide Schiff base ligands as cytotoxic agents. J. Mol. Str., 2021, 1232, 129992. [Impact Factor: 4.9]  Link

  27. R Kaushik, R Sakla, Nikhil Kumar, A Ghosh, VD Ghule, DA JoseMultianalytes sensing probe: fluorescent moisture detection, smartphone assisted colorimetric phosgene recognition and colorimetric discrimination of Cu2+ and Fe3+ ions. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 2021, 328, 129026. [Impact Factor: 8.3]  Link

  28. N Nehra, R Kumar Tittal, VD Ghule, Nikhil Kumar, A Kumar Paul, K Lal, A Kumar. CuAAC Mediated Synthesis of 2‐HBT Linked Bioactive 1, 2, 3‐Triazole Hybrids: Investigations through Fluorescence, DNA Binding, Molecular Docking, ADME Predictions, and DFT Study. ChemistrySelect 2021, 6 (4), 685-694. [Impact Factor: 2.3]  Link

  29. Nikhil Kumar, K Naveen, M Kumar, TC Nagaiah, R Sakla, A Ghosh, V Siruguri, S Sadhukhan, S Kanungo, A K Paul. Multifunctionality Exploration of Ca2FeRuO6: An Efficient Trifunctional Electrocatalyst toward OER/ORR/HER and Photocatalyst for Water Splitting. ACS Appl. Energy Materials 2021, 4 (2), 1323-1334. [Impact Factor: 5.5]  Link

  30. Nikhil Kumar; Kumar, M.; Nagaiah, C.T.; Siruguri, V.; Rayaprol, S.; Yadav, A.K.; Jha, S.N.; Bhattacharyya, D.; Paul, A. K. Investigation of New B‑Site-Disordered Perovskite Oxide CaLaScRuO6+δ: An Efficient Oxygen Bifunctional Electrocatalyst in a Highly Alkaline Medium. ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfaces., 2020, 12(8), 9190-9200. [Impact Factor: 7.8] Link

  31. Nikhil Kumar; Paul, A. K. Triggering Lewis Acidic Nature through the Variation of Coordination Environment of Cd-Centers in 2D-Coordination Polymers. Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 1284-1294. [Impact Factor: 4.6] Link

  32. Nikhil Kumar; Kumari Naveen; Anita Bhatia; SemthilKumar Muthaiah; V. Siruguri; A. K. Paul, “Solvent and additive-free efficient aerobic oxidation of alcohols by perovskites oxide-based heterogeneous catalyst” React. Chem. & Eng. 2020, 5, 1264-1271. [Impact Factor: 2.9]  Link

  33. Tanmay Rom; Nikhil Kumar; M. Sharma; A. Gaur; A. K.Paul, Colossal Dielectric Responses from the Wide Band Gap 2D-Semiconducting Amine Templated Hybrid Framework Materials. Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 9465-9470. [Impact Factor: 4.6]  Link

  34. Nikhil Kumar; Tanmay Rom; V. Singh; A. K. Paul, Transition Metal-ions Regulated Structural and Catalytic Behaviors of Coordination Polymers. Cryst. Growth & Design 2020, 20, 5277-5288. [Impact Factor: 3.6]  Link

  35. Kumari Naveen; Nikhil Kumar; Sonia Rani; Tapas Kumar Mandal; Anurag Gaur; P. D. Babu; Vasudeva Siruguri; Pradip K. Maji; Sudipta Kanungo, A. K.Paul. Investigation of multiferroic behavior at room temperature in Bi-induced orthoferrite: combined experimental and first-principles studies. Bull. Mater. Sci. 2020, 43, 196. [Impact Factor: 2.1] Link

  36. R. S Mathpati; S. Dharavath; Nikhil Kumar; Vikas Ghule; A. K. Paul; R. K. Tittal, Design, synthesis and investigations of a series of energetic salts through the variation of amines and concentration of picrate-anion. CrystEngComm.  2020,  22, 4842-4852. [Impact Factor: 2.4]  Link

  37. RK Tittal, VD Ghule, Nikhil Kumar, L Kumar, K Lal, A Kumar. Design, synthesis, biological activity, molecular docking, and computational studies on novel 1, 4-disubstituted-1, 2, 3-Triazole-Thiosemicarbazone hybrid molecules. J. Mol. Str. 2020, 1209, 127951. [Impact Factor: 4.9]  Link

  38. Nikhil Kumar, Shubhangi, R Kanagaraj, K Lal, AK Paul. Modeling molecular interactions of propounded pyrazole based drug candidates against bacterial DNA gyrase: Validation by syntheses and biological studies. J. Mol. Str.  2019, 1195, 435-450. [Impact Factor: 4.9]  Link

  39. S Deswal, RK Tittal, P Yadav, K Lal, G Vikas D, Nikhil Kumar. Cellulose‐Supported CuI‐Nanoparticles‐Mediated Green Synthesis of Trifluoromethylbenzoate‐Linked Triazoles for Pharmacological & DFT study. ChemistrySelect 2019, 4, 759-764. [Impact Factor: 2.3]  Link

  40. Naveen, K.; Nikhil Kumar; Mandal, T. K.; Babu, P, D.; Siruguri, V.; Maji, P. K.; Paul, A. K. Multiferroic Behaviour in B-site Cr-Doped Hexagonal YInO3 Perovskites: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties. J. Mol. Str. 2019, 1185, 432-439. [Impact Factor: 4.9]  Link

  41. Paul, A. K.; Naveen, K.; Nikhil Kumar; Kanagaraj, R.; Vidya, V. M.; Rom, T. First Example of a Nonanuclear Silver Sulfate Hybrid Cluster: Green Approach for Synthesis of Lewis Acid Catalyst. Cryst. Growth Des. 2018, 18, 6411−6416. [Impact Factor: 3.6]  Link

PATENTS

1. A. K. Paul and Nikhil Kumar. “A catalyst system for synthesizing ketone from secondary alcohol and a solvent-free process for the same thereof”. (Granted) 

    Indian Patent Application No. 201811029854.

    Indian Patent No. 403303

2. A. K. Paul, Nikhil Kumar and Shubhangi. “A process for the synthesis of a pyrazole derivative”. (Granted)

    Indian Patent Application No. 201911009168.

    Indian Patent No. 393741

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Book CHAPTERS

1. Nikhil Kumar, N Gupta, P. Bhattacharya. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs): Chemistry, properties, and energy storage applications. 31/05/2024 Bentham Science Publishers.

2. Sunil Kumar, Nikhil Kumar, Roshan Kumar, R. K. Sahu, S. Sahu. MXenes for CO2 Conversion to fuel: correlation between Atomistic Simulation, experimetal and Artificial Intelligence. 04/10/2025 Elsevier.

3. K. S. Gour, Nikhil Kumar, Recent Advancements in Sb2Se3 Thin Film Photodetectors. [Submitted].

4. Shakshi, Ayushi Malik, Deepak K. Yadav, Sonia Yadav, Nikhil Kumar*. CFRP Composites for Structural Battery and Energy Storage Applications.  Springer Publishers [Submitted].

5. Anshu Sharma, Akhil Garg, Aman Garg, Roshan Raman, Nikhil Kumar. Engineered MOF-based Diagnostic Platforms for Detection of Viruses and Prions. IET London [Submitted].

6. Shakshi, Ayushi Malik, Deepak K. Yadav*, Nikhil Kumar*. Design Architecture of Microbial Supercapacitors: Key Components, Mechanisms of Electricity Generation, Challenges, and Future Perspectives. Springer Publishers [Submitted].​

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1. Nikhil Kumar, Natalia A. Ivanovo, Bakirov S. M. Chemistry, Properties and Energy storage applications of Metal-organic Frameworks. Current Prob. of Energy in Agricultural Industry, 2023, 1, 1-9.

2. Natalia A. Ivanova, Nikhil Kumar, Dmitry D. Spasov, Ruskin M. Mensharapov, Vladimir N. Fateev. Electrochemical Devices with Proton Exchange Membrane for a Distributed Network of Power Energy. Current Problems of Energy in Agricultural Industry, 2023, 1, 12-18. 

    

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