Publications

Journal Publications

Suvendu Kumar Panda, Srikanta Debata and Dhruv Pratap Singh     

Chemical Physics Impact,2024. doi.org/10.1016/j.chphi.2024.100588  

pH-Responsive swimming behavior of light-powered rod-shaped micromotors 

Srikanta Debata, Suvendu Kumar Panda, Satyaprakash Trivedi, William Uspal, and Dhruv Pratap Singh   

Nanoscale, 2023, .  doi.org/10.1039/D3NR03775D 

Bubble propelled micro/nano motors: A robust platform for the detection of environmental pollutants and biosensing 

Suvendu Kumar Panda a, Nomaan Alam Kherani b, Srikanta Debata a and Dhruv Pratap Singh *a  

Mater. Adv., 2023.  doi.org/10.1039/D2TB01367C 

Light-driven microrobots: capture and transport of bacteria and microparticles in the fluid medium

Srikanta Debata,   Nomaan Alam Kherani,   Suvendu Kumar Panda  and  Dhruv Pratap Singh   

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2022. doi.org/10.1039/D2TB01367C 

Microchannels with Self-Pumping Walls

Tingting Yu, A. G. Athanassiadis, Mihail N. Popescu, V. Chikkadi, Achim Güth, Dhruv P. Singh, Tian Qiu, and Peer Fischer

ACS Nano, Sep 2020. doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c05826 

Interface-mediated spontaneous symmetry breaking and mutual interaction between drops containing chemically active particles 

Dhruv P Singh, Alvaro Dominguez, Udit Choudhury, Sai Kottapalli, Mihail N Popescu, Siegfried Dietrich, Peer Fischer 

Nature Communications, 11(2210), May 2020 .

Sensitive and spectrally distinctive photodetection with UV-band specific polarity switching in silver nanoparticle enhanced thin-film gallium oxide

Kanika Arora, Dhruv Pratap Singh, Peer Fischer, Mukesh Kumar  

Advanced Optical Materials, 25 May 2020.

Light‐Controlled Micromotors and Soft Microrobots 

Stefano Palagi, Dhruv P. Singh, Peer Fischer 

Advanced Optical Materials, 7, 1900370, (2019).

Chemical nanomotors at the gram scale form a dense active optorheological medium 

Udit Choudhury, Dhruv P Singh, Tian Qiu, Peer Fischer 

Advanced Materials, 31, 1807382, (2019). 

Photogravitactic microswimmers 

Dhruv P Singh (first and corresponding author), William E Uspal, Mihail N Popescu, Laurence G Wilson, Peer Fischer 

Advanced Functional Materials, 28, 1706660, (2018). 

Chiral plasmonic hydrogen sensors 

Marcus Matuschek, Dhruv P Singh, Hyeon-Ho Jeong, Maxim Nesterov, Thomas Weiss, Peer Fischer, Frank Neubrech, and Na Liu 

Small, 14, 1702990, (2018).  

Chemical micromotors self-assemble and self-propel by spontaneous symmetry breaking 

Tingting Yu, Prabha Chuphal, Snigdha Thakur, Shang Yik Reigh, Dhruv P Singh (corresponding author), Peer Fischer 

Chemical Communications, 54, 11933, (2018). 

Optical and thermophoretic control of janus nanopen injection into living cells 

Christoph M Maier, Maria Ana Huergo, Sara Milosevic, Carla Pernpeintner, Miao Li, Dhruv P Singh, Debora Walker, Peer Fischer, Jochen Feldmann, Theobald Lohmüller 

Nano Letters, 18, 7935, (2018). 

Non‐Equilibrium Assembly of Light‐Activated Colloidal Mixtures

Dhruv P. Singh, Udit Choudhury, Peer Fischer, Andrew G. Mark  

Advanced Materials, 29, 1701328, (2017).

Capture of 2D Microparticle Arrays via a UV‐Triggered Thiol‐yne “Click” Reaction 

Debora Walker, Dhruv P Singh, Peer Fischer 

Advanced Materials, 28, 9846, (2016). 

Highly photoresponsive and wavelength-selective circularly-polarized-light detector based on metal-oxides hetero-chiral thin film 

Seung Hee Lee, Dhruv P. Singh, Ji Ho Sung, Moon-Ho Jo, Ki Chang Kwon, Soo Young Kim, Ho Won Jang, Jong Kyu Kim 

Scientific Reports, 6, 19580, (2016). 

Spatially graded TiO2-SiO2 Bragg reflector with rainbow-colored photonic band gap 

Dhruv P. Singh, Seung Hee Lee, Il Yong Choi, Jong Kyu Kim 

Optics Express, 23, 17568, (2015).

Highly sensitive superhydrophobic Ag nanorods array substrates for surface enhanced fluorescence studies 

Samir Kumar, Pratibha Goel, Dhruv P Singh, JP Singh 

Applied Physics Letters, 104, 023107, (2014).

Delayed freezing of water droplet on silver nanocolumnar thin film 

Dhruv P Singh, Jitendra P Singh 

Applied Physics Letters, 102, 243112,(2013) 

Revisiting the structure zone model for sculptured silver thin films deposited at low substrate temperatures 

Dhruv P. Singh, Pratibha Goel, J. P. Singh 

Applied Physics, 112, 104324, (2012).

Enhanced evaporation of sessile water droplet on vertically standing Ag nanorods film 

Dhruv P Singh, Jitendra P Singh 

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115, 11914, (2011).

Synthesis of  SiOx-Ag core-shell nanostructures by oblique angle deposition 

Dhruv P Singh, Rupali Nagar, JP Singh 

Journal of Applied Physics, 107, 074306, (2010).

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