Dr. Kanishka Biswas

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232. Debattam Sarkar, Subarna Das, Vaishali Taneja, Manisha Samanta, Koushik Jagadish, Animesh Das, Monika Bhakar, Prasad V. D. Matukumilli, Suresh Perumal, Goutam Sheet, Dirtha Sanyal, Koushik Pal, N. Ravishankar, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Glassy Thermal Transport Triggers Ultra-High Thermoelectric Performance in GeTe. Adv. Mater., 2025 (accepted).

231. Ankit Kumar, Sivasubramaniyan S. Vishak, Anustoop Das, Kanishka Biswas, Prasenjit Ghosh, and Surjeet Singh. Entropy-Stabilized Half-Heuslers (TiHf)1/2(Fe1–xCoNi1+x)1/3Sb with Highly Reduced Lattice Thermal Conductivity. Chem. Mater., 2025, 37, 1370–1381.

230. Riddhimoy Pathak, Anjana Joseph, Prabir Dutta, Boby Joseph, Jyoti Duhan, Sushmita Chandra, Chandrabhas Narayana, Koushik Pal and Kanishka Biswas. Impact of Pressure on Metavalent Bonding in BiTe influencing Electronic Topological Transitions. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, e202422652.

229. Animesh Bhui, Prasad V.D. Matukumilli, Shuva Biswas, Abdul Ahad, Anupama Ghata, Divya Rawat, Moinak Dutta, Ajay Soni, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. s-d Coupling Induced Dynamic off-centering of Cu Drives High Thermoelectric Performance in TlCuS. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 3758-3768.

228. Rohit Kumar Rohj, Animesh Bhui, Shaili Sett, Arindam Ghosh, Kanishka Biswas and D. D. Sarma. Ultralow Thermal Conductivity Approaching the Disordered Limit in Crystalline TlCuZrSe3. Chem. Mater., 2025, 37, 520-529.

227. Anustoop Das, Koyendrila Debnath, Ivy Maria, Subarna Das, Prabir Dutta, Diptikanta Swain, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Influence of Subvalent Twin-Rattler for High n-Type Thermoelectric Performance in Bi13S18Br2 Chalcohalide. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024, 146, 30518–30528.

226. Mohammad Ubaid, Paribesh Acharyya, Suneet K. Maharana, Kanishka Biswas and Koushik Pal. Antibonding Valence States Induce Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Metal  Halide Semiconductors. Appl. Phys. Rev., 2024, 11, 041313.

225. Kewal Singh Rana, Nidhi, Chandan Bera, Kanishka Biswas and Ajay Soni. Anharmonic Rattling Leading to Ultra-Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Cu12Sb4S13 Tetrahedrites. J. Mater Chem. A2024, 12, 22756-22764.

224. Ivy Maria, Vaishali Taneja, Poonam Yadav and Kanishka Biswas. Access to DESY: pioneering new horizons in Indian science. Curr. Sci., 2024, 127, 892-893.

223. Animesh Das, Deval Prasad Bhattarai, Ekashmi Rathore and Kanishka Biswas. High Performance and Selective Sequestration of Cd(II) from Water by Layered Thiophosphate. Inorg. Chem., 2024, 63, 18092-18102.

222. Anustoop Das and Kanishka Biswas. High Performance in Zintle Thermoelectrics via Reduction in Crystal Field Splitting Energy. Sci. China Mater., 2024, 67, 3424-3425.

221. Vaishali Taneja, Naveen Goyal, Subarna Das, Sushmita Chandra, Prabir Dutta, N. Ravishankar and Kanishka Biswas. Nanostructured Ferecrystal Intergrowths with TaSe2 Unveiled High Thermoelectric Performance in n-type SnSe. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024 , 146, 24716-24723.

220. Ivy Maria, Paribesh Acharyya, David Voneshen, Moinak Dutta, Abdul Ahad, Martin Etter, Tanmoy Ghosh, Koushik Pal and Kanishka Biswas. Evidence of Lone Pair Crafted Emphanisis in the Ruddelsden-Popper Halide Perovskite Cs2PbI2Cl2Adv. Mater.2024, 2408008.

219. Divya Rawat, Prabir Dutta, Devesh Negi, Ivy Maria, Surajit Saha, Kanishka Biswas and Ajay Soni. Multiple Charge Density Wave Ordering and Quantum Coupling of Collective Excitations in Layered GdTe3Phys. Rev. B2024, 110,075155.

218. Riddhimoy Pathak, Sayan Paul, Subarna Das, Anustoop Das, Swapan K. Pati and Kanishka Biswas. Deciphering Pauling’s Third Rule: Uncovering Strong Anhermonicity and Exceptionally Low Thermal Conductivity in TlAgSe for Thermoelectrics. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, e202408908.

217. Kewal Singh Rana, Aditya Singh, Animesh Bhui, Kanishka Biswas and Ajay Soni. Anharmonic Phonon Vibrations  of Ag and Cu for Poor Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Superionic AgCrSe2 and CuCrSe2ACS Appl. Energy Mater.2024, 7, 5621-5628.

216. Moinak Dutta, Anustoop Das and Kanishka Biswas. Role of Covalent Cages and Rattler Atoms in Lowering the Thermal Conductivity in Zintl Metal Chalcogenides. Inorg. Chem., 2024, 63, 20068-20077.

215. Shuva Biswas, Arnab Mandal, Diptikanta Swain and Kanishka Biswas. Synthesis and Soft Crystal Structure-Induced Broad Emission in (NH3C6H12NH3)InBr5. 2H2O. Chem. Commun.2024, 60, 7757-7760.

214. Arnab Mandal, Sayan Goswami, Subarna Das, Diptikanta Swain and Kanishka Biswas. New Lead- free Hybrid Layered Double Perovskite Halides: Synthesis, Structural Transition and Ultralow Thermal Conductivity. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, e202406616.

213. Debattam Sarkar, Animesh Bhui, Ivy Maria, Moinak Dutta and Kanishka Biswas. Hidden Structures: A Driving Factor to Achieve Low Thermal Conductivity and High Thermoelectric Performance. Chem. Soc. Rev.2024, 53, 6100-6149.

212. Riddhimoy Pathak, Prabir Dutta, Kapildeb Dolui, Aastha Vasdev, Adrija Ghosh, Raj Sekhar Roy, Ujjal Gautam, Tapas Kumar Maji, Goutam Sheet and Kanishka Biswas. Mild Chemistry Synthesis of Ultrathin Bi2O2S nanosheets exhibiting 2D- Ferroelectricity at Room Temperature. Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 7170-7177.

211. Jayita Pradhan, Anustoop Das, Arpita Panda and Kanishka Biswas. Curious Case of CsPb2Br5: Extremely Soft Structure-Induced Broadband Emission. Chem. Mater., 2024, 36, 7, 3405-3416.

210. Subarna Das, Debattam Sarkar and Kanishka Biswas. Enhanced Topological Surface State Mediated Transport Elevates Thermoelectric Performance in SnSb2Te4 Quantum Material. Chem. Mater., 2024, 36, 7, 3359-3368.
 
209. Debasmita Pariari, Paribesh Acharyya, Arijit Sinha, Ashutosh Mohanty, Shaili Sett, Navkiranjot Gill, Arindam Ghosh, Umesh Waghmare , Kanishka Biswas and D.D. Sarma. Non-monotonic thermal conductivity of FAxMA1-xPbI3 achieving ultra- low values: The role of anharmonic low energy rotation of organic moieties. ACS Energy Lett.2024, 9, 5, 2128–2136.
 

208. Animesh Bhui and Kanishka Biswas. Mobile Ion Confinement for Better Thermoelectrics. Nat. Mater., 2024, 23, 451-452.(News and Views)

207. Anupam Dey, Jayita Pradhan, Sandip Biswas, Faruk Ahmed Rahimi, Kanishka Biswas and Tapas Kumar Maji. COF-Topological Quantum Material Nano-heterostructure for CO2 to Syngas Production under Visible Light. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, e202315596.

206. Kewal Singh Rana, Debattam Sarkar, Nidhi, Aditya Singh, Chandan Bera, Kanishka Biswas and Ajay Soni. Ultralow lattice thermal conductivity in complex structure Cu26V2Sn6Se32 due to interaction of low-frequency acoustic-optical phonons. Phys. Rev. B, 2024, 109, 115202.

205. Vaishali Taneja, Subarna Das, Kapildeb Dolui, Tanmoy Ghosh, Animesh Bhui, Usha Bhat, Dinesh Kumar Kedia, Koushik Pal, Ranjan Datta and Kanishka Biswas. High Thermoelectric Performance in Phonon-Glass Electron-Crystal Like AgSbTe2Adv. Mater.2024, 2307058.

204. Ankit Kashyap, Divya Rawat, Debattam Sarkar, Niraj Kumar Singh, Kanishka Biswas and Ajay Soni.  Chemically Transformed Ag2Te Nanowires on Polyvinylidene Fluoride Membrane for Flexible Thermoelectric Application. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, e202401234.

203. Prabir Dutta, Sushmita Chandra, Ivy Maria, Koyendrila Debnath, Divya Rawat, Ajay Soni, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Lattice Instability Induced Concerted Structural Distortion in Charged and van der Waals Layered GdTe3. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, 2312663.

202. Animesh Bhui, Subarna Das, Raagya Arora, Usha Bhat, Prabir Dutta, Tanmoy Ghosh, Riddhimoy Pathak, Ranjan Datta, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Hg Doping Induced Reduction in Structural Disorder Enhances the Thermoelectric Performance in AgSbTe2J. Am. Chem. Soc.2023, 145, 25392.

201. Nirma Kumari, Namit Pai, Vikram Chavan, Arnab Sarkar, Debattam Sarkar, Kanishka Biswas, Indradev Samajdar, and Titas Dasgupta. Strained Lamellar Structures Leading to Improved Thermoelectric Performance in Mg3Sb1.5Bi0.5ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces2023, 15, 46995.

200. Surabhi Suresh Nair, Muhammad Sajjad, Kanishka Biswas, and Nirpendra Singh. Metavalent Bonding Induced Phonon Transport Anomaly in 2D γ-MX (M = Ge, Sn, Pb; X = S, Se, Te) Monolayers. ACS Appl. Energy Mater.2023, 6, 8787.

199. Debattam Sarkar, Kapildeb Dolui, Vaishali Taneja, Abdul Ahad, Moinak Dutta, S. O. Manjunatha, Diptikanta Swain and Kanishka Biswas. Chemical Bonding tuned Lattice Anharmonicity leads to High Thermoelectric  Performance in Cubic AgSnSbTe3Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2023, e202308515.

198. Kewal Singh Rana, Raveena Gupta, Debattam Sarkar, Niraj Kumar Singh, Somnath Acharya, Satish Vitta, Chandan Bera, Kanishka Biswas and Ajay Soni. Interaction of acoustic and optical phonons in a soft-bonded Cu-Se framework of large unit cell minerals with anionic disorders. Phys. Rev. B2023, 108, 045202.

197. Aditya Bhardwaj, Kaushik Kundu, Ranjan Sasmal, Paribesh Acharyya, Jayita Pradhan, Simanta Kalita, Sarit S. Agasti and Kanishka Biswas. 2D Nanosheets of Layered Double Perovskites: Synthesis, Photostable Bright Orange Emission and Photoluminescence Blinking. Chem. Sci.2023,14, 7161.

196. Riddhimoy Pathak, Lin Xie, Subarna Das, Tanmoy Ghosh, Animesh Bhui, Kapildeb Dolui, Dirtha Sanyal, Jiaqing He and Kanishka Biswas. Vacancy Controlled Nanoscale Cation Ordering Leads to High Thermoelectric Performance. Energy & Environ. Sci.2023, 16, 3110.

195. Y. Rajaji, Raagya Arora, B. Joseph, Subhajit Roychowdhury, Umesh V. Waghmare, Kanishka Biswas and Chandrabhas Narayana. Pressure-induced topological crystalline insulating phase in TlBiSe2: Experiments and theory. Phys. Rev. B2023, 107, 205139.

194. Paribesh Acharyya, Koushik Pal, Abdul Ahad, Debattam Sarkar, Kewal Singh Rana, Moinak Dutta, Ajay Soni, U. V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Extended Antibonding States and Phonon Localization Induce Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Low Dimensional Metal Halide. Adv. Funct. Mater.2023, 2304607.

193. Ivy Maria, Raagya Arora, Moinak Dutta, Subhajit Roychowdhury, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Metavalent Bonding-Mediated Dual 6s2 Lone Pair Expression Leads to Intrinsic Lattice Shearing in n-Type TlBiSe2J. Am. Chem. Soc.2023, 145, 9292-9303.

192. Arindom Chatterjee, Ananya Banik, Alexandros El Sachat, José Manuel Caicedo Roque, Jessica Padilla-Pantoja, Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres, Kanishka Biswas, José Santiso and Emigdio Chavez-Angel. Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties of Misfit Bi2Sr2-xCaxCo2Oy: Isovalent Substitutions and Selective Phonon Scattering. Materials, 2023, 16, 1143.

191. Dmitry Pshenay-Severin, Satya Narayan Guin, Petr Konstantinov, Sergey Novikov, Ekashmi Rathore, Kanishka Biswas and Alexander Burkov. Band Structure, Phonon Spectrum and Thermoelectric Properties of Ag3CuS2Materials, 2023, 16, 1130.

190. Animesh Das, Paribesh Acharyya, Subarna Das and Kanishka Biswas. High Thermoelectric Performance in Entropy Driven Ge1-2x-yPbxSnxSbyTe. J. Mater Chem. A2023, 11, 12793.

189. Anustoop Das, Kaushik Pal, Paribesh Acharyya, Subarna Das, Krishnendu Maji and Kanishka Biswas. Strong Antibonding I(p)-Cu(d) States Lead to Intrinsically Low Thermal Conductivity in CuBiI4J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 1349.

188. Sushmita Chandra, Janaky Sunil, Prabir Dutta, Kaushik Pal, Manisha Samanta, Boby Joseph, Chandrabhas Narayana and Kanishka Biswas. Evidence of pressure-induced multiple electronic topological transitions in BiSe. Mater. Today Phys.2023, 30, 100956.

187. Naini Bajaj, Dhanashree Chemate, Harish P. Veeravenkata, Ashish Khandelwal, M. K. Chattopadhyay, Moinak Dutta, Aditya Prasad Roy, Archana Sagdeo, Ankit Jain, Shriganesh S. Prabhu, Kanishka Biswas and Dipanshu Bansal. Sublinear temperature dependence of thermal conductivity in the incommensurate phase of TlInTe2Phys. Rev. B2022, 106, 214101.

186. Sahil Tippireddy, Feridoon Azough, Vikram Vikram, Animesh Bhui, Philip A. Chater, Demie Kepaptsoglou, Quentin Ramasse, Robert Freer, Ricardo Grau-Crespo, Kanishka Biswas, Paz Vaqueiro and Anthony V. Powell. Local Structural Distortions and Reduced Thermal Conductivity in Ge-Substituted Chalcopyrite. J. Mater. Chem. A2022, 10, 23874.

185. Sukanya Pal, Raagya Arora, Ananya Banik, K. V. Glazyrin, D.V.S. Muthu, Kanishka Biswas, U. V. Waghmare and A. K. Sood. Pressure-induced topological and structural phase transitions in natural van der Waals heterostructures from the (SnTe)m(Bi2Te3)n homologous family: Raman spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction and density functional theory. Phys. Rev. B, 2022, 106, 134104

184. Debattam Sarkar,   Manisha Samanta,   Tanmoy Ghosh,   Kapildeb Dolui,   Subarna Das,   Kumar Saurabh,   Dirtha Sanyal  and  Kanishka Biswas. All-scale Hierarchical Nanostructures and Superior Valence Band Convergence Lead to Ultra-high Thermoelectric Performance in Cubic GeTe. Energy  Environ. Sci., 2022, 15, 4625.

183. Paribesh Acharyya, Tanmoy Ghosh, Koushik Pal, Kewal Singh Rana, Moinak Dutta, Diptikanta Swain, Martin Etter, Ajay Soni, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Glassy thermal conductivity in Cs3Bi2I6Cl3 single crystal. Nat. Commun., 2022, 13, 5053.

182. Sushmita Chandra, Usha Bhat, Prabir Dutta, Aditya Bhardwaj, Ranjan Datta and Kanishka Biswas. Modular Nanostructures Facilitate Low Thermal Conductivity and Ultra-High Thermoelectric Performance in n-type SnSe. Adv. Mater., 2022, 2203725.

181. Kanishka Biswas, Zhifeng Ren, Yuri Grin, Kyu Hyoung Lee, Takao Mori and Lidong Chen. Thermoelectric Materials Science and Technology Towards Applications. Appl. Phys. Lett.2022, 121, 070401.

180. Cheng Chang, Kanishka Biswas, In Chung, Feng Hao, Jiaqing He, Maria Ibanez, Jian Liu, Bingchao Qin, Gangjian Tan, Peng Li Wang, Di Wu, Yu Xiao, Hongyao Xie and Li-Dong Zhao. Mercouri G. Kanatzidis: Pioneer of Discovering New Materials. Materials Lab2022, 1, 220052.

179. Riddhimoy Pathak, Prabir Dutta, Ashutosh Srivastava, Divya Rawat, Radha Krishna Gopal, Abhishek K. Singh, Ajay Soni and Kanishka Biswas. Strong Anharmonicity-induced Low Thermal Conductivity and High n-type Mobility in Topological Insulator Bi1.1Sb0.9Te2S. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2022, e202210783.

178. Susan E. Latturner, Kanishka Biswas, Daniel P. Shoemaker and Kirill Kovnir. Laudatio Mercouri G. Kanatzidis. Z. Anorg.Allg.Chem., 2022, 648, e2022002.

177. Jayita Pradhan, Anustoop Das, Kaushik Kundu, Chahat Goyal and Kanishka Biswas. Soft Crystal Lattice and Large Anharmonicity Facilitate the Self-Trapped Excitonic Emission in Ultrathin 2D Nanoplates of Rb2PbBr5Chem. Sci2022, 13, 9952-9959.

176. Abdul Ahad, Debattam Sarkar, Vaishali Taneja and Kanishka Biswas. Coexistence of Quantum Diffusive and Diffusive Two Band Carriers in Site Disordered AgSnSbTe3Mater. Today Phys., 2022, 27, 100787.

175. Sahil Tippireddy, Feridoon Azough, Vikram, Frances Tompkins Towers, Animesh Bhui, Robert Freer, Ricardo Grau-Crespo, Kanishka Biswas, Paz Vaqueiro and Anthony Powell. Tin-Substituted Chalcopyrite: an n-Type Sulfide with Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance. Chem.Mater.2022, 34, 5860-5873.
 
174. Tanmoy Ghosh, Moinak Dutta, Debattam Sarkar, and Kanishka Biswas. Insights into Low Thermal Conductivity in Inorganic Materials for Thermoelectrics. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 10099-100118.
 
173. Animesh Bhui,Subhajit Roychowdhury,Arpita Sen,Umesh V Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Free-Standing Few-Layer Tellurene Nanosheets: Simple Solution-Phase Synthesis and Electronic Structure. Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem.2022, e202200097.
 
172. Animesh Bhui, Tanmoy Ghosh, Koushik Pal, Kewal Singh Rana, Kaushik Kundu, Ajay Soni, and Kanishka Biswas. Intrinsically Low Thermal Conductivity in the n-Type Vacancy-Ordered Double Perovskite Cs2SnI6: Octahedral Rotation and Anharmonic Rattling. Chem. Mater., 2022, 34, 3301-3310.
 
171. Moinak Dutta,Matukumilli V. D. Prasad, Juhi Pandey, Ajay Soni, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Local Symmetry Breaking Suppresses the Thermal Conductivity in Crystalline Solid. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2022, 61, e202200071.
 
170. Ekashmi Rathore, Rinkle Juneja, Debattam Sarkar, Subhajit Roychowdhury, Maiko Kofu, Kenji Nakajima, Abhishek K. Singh and Kanishka Biswas. Enhanced Covalency and Nanostructured Phonon Scattering Lead to High Thermoelectric Performance in n-type PbS. Mater. Today Energy2022, 24, 100953.
 
169. Robert Freer, Dursun Ekren, Tanmoy Ghosh, Kanishka Biswas, Pengfei Qiu, Shun Wan, L D Chen, Shen Han, Chenguang Fu, Tie-Jun Zhu, A. K. M. Ashiquzzaman Shawon, Alexandra Zevalkink, Kazuki Imasato, G Jeffrey Snyder, Melis Ozen, Kivanc Saglik, Umut Aydemir, Raúl Cardoso-Gil, Eteri Svanidze, Ryoji Funahashi, Anthony V. Powell, Shriparna Mukherjee, Sahil Tippireddy, Paz Vaqueiro, Franck Gascoin, Theodora Kyratsi, Philipp Sauerschnig and Takao Mori. Key properties of inorganic thermoelectric materials – tables (version 1). J. Phys. Energy2022, 4, 022002.
 
168. Sushmita Chandra, Prabir Dutta and Kanishka Biswas. High-Performance Thermoelectrics Based on Solution-Grown SnSe Nanostructures. ACS Nano, 2022, 16, 7-14.
 
167. Debattam Sarkar, Subarna Das and Kanishka Biswas. Valence Band Convergence and phonon scattering trigger high thermoelectric performance in SnTe. Appl. Phys. Lett., 2021, 119, 253901.
 
166. Ekashmi Rathore, Kaushik Kundu, Krishnendu Maji, Anustoop Das and Kanishka Biswas. Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructure of CsPbBr3 Nanocrystal and Bi2O2Se Nanosheet. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2021 , 125, 26951-26957.
 
165. Moinak Dutta, Koushik Pal, Martin Etter, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Emphanisis in Cubic (SnSe)0.5(AgSbSe2)0.5 : Dynamic Off-Centering of Anion Leads to Low Thermal Conductivity and High Thermoelectric Performance. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2021, 143, 16839–16848.
 

164. Sushmita Chandra, Raagya Arora, Umesh Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Modulation of Electronic Structure and Thermoelectric Properties of Orthorhombic and Cubic SnSe by AgBiSe2 Alloying. Chem. Sci.2021, 12, 13074-13082.

163. Aastha Vasdev, Moinak Dutta, Shivam Mishra, Veerpal Kaur, Harleen Kaur, Kanishka Biswas and Goutam Sheet. Local ferroelectric polarization switching driven by nanoscale distortions in thermoelectric Sn0.7Ge0.3Te. Sci. Rep., 2021, 11, 17190.

162. Tanmoy Ghosh, Subhajit Roychowdhury, Moinak Dutta and Kanishka Biswas. High-Performance Thermoelectric Energy Conversion: A Tale of Atomic Ordering in AgSbTe2ACS. Energy Lett.2021, 6, 2825-2837.

161. Krishna Chand Maurya, Animesh Bhui, Kanishka Biswas and Bivas Saha. Anisotropic epsilon-near-pole (ENP) resonance leads to hyperbolic photonic dispersion in homologous (Bi2)m(Bi2Se3)n topological quantum materials. Appl. Phys. Lett., 2021, 119, 011902.

160. Sorb Yesudhas, N. Yedukondalu, Manoj K. Jana, Jianbo Zhang, Jie Huang, Bijuan Chen, Hongshang Deng, Raimundas Sereika, Hong Xiao, Stanislav Sinogeikin, Curtis Kenny-Benson, Kanishka Biswas, John B. Parise, Yang Ding, Ho-kwang Mao. Structural, vibrational  and electronic properties of 1D-TlInTe2 under high pressure: A combined experimental and theoretical study. Inorg. Chem.2021, 60, 9320-9331.

159. Ekashmi Rathore, Krishnendu Maji and Kanishka Biswas. Nature-Inspired Coral-like Layered [Co0.79Al0.21(OH)2(CO3)0.11]·mH2O for Fast Selective ppb Level Capture of Cr(VI) from Contaminated Water. Inorg. Chem.2021, 60, 10056-10063.

158. Riddhimoy Pathak, Debattam Sarkar and Kanishka Biswas. Enhanced Band Convergence and Ultra-low Thermal Conductivity  Lead to High Thermoelectric Performance in SnTe. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2021, 60, 17686-17692.

157. Tianqi Deng, Jose Recatalà-Gómez, Masato Ohnishi, Repaka D. V. Maheswar, Pawan Kumar, Ady Suwardi, Anas Abutaha, Iris Nandhakumar, Kanishka Biswas, Michael Brian Sullivan, Gang Wu, Junichiro Shiomi, Shuo-Wang Yang and Kedar Hippalgaonkar. Electronic transport descriptors for the rapid screening of thermoelectric materials. Mater. Horizons, 2021, 8, 2463-2474.

156. Animesh Bhui, Moinak Dutta, Madhubanti Mukherjee, Kewal Singh Rana, Abhishek K. Singh, Ajay Soni and Kanishka Biswas. Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Earth-Abundant Cu1.6Bi4.8S8: Anharmonic Rattling of Interstitial Cu. Chem. Mater., 2021, 33, 2993-3001.

155. Kaushik Kundu,Prabir Dutta, Paribesh Acharyya and Kanishka Biswas. Pb-free Layered All-Inorganic Metal Halides RbSn2Br5: Mechanochemical Synthesis, Band Gap Tuning, Optical and Dielectric Properties. Mater. Res. Bull., 2021, 140, 111339.

154. Moinak Dutta, Raju K. Biswas, Swapan K. Pati and Kanishka Biswas. Discordant Gd and Electronic Band Flattening Synergistically Induce High Thermoelectric Performance in n-type PbTe. ACS Energy Lett., 2021, 61625–1632.

153. Moinak Dutta, Debattam Sarkar and Kanishka Biswas. Intrinsically Ultralow Thermal Conductive Inorganic Solids for High Thermoelectric Performance. Chem. Commun.2021, 57, 4751-4767.

152. Debattam Sarkar, Subhajit Roychowdhury, Raagya Arora, Tanmoy Ghosh, Aastha Vasdev, Boby Joseph, Goutam Sheet, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Metavalent bonding in GeSe Leads to High Thermoelectric Performance. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2021, 60, 10350-10358.

151. Subhajit Roychowdhury, Tanmoy Ghosh, Raagya Arora, Manisha Samanta, Lin Xie, Niraj Kumar Singh, Ajay Soni, Jiaqing He, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Enhanced atomic ordering leads to high thermoelectric performance in AgSbTe2Science2021, 371, 722-727.

150. Kaushik Kundu, Prabir Dutta, Paribesh Acharyya and Kanishka Biswas. Mechanochemical Synthesis, Optical and Magnetic Properties of Pb-free Ruddlesden-Popper type Layered Rb2CuCl2Br2 Perovskite. J. Phys. Chem. C2021, 125, 4720–4729.

149. Moinak Dutta, Manisha Samanta, Tanmoy Ghosh, David J Voneshen and Kanishka Biswas. Evidence of Highly Anharmonic Soft Lattice Vibrations in Zintl Rattler. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2021, 60, 4259-4265.

148. Paribesh Acharyya, Subhajit Roychowdhury, Manisha Samanta and Kanishka Biswas. Ultralow Thermal Conductivity, Enhanced Mechanical Stability and High Thermoelectric Performance in (GeTe)1-2x(SnSe)x(SnS)xJ. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 20502.

147. Braj Singh, Sukanta Jena, Manisha Samanta, Kanishka Biswas, and Subhankar Bedanta. High spin to charge conversion efficiency in electron beam evaporated topological insulator Bi2Se3ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces2020, 12, 53409.

146. Holger Kleinke and Kanishka Biswas. Materials for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces2020, 12, 47113. (Virtual Special Issue)

145. Manisha Samanta and Kanishka Biswas. 2D Nanosheets of Topological Quantum Materials from Homologous (Bi2)m(Bi2Se3)n Heterostructures: Synthesis and Ultralow Thermal Conductivity.Chem. Mater.2020, 32, 8819.

144. Paribesh Acharyya, Kaushik Kundu and Kanishka Biswas. 2D Layered All-Inorganic Halide Perovskites: Recent Trends on Structure, Synthesis and Properties. Nanoscale2020, 12, 21094.

143. Ekashmi Rathore, Krishnendu Maji, Dheemahi Rao, Bivas Saha and Kanishka Biswas. Charge Transfer in the Heterostructure of CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals with Nitrogen Doped Carbon Dots. J. Phys. Chem. Lett.2020, 11, 8002.

142. Paribesh Acharyya, Tanmoy Ghosh, Koushik Pal, Kaushik Kundu, Kewal SinghRana, Juhi Pandey, Ajay Soni, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Intrinsically Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Ruddlesden-Popper 2D Perovskite Cs2PbI2Cl2: Localized Anharmonic Vibrations and Dynamic Octahedral Distortions. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020142, 15595.

141. Ekashmi Rathore, Satya N. Guin and Kanishka Biswas. Enhancement of thermoelectric performance of n-type AgBi1+xSe2 via improvement of the carrier mobility by modulation doping. Bull. Mater. Sci.2020, 45, 315.

140. Sushmita Chandra, Prabir Dutta and Kanishka Biswas. Enhancement of the Thermoelectric Performance of 2D SnSe Nanoplates through Incorporation of Magnetic Nanoprecipitates. ACS Appl. Energy Mater.2020, 3, 9051.

139. Debattam Sarkar, Tanmoy Ghosh, Subhajit Roychowdhury, Raagya Arora, Sandra Sajan, Goutam Sheet, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Ferroelectric Instability Induced Ultralow Thermal Conductivity and High Thermoelectric Performance in Rhombohedral p-type GeSe Crystal. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020142, 12237.

138. Manisha Samanta, Tanmoy Ghosh, Sushmita Chandra and Kanishka Biswas, Layered Materials with 2D Connectivity for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion.J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8, 12226.

137. Kaushik Kundu, Paribesh Acharyya, Krishnendu Maji, Ranjan Sasmal, Sarit S. Agasti and Kanishka Biswas. Synthesis and Localized Photoluminescence Blinking of Lead-free 2D Nanostructures of Cs3Bi2I6Cl3 Perovskite. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 13093.

136. Paribesh Acharyya, Tanmoy Ghosh, Shidaling Matteppanavar, Raju K Biswas, Premakumar Yanda,Srinivasa R. Varanasi, Dirtha Sanyal, Athinarayanan Sundaresan, Swapan K. Pati and Kanishka Biswas. Broadband Colossal Dielectric Constant in the Superionic Halide RbAg4I5: Role of Inter-cluster Ag+ Diffusion. J. Phys. Chem. C2020, 1249802.

135. Moinak Dutta, Tanmoy Ghosh and Kanishka Biswas. Electronic structure modulation strategies in high-performance thermoelectrics. APL Mater., 2020, 8, 040910.

134. Sukanya Pal, Raagya Arora, Subhajit Roychowdhury, Luminita Harnagea, Kumar Saurabh, Sandhya Shenoy, D. V. S. Muthu, Kanishka Biswas, U. V. Waghmare and A. K. Sood. Pressure-induced phase transitions in the topological crystalline insulator SnTe and its comparison with semiconducting SnSe: Raman and first-principles studies. Phys. Rev. B2020, 101, 155202.

133. Debattam Sarkar,  Tanmoy Ghosh,  Ananya Banik,  Subhajit Roychowdhury,  Dirtha Sanyal  and Kanishka Biswas. Highly Converged Valence Bands and Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity for High‐Performance SnTe Thermoelectrics. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2020, 59, 11115.

132. Gerald J. Meyer and Kanishka Biswas. A Special Forum Issue on Thermoelectric Energy Conversion. ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2020, 3, 2037.

131. Manisha Samanta, Koushik Pal, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Intrinsically Low Thermal Conductivity and High Carrier Mobility in Dual Topological Quantum Material, n‐type BiTe. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2020, 59, 4822.

130. Paribesh Acharyya, Krishnendu Maji, Kaushik Kundu and Kanishka Biswas. 2D Nanoplates and Scaled-up Bulk Polycrystals of Ruddlesden-Popper, Cs2PbI2Cl2for Optoelectronic Applications. ACS Appl. Nano Mater.2020, 3, 877.

129. Rohit Attri, Subhajit Roychowdhury, Kanishka Biswas and C.N.R. Rao. Low thermal conductivity of 2D borocarbonitride nanosheets. J. Solid State Chem.2020, 282, 121105.

128. Moinak Dutta, Shidaling Matteppanavar, Matukumilli V. D Prasad, Juhi Pandey, Avinash Warankar, Pankaj Mandal, Ajay Soni, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Chain Like TlSe due to Inherent Tl+ Rattling. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2019, 141, 20293.

127. Zhichao Yao,  Wen Li,  Jing Tang,  Zhiwei Chen,  Siqi Lin,  Kanishka Biswas,  Alexander Burkov and Yanzhong Pei. Solute manipulation enabled band and defect engineering for thermoelectric enhancements of SnTe. InfoMat.2019, 1, 571.

126. Ekashmi Rathore, Moinak Dutta, and Kanishka Biswas. Influence of periodic table in designing solid-state metal chalcogenides for thermoelectric energy conversion. J. Chem. Sci.,2019, 131, 1.

125. Manisha Samanta, Tanmoy Ghosh, Raagya Arora, Umesh V. Waghmare, and Kanishka Biswas, Realization of both n- and p-type GeTe Thermoelectrics: Electronic Structure Modulation by AgBiSe2 Alloying. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 19505.

124. Suresh Perumal, Manisha Samanta, Tanmoy Ghosh, U. Sandhya Shenoy, Anil K. Bohra, Shovit Bhattacharya, Ajay Singh, Umesh V. Waghmare, and Kanishka Biswas, Realization of High Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in GeTe by Complementary Co-doping of Bi and In. Joule, 2019, 3, 2565.

123. Subhajit Roychowdhury and Kanishka Biswas. Effect of In and Cd co-doping on the thermoelectric properties of Sn1-xPbxTe. Mater. Res. Express2019, 6, 104010.

122. Tanmoy Ghosh, Manisha Samanta, Aastha Vasdev, Kapildeb Dolui, Jay Ghatak, Tanmoy Das, Goutam Sheet and Kanishka Biswas. Ultrathin Free-standing Nanosheets of Bi2O2Se: Room Temperature Ferroelectricity in Self-assembled Charged Layered Heterostructure. Nano Lett.2019, 19, 5703.

121. Krishnendu Maji, Paribesh Acharyya, Pragnya Satapathy, S. Krishna Prasad and Kanishka Biswas. Mechanochemical synthesis and temperature dependent optical properties of thermochromic (Ag1-xCux)2HgI4Chem. Asian. J.,2019, 14, 4641.

120. Tim Bernges, Jan Peilstöcker, Moinak Dutta, Saneyuki Ohno, Sean P. Culver, Kanishka Biswas and Wolfgang G. Zeier. Local Structure and Influence of Sb Substitution on the Structure–Transport Properties in AgBiSe2Inorg. Chem.V, 2019, 58, 9236.

119. Subhajit Roychowdhury, Raju Kumar Biswas, Moinak Dutta, Swapan K. Pati and Kanishka Biswas. Phonon Localization and Entropy Driven Point Defects Lead to Ultralow Thermal Conductivity and Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in (SnTe)1-2x(SnSe)x(SnS)x. ACS Energy Lett.2019, 4, 1658.

118. Subhajit Roychowdhury, Manisha Samanta, Ananya Banik and Kanishka Biswas. Thermoelectric energy conversion and topological materials based on heavy metal chalcogenides. J. Solid State Chem., 2019, 275, 103.

117. Sushmita Chandra and Kanishka Biswas. Realization of High Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in Solution Synthesized 2D SnSe Nanoplates via Ge alloying. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2019, 141, 6141.

116. Moinak Dutta, Koushik Pal, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Bonding heterogeneity and lone pair induced anharmonicity resulted in ultralow thermal conductivity and promising thermoelectric performance in n-type AgPbBiSe3. Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 4905.

115. Anamul Haque, Ananya Banik, Rahul Mahavir Varma, Indranil Sarkar, Kanishka Biswas and Pralay K. Santra. Understanding the Chemical Nature of the Buried Nanostructures in Low Thermal Conductive Sb-Doped SnTe by Variable Energy Photoelectron Spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. C2019. (In Press)

114. Ananya Banik and Kanishka Biswas. A Game-Changing Strategy in SnSe Thermoelectrics. Joule, 2019, 3, 636.

113. Ekashmi Rathore, Rinkle Juneja, Sean P. Culver, Nicolὸ Minafra, Abhishek K. Singh, Wolfgang G. Zeier and Kanishka Biswas. Origin of ultra-low thermal conductivity in n-type cubic bulk AgBiS2: Soft Ag vibrations and local structural distortion induced by Bi 6s2 lone pair. Chem. Mater.2019, 31, 2106.

112. Braj B. Singh,  Sukanta K. Jena,  Manisha Samanta,  Kanishka Biswas,  Biswarup Satpati and  Subhankar Bedanta. Inverse Spin Hall Effect in Electron Beam Evaporated Topological Insulator Bi2Se3 Thin Film. Phys. Status Solidi RRL2019, 13, 1800492.

111. Paribesh Acharyya,  Provas Pal,  Pralok K. Samanta,  Arka Sarkar,  Swapan Pati  and  Kanishka Biswas. Single pot synthesis of indirect band gap 2D CsPb2Br5 nanosheets from direct band gap 3D CsPbBr3 nanocrystals and the origin of their luminescence properties.
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110. Ananya Banik, Tanmoy Ghosh, Raagya Arora, Moinak Dutta, Juhi Pandey, Somnath Acharya, Ajay Soni, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas, Engineering ferroelectric instability to achieve ultralow thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric performance in Sn1-xGexTe. Energy Environ. Sci.2019, 12, 589.

109. Arka Sarkar, Paribesh Acharyya,  Ranjan Sasmal,  Provas Pal,  Sarit Agasti and Kanishka Biswas. Synthesis of Ultrathin Few-layer 2D Nanoplates of Halide Perovskite Cs3Bi2I9 and Single-Nanoplate Super-resolved Fluorescence Microscopy. Inorg. Chem2018, 57, 15558.

108. Subhajit Roychowdhury, Moinak Dutta and Kanishka Biswas, Enhanced thermoelectric performance in topological crystalline insulator n-type Pb0.6Sn0.4Te by simultaneous tuning of the band gap and chemical potential. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018, 6, 24216.

107. Subhajit Roychowdhury, Tanmoy Ghosh, Raagya Arora, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas, n-type cubic GeSe stabilized by entropy driven alloying of AgBiSe2 leads to ultralow thermal conductivity and promising thermoelectric performance. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 15167.

106. Subhajit Roychowdhury, Manisha Samanta, Suresh Perumal, and Kanishka Biswas. Germanium Chalcogenide Thermoelectrics: Electronic Structure Modulation and Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity. Chem. Mater.2018, 30, 17, 5799. (Invited Perspective)

105. Kunal Mitra,  Gagan K. Goyal,  Ekashmi Rathore,  Kanishka Biswas,  Satish Vitta,  Suddhasatta Mahapatra and Titas Dasgupta, Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in Mg2Si by Functionalized Co‐Doping. Phys. Status Solidi A.2018, 0, 1700829.

104. Ekashmi Rathore and Kanishka Biswas,Selective and ppb Level Removal of Hg(II) from Water: Synergistic Role of Graphene Oxide and SnS2J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018, 6, 13142.

103. Moinak Dutta, Dirtha Sanyal and Kanishka Biswas.Tuning of p−n−p-Type Conduction in AgCuS through Cation Vacancy: Thermopower and Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy Investigations. Inorg. Chem 2018, 57, 7481.

102. Subhajit Roychowdhury, and Kanishka Biswas, Slight Symmetry Reduction in Thermoelectrics. Chem2018, 4, 939. (Invited Preview)

101. Manoj Jana and Kanishka Biswas. Crystalline Solids with Intrinsically Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion. ACS Energy Lett., 2018, 3,1315. (Invited Perspective)

100. Ananya Banik, Subhajit Roychowdhury and Kanishka Biswas. Journey of Tin Chalcogenides Towards High Performance Thermoelectrics and Topological Material. Chem. Commun.2018, 54, 6573. (Invited Perspective)

99. Sushmita Chandra, Ananya Banik and Kanishka Biswas. n-Type Ultrathin Few-layer Nanosheets of Bi Doped SnSe: Synthesis and Thermoelectric Properties. ACS Energy Lett., 2018, 3,1153.

98. Manisha Samanta, Koushik Pal, Provas Pal, Umesh Vasudeo Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Localized vibrations of Bi bilayer leading to ultralow lattice thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric performance in weak topological insulator n-type BiSe. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2018, 140, 5866.

97. Subhajit Roychowdhury, Manoj K Jana, Jaysree Pan, Satya N Guin, Dirtha Sanyal, Umesh V Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Soft Phonon Modes Leading to Ultralow Thermal Conductivity and High Thermoelectric Performance in AgCuTe. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 4043.

96. Provas Pal, Sujoy Saha, Ananya Banik, Arka Sarkar and Kanishka Biswas. All-Solid-State Mechanochemical Synthesis and Post-Synthetic Transformation of Inorganic Perovskite-type Halides. Chem. Eur. J., 2018, 24, 1811.

95. Suresh Perumal, Pavithra Bellare, U Sandhya Shenoy, Umesh V Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Low Thermal Conductivity and High Thermoelectric Performance in Sb and Bi co-doped GeTe: Complementary Effect of Band Convergence and Nanostructuring. Chem. Mater.2017, 29, 10426.

94. Ananya Banik and Kanishka Biswas. Synthetic Nanosheets of Natural van der Waals Heterostructures. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 14561.

93. Ekashmi Rathore, Provas Pal and Kanishka Biswas. Reversible and efficient sequestration of Cs from water by layered metal thiophosphate, K0.48Mn0.76PS3.H2O. Chem. Eur. J., 2017, 23, 11085.

92. Manisha Samanta, Kanishka Biswas. Low Thermal Conductivity and High Thermoelectric Performance in (GeTe)1–2x(GeSe)x(GeS)x: Competition between Solid Solution and Phase Separation. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 9382.

91. Manisha Samanta,Subhajit Roychowdhury, Jay Ghatak, Suresh Perumal, Kanishka Biswas. Ultrahigh Average Thermoelectric Figure of Merit, Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity and Enhanced Micro-hardness in Nanostructured (GeTe)x(AgSbSe2)100-xChem. Eur. J.2017, 23,7438.

90. Satya N. Guin, Swastika Banerjee, Dirtha Sanyal, Swapan K. Pati, Kanishka Biswas, Nanoscale and Stabilization of Non-equilibrium Rock Salt BiAgSeS: Colloidal Synthesis and Temperature Driven Unusual Phase Transition. Chem. Mater.2017, 29, 3769.

89. Bhuvanesh Srinivasan, Catherine Boussard-Pléde, Vincent Dorcet, Manisha Samanta, Kanishka Biswas, Robin Lefèvre, Franck Gascoin, François Cheviré, Sylvain Tricot, Michael Reece and Bruno Bureau, Thermoelectric Properties of Highly-Crystallized Ge-Te-Se Glasses Doped with Cu/Bi. Materials2017, 10, 328.

88. Ekashmi Rathore, Provas Pal and Kanishka Biswas. Layered Metal Chalcophosphate (K-MPS-1) for Efficient, Selective and ppb Level Sequestration of Pb from Water. J. Phys. Chem. C.2017, 121, 7959.

87. Manoj K. Jana, Koushik Pal, Avinash Warankar, Pankaj Mandal, Umesh V Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas, Instrinsic rattler-induced low thermal conductivity in zintl type TlInTe2. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 4350.

86. Subhajit Roychowdhury, Sandhya Shenoy, Umesh V Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. An enhanced Seebeck coefficient and high thermoelectric performance in p-type In and Mg co-doped Sn1-xPbxTe via co-adjuvant effect of resonance level and heavy hole valence band. J. Mater. Chem. C, 2017, 5, 5737.

85. Subhajit Roychowdhury, Rajarshi Panigrahi, Suresh Perumal, and Kanishka Biswas, Ultrahigh Thermoelectric Figure of Merit and Enhanced Mechanical Stability of p-type AgSb1-xZnxTe2. ACS Energy Lett., 2017, 2, 349.

84. Manisha Samanta,Satya N. Guin and Kanishka Biswas. Ultrathin few layer oxychalcogenide BiCuSeO nanosheets. Inorg. Chem. Front., 2017, 4, 84.

83. Santanu Maiti, Milan K Sanyal, Manoj Jana, Benjamin Runge, Bridget Murphy, Kanishka Biswas and Chintamani Rao. Evidence of contact-epitaxy in the self-assembly of HgSe nanocrystals formed at a liquid-liquid interface. J. Phys. Condens. Matter , 2017, 29, 095101.

82. Vincent Rajaji, Pallavi Malavi, Sharma Yamijala, Y Sorb, Utpal Dutta, Satya N. Guin, Boby Joseph, Swapan Pati, Sukanta Karmakar, Kanishka Biswas and Chandrabhas Narayana. Pressure induced structural, electronic topological and semiconductor to metal transition in AgBiSe2Appl. Phys. Lett., 2016, 109, 171903.

81. Shekhar Das, Leena Aggarwal, Subhajit Roychowdhury, Mohammad Aslam, Sirshendu Gayen, Kanishka Biswas and Goutam Sheet. Unexpected superconductivity at nanoscale junctions made on the topological crystalline insulator Pb0.6Sn0.4Te. Appl. Phys. Lett.2016, 13, 132601.

80. Ananya Banik, U. Sandhya Shenoy, Sujoy Saha, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. High power factor and enhanced thermoelectric performance of SnTe-AgInTe2: Synergistic effect of resonance level and valence band convergence. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2016, 138, 13068.

79. Sujoy Saha, Ananya Banik and Kanishka Biswas. Few Layer Nanosheets of n-type SnSe2Chem. Eur. J.2016, 22, 15634.

78. Suresh Perumal, Subhajit Roychowdhury and Kanishka Biswas, High Performance thermoelectric materials and devices based on GeTe. J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016, 4, 7520.

77. Satya N. Guin, Swastika Banerjee, Dirtha Sanyal, Swapan K. Pati and Kanishka Biswas. Origin of the Order-Disorder Transition and the Associated Anomalous Change of Thermopower in AgBiS2 Nanocrystals: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study. Inorg. Chem.2016, 55, 6323.

76. Ananya Banik, Badri Vishal, Suresh Perumal, Ranjan Datta and Kanishka Biswas. The origin of low thermal conductivity in Sn1-xSbxTe: phonon scattering via layered intergrowth nanostructures. Energy Environ. Sci., 2016, 9, 2011.

75. Subhajit Roychowdhury, U. Sandhya Shenoy, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Effect of potassium doping on electronic structure and thermoelectric properties of topological crystalline insulator. Appl. Phys. Lett., 2016, 108, 193901.

74. Leena Aggarwal, Ananya Banik, Shashwat Anand, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas and Goutam Sheet. Local Ferroelectricity in Thermoelectric SnTe above Room Temperature Driven by Competing Phonon Instabilities and Soft Resonant Bonding. J. Materiomics , 2016, 2, 196.

73. Manoj K. Jana, Koushik Pal, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. The Origin of Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in InTe: Lone-Pair Induced Anharmonic Rattling. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 7592.

72. Ananya Banik and Kanishka Biswas. AgI alloying in SnTe boosts the thermoelectric performance via simultaneous valence band convergence and carrier concentration optimization. J. Solid State Chem., 2016, 242, 43.

71. Sachin R. Suryawanshi, Satya N. Guin, Arindom Chatterjee, Vikas Kashid, Mahendra A. More, Dattatray J. Late and Kanishka Biswas, Low frequency noise and photosensitive field emission from ultrathin PbBi2Senanosheets, J. Mater Chem. C, 2016, 4, 1096.

70. Suresh Perumal, Subhajit Roychowdhury and Kanishka Biswas. Reduction of thermal conductivity through nanostructuring enhances the thermoelectric figure of merit in Ge1−xBixTe. Inorg. Chem. Front., 2016, 3, 125.

69. Satya N. Guin, Dirtha Sanyal and Kanishka Biswas. The Effect of Order-Disorder Phase Transition and Band Gap Evolution on the Thermoelectric Properties of AgCuS Nanocrystals. Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 534.

68. Subhajit Roychowdhury, Somnath Ghara, Satya N. Guin, A. Sundaresan and Kanishka Biswas. Large linear magnetoresistance in topological crystalline insulator Pb0.6Sn0.4Te. J. Solid State Chem.2016, 233, 199.

67. Subhajit Roychowdhury, U. Sandhya Shenoy, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Tailoring of Electronic Structure and Thermoelectric Properties of a Topological Crystalline Insulator by Chemical Doping. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2015, 54, 15241.

66. Kanishka Biswas. Advances in Thermoelectric Materials and Devices for Energy Harnessing and Utilization. Proc Indian Natn Sci Acad.2015, 81, 903.

65. Suresh Perumal, Subhajit Roychowdhury, Devendra S. Negi, Ranjan Datta and Kanishka Biswas. High Thermoelectric Performance and Enhanced Mechanical Stability of p-type Ge1-xSbxTe. Chem. Mater., 2015, 27, 7171.

64. Satya N. Guin, Sohang Kundu and Kanishka Biswas. Effect of Aliovalent Chlorine Doping on the Thermoelectric Properties of n-type AgBi0.5Sb0.5Se2. SMC Bulletin, 2015, 6, 30.

63. Satya N. Guin and Kanishka Biswas. Sb Deficiencies Control Hole Transport and Boost the Thermoelectric Performance of p-type AgSbSe2J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3, 10415.

62. Manoj K. Jana, Anjali Singh, Dattatray J Late, Catherine R Rajamathi, Kanishka Biswas, Claudia Felser, Umesh V Waghmare and C N R Rao. A combined experimental and theoretical study of the structural, electronic and vibrational properties of bulk and few-layer Td-WTe2J. Phys. Condens. Matter, 2015, 27, 285401.

61. G. Shiva Shanker, Abhishek Swarnkar, Arindom Chatterjee, S Chakraborty, Manabjyoti Phukan, Naziya Parveen, Kanishka Biswas and Angshuman Nag. Electronic Grade and Flexible Semiconductor Film Employing Oriented Attachment of Colloidal Ligand-Free PbS and PbSe Nanocrystals at Room Temperature. Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 9204.

60. Satya N. Guin and Kanishka Biswas. Temperature driven p-n-p type conduction switching materials: Current trends and future directions. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.2015, 17, 10316.

59. Arindom Chatterjee and Kanishka Biswas. Solution-based synthesis of layered asdintergrowth compounds of the homologous PbmBi2nTe3n+m series as nanosheets. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 5623.

58. Ananya Banik, U. Sandhya Shenoy, Shashwat Anand, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Mg Alloying in SnTe Facilitates Valence Band Convergence and Optimizes Thermoelectric Properties. Chem. Mater., 2015, 27, 581.

57. Satya N. Guin, Velaga Srihari and Kanishka Biswas. Promising thermoelectric performance in n-type AgBiSe2: Effect of aliovalent anion doping. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, 3, 648.

56. Leena Aggarwal, Jagmeet S. Sekhon, Satya N. Guin, Ashima Arora, Devendra S. Negi, Ranjan Datta, Kanishka Biswas and Goutam Sheet. Direct evidence of strong local ferroelectric ordering in a thermoelectric semiconductor. Appl. Phys. Lett.,  2014, 105, 113903.

55. Satya N. Guin, Jaysree Pan, Arghya Bhowmik, Dirtha Sanyal, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Temperature dependent reversible p-n-p type conduction switching with colossal change in thermopower of semiconducting AgCuS. J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2014, 136, 12712.

54. Ananya Banik and Kanishka Biswas. Low-temperature soft-chemical synthesis and thermoelectric properties of barium-filled p-type skutterudite nanocrystals. Mater. Sci. Semicond. Process, 2014, 27, 593.

53. Manoj K. Jana, Banavoth Murali, S. B. Krupanidhi, Kanishka Biswas and C. N. R. Rao. Fabrication of large-area PbSe films at the organic-aqueous interface and their near-infrared photoresponse. J. Mater. Chem. C, 2014, 2, 6283.

52. Arindom Chatterjee, Satya N.Guin and Kanishka Biswas.Ultrathin septuple layered PbBi2Se4 nanosheets. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys, 2014, 16, 14635.

51. Ananya Banik and Kanishka Biswas. Lead free thermoelectrics : promising performance in p-type SnTe1-xSex system. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 9620.

50. Manoj K. Jana, H. B. Rajendra, Aninda J. Bhattacharyya and Kanishka Biswas. Green ionothermal synthesis of hierarchical nanostructures of SnS2 and their Li-ion storage properties. CrystEngComm, 2014, 16, 3994-4000.

49. Satya N. Guin, Arindom Chatterjee and Kanishka Biswas. Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in p-type AgSbSe2 by Cd-Doping. RSC Advances, 2014, 4, 11811.

48. Sunita Dey, A. Govindaraj, Kanishka Biswas and C. N. R. Rao. Luminescence properties of boron and nitrogen doped graphene quantum dots prepared from arc-discharge-generated doped graphene samples. Chem. Phys. Lett.2014, 595-596, 203.

47. Satya N. Guin, Devendra S. Negi, Ranjan Datta and Kanishka Biswas. Nanostructuring, Carrier Engineering and Bond Anharmonicity Synergistically Boost the Thermoelectric performance in p-type AgSbSe2-ZnSe. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 1324.

46. S. Dey, P. Chithaiah, S. Belawadi, K. Biswas and C. N. R. Rao. New methods of synthesis and varied properties of carbon quantum dots with high nitrogen content. J. Mater. Res., 2014, 29, 383.

45. L. D. Zhao, H. J. Wu, S. Q. Hao, C. I. Wu, X. Y. Zhou, Kanishka Biswas, J. Q. He, T. P. Hogan, C. Uher, C. Wolverton, V. P. Dravid and M. G. Kanatzidis. All-scale hierarchical thermoelectrics: MgTe in PbTe facilitates valence band convergence and suppresses bipolar thermal transport for high performance. Energy Environ. Sci.2013, 6, 3346.

44. Manoj Kumar Jana, Chithaiah P, Murali Banavoth, S.B. Krupanidhi, Kanishka Biswas and C.  N. R. Rao. Near infrared detectors based on HgSe and HgCdSe quantum dots generated at the liquid-liquid interface. J. Mater. Chem. C., 2013, 1, 6184.

43. Satya N. Guin, and Kanishka Biswas. Cation Disorder and Bond Anharmonicity Optimize the thermoelectric Properties in Kinetically Stabilized Rocksalt AgBiS2 Nanocrystals. Chem. Mater., 2013, 25, 3225.

42. Satya N. Guin, Arindom Chatterjee, Devendra Singh Negi, Ranjan Datta, and Kanishka Biswas. High Thermoelectric Performance in Tellurium Free p-type AgSbSe2Energy Environ. Sci.2013, 6, 2603.

41. Li-Dong Zhao, Shiqiang Hao, Shih-Han Lo, Chun-I Wu, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Yeseul Lee, Hao Li, Kanishka Biswas, Timothy P. Hogan, Ctirad Uher, C. Wolverton, Vinayak P. Dravid, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis. High Thermoelectric Performance via Hierarchical Compositionally Alloyed Nanostructures. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2013, 135, 7364.

40. Kanishka Biswas, I. Chung, J.-H. Song, C. D. Malliakas, A. J. Freeman and M. G. Kanatzidis. Semiconducting [(Bi4Te4Br2)(Al2Cl6-xBrx)]Cland [Bi2Se2Br](AlCl4): Cationic Chalcogenide Frameworks from Lewis Acidic Ionic Liquids. Inorg. Chem2013, 52, 5657.

39. Manoj K. Jana, Kanishka Biswas and C. N. R. Rao. Ionothermal synthesis of few-layer nanostructures of Bi2Se3 and related materials. Chem. Eur. J., 2013, 19, 9110.

38. Ahn, K.; Biswas, K.; He, J.; Chung, I.; Dravid, V. P.; Kanatzidis, M. G. Enhanced thermoelectric properties of p-type nanostructured PbTe-MTe (M = Cd, Hg) materials. Energy Environ. Sci., 2013, 6, 1529.

37. Biswas, K.; He, J.; Blum, I. D.; Chun-I, W.; Hogan, T. P.; Seidman, D. N.; Dravid, V. P.; Kanatzidis, M. G. High-performance bulk thermoelectrics with all-scale hierarchical architectures. Nature2012, 489, 414.

36. Lo, S.-H.; He, J. Q.; Biswas, K.; Kanatzidis, M. G.; Dravid, V. P. Phonon Scattering and Thermal Conductivity in p-typeNanostructured PbTe-BaTeBulk Thermoelectric Materials. Adv. Func. Mater., 2012, 22, 5175.

35. Ohta, M.; Biswas, K.; Lo, S.-H..; He, J.; Chung, D., -Y.; Dravid, V. P.; Kanatzidis, M. G., Enhancement of thermoelectric figure of merit by the insertion of MgTe nanostructures in p-type PbTe doped with Na2Te. Adv. Energy Mater2012, 2, 1117–1123.

34. Blum, I. D.; Isheim, D.; Seidman, D. N.; He, J., Androulakis, J.; Biswas. K.; Dravid, V. P.; Kanatzidis, M. GJ. Electronic Mater.2012, 41, 1583.

33. Biswas, K; Zhao, L.-D.; Kanatzidis, M. G., Tellurium free thermoelectrics: the anisotropic n-type semiconductor Bi2S3Adv. Energy Mater., 2012, 2, 634.

32. Zhao, L. D.; Lo, S., H.; He, J.; Li, H; Biswas. K; Androulakis, J.; Wu, C.,-I; Hogan, T.; Chung, D., -Y.; Dravid, V.; Kanatzidis, M. G. High performance thermoelectrics from earth abundant materials: Enhanced figure of merit in PbS by second phase nanostructures.J. Am. Chem. Soc2011, 133, 20476.

31. Biswas, K.; He, J.; Wang, G.; Lo, S.-H.; Uher, C.; Dravid, V. P.; Kanatzidis, M. G. High thermoelectric figure of merit in nanostructured p-type PbTe-MTe (M = Ca, Ba). Energy Environ. Sci.2011, 4, 4675.

30. Uo, J.; Late, D.; Wu, I.; Biswas K.; Kanatzidis M. G.; Grayson, M. Preparation of exfoliated Bi2Tethin films. AIP Conc. Proc.2011, 1416, 135.

29. Chung, I.; Biswas, K.; Song, J. H.; Androulakis, J.; Chondroudis, K.; Paraskevopoulos, K. M.; Freeman, A. J.; Kanatzidis, M., Rb4Sn5P4Se20: A semi-metallic selenophosphate. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2011, 50, 8834.

28. Biswas, K.; He, J.; Zhang, Q.; Wang, G.; Uher, C.; Dravid, V. P.; Kanatzidis, M. G., Strained endotaxial nanostructure with high thermoelectric figure of merit. Nature Chemistry2011, 3, 160.

27. Biswas, K.; Zhang, Q.; Chung, I.; Song, J. H.; Androulakis, J.; Freeman, A. J.; Kanatzidis, M. G., Synthesis in ionic liquids: [Bi2Te2Br](AlCl4) a direct gap semiconductor with a cationic framework. J. Am. Chem. Soc2010, 132, 14760.

26. Biswas, K.; Zhang, Q.; He, J.; Wang, G.; Uher, C.; Dravid, V. P.; Kanatzidis, M. G., Investigation of the thermoelectric properties of PbTe-SrTe systens, MRS Proc.2010, 1267-DD06.

25. Maitra, U.; Ghosh, S.; Biswas, K.; Rao, C. N. R., Scaling behavior of plasmon coupling in Au and ReO3 nanoparticles incorporated in polymer matrices. Phys. Stat. Solidi (Rapid Research Letter)2010, 4, 169.

24. Bera, M. K.; Sanyal, M. K.; Yang, L.; Biswas, K.; Gibaud, A.; Rao, C. N. R., Small-angle X-ray scattering study of the aggregation of gold nanoparticle during formation at the toluene-water interface. Phys. Rev. B, 2010, 81, 115415.

23. Manjunatha, S.; Panchakarala, L. S.; Biswas, K.; Rao, C. N. R., Nanorod and nanofilms of ZnO generated at the liquid-liquid interface. Inorg. Chim. Acta2010, 363, 2125.

22. Krishnaswamy, R.; Kalyanikutty, K. P.; Biswas, K.; Sood A. K.; Rao, C. N. R., Viscoelastic properties of nanocrystalline films of semiconducting chalcogenides at liquid/liquid interface. Langmuir2009, 25, 10954.

21. Das, B.; Maitra, U.; Biswas, K.; Varghese, N.; Rao, C. N. R., Surface-enhanced Raman scattering of molecules adsorbed on nanocrystalline Au and Ag films formed at the organic-aqueous interface. Chem. Phys. Lett.2009, 477, 160.

20. Rao, C. N. R. Rao, Kanishka Biswas, K. S. Subrahmanyam, A. Govindaraj. Graphene, the new nanocarbon. J. Mater. Chem. (Highlight)2009, 19, 2457.

19. C. N. R. Rao and Kanishka Biswas. Characterization of nanomaterials by physical methods. Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry2009, 2, 435.

18. Kanishka Biswas and C. N. R. Rao. Nanostructured peptide fibrils formed at the organic-aqueous interface and their use as templates to prepare inorganic nanotubes. ACS Appl. Mate. & Interfaces2009, 1, 811.

17. Kanishka Biswas and C. N. R. Rao. Nanocrystalline Janus films of inorganic materials prepared at the liquid-liquid interface. J. Colloid Interface Sci.2009, 333, 404.

16. Varghese, N.; Biswas, K.; Rao, C. N. R., Investigations of the growth kinetics of capped CdSe and CdS nanocrystals by a combined use of Small Angle X-ray Scattering and other techniques. Chem. Asian J.2008, 3, 1435.

15. Biswas, K.; Varghese, N.; Rao, C. N. R., Growth kinetics of nanocrystals and nanorods by employing small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and other techniques. J. Mater. Sci. Technol.2008, 24, 615.

14. Biswas, K.; Varghese, N.; Rao, C. N. R., Growth kinetics of gold nanocrystals: A combined small angle X-ray scattering and calorimetric study. Small2008, 4, 649.

13. Biswas, K.; Das, B.; Rao, C. N. R., Growth kinetics of ZnO nanorods: capping-dependent mechanism and other interesting features. J. Phys. Chem. C2008, 112, 2404.

12. Rao, C. N. R.; Vivekchand, S. R. C., Biswas, K.; Govindaraj, A., Synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials. Dalton Trans. (Perspective)2007, 3728.

11. Biswas, K.; Rao, C. N. R., Use of ionic liquids in the synthesis of nanocrystals and nanorods of semiconducting metal chalcogenides. Chem. Eur. J., 2007, 13, 6123.

10. Biswas, K.; Muthu, D. V. S.; Sood, A. K.; Kruger, M. B.; Chen B.; Rao, C. N. R., Pressure-induced phase transitions in nanocrystalline ReO3J. Phys: Condense Mater.2007, 19, 436214.

09. Biswas, K.; Bhat, S. V.; Rao, C. N. R., Surface-enhanced Raman spectra of aza-aromatics on nanocrystals of metallic ReO3J. Phys. Chem. C2007, 111, 5689.

08. Ghosh, S.; Biswas, K.; Rao, C. N. R., Core–shell nanoparticles based on an oxide metal: ReO3@Au (Ag) and ReO3@SiO2 (TiO2). J. Mater. Chem.2007, 17, 2412.

07.Kanishka Biswas and C. N. R. Rao. Synthesis and characterization of nanocrystals of the oxide metals, RuO2, IrO2 and ReO3J. Nanosci. Nanotech.2007, 7, 1969.

06. Bhat, S. V.; Biswas, K.; Rao, C. N. R., Synthesis and optical properties of In-doped GaN nanocrystals. Solidstate Commun., 2007, 141, 325.

05. Rao, C. N. R.; Agrawal, V. V.; Biswas, K.; Gautam, U. K.; Ghosh, M.; Govindaraj, A.; Kulkarni, G. U.; Kalyanikutty, K. P.; Sardar K.; Vivekchand, S. R. C., Soft chemical approaches to inorganic nanostructures. Pure and Applied Chemistry2006, 78, 1619.

04. Voggu, R.; Biswas, K.; Govindaraj A.; Rao, C. N. R., Use of fluorous chemistry in the solubilization and phase transfer of nanocrystals, nanorods, and nanotubes. J. Phys. Chem. B2006, 110, 20752.

03. Biswas, K.; Sardar K.; Rao, C. N. R., Ferromagnetism in Mn-doped GaN nanocrystals prepared solvothermally at low temperatures. App. Phys. Lett., 2006, 89, 132503.

02. Biswas, K.; Rao, C. N. R., Metallic ReO3 NanoparticlesJ. Phys. Chem. B, 2006, 110, 842.

01. Ghosh, M.; Biswas, K.; Sundaresan A.; Rao, C. N. R., MnO and NiO nanoparticles: synthesis and magnetic properties. J. Mater. Chem.2006, 16, 106.

Books

  • C. N. R. Rao. and K. Biswas. Essentials of inorganic materials synthesis, John Wiland Sons Inc. 2015.
  • P. Mele, D. Narducci, M. Ohta, K. Biswas, J. Morante, S. Saini and T. Endo. Thermoelectric Thin Film Materials and Devices , Springer International Publishing, 2019

Book Chapters

  1. Subarna Das, Animesh Bhui and Kanishka Biswas. “High Performance Thermoelectric Materials” in Energy Materials, World Scientific, 2023, 77-116.
  2. Paribesh Acharyya, Debattam Sarkar, Prabir Dutta and Kanishka Biswas. “Metal Chalcogenide Materials: Synthesis, Structure and Properties” in  Reference Module in Chemistry Molecular Sciences and Chemical Engineering, Elsevier, 2022.
  3. Chandra, S., Samanta, M. and Biswas, K., “High-performance Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Based on Lead-free Group IV-VI Metal Chalcogenides” in the book “Inorganic Thermoelectric Materials: From Fundamental Concepts to Materials Design”, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021, 157-215.
  4. Ghosh, T.; Dutta, M. and Biswas, K. “High performance thermoelectrics based on metal selenides” in the book “Thermoelectric Energy Conversion”, Eds. Funahashi R. Woodhead Publishing,  2021, 217
  5. Samanta, M.; Dutta, M. and Biswas, K. “Thermoelectric energy conversion” in the book “Advances In The Chemistry And Physics Of Materials: Overview Of Selected Topics”, Eds. George, S. J., Narayana, C. and Rao, C. N. R. World Scientific, 2019, 350-375.
  6. Banik, A.; Perumal, S. and Biswas. K. “Thermoelectric Properties of Metal Chalcogenides Nanosheets and Nanofilms Grown by Chemical and Physical Routes” in the book “Thermoelectric Thin Films”, Eds. Mele, P., Narducci, D., Ohta, M., Biswas, K., Morante, J., Saini, S. and Endo, T. Springer, Chem, 2019, 157-184.
  7. Dan, A.; Basu, B.; Roychowdhury, S.; Biswas, K. and Raj, B “Nanotechnology and energy conversion: A solution using spectrally selective solar absorbers and thermoelectrics: Advances and Developments in Nano-sized Materials” in the book “Nanoscience and Nanotechnology”, Eds. Voorde, M. V. De Gruyter, 2018, 234-258.
  8. Guin, S. N.; Banik, A. and Biswas, K. “Thermoelectric energy conversion in layered metal chalcogenides” in the book “2-D Inorganic Materials beyond Graphene”, Eds. Rao, C. N. R. and Waghmare, U. V. World Scientific, 2017, 239-274.
  9. Biswas, K. “Structure-property correlations of inorganic nanomaterials by different X-ray related techniques” in the book “Spectroscopic Properties of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds”, Eds. Douthwaite, R., Duckett, S. and Yarwood, J. RSC-SPR, 2014, 117-140.
  10. Biswas, K.; Rout C. S. and Rao, C. N. R. “Metal Oxide Nanostructures: Synthesis, Properties and Applications” in the book “Metal oxide nanostructures and their applications”, Eds. Umar, A. and Hahn, Y. B. American Scientific Publisher, 2010.
  11. Biswas, K. and Rao, C. N. R. “Use of ionic liquids, liquid-liquid interfaces and other novel methods for the synthesis of inorganic nanocrystals” in the book “Advanced wet-chemical synthetic approaches to inorganic nanostructures” Eds. Cozzoli, P. D. Research Signpost, 2009.

Patents

  1. Munirathnappa, A.K.; Bhui, A.; Agarwal, N.K.; Sarkar. S.; Biswas, K., A method for improving figure of merit (zT) of Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 (BST) and a Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 (BST)-GeSe composite product thereof, 2021, Indian Provisional Patent (202131024500)
  2. Roychowdhury, S.; Ghosh, T.; Biswas, K., A lead-free p-type material, and implementations, 2019Indian Provisional Patent (201941028467).
  3. Samanta, M.; Biswas, K., A tellurium-free n-type material and implementations, 2018Indian Provisional Patent (201841034822).
  4. Kanatzidis, M. G.; Zhang, Q. C.; Girad, S.; Biswas, K., Thermoelectric composition comprising nanoscale inclusions in a chalcogenides matrix, 2010, U. S. Patent (12/882,580), PCT International Patent (PCT/US2010/048881).