Publications

Peer-Reviewed Research

A comprehensive list of our peer-reviewed research articles and publications.

#46
Impact Factor: 2.8
Next generation in vitro pulmonary platforms for Respiratory Disease Modelling and Therapeutic Development: Current Advances and future prospects

Khan, F., Kumar, V., Verma, V.

Medicina, (Just accepted), 2026

#45
Impact Factor: 8.2
MXene-Reinforced 3D-Printed Biomatrices: Synthesis, Characterization, and Intelligent Theragenerative Applications

Kumar, V., Kumar, R., Patel, D., Rawat, S.K., Bosetti, P., Bhatnagar, D., Shukla, S.K., Sharma, G.T.

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2026 (Accepted)

#44
Impact Factor: 4.9
Sr-doped mesoporous silica nanoparticles with enhanced biological functions and 3D printing applications

Tripathi, B. B., Yadav, R., Aeri, A., Kumar, V., Sharma, G.T.

Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, 116, 107932, 2026

#43
Impact Factor: 5.1
Two-dimensional nano-fabricated g-C3N4@RGO based immunosensor for sensitive and label free detection of cancer biomarker

Srivastava, S., Kumar, A., Shukla, N., Bosetti, P., Kumar, V., Singh, V., Mishra, D.P., Chandel, V. S., Srivastava, S.

Microchemical Journal, 220, 116318, 2026

#42
Impact Factor: 5.1
ZnO-RGO nanocomposite based electrochemical sensing platform for highly sensitive and selective detection of Cd2+ ions

Kumar, A., Srivastava, S., Bosetti, P., Kumar, V., Tiwari, D. K., Mishra, D.P., Chandel, V. S., Srivastava, S.

Diamond and Related Materials, 159, 112873, 2025

#41
Impact Factor: 5.1
Derivation and characterization of novel cytocompatible decellularized tissue scaffold for myoblast growth and differentiation

Singh, A., Singh, S.K., Kumar, V., Gupta, J., Kumar, M., Sarma, D.K., Singh, S., Kumawat, M., Verma, V.

Cells, 13, 41, 2024

#40
Impact Factor: 6.7
Graphene-based materials for biotechnological and biomedical applications: Drug delivery, bioimaging and biosensing

Kumar, R., Singh, D. P., Muñoz, R., Amami, M., Singh, R. K., Singh, S., Kumar, V.

Materials Today Chemistry, 33, 101750, 2023

#39
Impact Factor: 4.05
Recent advances in bioengineered scaffold for in vitro meat production

Singh, A., Kumar, V., et al.

Cell & Tissue Research, 2022

#38
Impact Factor: 3.84
Ti2C-TiO2 MXene nanocomposite based high efficient non-enzymatic glucose sensing platform for diabetes monitoring

Kumar, V., Shukla, S.K., Choudhury, M. et al.

Sensors, 22(15), 5589, 2022

#37
Impact Factor: 4.9
Nanosheets Based Approach to Elevate the Proliferative and Differentiation Efficacy of Human Wharton’s Jelly Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Singh, S.S., Singh, A., Kumar, V., et al.

Int. J. Mol. Sci., 23, 5816, 2022

#36
Impact Factor: 2.25
Development of RNA-based assay for rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 in clinical samples

Kumar, V., Mishra, S., Sharma, R., Agarwal, J., Ghosal, U., Khanna, T., Sharma, L. K., Verma, S.K., Tiwari, S.

Intervirology, 2022

#35
Impact Factor: 15.6
Dynamic Surface Layer Coiled Coil Proteins Processing Analog-to-Digital Information

Glionna, C., Kumar, V.*, Le Saux, G., Pramanik, B., Wagner, N., Cohen, R. L., Ashkenasy, G., Ashkenasy, N.

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 143, 42, 17441–17451, 2021

#34
Impact Factor: 3.88
Preparation and characterization of Extracellular Vesicles

Tiwari, S., Kumar, V., Randhawa, S., Verma, S.

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology, 85, 1-52, 2020

#33
Impact Factor: 3.7
Switchable Graphene-Based Bioelectronics Interfaces

Meenakshi, Shukla, S.K., Narang, J., Kumar, V., Govender, P.P., Niv, A., Hussain, C.M., Wang, R., Mangla, B., Babu, R.S.

Chemosensors, 8, 45, 2020

#32
Impact Factor: 8.8
Ecotoxic impact assessment of Graphene Oxide on lipid peroxidation at mitochondrial level and redox modulation in fresh water fish Anabas testudineus

Paital, B., Guru, B., Mohapatra, P., Panda, B., Parida, N., Rath, S., Kumar, V.*, Saxena, P.S., Srivastava, A.

Chemosphere, 224, 796-804, 2019

#31
Impact Factor: 4.7
Graphene oxide synergistically enhances antibiotic efficacy in Vancomycin resistance Staphylococcus aureus

Singh, V., Kumar, V., Kashyap, S., Singh, A.V., Kishore, V., Sitti, M., Saxena, P. S., Srivastava, A.

ACS Applied Biomaterials, 2, 3, 1148-1157, 2019

#30
Impact Factor: 7.7
Carbon nanostructures (0-3 Dimensional) supported isolated gold nanoparticles as an effective SERS substrate

Abraham, S., Konig, M., Srivastava, S., Kumar, V., Walkenfort, B., Srivastava, A.

Sensors & Actuators B, 273, 455-465, 2018

#29
Impact Factor: 5.83
Plasmonic DNA hotspots made from Tungsten disulfide nanosheets and gold nanoparticles for ultrasensitive aptamer-based SERS detection of Myoglobin

Shorie, M., Kumar, V.*, Kaur, H., Singh, K., Tomar, V., Sabherwal, P.

Microchimica Acta, 185, 1-7, 2018

#28
Impact Factor: 7.7
Functionalized MoS2 nanosheets assembled microfluidic immunosensor for highly sensitive detection of food pathogen

Singh, C., Ali, M. A., Kumar, V., Ahmad, R., Sumana, G.

Sensors & Actuators B, 259, 1090-1098, 2018

#27
Impact Factor: 6.56
One step electro-oxidative preparation of graphene quantum dots from wood charcoal as a peroxidase mimetic

Nirala, N., Kandelwal, G., Kumar, B., Vinita, Kumar, V.*

Talanta, 173, 36-43, 2017

#26
Impact Factor: 2.5
Synergistic Effect of Graphene Oxide Coated Nanotised Apigenin with Paclitaxel (GO-NA/PTX): A ROS Dependent Mitochondrial Mediated Apoptosis in Ovarian Cancer

Pal, M. K., Jaiswar, S. P., Dwivedi, A., Goyal, S., Dwivedi, V., Pathak, A. K., Kumar, V., Sankhwar, P.L., Ray, R.S.

Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry, 17, 1721-1732, 2017

#25
Microwave Reduced Graphene Oxide as Efficient NIR Photothermal Agent

Kashyap, S., Kumar, V., Abraham, S., Umrao, S., Singh, S., Kamath, A., Rajala, M.S., Srivastava, A., Saxena, P.S.

Austin J. Biosens. & Bioelectron., 3: id1026, 1-5, 2017

#24
Sensitive and selective detection of copper ions using low cost nitrogen doped carbon quantum dots as a fluorescent sensing platform

Singh, V., Kumar, V., Yadav, U., Srivastava, R. K., Saxena, P. S.

ISSS J. Micro Smart Syst., 1, 1-8, 2017

#23
Impact Factor: 4.02
On the stability of surfactant-stabilised few-layer black phosphorus in aqueous media

Brent, J.R., Ganguli, A. K., Kumar, V., Lewis, D., McNaughter, P. D., O'Brien, P., Sabherwal, P., Tedstone, A. A.

RSC Advances, 6, 86955-86958, 2016

#22
Graphene based Flexible and Stretchable Bioelectronics in Health Care Systems

Kumar, V., Kandelwal, G.

Journal of Analytical and Pharmaceutical Research, 3, 1-3, 2016

#21
Impact Factor: 8.2
A Nanostructured Aptamer-Functionalised Black Phosphorus Sensing Platform for Label-Free Detection of Myoglobin, a Cardiovascular Disease Biomarker

Kumar, V., Brent, J. R., Shorie, S., Kaur, H., Chadha, G., Thomas, A. G., Lewis, E. A., et al.

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 8, 22860−22868, 2016

#20
Impact Factor: 4.6
Antibody conjugated metal nanoparticle decorated graphene sheets for a mycotoxin sensor

Srivastava, S., Kumar, V., Arora, K., Singh, C., Ali, M. A., Puri, N. K., Malhotra, B. D.

RSC Advances, 6, 56516-56526, 2016

#19
Impact Factor: 4.6
Dipyrrin complex assisted in-situ synthesis of ultra-small gold nanoparticles decorated on partially reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite for efficient catalytic reduction of Cr(VI) to Cr(III)

Gupta, R. K., Kumar, V., Srivastava, A., Pandey, D. S.

RSC Advances, 6, 40911-40915, 2016

#18
Impact Factor: 10.5
High-performance and high-sensitivity applications of graphene transistors with self-assembled monolayers

Yeh, C. H., Kumar, V., Wen, S. H., Moyano, D. R., Parashar, V., Srivastava, A., Saxena, P. S., Huang, K. P., Chang, C. C., Chiu, P. W.

Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 77, 1008-1015, 2015

#17
Impact Factor: 10.5
Graphene-CNT nanohybrid aptasensor for label free detection of cardiac biomarker myoglobin

Kumar, V., Shorie, M., Sabherwal, P., Ganguli, A.

Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 72, 56-60, 2015

#16
Impact Factor: 4.1
Enhanced electrochemical biosensing efficiency of silica particles supported partially reduced graphene oxide for sensitive detection of cholesterol

Abraham, S., Srivastava, S., Kumar, V., Pandey, S., Srivastava, S., Singh, V.N., Shukla, P. K., Saxena, P.S., Srivastava, A.

Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 757, 65-72, 2015

#15
Impact Factor: 7.7
Colorimetric detection of cholesterol based on highly efficient peroxidase mimetic activity of Graphene Quantum Dots

Nirala, N.R., Abraham, S., Kumar, V., Bansal, A., Srivastava, A., Saxena, P. S.

Sensors & Actuators B, 218, 42–50, 2015

#14
Impact Factor: 6.1
Partially reduced graphene oxide–gold nanorods composite based bioelectrode of improved sensing performance

Nirala, N.R., Abraham, S., Kumar, V., Srivastava, M., Srivastava, S. K., Kayastha, A. M., Saxena, P. S., Srivastava, A.

Talanta, 144, 745-754, 2015

#13
Impact Factor: 0.93
Carbon quantum dots-mediated direct fluorescence assay for the detection of cardiac marker myoglobin

Shorie, M., Kumar, V., Sabherwal, P., Ganguli, A.

Current Science, 108, 1595-1596, 2015

#12
In-vitro cytotoxicity assessment of graphene quantum dots in Caprine Wharton’s Jelly derived mesenchymal stem cells

Dar, R. M., Gade, N.E., Mishra, O.P., Khan, J.R., Kumar, V., Patyal, A.

Journal of Cell and Tissue Research, 15, 4703-4710, 2015

#11
Single molecule detection using nanopore technology

Kumar, V.

Editorial, Research & Reviews: Journal of Pharmaceutics and Nanotechnology, 3, 1-2, 2015

#10
Evaluation of dose dependent cytotoxic effects of graphene oxide-iron oxide nanocomposite on Caprine Wharton’s Jelly derived mesenchymal stem cells

Gade, N.E., Dar, R.M., Mishra, O.P., Khan, J.R., Kumar, V., Patyal, A.

Journal of Animal Research, 5, 415-421, 2015

#9
Impact Factor: 4.6
Facile, rapid and upscaled synthesis of green luminescent functional graphene quantum dots for bioimaging

Kumar, V., Singh, V., Umrao, S., Parashar, V., Abraham, S., Singh, A. K., Nath, G., Saxena, P. S., Srivastava, A.

RSC Advances, 4, 21101-21107, 2014

#8
Impact Factor: 4.6
Nanostructured palladium-reduced graphene oxide platform for high sensitive, label free detection of a cancer biomarker

Kumar, V., Srivastava, S., Umrao, S., Kumar, R., Nath, G., Sumana, G., Saxena, P. S., Srivastava, A.

RSC Advances, 4, 2267-2273, 2014

#7
Impact Factor: 5.6
Cefuroxime axetil loaded Solid Lipid Nanoparticles for enhanced activity against S. aureus biofilm

Singh, B., Vuddanda, P. R., Vijayakumar, M. R., Kumar, V., Saxena, P. S., Singh, S.

Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 121, 92-98, 2014

#6
Impact Factor: 6.3
Synthesis of benzimidazole - grafted graphene oxide/multi-walled carbon nanotubes composite for supercapacitance application

Srivastava, R. K., Kumar, V., Xingjue, W., Srivastava, A.

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 612, 343-348, 2014

#5
Impact Factor: 4.6
Biofunctional magnetic nanotube probe for recognition and separation of specific bacteria from a mixed culture

Kumar, V., Nath, G., Kotnala, R. K., Saxena, P. S., Srivastava, A.

RSC Advances, 3, 14634-14641, 2013

#4
Impact Factor: 5.1
Electrophoretically deposited reduced graphene oxide platform for food toxin detection

Srivastava, S., Kumar, V., Ali, M. A., Solanki, P. R., Srivastava, A., Sumana, G., Saxena, P. S., Joshi, A.G., Malhotra, B. D.

Nanoscale, 5, 3043-3051, 2013

#3
Impact Factor: 2.8
Study of mechanism of enhanced antibacterial activity by green synthesis of silver nanoparticles

Parashar, U. K., Kumar, V., Bera, T., Saxena, P. S., Nath, G., Srivastava, S. K., Giri, R., Srivastava, A.

Nanotechnology, 22, 415104-415117, 2011

#2
Refinement of the optical properties by controlling the morphology of silver nanoparticles employing blended reducing agents

Parashar, U. K., Kumar, V., Saxena, P. S., Srivastava, A.

Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, 11, 441-445, 2009

#1
Impact Factor: Preprint / arXiv
Gold Nanoparticles supported on MoS2 Nanoribbons matrix as a biocompatible and water dispersible platform for enhanced photothermal ablation of cancerous cells using harmless near infrared irradiation

Pandey, S., Kumar, V., Bansal, A., Mishra, H., Kashyap, S., Srivastava, A., Saxena, P. S.

arXiv.org > cond-mat > arXiv:1412.4943, 2014

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We combine stem-cell derived organoids, microfluidic BioMEMS, and nano-biomaterials to build advanced disease models and point-of-care diagnostics for livestock and human health.