Publications

1. Kaushik, K.; Mondal, J.; Bag, R. K.; Sharma, S.; Anjum, F.; Nandi, C. K. Excitation Wavelength Dependent Quantum Yield in Water Soluble CdTe Quantum Dots. Nanoscale, 2025, 17 (7), 3919-3929. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4NR04344H

2. Kaushik, K.; Yadav, A.; Anjum, F.; Mishra, P. M.; Sharma, S.; Rao, C.; Nandi, C. K. Protein Conjugation helped CdTe Quantum Dots for the Specific Labeling and Super-Resolution Imaging of Lysosomes. ChemNanoMat. 2022, 8 (10), e202200235. https://doi.org/10.1002/cnma.202200235

3. Kaushik, K.; Rao, C.; Salam, A.; Nandi, C. K. Extensive Modulation of Fluorescence Quantum Yield in Quantum Dots by the Presence of Permanent Dark Particles: A Single Particle Level Study. ISRAPS Bulletin, 2025, 37 (1 & 2), 42-50. [View]

4. Kaushik, K.; Mondal, J.; Bag, R. K.; Sharma, S.; Salam, A.; Nandi, C. K. CdTe0.25Se0.75 Quantum Dots as Efficient Room Temperature Single Photon Source for Quantum Technology. arXiv:2410.22053, 2024 (Pre-print) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.22053 [Under Review]

5. Salam, A.; Kaushik, K.; Mukherjee, B.; Anjum, F.; Sapkal, G. T.; Sharma, S.; Garg, R.; Nandi, C. K. Zinc Metal Complex as NIR Emissive Probe for Real-Time Dynamics and in-Vivo Embryogenic Evolution of Lysosomes using Super Resolution Microscopy. Chemical Science, 2024, 15 (38), 15659 - 15669. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SC04638B  [Shared First Author]

[This article has been selected in the themed collection titled "Most popular 2024 analytical chemistry articles" by the journal-Chemical Science]

6. Anjum, F.; Kaushik, K.; Salam A.; Yadav, A.; Nandi, C. K. Super‐Resolution Microscopy Unveils Synergistic Structural Changes of Organelles Upon Point Mutation. Advanced Biology, 2023, 8 (3), 2300399. https://doi.org/10.1002/adbi.202300399 [Shared First Author]

7. Anjum, F.; Kaushik, K.; Salam, A.; Nandi, C.K. Chromatin Marks H3K4me3 and H3K9me3 in Triple‐Negative Breast Cancer Cell Lines. Advanced Biology, 2025, 2400752. https://doi.org/10.1002/adbi.202400752

8. Sharma, S.; Yadav, A.; Kaushik, K.; Salam, A.; Nandi, C.K. Assessing the Overflowing Pile-up Effect in the Photoluminescent Lifetime of Nanomaterials. Nanoscale, 2024, 16 (36), 16958-16966. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4NR01916D

9. Sharma, S.; Das, S.; Kaushik, K.; Patra, A.; Nandi, C. K. Revisiting Protein Protected Gold and Silver Nanoclusters: Excited State Dynamics and Long-Lived Emission. Nanoscale, 2025 (In Press) https://doi.org/10.1039/D5NR00518C

10. Garg, R.; Kaushik, K.; Salam, A.; Chandra, S.; Nandi, C. K. Carbon nanodots as a red emissive fluorescent probe for the super-resolution microscopy of DNA dynamics during paclitaxel treatment. Small Structures, 2025, 2400571. https://doi.org/10.1002/sstr.202400571 

11. Garg, R.; Kundu, R.; Kaushik, K.; Salam, A.; Nandi, C.K. Super Resolved Structural Imaging of Mitochondrial Network using Orange Emissive Carbon Nanodot as Fluorescent Probe. ChemNanoMat, 2025 (Just accepted). https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.12.13.628462v1

12. Lamba, R.; Salam, A.; Anjum, F.; Yadav, A.; Garg, R.; Kaushik, K.; Sharma, S.; Nandi, C. K. NIR Emissive Carbon Nanodots as a Tool to Mark Ribosomal RNA and Components using Super-Resolution Microscopy. Nanoscale, 2024, 16 (24), 11739-11748.  https://doi.org/10.1039/D4NR01569J

13. Sahrawat, U.; Garg, R.; Anjum, F.; Salam, A.; Kaushik, K.; Sapkal, G. T.; Nandi, C. K. One-Pot Synthesis of Orange Emissive Carbon Dots Specific for Staining of Mitochondria in both Cancer and Non-Cancer Cell Lines. ChemNanoMat, 2024, 10 (10), 202300628. https://doi.org/10.1002/cnma.202300628

14. Sharma, S.; Kaushik, K.; Salam A.; Garg, R.; Mondal, J.; Lamba, R.; Kaur, M.; Nandi, C. K. Recent Advances in Long-Lived Emission in Coinage Metal Nanoclusters: Implications for Optoelectronic Applications. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2024, 7 (1), 32-60. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.3c04748

15. Garg, R.; Anjum, F.; Salam, A.; Kaushik, K.; Sharma, S.; Sahrawat, U.; Yadav, A.; Nandi, C. K. Tracking Super Resolved Structure of Mitochondria using Red emissive Carbon Nanodots as Fluorescent Biomarker. Chemical Communications, 2023, 59 (90), 13454-13457.  https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CC03390B

16. Sharma, S.; Das, S..; Kaushik, K.; Yadav, A.; Patra A.; Nandi, C. K. Unveiling the Long-Lived Emission of Copper Nanoclusters Embedded in Protein Scaffold. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023, 14 (40), 8979-8987. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01877

17. Sapkal, G.T.; Salam, A.; Bala, P.; Sharma, S.; Kaushik, K.; Garg, R.; Nandi, C.K. NIR emissive fluorescence turn-on probe for selective detection of serum albumin proteins in biofluids and living cells. ChemRxiv, 2024 (Preprint). https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-mtcdv [Under Review]

18. Anjum, F.; Rao, C.; Yadav, A.; Kaushik, K.; Mishra, P. M.; Nandi, C. K. Directly Visualizing Mitochondrial Shrinkage and Lysosomal Expansion During Mitophagy using Super Resolution Microscopy. New Journal of Chemistry, 2022, 46 (42), 20069-20073. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2NJ04010G

19. Rao, C.; Sharma, S.; Garg, R.; Anjum, F.; Kaushik, K.; Nandi, C. K. Mapping the Time Dependent DNA Fragmentation caused by doxorubicin Loaded on PEGylated Carbogenic Nanodots using Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging and Super-resolution microscopy. Biomaterials Science. 2022, 10 (16), 4525-4537. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2BM00641C 

20. Yadav, A.; Kaushik, K.; Sharma, S.; Anjum, F.; Nandi, C. K. Near-Infrared-Emitting Ag Nanoclusters as Fluorescent Probes for Super-Resolution Radial Fluctuation Imaging of Lysosomes. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2022, 5 (7), 9260-9265. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.2c01604

21. Yadav, A.; Rao, C.; Kaushik, K.; Anjum, F.; Sharma, S.; Nandi, C. K. Superparamagnetic Iron Oxides Nanoparticles with Large Magnetic Saturation and High Particle Photon Counts for Super Resolution Imaging of Lysosomes. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2022, 5 (3), 4018–4027. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.2c00011

22. Batra, G.; Sharma, S.; Kaushik, K.; Rao, C.; Kumar, P.; Kumar, K.; Ghosh, S.; Jariwala, D.; Stach, E. A.; Yadav, A.; Nandi, C. K. Structural and Spectroscopic Characterization of Pyrene Derived Carbon Nano Dots: A Single-Particle Level Analysis. Nanoscale, 2022, 14 (9), 3568-3578. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1NR07190D

23. Mishra, P. M.; Rao, C.; Sarkar, A.; Yadav, A.; Kaushik, K.; Jaiswal, A.; Nandi, C. K. Super Resolution Microscopy Revealed the Lysosomal Expansion during Epigallocatechin Gallate Mediated Apoptosis. Langmuir, 2021, 37 (36), 10818–10826. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c01742

24. Soni, N.; Singh, S.; Sharma, S.; Batra, G.; Kaushik, K.; Rao, C.; Verma, N. C.; Mondal, B.; Yadav, A.; Nandi, C. K. Absorption and Emission of Light in Red Emissive Carbon Nanodots. Chemical Sciences, 2021, 12 (10), 3615-3626. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sc05879c

25. Sapkal, G. T.; Anjum, F.; Salam, A.;  Mukherjee, B.; Chandra, S.; Bala, P.; Garg, R.; Sharma, S.; Kaushik, K.; Nandi, C. K. NIR Emissive Probe for Fluorescence Turn-on Based Dead Cell Sorting and in-vivo Viscosity Mapping in C. elegans. Journal of Material Chemistry B, 2025, 13 (1), 184-194. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TB01945H

Patent

“BSA-dye bioconjugate probe as a lysotracker” Farhan Anjum, Chethana Rao, Pushpendra Mani Mishra, Aditya Yadav, Kush Kaushik, Chayan K. Nandi* (2021); Indian Patent application no. 202111049251.