Ayan Sarkar

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Ayan Sarkar is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ayan Sarkar has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Materials Chemistry, 16 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ayan Sarkar's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (15 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (10 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (6 papers). Ayan Sarkar is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (15 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (10 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (6 papers). Ayan Sarkar collaborates with scholars based in India, Taiwan and France. Ayan Sarkar's co-authors include Gobinda Gopal Khan, Kalyan Mandal, Keshab Karmakar, Ashutosh K. Singh, Debasish Sarkar, Sanjio S. Zade, Ankan Kheto, Dipanjan Maity, Debashish Pal and Ren‐Jei Chung and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Applied Physics Letters and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Ayan Sarkar

34 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The formation and detection techniques of oxygen vacancies in titanium oxide-based nanostructures

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ayan Sarkar India	18	771	764	562	269	135	37	1.4k
Vivi Fauzia Indonesia	20	948 1.2×	644 0.8×	604 1.1×	237 0.9×	108 0.8×	104	1.4k
S. N. Karthick South Korea	22	839 1.1×	616 0.8×	723 1.3×	281 1.0×	292 2.2×	43	1.5k
M.I. Khan Pakistan	23	747 1.0×	410 0.5×	371 0.7×	272 1.0×	102 0.8×	68	1.2k
Mengke Wu China	20	908 1.2×	732 1.0×	1.0k 1.8×	890 3.3×	207 1.5×	55	2.0k
Omran Moradlou Iran	21	569 0.7×	559 0.7×	978 1.7×	323 1.2×	334 2.5×	45	1.7k
Aqeel Ahmed Shah Pakistan	21	824 1.1×	420 0.5×	771 1.4×	125 0.5×	140 1.0×	86	1.5k
Ting Feng China	20	585 0.8×	740 1.0×	415 0.7×	63 0.2×	43 0.3×	51	1.1k
Nguyễn Văn Minh Vietnam	17	683 0.9×	330 0.4×	292 0.5×	349 1.3×	41 0.3×	93	1.1k
R. Sundaram India	19	785 1.0×	350 0.5×	485 0.9×	151 0.6×	185 1.4×	39	1.2k
Supphasin Thaweesak Australia	13	866 1.1×	1.0k 1.3×	427 0.8×	123 0.5×	75 0.6×	13	1.2k

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Sarkar, Ayan, Song‐Jeng Huang, Chin-Lung Kuo, et al.. (2025). Superionic Quasi-Solid-State Electrolyte for Rechargeable Magnesium–Oxygen Batteries. ACS Materials Letters. 7(4). 1440–1446. 4 indexed citations

Kheto, Ankan, Ayan Sarkar, Yogesh Kumar, et al.. (2025). Anti-nutritional factors: Nutrient interactions, processing interventions, and health aspects. Food Chemistry. 496(Pt 2). 146746–146746.

Maurya, Dheeraj Kumar, Ayan Sarkar, Yi‐An Chen, et al.. (2025). High‐Performance Mg–O₂ Batteries Enabled by Electrospinning PVDF‐HFP‐Based Quasi‐Solid‐State Polymer Electrolyte. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(22). 6 indexed citations

Kheto, Ankan, Subhamoy Dhua, Ayan Sarkar, et al.. (2024). A review on advancements in emerging processing of whey protein: Enhancing functional and nutritional properties for functional food applications. 3(1). 23–45. 9 indexed citations

Sarkar, Ayan, Behrouz Bazri, Kevin Iputera, et al.. (2024). Polyethylene oxide-based solid-state polymer electrolyte hybridized with liquid catholyte for semi-solid-state rechargeable Mg–O₂ batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(38). 25968–25978. 4 indexed citations

Kheto, Ankan, Ayan Sarkar, Yogesh Kumar, et al.. (2024). How pulse electric field treatment affects anti-nutritional factors and plant protein digestibility: A concise review. Food Bioscience. 61. 104849–104849. 14 indexed citations

Sarkar, Ayan, et al.. (2023). Iron-doped TiO2 nanorods coupled with naphthalenediimide (NDI) and 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT)-based donor-acceptor-donor type small organic molecule for visible-light water oxidation. Materials Today Chemistry. 33. 101699–101699. 5 indexed citations

Sarkar, Ayan, et al.. (2023). Photocatalytic H₂O₂ Production by Thiophene‐Coupled Benzotriazole and Anthraquinone‐Based D−A‐Type Polymer Nanoparticles. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 44(14). e2300013–e2300013. 4 indexed citations

Sarkar, Ayan, et al.. (2022). Synthesis of diketopyrrolopyrrole and anthraquinone-based polymers of D–A1–D–A2 architecture by direct arylation polycondensation and designing inorganic/organic nano-heterostructured photoanodes for visible light water splitting. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 6(9). 2343–2357. 11 indexed citations

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Kumar, Chandan, et al.. (2022). 4nπ Stable Multitasking Azapentacene: Acidochromism, Hole Mobility, and Visible Light Photoresponse. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(33). 37982–37989. 6 indexed citations

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Pal, Debashish, Dipanjan Maity, Ayan Sarkar, Debasish Sarkar, & Gobinda Gopal Khan. (2022). Effect of defect-rich Co-CeOx OER cocatalyst on the photocarrier dynamics and electronic structure of Sb-doped TiO2 nanorods photoanode. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 620. 209–220. 34 indexed citations

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Sarkar, Ayan, et al.. (2022). Pt nanoparticles coupled with perylene-based small molecule deposited on Ti3+ self-doped TiO2 nanorods—An inorganic/organic type-II nanoheterostructure for efficient visible-light photoelectrochemical water oxidation. Chemosphere. 301. 134696–134696. 15 indexed citations

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Kumar, Yogesh, Samandeep Kaur, Ankan Kheto, et al.. (2022). Cultivation of microalgae on food waste: Recent advances and way forward. Bioresource Technology. 363. 127834–127834. 43 indexed citations

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Pal, Debashish, Ayan Sarkar, Dipanjan Maity, et al.. (2021). Integration of LaCo(OH)_x Photo-Electrocatalyst and Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles with Sb-Doped TiO₂ Nanorods for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 4(6). 6111–6123. 40 indexed citations

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Sarkar, Ayan, et al.. (2021). Localized surface plasmon-enhanced photoelectrochemical water oxidation by inorganic/organic nano-heterostructure comprising NDI-based D-A-D type small molecule. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 601. 803–815. 21 indexed citations

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Sarkar, Ayan, et al.. (2020). The type-II n-n inorganic/organic nano-heterojunction of Ti 3 + self-doped TiO 2 nanorods and conjugated co-polymers for photoelectrochemical water splitting and photocatalytic dye degradation. Chemical Engineering Journal. 407. 127227–127227. 66 indexed citations

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Karmakar, Keshab, Ayan Sarkar, Kalyan Mandal, & Gobinda Gopal Khan. (2018). Investigating the Role of Oxygen Vacancies and Lattice Strain Defects on the Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Property of Alkali Metal (Li, Na, and K) Doped ZnO Nanorod Photoanodes. ChemElectroChem. 5(8). 1147–1152. 38 indexed citations

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Karmakar, Keshab, Ayan Sarkar, Kalyan Mandal, & Gobinda Gopal Khan. (2017). Nano-engineering of p–n CuFeO₂-ZnO heterojunction photoanode with improved light absorption and charge collection for photoelectrochemical water oxidation. Nanotechnology. 28(32). 325401–325401. 34 indexed citations

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Aggarwal, Geetika, et al.. (2002). iPURE: perceptual and user-friendly retrieval of images. 2. 693–696. 9 indexed citations

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Sengupta, Priyanka, et al.. (1987). 19 norsteroids from cholesterol and diosgenin and aromatization of ring a. Indian Journal of Chemistry Section B-organic Chemistry Including Medicinal Chemistry. 26(7). 611–615.

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