Sumit Kumar Sonkar

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Sumit Kumar Sonkar is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sumit Kumar Sonkar has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Materials Chemistry, 28 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 22 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sumit Kumar Sonkar's work include Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications (55 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (26 papers) and Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (22 papers). Sumit Kumar Sonkar is often cited by papers focused on Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications (55 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (26 papers) and Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (22 papers). Sumit Kumar Sonkar collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and Sweden. Sumit Kumar Sonkar's co-authors include Kumud Malika Tripathi, Sabyasachi Sarkar, Anshu Bhati, Deepika Saini, Anjali Kumari Garg, Gunture Gunture, Ya‐Ping Sun, Pengju G. Luo, Satyesh Raj Anand and Jaidev Kaushik and has published in prestigious journals such as ACS Nano, Journal of Applied Physics and Langmuir.

In The Last Decade

Sumit Kumar Sonkar

102 papers receiving 5.0k citations

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Carbon “quantum” dots for optical bioimaging

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sumit Kumar Sonkar India	40	4.0k	1.2k	1.1k	756	626	105	5.1k
Kumud Malika Tripathi India	41	2.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.4×	372 0.6×	90	4.6k
S. Sudheer Khan India	43	3.7k 0.9×	2.8k 2.4×	792 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	434 0.7×	194	5.6k
Ning Li China	42	3.6k 0.9×	2.0k 1.7×	1.3k 1.2×	1.5k 2.0×	964 1.5×	203	6.3k
Qing‐Feng Yang China	35	2.9k 0.7×	707 0.6×	632 0.6×	919 1.2×	488 0.8×	144	4.8k
Shiyun Ai China	39	2.8k 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	628 0.5×	1.8k 2.3×	964 1.5×	110	4.3k
Savita Chaudhary India	35	2.0k 0.5×	409 0.4×	675 0.6×	876 1.2×	401 0.6×	153	3.7k
Juanjuan Liu China	38	3.1k 0.8×	740 0.6×	485 0.4×	1.1k 1.4×	1.1k 1.8×	114	4.3k
Deepak Kukkar India	30	1.6k 0.4×	570 0.5×	816 0.7×	742 1.0×	458 0.7×	89	3.3k
Sheng Tang China	35	1.3k 0.3×	556 0.5×	907 0.8×	918 1.2×	780 1.2×	140	3.5k
Mohsen Behpour Iran	43	3.6k 0.9×	977 0.8×	613 0.5×	1.9k 2.5×	466 0.7×	159	6.2k

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Garg, Anjali Kumari, et al.. (2025). H₂O₂ Mediated Photoreduction of Nitrates to Ammonia by Iron Filings under Ambient Conditions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 16(4). 876–881. 2 indexed citations

Kumar, V.G. Dileep, Amit Kumar Sonker, Nikhil Sharma, et al.. (2024). Hydrogen peroxide mediated thermo-catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to C1-C2 products over Cu (0). Chemical Engineering Journal. 500. 156786–156786. 3 indexed citations

Garg, Anjali Kumari, et al.. (2024). Silver phosphate-based melamine–formaldehyde polymer for reduction of mono, di, and tri-nitrophenols under ambient conditions. New Journal of Chemistry. 48(36). 15726–15730. 2 indexed citations

Tiwari, Neha, et al.. (2024). Small amine-functionalized diesel soot-derived onion-like nanocarbon for selective sensing of glutamic acid and imaging application. New Journal of Chemistry. 48(43). 18580–18588.

Kaushik, Jaidev, et al.. (2024). Deploying used solid carbon dioxide to assist graphite exfoliation. New Journal of Chemistry. 48(18). 8030–8033. 1 indexed citations

Aggarwal, Ruchi, et al.. (2024). From Bulk Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS₂) to Suspensions of Exfoliated MoS₂ in an Aqueous Medium and Their Applications. Langmuir. 40(19). 9855–9872. 16 indexed citations

Kumar, V.G. Dileep, et al.. (2023). Utilization of steel industry waste derived magnetic iron-oxide nanoparticles for reverse water gas shift reaction. Chemical Engineering Journal. 477. 147027–147027. 8 indexed citations

Aggarwal, Ruchi, Sumit Kumar Sonkar, & Kumud Malika Tripathi. (2023). Visible-light promoted hydrogen production by diesel soot derived onion like carbon nanoparticles. Carbon. 208. 436–442. 31 indexed citations

Kaushik, Jaidev, et al.. (2023). Waste-Derived Iron Nanoparticles for Solvent-Free Single-Step Reductive Acetylation of Nitroarenes. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 11(24). 9047–9056. 11 indexed citations

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Kaushik, Jaidev, et al.. (2023). Photoactive Fe₃O₄@Fe₂O₃ Synthesized from Industrial Iron Oxide Dust for Fenton-Free Degradation of Multiple Organic Dyes. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 62(27). 10487–10497. 27 indexed citations

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Aggarwal, Ruchi, Anjali Kumari Garg, V.G. Dileep Kumar, et al.. (2023). Cellulose-Derived Carbon Dots for Inner Filter Effect-Based Selective Sensing of Ofloxacin Antibiotics. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 6(8). 6518–6527. 30 indexed citations

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Garg, Anjali Kumari, et al.. (2023). Melamine–Formaldehyde Polymer-Based Nanocomposite for Sunlight-Driven Photodegradation of Multiple Dyes and Their Mixture. Langmuir. 39(31). 11036–11047. 20 indexed citations

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Dalal, Chumki, Anjali Kumari Garg, Manas Mathur, & Sumit Kumar Sonkar. (2022). Fluorescent Polymer Carbon Dots for the Sensitive–Selective Sensing of Fe³⁺Metal Ions and Cellular Imaging. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 5(9). 12699–12710. 40 indexed citations

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Saini, Deepika, Ruchi Aggarwal, Amit Kumar Sonker, & Sumit Kumar Sonkar. (2021). Photodegradation of Azo Dyes in Sunlight Promoted by Nitrogen–Sulfur–Phosphorus Codoped Carbon Dots. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 4(9). 9303–9312. 52 indexed citations

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Kaushik, Jaidev, HIMANSHI HIMANSHI, V.G. Dileep Kumar, Kumud Malika Tripathi, & Sumit Kumar Sonkar. (2021). Sunlight-promoted photodegradation of Congo red by cadmium-sulfide decorated graphene aerogel. Chemosphere. 287. 132225–132225. 82 indexed citations

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Gunture, Gunture, Jaidev Kaushik, Deepika Saini, et al.. (2021). Surface adhered fluorescent carbon dots extracted from the harmful diesel soot for sensing Fe(iii) and Hg(ii) ions. New Journal of Chemistry. 45(43). 20164–20172. 24 indexed citations

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Saini, Deepika, Jaidev Kaushik, Anjali Kumari Garg, Chumki Dalal, & Sumit Kumar Sonkar. (2020). N, S-codoped Carbon Dots for Nontoxic Cell Imaging and As a Sunlight-Active Photocatalytic Material for the Removal of Chromium. ACS Applied Bio Materials. 3(6). 3656–3663. 51 indexed citations

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Anand, Satyesh Raj, et al.. (2019). Soluble non-toxic carbon nano-rods for the selective sensing of iron(iii) and chromium(vi). New Journal of Chemistry. 43(27). 10726–10734. 15 indexed citations

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Bhati, Anshu, Satyesh Raj Anand, Deepika Saini, et al.. (2018). Self-doped nontoxic red-emitting Mg–N-embedded carbon dots for imaging, Cu(ii) sensing and fluorescent ink. New Journal of Chemistry. 42(24). 19548–19556. 41 indexed citations

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Singh, Anupriya, Prateek Khare, Sankalp Verma, et al.. (2017). Pollutant Soot for Pollutant Dye Degradation: Soluble Graphene Nanosheets for Visible Light Induced Photodegradation of Methylene Blue. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 5(10). 8860–8869. 109 indexed citations

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