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A Comprehensive Review of Novel Emerging Electrolytes for Supercapacitors: Aqueous and Organic Electrolytes Versus Ionic Liquid-Based Electrolytes
(American Chemical Society, 2024) Moumita Saha; Ambrish Kumar; Rahul Kanaoujiya; Kamalakanta Behera; Shruti Trivedi
Storage of energy is essential to meet the daily demand for powering portable devices. This necessitates the development of storage systems such as supercapacitors (SCs), batteries, and solar cells. SCs have garnered a lot of attention for their ability to provide a massive amount of power. Nevertheless, traditional mechanisms fall short of our expectations. Ionic liquids (ILs), the evolutionary green designer solvents, are efficient enough to substitute for conventional electrolytes such as aqueous or organic electrolytes in SCs. A limited potential window of aqueous electrolytes restricts the performance of high energy electrodes. In contrast, organic electrolytes with high volatility, flammability, and lack of tunability are not suitable for long-term and robust applications. Beneficial properties of ILs such as negligible volatility, high thermal, chemical, and electrochemical stability have overcome many restrictions in SCs and improved their overall performances. ILs can be used as standalone electrolyte or can be mixed with organic electrolytes, redox elements, and polymers to obtain electrolytes for SCs. The structure of anions and cations has been found to significantly influence overall electrochemical performances. ILs benefit SCs with a wider working voltage, temperature range, and better energy density. ILs have been utilized not only as electrolytes but also in the synthesis of electrode materials. Consequently, it is essential to discuss recent findings and the function of ILs in achieving higher-performing SCs. This review mainly highlights the most recent findings on the use of ILs-based electrolytes and electrodes in supercapacitors. © 2024 American Chemical Society
Carbonaceous Catalysts for Pollutant Degradation
(wiley, 2023) Poonam Kaswan; Santimoy Khilari; Ankur Srivastava; Girijesh Kumar; Pratap K. Chhotaray; Mrituanjay D. Pandey; Kamalakanta Behera
To enhance the quality of the environment, a lot of studies have been done on carbonaceous materials to develop different architectures and qualities. The development and importance of carbonaceous photocatalysts is briefly highlighted in this chapter, which also includes different semiconductors based on activated carbon, carbon nanotubes, carbon dots, fullerene, graphene, aerogels and carbon sponges, etc. In the present chapter, we have considered two types of strategies to discuss the entitled topic, one is a carbon-based catalyst, and the second is carbonaceous material with other metal composites to enhance the activity. Various difficulties with a metal catalyst, such as limited light adsorption capacity, large band gap energy, and insufficient physicochemical stability, continue to severely restrict photocatalysts for practical uses. To get rid of this, some unique catalysts based on carbon materials have been designed and inserted into a photocatalytic system to enhance activity. They are found to be ideal for various types of applications ranging from the field of renewable energy to waste water management and treatment, thanks to the synergistic combination of metal nanoparticles and carbonaceous nanostructures. Carbon-based metal nanostructures are much essential to dissolve a variety of colorful and colorless hazardous contaminants, such as organic dye, NOXelimination, water splitting, etc., when they are subjected to visible light. © 2023 Scrivener Publishing LLC.
Green Corrosion Inhibition: Theory and Practices
(CRC Press, 2024) Bharti Sheokand; Seema R. Pathak; Chandan K. Mandal; Drishti Gupta; Deepti Verma; Kamalakanta Behera; Ambrish Kumar; Monika Vats; Shruti Trivedi
In daily life, corrosion is an inevitable problem. Metal corrosion control is crucial for technical, financial, health, and environmental reasons. One of the finest methods for preventing corrosion in metals and metal alloys involves the application of inhibitors. Toxicity of the environment caused by synthetic inhibitors has increased the use of green corrosion inhibitors which are biodegradable, are nontoxic, and do not include heavy metals. In addition, these are affordable, easily accessible, and renewable. The majority of the natural products have the required components for their use as a good source of green corrosion inhibitors. These components help with the adsorption of these substances on metals or alloys to produce a coating that protects the surface and prevents corrosion. The numerous forms of green corrosion inhibitors are briefly covered in this chapter, with a focus on the discussion of the various characteristics of the green corrosion inhibitors documented in the literature. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Chandrabhan Verma, Ashish Kumar, and Abhinay Thakur; individual chapters, the contributors. All rights reserved.
Green solvents tailored nanostructures of block copolymers and their potential applications in drug delivery
(Elsevier B.V., 2024) Ambrish Kumar; Moumita Saha; Ritik Vishwakarma; Kamalakanta Behera; Shruti Trivedi
In the past decades, deep eutectic solvents (DESs) and ionic liquids (ILs) have garnered significant interest in various disciplines of the chemical, physical and biological sciences as task-oriented (designer) and emerging “green” solvent substitutes to the hazardous and volatile organic solvents. The physicochemical properties of these green designer solvents are precisely customizable by tuning the structures of their constituents for a particular application. These unique substances have shown enormous application potentials in several interdisciplinary research fields, like, catalysis, synthesis, biocatalysis, separation and extraction, biomolecular dissolution and stability, nanoscience, pharmaceutics, and drug delivery. Furthermore, block copolymers (BCPs) self-assembled nanostructures such as vesicles, micelles, microemulsions, polymersomes, etc. formed within different solvent media have attracted various researchers around the world owing to their immense potential for application in several domains of science and technology including drug delivery, photonic material, data storage, etc. This review highlights current advancements in the self-assembly of BCPs forming nanostructures within green designer solvent media like ILs and DESs. Additionally, it also gives an overview of applications of ILs, DESs, and external stimuli-responsive BCP within ILs and DESs, as drug delivery vehicles. This review will further enhance the potential utility of these unique materials (so-called designer solvents) and will help researchers design novel ILs and DESs for suitable applications including polymer science, nanoscience, pharmaceutics, drug delivery, etc. © 2024 Elsevier B.V.
Interaction between antidepressant drug trazodone with double-stranded DNA: Multi-spectroscopic and computational analysis
(Elsevier B.V., 2024) Ambrish Kumar; Moumita Saha; Juhi Saraswat; Kamalakanta Behera; Shruti Trivedi
Trazodone (TZD) is an antidepressant drug used to treat major depressive and sleeping disorders. Elevated doses of trazodone are associated with central nervous system depression, which manifests as nausea, drowsiness, confusion, vertigo, exhaustion, etc. To develop a clinically viable active pharmaceutical compound with minimal adverse effects, it is imperative to possess a comprehensive knowledge of the drug's action mechanism on DNA. Hence, we investigate the mode of interaction between trazodone and DNA utilizing various spectroscopic and computational techniques. Studies using UV–vis titration showed that the DNA and trazodone have an effective interaction. The magnitude of the Stern-Volmer constant (KSV) has been calculated to be 5.84 × 106 M−1 by the Lehrer equation from a steady-state fluorescence study. UV–vis absorption, DNA melting, dye displacement, and circular dichroism studies suggested that trazodone binds with DNA in minor grooves. Molecular docking and molecular dynamic simulation demonstrated that the TZD-DNA system was stable, and the mode of binding was minor groove. Furthermore, ionic strength investigation demonstrates that DNA and trazodone do not have a substantial electrostatic binding interaction. © 2024 Elsevier B.V.
Ionic Liquids as Green Sustainable Materials in Textiles
(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2025) Moumita Saha; Farooq Ahmad Wani; Manoj Kumar Banjare; Ambrish Kumar; Ritik Vishwakarma; Kamalakanta Behera; Shruti Trivedi
Textile industry is one of the major pollution causing sector which needs totally an eco-friendly process instead of traditional ones. From harvesting crops or synthesizing fibers which requires very large quantities of water with extreme chemicals, to discarded fabrics causing environmental damages, textile industry requires a complete green processing method. Green solvent like ionic liquids (ILs) are emerging as a new substitute in the textile engineering processes. ILs are formed by mainly organic cations and organic/inorganic anions having many attractive physicochemical properties like high conductivity, low vapor pressure, good thermal stability etc. Here, we have discussed how ILs can be involved in textile processing like coloring of fabric or introducing novel properties, and pollution control. Thus, great efforts are being made worldwide to show a cleaner production structure to decline the toxicity and environmental threat of textile chemicals. Ultimately the goal is to increases sustainability and provides an opportunity to make novel generations of textile processes and also produce high-valued innovative textiles for greater purpose. © 2025 Wiley-VCH GmbH.
Ionic Liquids as Solvents and/or Catalysts for Organic Synthesis
(Bentham Science Publishers, 2023) Vaishali Khokhar; Shruti Trivedi; Shreya Juneja; Komal; Siddharth Pandey; Gyandshwar K. Rao; Kamalakanta Behera; Kamal Nayan Sharma
Ionic liquids (ILs) are receiving increased enticement from synthetic organic chemists; world-wide due to their extraordinary physicochemical properties. The wide-ranging applications of ionic liquids as solvents and catalysts in organic synthesis are mainly due to their non-volatile nature which arises from very low vapor pressures. Since the past few decades, researchers have explored the efficacy of these designer solvents as green substitutes of toxic and volatile organic solvents for a variety of value added synthetic organic reactions. Furthermore, the tremendous potential of ILs as catalysts is also worth mentioning. Unlike organic solvents of comparable polarity, they often act as catalysts in various organic reactions. Thus, the present chapter aims at observing and exploring the application of ionic liquids as solvents and catalysts in various synthetic organic reactions. The green chemistry aspects of the solvent as well as the catalytic use of ionic liquids in order to develop environmentally benign organic synthesis is also the focus of discussion in this chapter. © 2023 Bentham Science Publishers.
Ionic liquids: environmentally sustainable materials for energy conversion and storage applications
(Springer, 2024) Gaurav Choudhary; Jyoti Dhariwal; Moumita Saha; Shruti Trivedi; Manoj K. Banjare; Rahul Kanaoujiya; Kamalakanta Behera
Ionic liquids (ILs), often known as green designer solvents, have demonstrated immense application potential in numerous scientific and technological domains. ILs possess high boiling point and low volatility that make them suitable environmentally benign candidates for many potential applications. The more important aspect associated with ILs is that their physicochemical properties can be effectively changed for desired applications just by tuning the structure of the cationic and/or anionic part of ILs. Furthermore, these eco-friendly designer materials can function as electrolytes or solvents depending on the application. Owing to the distinctive properties such as low volatility, high thermal and electrochemical stability, and better ionic conductivity, ILs are nowadays immensely used in a variety of energy applications, particularly in the development of green and sustainable energy storage and conversion devices. Suitable ILs are designed for specific purposes to be used as electrolytes and/or solvents for fuel cells, lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors (SCs), and solar cells. Herein, we have highlighted the utilization of ILs as unique green designer materials in Li-batteries, fuel cells, SCs, and solar cells. This review will enlighten the promising prospects of these unique, environmentally sustainable materials for next-generation green energy conversion and storage devices. Ionic liquids have much to offer in the field of energy sciences regarding fixing some of the world’s most serious issues. However, most of the discoveries discussed in this review article are still at the laboratory research scale for further development. This review article will inspire researchers and readers about how ILs can be effectively applied in energy sectors for various applications as mentioned above. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2023.
L-tryptophan-assisted anthracene functionalization for copper-induced fluorescence Turn-off and controlled supramolecular nano-assembly
(Elsevier B.V., 2024) Tarkeshwar Maddeshiya; Surabhi Asthana; Kamalakanta Behera; Chhama Awasthi; Mrituanjay D. Pandey
A fluorescent chemosensor, l-Tryptophan-assisted Anthracene conjugate (1), has been designed and developed. 1 is highly selective and sensitive for detecting Cu(II) ions through a fluorescence "turn-off" mechanism, even in a competing environment with a high detection limit of 9.4 × 10−6 M. The smaller spherical nano-assembly transforms into larger spherical nano-assembly upon incubation with Cu(II) ions, highlighting the metal-induced morphological transformation of nano-assemblies. © 2024
MXene-based hybrid nanostructures for sensing application: Fundamental and state-of-art
(Elsevier, 2024) Ritik Vishwakarma; Ambrish Kumar; Moumita Saha; Bhawna; Kamalakanta Behera; Shruti Trivedi
MXenes have emerged as a cutting-edge class of materials with exceptional sensing capabilities, positioning them at the forefront of sensing technology. They exhibit remarkable properties that enable them to be used as sensing materials. These two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides and nitrides, derived from layered MAX phases which was itself a very large family making MXenes even larger family. MXenes have emerged as state-of-the-art sensing materials due to their unique combination of properties, including high surface area, high surface-to-volume ratio, tunable surface chemistry, excellent electrical conductivity, high optical transmittivity, mechanical flexibility, and electrochemical activity which enables efficient interactions with analytes. The abundant Tx on the MXene surface, such as -OH, -O, and -F terminations, enhances the material's sensitivity to detect a wide range of analytes including gases, biomolecules, and heavy metals. These MXene-based sensors offer a limit of detection up to 10-12 or lower concentration levels and high selectivity for their target analytes is very high even in the many interfering analytes in the sample. These sensors can be tuned according to the need. In this chapter, we have highlighted about sensing applications of MXene-based hybrid nanostructures. © 2025 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
MXenes in photothermal therapy
(Elsevier, 2024) Moumita Saha; Ambrish Kumar; Akhil P. Singh; Vaishali Khokhar; Shruti Trivedi; Kamalakanta Behera
The photothermal effect is the phenomenon where electromagnetic radiation is used to produce heat energy to treat various medical problems mainly cancer. Treatment of cancer using the photothermal effect is called photothermal therapy (PTT). PTT is a much safer and specific treatment in comparison to chemotherapy with minimal side effects. Recently, various treatments are being coupled with PTT to improve outcomes. The mechanism of cell death via hypoxia, photothermal conversion of light to heat in MXene, the superiority of MXenes above other photothermal agents, and recent progress in the use of MXene as a photothermal agent in the treatment of cancer and combination with other anticancer therapies are discussed in this chapter. © 2024 by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.
Pyrene-Appended Luminescent Probes for Selective Detection of Toxic Heavy Metals and Live Cell Applications
(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2024) Ankur Srivastava; Gargi Mishra; Amit Kumar Pathak; Saurabh Pandey; Chhama Awasthi; Mrituanjay D. Pandey; Kamalakanta Behera
Heavy metal contamination has become a global environmental problem and currently drawn much attention from researchers in worldwide. High exposure to heavy metals can lead to problems like kidney, liver and brain damage, skin and lung cancer, etc. Rapid and sensitive detection of heavy metals is of immense importance in environmental monitoring. Over the past few decades, enormous efforts have been made to design various sensors to identify and monitor these harmful metal ions. In Comparison with other methods, fluorescence-based chemosensors have received extensive attention because of the advantages of high sensitivity, low cost, real-time monitoring, simple operation, etc. The pyrene derivatives are significant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) with strong fluorescence. They are widely used as fluorescent probes in many applications due to their easy modification, high fluorescence quantum yield, and strong fluorescence emission in live cells, outstanding cell permeability, and very low cytotoxicity. The SDG 6: Clean water and sanitation alarm a strong strategy, and careful identification of the risk connected to environmental pollutants needs urgent attention in this situation. Therefore, we highlight different types of pyrene-based fluorophores and the fluorescence mechanisms for the sensitive and selective detection methodology of Arsenic, Mercury, Cadmium, Lead, and Chromium heavy metals. © 2024 Wiley-VCH GmbH.
Role of 2D Materials in Environmental Monitoring
(CRC Press, 2022) Renu Dhahiya; Moumita Saha; Ashok Kumar; Pankaj Sharma; Ram Sevak Singh; Varun Rai; Kamalakanta Behera
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Self-Assembled Nanostructures within Ionic Liquids-based Media
(Bentham Science Publishers, 2023) Jyoti Dhariwal; Gaurav Choudhary; Dipti Vaya; Srikanta Sahu; Manish Shandilya; Poonam Kaswan; Ambrish Kumar; Shruti Trivedi; Manoj K. Banjare; Kamalakanta Behera
Ionic liquids (ILs) have shown immense potential as suitable alternatives to environmentally damaging volatile organic solvents (VOS). These unique materials possess very unusual physicochemical properties, such as low melting point, high boiling point, excellent thermal and chemical stability, large electrochemical window, very low volatility and high conductivity. One of the most important features associated with ILs is that their physicochemical properties, like viscosity, density, hydrophobicity, solubility, polarity, etc., can be effectively tuned for desired applications just by tuning the structures of cations and/or anions. Further, these designer solvents show dual behavior, i.e., electrolytes and solvents. In the last two decades, these unique materials have shown tremendous application potential in various interdisciplinary research areas, such as synthesis, catalysis, separation, extraction, nanoscience, and pharmaceutics, among many others. Further, the formation of surfactant self-assembled nanostructures (micelles and microemulsions (ME)) within ionic liquid-based systems of immense importance due to the vast utility of these nanostructures well as ILs in various fields of science and technology. These microheterogeneous systems can be effectively used as greener alternatives to those environmentally harmful volatile organic solvents which are largely used for academic and industrial research purposes. The IL-based self-assembled nanostructures show major advantages due to their affinity to solubilize many chemical and biochemical solutes (both hydrophilic as well as hydrophobic), thereby expanding their potential application as solubilizing media, media for synthesis, catalysis and biocatalysis, separation and extraction, drug delivery vehicles, and media for biochemical stability (e.g., protein and enzyme stability). This book chapter will highlight the formation and utility of various types of self-assembled nanostructures formed by surfactants, polymers, etc., within Ils-based media. © 2023, Bentham Books imprint.
Unusual aggregation behavior of porphyrin dye tetrakis (4- sulfonatophenylporphyrin) within aqueous deep eutectic solvents
(Elsevier B.V., 2025) Moumita Saha; Ambrish Kumar; Ritik Vishwakarma; Siddharth Pandey; Kamalakanta Behera; Shruti Trivedi
Aggregation behavior and photophysics of an anionic porphyrin dye named tetrakis(4-sulfonatophenyl)porphyrin (TPPS) was studied first time in four different choline chloride based deep eutectic solvents (DESs) i.e., reline, ethaline, glyceline, and maline. In three DESs (reline, ethaline, and glyceline), TPPS mainly remains in monomer form with minute J-aggregates. However, in fourth DES maline, a completely different behavior was observed where TPPS formed extended J- and H-aggregates. Further, effect of change in pH and role of water as additive was assessed through UV–vis molecular absorption and fluorescence emission spectroscopy. It is important to note that pH change showed no effect on TPPS spectra in maline, whereas, addition of water was found to disrupt both J- and H- aggregates. © 2025 Elsevier B.V.