Publications
29. S. Karmakar, R. Deka, S. Dey, D. Ray*, "Accessing blue-room-temperature phosphorescence from pyridine-fused extended coumarins", J. Lumin 2023, 263, doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2023.120029.

28. N. Acharya, M. Upadhyay, S. Dey, D. Ray*, "White Light Emission Achieved by Dual-TADF in a Single Emissive Layer of Multicomponent Emitters", J. Phys. Chem. C 2023, 127, 7536–7545.

27. S. Karmakar, S. Dey, M. Upadhyay, D. Ray*, "Phenoxazine–Quinoline Conjugates: Impact of Halogenation on Charge Transfer Triplet Energy Harvesting via Aggregate Induced Phosphorescence", ACS Omega 2022, 7>, 16827–16836.


26. S. Dey, M. Hasan, A. Shukla, N. Acharya, M. Upadhyay, S.-C. Lo, E. B. Namdas, D. Ray*, "Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Room-Temperature Phosphorescence in Asymmetric Phenoxazine-Quinoline (D2–A) Conjugates and Dual Electroluminescence", J. Phys. Chem. C. 2022, 126>, 5649–5657.

25. N. Acharya, S. Dey, R. Deka, D. Ray*, "Molecular-Level Understanding of Dual-RTP via Host- Sensitized Multiple Triplet-to-Triplet Energy Transfers and Data Security Application", ACS Omega 2022, 7, 3722-3730.


24. N. Acharya, M. Hasan, S. Dey, S.-C. Lo, E. B. Namdas, D. Ray*, "Phenothiazine-Quinoline Conjugates Realizing Intrinsic TADF and RTP: Understanding the Mechanism and Electroluminescence Devices", Adv. Photonics Res. 2021, 2000201


23. H. Bhatia, S. Dey, D. Ray*, "Effect of π···π Interactions of Donor Rings on Persistent Room- Temperature Phosphorescence in D4–A Conjugates and Data Security Application", ACS Omega 2021, 6, 3858-3865.


22. H. Bhatia, D. Ray*, "Asymmetric-Donors(D2D′2)- Acceptor(A) Conjugates for Accessing Simultaneous Intrinsic Blue-RTP and Blue-TADF", Mat. Adv.2020, 1, 1858-1865.


21. S. Karmakar, D. Ray*, "Synthesis, optical properties, acid-base vapochromism and anti-counterfeiting of novel π-extended pyridine fused coumarins", J. Lumin. 2020, 223, 117229.

20. H. Bhatia, D. Ray*, Use of Dimeric Excited Staes of the Donors in D4-A Systems for Accesssing White Light Emission, Afterglow, and Invisible Security Ink", J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123, 22104-22103.

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19. I. Bhattacharjee, N. Acharya, D. Ray*, "Thermally activated delayed fluorescence and room-temperature phosphorescence in naphthyl appended carbazole-quinoline conjugates, and their mechanical regulation", Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 1899-1902.

18. I. Bhattacharjee, N. Acharya, S. Karmakar, D. Ray*, "Room-temperature Orange-Red Phosphorescence by Way of Intermolecular Charge Tansfer in Single-Component Phenoxazine-Quinoline Conjugates and Chemical Sensing", J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122, 21589-21597.

17. H. Bhatia, I. Bhattacharjee, D. Ray*, "Biluminescence via Fluorescence and Persistent Phosphorescence in Amorphous Organic Donor (D4)-Acceptor(A) Conjugates and Application in Data Security Protection", J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2018, 9, 3808-3813.

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16. I. Bhattacharjee, N. Acharya, H. Bhatia, D. Ray*, "Dual Emission through Thermaly Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Room-Temperature Phosphorescence, and Their Thermal Enhancement via Solid-State Structural Change in a Carbazole-Quinoline Conjugate", J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2018, 9, 2733-2738.

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15. I. Bhattacharjee, N. Ghosh, A. Raina, J. Dasgupta, D. Ray*, Conformational switching via an intramolecular H-bond modulates the fluorescence lifetime in a novel coumarin-imidazole conjugate", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2018, 20, 6060-6072.

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14. J. T. Foy, D. Ray, I. Aprahamian, "Regulating signal enhancement with coordinationcoupled deprotonation of a hydrazone switch", Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 209-213.


13. D. Ray, J. T Foy, R. P. Hughes, I. Aprahamian, "A Switching cascade of hydrazone-based rotary switches through coordination-coupled proton relays", Nat. Chem., 2012, 4, 757-762.

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12. G. Raffy, D. Ray, C.-C. Chu, A. D. Guerzo, D. M. Bassani, "Effect of Hydrogen-Bonding on the Excited-State Reactivity of Fullerene Derivatives and their Impact on the Control of the Emission Polarization from Single Crystals", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 8859-8865.

11.G. Raffy, D. Ray, C.-C. Chu, A. D. Guerzo, D. M. Bassani, "Controlling the third property of light: Towards photopolic materials, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50, 9584-9588.

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10. D. M. Bassani, D. Ray, C.-K. Liang, B. Fabre, F. Hui, P. Hapiot, "Anthracene- and anthracene:C60 adduct- terminated monolayers covalently bound hydrogen terminated silicon surfaces", J. Phys. Chem. C 2011, 115, 14786-14796.

9. D. Ray, C. Liang, N. D. McClenaghan, D. M. Bassani, "Organic and Supramolecular Materials for LED and Photovoltaic Applications, Current Phys. Chem., 2011, 1, 169-180.
8. D. Ray, C. Belin, F. Hui, B. Fabre, P. Hapiot, D. M. Bassani, "Direct formation of fullerene monolayers using [4+2] Diels-Alder cycloaddition, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 2547-2549.

7. C.-C. Chu, G. Raffy, D. Ray, A. D. Guerzo, B. Kauffmann, G. Wantz, L. Hirsch, D. M. Bassani, "Self-assembly of supramolecular fullerene ribbons via hydrogen-bonding interactions and their impact on fullerene electronic interactions and charge carrier mobility", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 12717-12723.

6. D. M. Bassani, L. Jonusauskaite, N. D. McClenaghan, J.-L. Pozzo, D. Ray, G. Vives, "Harnessing supramolecular interactions in organic solid-state devices: current status and future potential, Coord. Chem. Rev., 2010, 254, 2429-2445.
5. D. Ray, A. Nag, A. Jana, D. Goswami, P. K. Bharadwaj, "Coumarin Derived Chromophores in the donor-aceeptor-donor format that gives fluorescence enhancement and large two-photon activity in presence of specific metal ions, Inorganica Chimica Acta", 2010, 363, 2824-2832.

4. D. Ray, A. Nag, D. Goswami, P. K. Bharadwaj, "Acyclic Donor-Acceptor-Donor Chromophores for Large Enhancement of Two-Photon Absorption Cross Section in Presence of Mg(II), Ca(II) or Zn(II) Ions", J. Lumin., 2009, 129, 256-262.

3. D. Ray, E. S. S. Iyer, P. K. Bharadwaj, "Ag(I) induced emission with azines having donor-acceptor-donor chromophore", Dalton Trans., 2009, 5683-5687.

2. D. Ray, P. K. Bharadwaj, "A Coumarin-Derived Fluorescence Probe Selective for Magnesium, Inorg. Chem., 2008, 47, 2252-2254.

Citescore reached to more than 260
1. D. Ray, P. K. Bharadwaj, "Alteration in the Binding Property of a Laterally Non-symmetric Aza Cryptand Toward Cu(II), Ag(I) and Tl(I) Ions upon Derivatization with Methylnitrile Group", Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2006, 1771-1776.
