Keyword Plus: NANOPARTICLES

Glucose-Powered Ultrasmall Chemotactic Nanorobots for Retinal Degeneration Treatment

• Xiaohui Ju, Kateřina Palacká, Roshan Velluvakandy, Jan Michalička, Martin Pumera*
• Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025, 147(49), 45405-45422

Integrated health monitoring system with flexible asymmetric supercapacitors based on 2D Ti₃C₂ MXene and transitional metal oxides

• Kaaviah Manoharan, Martin Pumera*
• NPJ Flexible Electronics 2025, 9(1), 120

Virus Enhanced Microrobots for Biofilm Eradication

• Jyoti, Sagar Arya, Xia Peng, Martin Pumera*
• Advanced Materials 2026, (), e08299

MAX phase metal carbide-enabled triboelectric nanogenerator for integrated ammonia generation

• Shidhin Mappoli, Keval K. Sonigara, Radhika Nittoor-Veedu, Martin Pumera*
• Applied Materials Today 2025, (47), 102919

Single-Atom Colloidal Nanorobotics Enhanced Stem Cell Therapy for Corneal Injury Repair

• Xiaohui Ju, Eliška Javorková, Jan Michalička, Martin Pumera*
• ACS Nano 2025, 19(20), 19095-19115

Magneto-Fluorescent Microrobots with Selective Detection Intelligence for High-Energy Explosives and Antibiotics in Aqueous Environments

• N. Senthilnathan, Cagatay M. Oral, Martin Pumera*
• ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2025, 17(14), 21691-21704

Microrobots for Antibiotic-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Skin Colony Eradication

• Anna Jancik-Prochazkova, Hana Michalkova, Kristyna Cihalova, Zbynek Heger, Martin Pumera*
• ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2025, 17(27), 39340-39348

Active Microrobots for Dual Removal of Biofilms via Chemical and Physical Mechanisms

• Xia Peng, Cagatay M. Oral, Mario Urso, Martina Ussia, Martin Pumera*
• ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2025, 17(2), 3608-3619

High Performance MXene/MnCo2O4 Supercapacitor Device for Powering Small Robotics

• Nanasaheb M. Shinde, Martin Pumera*
• ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2024, 6(10), 7339-7345

Magnetically Propelled Microrobots toward Photosynthesis of Green Ammonia from Nitrates

• Apabrita Mallick, Jeonghyo Kim, Martin Pumera*
• Small 2024, 21(14), 2407050

Intelligent Magnetic Microrobots with Fluorescent Internal Memory for Monitoring Intragastric Acidity

• N. Senthilnathan, Cagatay M. Oral, Adam Novobilsky, Martin Pumera*
• Advanced Functional Materials 2024, 34(29), 2401463

Multiscale hierarchical nanoarchitectonics with stereographically 3D-printed electrodes for water splitting and energy storage

• Suvani Subhadarshini, Kalyan Ghosh, Martin Pumera*
• Materials Today 2024, 74(), 34-45

Facet nanoarchitectonics of visible-light driven Ag3PO4 photocatalytic micromotors: Tuning motion for biofilm eradication

• Daniel Rojas, Michaela Kuthanova, Kristyna Dolezelikova, and Martin Pumera*
• NPG Asia Materials 2022, 14(), 63

Micellar Polymer Magnetic Microrobots as Efficient Nerve Agent Microcleaners

• Marta Pacheco, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, Alberto Escarpa, and Martin Pumera*
• ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022, 14(22), 26128-26134

Magnetically Driven Micro and Nanorobots

• Huaijuan Zhou, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, Salvador Pané, Li Zhang, and Martin Pumera*
• Chemical Reviews 2021, 121(8), 4999-5041

Towards Antimonene and 2D Antimony Telluride through Electrochemical Exfoliation

• Adaris M. López Marzo, Rui Gusmao, Zdeněk Sofer, and Martin Pumera*
• Chem.Eur.J. 2020, 26(29), 6583-6590

Ultrafast Electrochemical Trigger Drug Delivery Mechanism for Nanographene Micromachines

• Bahareh Khezri, Seyyed Mohsen Beladi Mousavi, Ludmila Krejčová, Zbyněk Heger, Zdeněk Sofer, Martin Pumera*
• Advanced Functional Materials 2019, 29(4)

Pnictogen-Based Enzymatic Phenol Biosensors: Phosphorene, Arsenene, Antimonene, and Bismuthene

• Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, Rui Gusmao, Zdeněk Sofer, Martin Pumera*
• Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 2019, 58(1), 134-138

Black Phosphorus Cytotoxicity Assessments Pitfalls: Advantages and Disadvantages of Metabolic and Morphological Assays

• Michaela Fojtů, Jan Balvan, Martina Raudenska, Tomáš Vicar, Daniel Bouša, Zdeněk Sofer, Michal Masařík, Martin Pumera*
• Chemistry-A European Journal 2019, 25(1), 349-360

ZnO/ZnO2/Pt Janus Micromotors Propulsion Mode Changes with Size and Interface Structure: Enhanced Nitroaromatic Explosives Degradation under Visible Light

• Amir Masoud Pourrahimi, Katherine Villa, Yulong Ying, Zdeněk Sofer, Martin Pumera*
• ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2018, 10(49), 42688-42697

Cytotoxicity of layered metal phosphorus chalcogenides (MPXY) nanoflakes; FePS3, CoPS3, NiPS3

• Naziah M. Latiff, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, Bahareh Khezri, Katerina Szokolova, Zdeněk Sofer, Adrian C. Fisher, Martin Pumera*
• Flatchem 2018, 12(), 1-9

Multifunctional and self-propelled spherical Janus nano/micromotors: recent advances

• Amir Masoud Pourrahimi, Martin Pumera*
• Nanoscale 2018, 10(35), 16398-16415

Fuel-Free Light-Powered TiO2/Pt Janus Micromotors for Enhanced Nitroaromatic Explosives Degradation

• Lei Kong, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, Jianguo Guan*, Martin Pumera*
• ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2018, 10(26), 22427-22434

Polymer platforms for micro- and nanomotor fabrication

• Soňa Hermanová, Martin Pumera*
• Nanoscale 2018, 10(16), 7332-7342

Nanohybrids of Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides and Titanium Dioxide for Photocatalytic Applications

• Elham Rahmanian, Rasoul Malekfar, Martin Pumera*
• Chemistry-A European Journal 2018, 24(1), 18-31

Detection of Amphipathic Viral Peptide on Screen-Printed Electrodes by Liposome Rupture Impact Voltammetry

• Muhammad Zafir Mohamad Nasir, Joshua A. Jackman, Nam-Joon Cho, Adriano Ambrosi, Martin Pumera*
• Analytical Chemistry 2017, 89(21), 11753-11757

Semi-conducting single-walled carbon nanotubes are detrimental when compared to metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes for electrochemical applications

• Qi Dong, Muhammad Zafir Mohamad Nasir, Martin Pumera*
• Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2017, 19(40), 27320-27325

Layered Transition-Metal Ditellurides in Electrocatalytic Applications-Contrasting Properties

• Jan Luxa, Pavel Vosecky, Vlastimil Mazinek, David Sedmidubský, Martin Pumera, Petr Lazar, Zdeněk Sofer*
• ACS Catalysis 2017, 7(9), 5706-5716

Unconventionally Layered CoTe2 and NiTe2 as Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution

• Xinyi Chia, Zdeněk Sofer, Jan Luxa, Martin Pumera*
• Chemistry-A European Journal 2017, 23(48), 11719-11726

2H -> 1T Phase Change in Direct Synthesis of WS2 Nanosheets via Solution-Based Electrochemical Exfoliation and Their Catalytic Properties

• Shi Xuan Leong, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, Xinyi Chia, Jan Luxa, Zdeněk Sofer, Martin Pumera*
• ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2017, 9(31), 26350-26356

Nitrogen-doped graphene: effect of graphite oxide precursors and nitrogen content on the electrochemical sensing properties

• Monica Megawati, Chun Kiang Chua, Zdeněk Sofer, Katerina Klimova, Martin Pumera*
• Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2017, 19(24), 15914-15923

Catalytic properties of group 4 transition metal dichalcogenides (MX2; M = Ti, Zr, Hf; X = S, Se, Te)

• Rou Jun Toh, Zdeněk Sofer, Martin Pumera*
• Journal Of Materials Chemistry A 2016, 4(47), 18322-18334

MoSe2 Nanolabels for Electrochemical Immunoassays

• Rou Jun Toh, Carmen C. Mayorga-Martinez, Zdeněk Sofer, Martin Pumera*
• Analytical Chemistry 2016, 88(24), 12204-12209

Contrasts between Mild and Harsh Oxidation of Carbon Nanotubes in terms of their Properties and Electrochemical Performance

• Rui Gusmao, Zdeněk Sofer, Michal Novacek, Martin Pumera*
• Chemelectrochem 2016, 3(10), 1713-1719

Graphene-Amorphous Transition-Metal Chalcogenide (MoSx, WSx) Composites as Highly Efficient Hybrid Electrocatalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

• Jan Luxa, Vlastimil Mazánek, Daniel Bouša, David Sedmidubský, Martin Pumera*, Zdeněk Sofer*
• Chemelectrochem 2016, 3(4), 565-571

Detecting the complex motion of self-propelled micromotors in microchannels by electrochemistry

• Bahareh Khezri, James Guo Sheng Moo, Peng Song, Adrian C. Fisher, Martin Pumera*
• Rsc Advances 2016, 6(102), 99977-99982

Remarkable electrochemical properties of electrochemically reduced graphene oxide towards oxygen reduction reaction are caused by residual metal-based impurities

• Lu Wang, Chun Kiang Chua, Bahareh Khezri, Richard D. Webster, Martin Pumera*
• Electrochemistry Communications 2016, 62(), 17-20

So-Called “Metal-Free” Oxygen Reduction at Graphene Nanoribbons is in fact Metal Driven

• Lu Wang, Colin Hong An Wong, Bahareh Kherzi, Richard D. Webster, Martin Pumera*
• Chemcatchem 2015, 7(11), 1650-1654

Enhancement of electrochemical and catalytic properties of MoS2 through ball-milling

• Adriano Ambrosi, Xinyi Chia, Zdeněk Sofer, Martin Pumera*
• Electrochemistry Communications 2015, 54(), 36-40

Lithium Intercalation Compound Dramatically Influences the Electrochemical Properties of Exfoliated MoS2

• Adriano Ambrosi, Zdeněk Sofer, Martin Pumera*
• Small 2015, 11(5), 605-612

Sulfur poisoning of emergent and current electrocatalysts: vulnerability of MoS2, and direct correlation to Pt hydrogen evolution reaction kinetics

• Shu Min Tan, Zdeněk Sofer, Martin Pumera*
• Nanoscale 2015, 7(19), 8879-8883

High temperature superconducting materials as bi-functional catalysts for hydrogen evolution and oxygen reduction

• Chee Shan Lim, Lu Wang, Chun Kiang Chua, Zdeněk Sofer, Ondrej Jankovsky, Martin Pumera*
• Journal Of Materials Chemistry A 2015, 3(16), 8346-8352

Electrochemical properties of layered SnO and PbO for energy applications

• Chee Shan Lim, Zdeněk Sofer, Ondrej Jankovsky, Hong Wang, Martin Pumera*
• Rsc Advances 2015, 5(123), 101949-101958

Toxicity of layered semiconductor chalcogenides: beware of interferences

• Naziah Latiff, Wei Zhe Teo, Zdeněk Sofer, Stepan Huber, Adrian C. Fisher, Martin Pumera*
• Rsc Advances 2015, 5(83), 67485-67492

Precise Tuning of the Charge Transfer Kinetics and Catalytic Properties of MoS2 Materials via Electrochemical Methods

• Xinyi Chia, Adriano Ambrosi*, David Sedmidubský, Zdeněk Sofer, Martin Pumera*
• Chemistry-A European Journal 2014, 20(52), 17426-17432

Layered transition-metal dichalcogenides (MoS2 and WS2) for sensing and biosensing

• Martin Pumera*, Adeline Huiling Loo
• Trac-Trends In Analytical Chemistry 2014, 61(), 49-53

Synthetic routes contaminate graphene materials with a whole spectrum of unanticipated metallic elements

• Colin Hong An Wong, Zdeněk Sofer, Marie Kubesova, Jan Kucera, Stanislava Matejkova, Martin Pumera*
• Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2014, 111(38), 13774-13779

Direct In Vivo Electrochemical Detection of Haemoglobin in Red Blood Cells

• Rou Jun Toh, Weng Kung Peng, Jongyoon Han, Martin Pumera*
• Scientific Reports 2014, 4()

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanoflakes as inherently electroactive labels for DNA hybridization detection

• Adeline Huiling Loo, Alessandra Bonanni*, Adriano Ambrosi, Martin Pumera*
• Nanoscale 2014, 6(20), 11971-11975

Magnetic control of electrochemical processes at electrode surface using iron-rich graphene materials with dual functionality

• Chee Shan Lim, Adriano Ambrosi, Zdeněk Sofer, Martin Pumera*
• Nanoscale 2014, 6(13), 7391-7396

Haemoglobin electrochemical detection on various reduced graphene surfaces: well-defined glassy carbon electrode outperforms the graphenoids

• Rou Jun Toh, Weng Kung Peng, Jongyoon Han, Martin Pumera*
• Rsc Advances 2014, 4(16), 8050-8054

Redox reaction of p-aminophenol at carbon nanotube electrodes is accelerated by carbonaceous impurities

• Xinyi Chia, Adriano Ambrosi, Martin Pumera*
• Electrochemistry Communications 2014, 38(), 1-3

Residual metallic impurities within carbon nanotubes play a dominant role in supposedly “metal-free” oxygen reduction reactions

• Lu Wang, Martin Pumera*
• Chemical Communications 2014, 50(84), 12662-12664

“Metal-Free” Catalytic Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Heteroatom-Doped Graphene is Caused by Trace Metal Impurities

• Lu Wang, Adriano Ambrosi, Martin Pumera*
• Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 2013, 52(51), 13818-13821

Graphene Oxide Nanoribbons from the Oxidative Opening of Carbon Nanotubes Retain Electrochemically Active Metallic Impurities

• Colin Hong An Wong, Chun Kiang Chua, Bahareh Khezri, Richard D. Webster, Martin Pumera*
• Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 2013, 52(33), 8685-8688

Transition Metal (Mn, Fe, Co, Ni)-Doped Graphene Hybrids for Electrocatalysis

• Rou Jun Toh, Hwee Ling Poh, Zdeněk Sofer, Martin Pumera*
• Chemistry-An Asian Journal 2013, 8(6), 1295-1300

Purification of carbon nanotubes by high temperature chlorine gas treatment

• Elaine Lay Khim Chng, Hwee Ling Poh, Zdeněk Sofer, Martin Pumera*
• Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2013, 15(15), 5615-5619

Bioavailability of Metallic Impurities in Carbon Nanotubes Is Greatly Enhanced by Ultrasonication

• Rou Jun Toh, Adriano Ambrosi, Martin Pumera*
• Chemistry-A European Journal 2012, 18(37), 11593-11596

Redox-Active Nickel in Carbon Nanotubes and Its Direct Determination

• Adriano Ambrosi, Martin Pumera*
• Chemistry-A European Journal 2012, 18(11), 3338-3344

Noble metal (Pd, Ru, Rh, Pt, Au, Ag) doped graphene hybrids for electrocatalysis

• Marcella Giovanni, Hwee Ling Poh, Adriano Ambrosi, Guanjia Zhao, Zdeněk Sofer, Filip Sanek, Bahareh Khezri, Richard D. Webster, Martin Pumera
• Nanoscale 2012, 4(16), 5002-5008

Metal-based impurities in graphenes: application for electroanalysis

• Sze Yin Chee, Martin Pumera*
• Analyst 2012, 137(9), 2039-2041

Metallic Impurities in Graphenes Prepared from Graphite Can Dramatically Influence Their Properties

• Adriano Ambrosi, Sze Yin Chee, Bahareh Khezri, Richard D. Webster, Zdeněk Sofer, Martin Pumera*
• Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 2012, 51(2), 500-503

Metallic Impurities are Responsible for Electrocatalytic Behavior of Carbon Nanotubes Towards Sulfides

• Elaine Lay Khim Chng, Martin Pumera*
• Chemistry-An Asian Journal 2011, 6(9), 2304-2307

Nanographitic impurities are responsible for electrocatalytic activity of carbon nanotubes towards oxidation of carbamazepine

• Elaine Lay Khim Chng, Martin Pumera*
• Electrochemistry Communications 2011, 13(8), 781-784

Carbon nanotubes can exhibit negative effects in electroanalysis due to presence of nanographite impurities

• Claire L. Scott, Martin Pumera*
• Electrochemistry Communications 2011, 13(5), 426-428

Hydroquinone Electrochemistry on Carbon Nanotubes is Accelerated by Nanographite Impurities

• Emma J. E. Stuart, Martin Pumera*
• Chemistry-An Asian Journal 2011, 6(4), 1019-1021

Nanogold Spacing of Stacked Graphene Nanofibers for Supercapacitors

• Claire L. Scott, Martin Pumera*
• Electroanalysis 2011, 23(4), 858-861

Electroanalytical parameters of carbon nanotubes are inferior with respect to well defined surfaces of glassy carbon and EPPG

• Claire L. Scott, Martin Pumera*
• Electrochemistry Communications 2011, 13(2), 213-216

Impurities within carbon nanotubes govern the electrochemical oxidation of substituted hydrazines

• Emma J. E. Stuart, Martin Pumera*
• Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2011, 13(22), 10818-10822

Direct Determination of Bioavailable Molybdenum in Carbon Nanotubes

• Marcella Giovanni, Adriano Ambrosi, Martin Pumera*
• Chemistry-A European Journal 2011, 17(6), 1806-1810

Graphene for electrochemical sensing and biosensing

• Martin Pumera*, Adriano Ambrosi, Alessandra Bonanni, Elaine Lay Khim Chng, Hwee Ling Poh
• Trac-Trends In Analytical Chemistry 2010, 29(9), 954-965

Effect of Nitric Acid “Washing” Procedure on Electrochemical Behavior of Carbon Nanotubes and Glassy Carbon mu-Particles

• Uelkue Anik*, Serdar Cevik, Martin Pumera
• Nanoscale Research Letters 2010, 5(5), 846-852

Regulatory Peptides Are Susceptible to Oxidation by Metallic Impurities within Carbon Nanotubes

• Adriano Ambrosi, Martin Pumera*
• Chemistry-A European Journal 2010, 16(6), 1786-1792

What amount of metallic impurities in carbon nanotubes is small enough not to dominate their redox properties?

• Martin Pumera, Yuji Miyahara
• Nanoscale 2009, 1(2), 260-265

Multicomponent Metallic Impurities and Their Influence upon the Electrochemistry of Carbon Nanotubes

• Martin Pumera*, Hideo Iwai
• Journal Of Physical Chemistry C 2009, 113(11), 4401-4405

Nanorobots: The Ultimate Wireless Self-Propelled Sensing and Actuating Devices

• Samuel Sanchez*, Martin Pumera
• Chemistry-An Asian Journal 2009, 4(9), 1402-1410

Towards an ultrasensitive method for the determination of metal impurities in carbon nanotubes

• Taras Kolodiazhnyi*, Martin Pumera*
• Small 2008, 4(9), 1476-1484

Magnetically trigged direct electrochemical detection of DNA hybridization using Au-67 quantum dot as electrical tracer

• M Pumera, MT Castaneda, MI Pividori, R Eritja, A Merkoci*, S Alegret
• Langmuir 2005, 21(21), 9625-9629