INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA

... towards excellence in science

An Autonomous Institution, Under the Ministry of Education, Government of India

Chilla Malla Reddy

Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences (DCS)
E-mail: cmreddy [at] iiserkol.ac.in

All Publications:

  1. Bhunia, Surojit. 2021."Autonomous self-repair in piezoelectric molecular crystals." Science, 373, 321-327
  2. Reddy, Chilla Malla; Krishna, Gamidi Rama; Devarapalli, Ramesh and Lal, Garima. 2016."Mechanically Flexible Organic Crystals Achieved by Introducing Weak Interactions in Structure: Supramolecular Shape Synthons." Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138, 13561
  3. Krishna, Gamidi Rama; Devarapalli, Ramesh; Prusty, Rajesh; Liu, Tiandong; Fraser, Cassandra L.; Ramamurty, Upadrasta and Reddy, Chilla Malla. 2015."Structure–mechanical property correlations in mechanochromic luminescent crystals of boron difluoride dibenzoylmethane derivatives." IUCrJ, 2, 611-619
  4. Mohamed, Reda M.; Mishra, Manish Kumar; AL-Harbi, Laila M.; Al-Ghamdi, Mohammed S.; Asiri, Abdullah M.; Reddy, Chilla Malla and Ramamurty*, Upadrasta. 2015."Temperature Dependence of Mechanical Properties in Molecular Crystals." Crystal Growth & Design, 15, 2474–2479
  5. Mukherjee*, Somnath; Krishna, G. Rama; Mukhopadhyay, Balaram and Reddy*, Chilla Malla. 2015."A correlation study between hydrogen-bonded network and gelation ability of three galactose derivatives." CrystEngComm, 17, 3345-3353
  6. Krishna, G. Rama; Shi, Limin; Bag, Partha Pratim; Sun*, Changquan Calvin and Reddy*, Chilla Malla. 2015."Correlation Among Crystal Structure, Mechanical Behavior, and Tabletability in the Co-Crystals of Vanillin Isomers." Crystal Growth & Design, 15, 1827-1832
  7. Panda,, Manas K; Ghosh, Soumyajit; Yasuda, Nobuhiro; Moriwaki, Taro; Mukherjee, Goutam Dev; Reddy*, Chilla Malla and Naumov*, Pan?e. 2015."Spatially resolved analysis of short-range structure perturbations in a plastically bent molecular crystal." Nature Chemistry, 7, 65-72
  8. Bag, Partha Pratim; Kothur, Raghuram Reddy and Reddy*, Chilla Malla. 2014."Tautomeric preference in polymorphs and pseudopolymorphs of succinylsulfathiazole: fast evaporation screening and thermal studies." CrystEngComm, 16, 4706-4714
  9. Chen, Chun-Teh; Ghosh, Soumyajit; Reddy*, Chilla Malla and Buehler, Markus J.. 2014."Molecular mechanics of elastic and bendable caffeine co-crystals." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 16, 13165
  10. Bag, Partha Pratim and Reddy*, Chilla Malla. 2014."Tramadol Hydrochloride and its Acetonitrile Solvate: Crystal Structure Analysis and Thermal Studies." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section A: Physical Sciences, 84, 235-242
  11. Roy, Basudev; Arya, Manish; Thomas, Preethi; Jürgschat, Julius Konstantin; Rao, K. Venkata; Banerjee, Ayan; Roy, Soumyajit and Reddy, Chilla Malla. 2013."Self-Assembly of Mesoscopic Materials To Form Controlled and Continuous Patterns by Thermo-Optically Manipulated Laser Induced Microbubbles." Langmuir , 29, 14733
  12. Ghosh, Soumyajit; Mondal, Arobendo; Kiran, MSRN; Ramamurty*, Upadrastha and Reddy*, C. Malla. 2013."The Role of Weak Interactions in the Phase Transition and Distinct Mechanical Behavior of Two Structurally Similar Caffeine Co-crystal Polymorphs Studied by Nanoindentation." Crystal Growth & Design, 13, 4435-4441
  13. Sahoo, Subash Chandra; Sinha, Shashi Bhushan; Kiran, MSRN; Ramamurty, Upadrastha; Dericioglu, Arcan F.; Reddy*, C. Malla and Naumov*, Pan?e. 2013."Kinematic and Mechanical Profile of the Self-Actuation of Thermosalient Crystal Twins of 1, 2, 4, 5-Tetrabromobenzene: A Molecular Crystalline Analogue of a Bimetallic Strip." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 13843
  14. Krishna, Gamidi Rama; Kiran, Mangalampalli S. R. N.; Fraser, Cassandra L; Ramamurty*, Upadrasta and Reddy*, C. Malla. 2013."The Relationship of Solid-State Plasticity to Mechanochromic Luminescence in Di?uoroboron Avobenzone Polymorphs." Adv. Funct. Mater., 23, 1422-1430
  15. Ghosh, Soumyajit and Reddy*, C. Malla. 2012."Elastically bendable caffeine co-crystals: implications for flexible organic materials design." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51, 10319
  16. Bag, Partha Pratim; Chen, Miles; Sun*, Changquan Calvin and Reddy*, C. Malla. 2012."Direct correlation among crystal structure, mechanical behaviour and tabletability in a trimorphic molecular compound." CrystEngComm, 14, 3865–3867
  17. Bag, Partha Pratim and Reddy*, C. Malla. 2012."Screening and Selective Preparation of Polymorphs by Fast Evaporation Method: A Case Study of Aspirin, Anthranilic Acid, and Ni?umic Acid." Cryst. Growth Des., 12, 2740?2743
  18. Ghosh, Soumyajit and Reddy*, C. Malla. 2012."Co-Crystals of Caffeine with Substituted Nitroanilines and Nitrobenzoic Acids: Structure–Mechanical Property and Thermal Studies." CrystEngComm, 14, 2444–2453
  19. Chappaz-Gillot, Cyril; Marek, Peter L.; Blaive, Bruno J.; Canard, Gabriel; Bürck, Jochen; Garab, Gy?z?; Hahn, Horst; Jávorfi, Tamás; Kelemen, Loránd; Krupke, Ralph; Mössinger, Dennis; Ormos, Pál; Reddy, C. Malla; Roussel, Christian; Steinbach, Gábor; Szabó, Milán; Ulrich, Anne S.; Vanthuyne, Nicolas; Vijayaraghavan, Aravind; Zupcanova, Anita and Balaban*, Teodor Silviu. 2012."Anisotropic Organization and Microscopic Manipulation of Self-Assembling Synthetic Porphyrin Microrods That Mimic Chlorosomes: Bacterial Light-Harvesting Systems." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 944


  1. Reddy, Chilla Malla. 2017." Mechanical Deformation Chemistry of Crystals: Designing Mechanical Performance", "Engineering Crystallography: From Molecule to Crystal to Functional Form". Springer, ISBN: 9789402411188