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भारतीय विज्ञान शिक्षा एवं अनुसंधान संस्थान कोलकाता

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