INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA

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

Arindam Kundagrami

Associate Professor
Dept: Physical Sciences (DPS), Chemical Sciences (DCS)
E-mail: arindam [at] iiserkol.ac.in

All Publications:

  1. Ghosh, Souradeep and Kundagrami, Arindam. 2024."Effect of counterion size on polyelectrolyte conformations and thermodynamics." The Journal of Chemical Physics, 160, 084909-15
  2. Chowdhury, Aritra; Borgia, Alessandro; Ghosh, Souradeep; Sottini, Andrea; Mitra, Soumik; Eapen, Rohan S.; Borgia, Madeleine B.; Yang, Tianjin; Galvanetto, Nicola; Ivanovic, Milos T.; Lukijanczuk, Pawel; Zhu, Ruijing; Nettels, Daniel; Kundagrami, Arindam and Schuler, Benjamin. 2023."Driving forces of the complex formation between highly charged disordered proteins." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120, 2304036120
  3. Ghosh, Souradeep; Mitra, Soumik and Kundagrami, Arindam. 2023."Polymer complexation: Partially ionizable asymmetric polyelectrolytes." The Journal of Chemical Physics, 158, 204903-17
  4. Mitra, Soumik and Kundagrami, Arindam. 2023."Polyelectrolyte Complexation of Two Oppositely Charged Symmetric Polymers: A Minimal Theory." The Journal of Chemical Physics, 158, 014904-20
  5. Gosika, Mounika; Sen, Swati; Kundagrami, Arindam and Maiti, Prabal K.. 2019."Understanding the Thermodynamics of the Binding of PAMAM Dendrimers to Graphene: A Combined Analytical and Simulation Study." Langmuir, 35, 9219-9232
  6. Sen, Swati and Kundagrami, Arindam. 2017."Charge-regularized swelling kinetics of polyelectrolyte gels: Elasticity and diffusion." The Journal of Chemical Physics, 147, 174901-11
  7. Mitra, Soumik and Kundagrami, Arindam. 2017."Kinetics of Swelling and Collapse of a Single Polyelectrolyte Chain." Macromolecules, 50, 2504-2517
  8. Sen, Swati and Kundagrami, Arindam. 2015."Kinetics of swelling of polyelectrolyte gels: Fixed degree of ionization." The Journal of Chemical Physics, 143, 224904-15
  9. Muthukumar, M.; Hua, Jing and Kundagrami, Arindam. 2010."Charge regularization in phase separating polyelectrolyte solutions." The Journal of Chemical Physics, 132, 084901-9
  10. Kundagrami, Arindam and Muthukumar, Murugappan. 2010."Effective Charge and Coil-Globule Transition of a Polyelectrolyte Chain." Macromolecules, 43, 2574-2581
  11. Kumar, Rajeev; Kundagrami, Arindam and Muthukumar, Murugappan. 2009."Counterion Adsorption on Flexible Polyelectrolytes: Comparison of Theories." Macromolecules, 42, 1370-1379
  12. Loh, Peter; Deen, G. Roshan; Vollmer, Doris; Fischer, Karl; Schmidt, Manfred; Kundagrami, Arindam and Muthukumar, Murugappan. 2008."Collapse of Linear Polyelectrolyte Chains in a Poor Solvent: When Does a Collapsing Polyelectrolyte Collect its Counterions?." Macromolecules, 41, 9352-9358
  13. Kundagrami, Arindam and Muthukumar, Murugappan. 2008."Theory of competitive counterion adsorption on flexible polyelectrolytes: Divalent salts." The Journal of Chemical Physics, 128, 244901-16
  14. Kundagrami, Arindam and Muthukumar, Murugappan. 2007."Continuum theory of polymer crystallization." The Journal of Chemical Physics, 126, 144901-14
  15. Kundagrami, Arindam and Lubensky, T. C.. 2003."Structure of twist-grain-boundary – C phases." PHYSICAL REVIEW E (Rapid Communications), 68, 060703-4
  16. Kundagrami, Arindam and Dasgupta, Chandan. 1999."Multiscaling in discrete models of epitaxial growth." Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 270, 135-142
  17. Kundagrami, Arindam; Dasgupta, Chandan; Punyindu, P. and Das Sarma, S.. 1998."Extended self-similarity in kinetic surface roughening." PHYSICAL REVIEW E (Rapid Communications), 57, R3703-6


  1. Kundagrami, Arindam; Kumar, Rajeev and Muthukumar, Murugappan. 2010." Simulations and Theories of Single Polyelectrolyte Chains", "Modeling and Simulation in Polymers". WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany., ISBN: 9783527324156