
Chilla Malla Reddy
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
E-mail: cmreddy@iiserkol.ac.in
E-mail: cmallareddy@gmail.com
Recognitions
- Associate Editor, CrystEngComm. (link)
- Prestigious Swarna Jayanti Fellowship Award for the 2014-2015 by Department of science and technology, India.
- " The Distinguished Lectureship Award " by the Chemical Society of Japan, March 2017.
- Co-editor for Acta Crystallographica Section B. (link)
- Advisory Board Member for CrystEngComm journal published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
- Associate Editor, RSC Advances (2015-2016).
Latest Work: Actuation in self-healing crystals




selected publications
- S. Bhunia, S. Chandel, S. K. Karan, S. Dey, A. Tiwari, S. Das, N. Kumar, R. Chowdhury, S. Mondal, I. Ghosh, A. Mondal, B. B. Khatua, N. Ghosh*, C. M. Reddy* ; Autonomous self-repair in piezoelectric molecular crystals; Science, 2021: Vol. 373, Issue 6552.
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K. Dey, S. Bhunia, H. Sashmal, C. M. Reddy*, R Banerjee* ;Self-assembly Driven Nano-mechanics in Porous Covalent Organic Framework Thin Films;
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143 (2), 955-963 - S Das, A. Mondal, C. M. Reddy*;Harnessing molecular rotations in plastic crystals:a holistic view for crystal engineering of adaptive soft materials; Chem. Soc. Rev. 2020, DOI: 10.1039/d0cs00475h
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B. Bhattachary, D. Roy , S. Dey, A. Puthuv akkal, S. Bhunia, S. Mondal, R. Chowdhury , Dr. M. Bhattachary a, M. Mandal, Dr. K. Manoj* P. K. Mandal* and C. M. Reddy*; ; Mechanical bending induced fluorescence enhancement in plastically flexible crystals of a GFP chromophore analogue;
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 1 – 7 - M Annadhasan, A R. Agrawal, S Bhunia, V V Pradeep, S S. Zade*, C M Reddy* and R Chandrasekar*; ; Mechanophotonics: Flexible Single-Crystal Organic Waveguides and Circuits; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59,2–9 Hot Article
- A Mondal, B Bhattacharya, S Das, S Bhunia, R Chowdhury, S Dey, C. Malla Reddy*; Metal‐like ductility in organic plastic crystals: Role of molecular shape and dihydrogen bonding interactions in aminoboranes; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 2-12
- R Samanta, S Ghosh, R Devarapalli, CM Reddy*; Visible Light Mediated Photopolymerization in Single Crystals: Photomechanical Bending and Thermomechanical Unbending; Chem. Mater., 2018, 30 (3), 577–581.
- Krishna, G. R., Devarapalli, R., Lal, G., Reddy, C. M. Reddy,* Mechanically Flexible Organic Crystals Achieved by Introducing Weak Interactions in Structure: Supramolecular Shape Synthons; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 13561–13567. (Front Cover Illustration)
- Panda, M. K., Ghosh, S., Yasuda, N., Moriwaki, T., Mukherjee, G. D., Reddy, C. M.,* Naumov, P.,*; Spatially resolved analysis of short-range structure perturbations in a plastically bent molecular crystal; Nature Chem. 2015, 7, 65-72.
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Sahoo, S. C., Sinha, S. B., Kiran, M. S. R. N., Ramamurty, U., Dericioglu, A. F., Reddy, C. M.,* Naumov, P.* 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. 2013, 135, 13843-13850. - GR Krishna, MSRN Kiran, CL Fraser, U Ramamurty, CM Reddy; The Relationship of Solid-State Plasticity to Mechanochromic Luminescence in Difluoroboron Avobenzone Polymorphs; Adv. Funct. Mater. 2013, 23 (11), 1422-1430. (Front Cover Illustration)
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S Ghosh, CM Reddy; Elastic and Bendable Caffeine Cocrystals: Implications for the Design of Flexible Organic Materials;
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 124 (41), 10465-10469. - --------------------------for more--------------------------
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E-mail: cmreddy@iiserkol.ac.in
E-mail: cmallareddy@gmail.com
