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2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
76
Citations
24200
World Ranking
4188
National Ranking
36

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award

Overview

Biman Bagchi is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Science in India. Their research spans multiple areas within physics and chemistry, combined with molecular biology. The main field of study for Bagchi is Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on several subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Molecular Biology; Materials Chemistry; Statistical and Nonlinear Physics; and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The scientific topics explored by Bagchi highlight a broad and interdisciplinary approach. Key topics include:

  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions
  • Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Bagchi's publication record features frequent contributions to prominent venues, such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Nano Letters
  • Physical Review E

Collaboration has been an integral part of Bagchi's research, with numerous joint works involving key coauthors including Sayantan Mondal, Saumyak Mukherjee, Subhajit Acharya, Shubham Kumar, and Sangita Mondal. These frequent coauthors contribute to the breadth and depth of Bagchi's projects.

Among Bagchi's recent papers are the following notable publications:

  • "Dynamical control by water at a molecular level in protein dimer association and dissociation," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Anomalous dielectric response of nanoconfined water," 2021, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • "Water Layer at Hydrophobic Surface: Electrically Dead but Dynamically Alive?", 2020, Nano Letters
  • "A Redox-Active 2-D Covalent Organic Framework as a Cathode in an Aqueous Mixed-Ion Electrolyte Zn-Ion Battery: Experimental and Theoretical Investigations," 2022, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • "From structure and dynamics to biomolecular functions: The ubiquitous role of solvent in biology," 2022, Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Best Publications

  • Dielectric Relaxation and Solvation Dynamics of Water in Complex Chemical and Biological Systems

    Nilashis Nandi;Kankan Bhattacharyya;Biman Bagchi

  • Water Dynamics in the Hydration Layer around Proteins and Micelles

    Biman Bagchi

  • Levinthal's paradox

    Robert Zwanzig;Attila Szabo;Biman Bagchi

  • Biological water: femtosecond dynamics of macromolecular hydration

    Samir Kumar Pal;Jorge Peon;Biman Bagchi;Ahmed H. Zewail

  • Collapse of stiff conjugated polymers with chemical defects into ordered, cylindrical conformations

    Dehong Hu;Ji Yu;Kim Wong;Biman Bagchi

  • Dielectric Relaxation of Biological Water

    Nilashis Nandi;Biman Bagchi

  • Dynamics of Solvation and Charge Transfer Reactions in Dipolar Liquids

    Biman Bagchi

  • Theory of the time development of the Stokes shift in polar media

    Biman Bagchi;David W. Oxtoby;Graham R. Fleming

  • Slow dynamics of constrained water in complex geometries

    Kankan Bhattacharyya;Biman Bagchi

  • Collective Orientational Relaxation in Dense Dipolar Liquids

    Biman Bagchi;Amalendu Chandra

  • Theory of electronic relaxation in solution in the absence of an activation barrier

    Biman Bagchi;Graham R. Fleming;David W. Oxtoby

  • Hydrogen-bond dynamics near a micellar surface: origin of the universal slow relaxation at complex aqueous interfaces.

    Sundaram Balasubramanian;Subrata Pal;Biman Bagchi

  • Nonspecifically bound proteins spin while diffusing along DNA

    Paul C Blainey;Guobin Luo;S C Kou;Walter F Mangel

  • The effect of frequency dependent friction on isomerization dynamics in solution

    Biman Bagchi;David W. Oxtoby

  • Dynamics of activationless reactions in solution

    Biman. Bagchi;Graham R. Fleming

  • Distance and Orientation Dependence of Excitation Transfer Rates in Conjugated Systems: Beyond the Förster Theory

    Kim F Wong;Biman Bagchi;Peter J Rossky

  • Solvation dynamics in dipolar liquids.

    Biman Bagchi;Biman Jana

  • Water in Biological and Chemical Processes: From Structure and Dynamics to Function

    Biman Bagchi

  • On the Molecular Mechanism of Drug Intercalation into DNA: A Simulation Study of the Intercalation Pathway, Free Energy, and DNA Structural Changes

    Arnab Mukherjee;Richard Lavery;Biman Bagchi;James T. Hynes

  • Water inertial reorientation: Hydrogen bond strength and the angular potential

    David E. Moilanen;Emily E. Fenn;Yu-Shan Lin;J. L. Skinner

  • Water in Biological and Chemical Processes

    Biman Bagchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Amalendu Chandra
Amalendu Chandra Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Sundaram Balasubramanian
Sundaram Balasubramanian Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Prabal K. Maiti
Prabal K. Maiti Indian Institute of Science
Graham R. Fleming
Graham R. Fleming University of California, Berkeley
Stuart A. Rice
Stuart A. Rice University of Chicago
Peter G. Wolynes
Peter G. Wolynes Rice University
David W. Oxtoby
David W. Oxtoby University of Chicago
Edward W. Castner
Edward W. Castner Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Kankan Bhattacharyya
Kankan Bhattacharyya Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
Arun Yethiraj
Arun Yethiraj University of Wisconsin–Madison

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