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Overview

Kumar Biradha is a researcher affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in India. The primary field of their work is Materials Science, with a focus on specialized subfields including Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

Their research extensively covers topics related to crystallography, material synthesis, and advanced material applications. Key areas of investigation include:

  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Crystallography and Molecular Interactions
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials

Kumar Biradha has contributed frequently to notable publication venues, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Crystal Growth & Design
  • Chemical Communications
  • Dalton Transactions
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Frequent collaborators in their research include Rajib Moi, Abhijit Garai, Anindita Goswami, Kartik Maity, and Subhajit Saha. These partnerships have contributed to advancing knowledge in related chemistry and materials science fields.

Selected recent publications authored by Kumar Biradha or closely associated collaborators are as follows:

  • Coordination polymers as heterogeneous catalysts in hydrogen evolution and oxygen evolution reactions, 2020, Chemical Communications
  • 2D MOFs with Ni(II), Cu(II), and Co(II) as Efficient Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts: Rationalization of Catalytic Performance vs Structure of the MOFs and Potential of the Redox Couples, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • In Situ Grown Mn(II) MOF upon Nickel Foam Acts as a Robust Self-Supporting Bifunctional Electrode for Overall Water Splitting: A Bimetallic Synergistic Collaboration Strategy, 2022, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Metal-organic frameworks as proton conductors: strategies for improved proton conductivity, 2021, Dalton Transactions
  • Amino- and Sulfonate-Functionalized Metal-Organic Framework for Fabrication of Proton Exchange Membranes with Improved Proton Conductivity, 2020, Crystal Growth & Design

Best Publications

  • Polymorphs, Salts, and Cocrystals: What’s in a Name?

    Srinivasulu Aitipamula;Rahul Banerjee;Arvind K. Bansal;Kumar Biradha

  • Molecular paneling via coordination

    Makoto Fujita;Kazuhiko Umemoto;Michito Yoshizawa;Norifumi Fujita

  • Crystal engineering of topochemical solid state reactions

    Kumar Biradha;Ramkinkar Santra

  • A springlike 3D-coordination network that shrinks or swells in a crystal-to-crystal manner upon guest removal or readsorption.

    Kumar Biradha;Makoto Fujita;Makoto Fujita

  • Crystal engineering of coordination polymers using 4,4′-bipyridine as a bond between transition metal atoms

    Kumar Biradha;Madhushree Sarkar;Lalit Rajput

  • Helical Coordination Polymers with Large Chiral Cavities

    Kumar Biradha;Corey Seward;Michael J. Zaworotko

  • Open Square-Grid Coordination Polymers of the Dimensions 20×20 Å: Remarkably Stable and Crystalline Solids Even after Guest Removal.

    Kumar Biradha;Yoshito Hongo;Makoto Fujita

  • Hydrogen Bonding in Organometallic Crystals. 6.† X−H---M Hydrogen Bonds and M---(H−X) Pseudo-Agostic Bonds

    Dario Braga;Fabrizia Grepioni;Emilio Tedesco;Kumar Biradha

  • Crystal engineering: from weak hydrogen bonds to co-ordination bonds

    Kumar Biradha

  • Novel Nanoporous Coordination Polymer Sustained by Self-Assembly of T-Shaped Moieties

    Holly Gudbjartson;Kumar Biradha;Karen M. Poirier;Michael J. Zaworotko

  • Coordination Polymers Versus Metal−Organic Frameworks

    Kumar Biradha;Arunachalam Ramanan;Jagadese J. Vittal

  • Hydrogen Bonding in Organometallic Crystals. 2. C-H.cntdot. .cntdot. .cntdot.O Hydrogen Bonds in Bridged and Terminal First-Row Metal Carbonyls

    Dario Braga;Fabrizia Grepioni;Kumar Biradha;V. R. Pedireddi

  • Crystal-to-crystal sliding of 2D coordination layers triggered by guest exchange.

    Kumar Biradha;Yoshito Hongo;Makoto Fujita;Makoto Fujita

  • Quantitative Formation of Coordination Nanotubes Templated by Rodlike Guests

    Masaru Aoyagi;Kumar Biradha;Makoto Fujita

  • Multicomponent Assembly of a Pyrazine‐Pillared Coordination Cage That Selectively Binds Planar Guests by Intercalation

    Kazuhisa Kumazawa;Kumar Biradha;Takahiro Kusukawa;Takashi Okano

  • Supramolecular Synthesis of Organic Laminates with Affinity for Aromatic Guests: A New Class of Clay Mimics

    Kumar Biradha;Dorothy Dennis;Verna A. MacKinnon;C. V. Krishnamohan Sharma

  • Recent Developments in Crystal Engineering

    Kumar Biradha;Cheng-Yong Su;Jagadese J. Vittal;Jagadese J. Vittal

  • Chiral Noninterpenetrated (10,3)-a Net in the Crystal Structure of Ag(I) and Bisthioether

    Xian-He Bu;Wei Chen;Miao Du;Kumar Biradha

  • A Porphyrin Prism: Structural Switching Triggered by Guest Inclusion

    Norifumi Fujita;Kumar Biradha;Makoto Fujita;Shigeru Sakamoto

  • Selective formation of rectangular grid coordination polymers with grid dimensions 10 × 15, 10 × 20 and 15 × 20 Å

    Kumar Biradha;Makoto Fujita

Frequent Co-Authors

Makoto Fujita
Makoto Fujita University of Tokyo
Michael J. Zaworotko
Michael J. Zaworotko University of Limerick
Gautam R. Desiraju
Gautam R. Desiraju Indian Institute of Science
Kentaro Yamaguchi
Kentaro Yamaguchi Tokushima Bunri University
Shigeru Sakamoto
Shigeru Sakamoto Chiba University
Miao Du
Miao Du Zhengzhou University of Light Industry
Debabrata Pradhan
Debabrata Pradhan Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Xian-He Bu
Xian-He Bu Nankai University
Dario Braga
Dario Braga University of Bologna
Mitsuhiko Shionoya
Mitsuhiko Shionoya University of Tokyo

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