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Overview

Tapas Kumar Maji is a researcher affiliated with the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in India. Their scholarly work spans primarily across the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with significant contributions to subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Biomaterials.

The scientist's main topics of research include Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications, Covalent Organic Framework Applications, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials, and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts.

Tapas Kumar Maji has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemical Science
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Angewandte Chemie

Collaborations are a notable part of Maji's research, with frequent co-authors including Faruk Ahamed Rahimi, Arpan Hazra, Rohan Jena, Ritesh Haldar, and Subhajit Laha. Each of these collaborators has contributed to multiple publications with Maji, indicating established research partnerships.

Some of their recent publications demonstrate a focus on visible-light-driven catalysis and photocatalytic reduction of CO2. Selected recent papers are as follows:

  • Metal-Free Catalysis: A Redox-Active Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Microporous Polymer for Selective Visible-Light-Driven CO2 Reduction to CH4, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Covalent grafting of molecular photosensitizer and catalyst on MOF-808: effect of pore confinement toward visible light-driven CO2 reduction in water, 2021, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Confining charge-transfer complex in a metal-organic framework for photocatalytic CO2 reduction in water, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Charge-transfer regulated visible light driven photocatalytic H2 production and CO2 reduction in tetrathiafulvalene based coordination polymer gel, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction to CO/CH4 Using a Metal-Organic "Soft" Coordination Polymer Gel, 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

The body of work reflects a sustained research interest in photocatalytic processes aimed at converting carbon dioxide under visible light, a topic relevant to renewable energy and environmental sustainability. There is a concentration on molecular design involving metal-organic frameworks and coordination polymers, employing structural chemistry techniques to understand and optimize catalytic activity.

Best Publications

  • A flexible interpenetrating coordination framework with a bimodal porous functionality.

    Tapas Kumar Maji;Ryotaro Matsuda;Ryotaro Matsuda;Susumu Kitagawa

  • Expanding and Shrinking Porous Modulation Based on Pillared-Layer Coordination Polymers Showing Selective Guest Adsorption

    Tapas Kumar Maji;Kazuhiro Uemura;Ho-Chol Chang;Ryotaro Matsuda

  • Hybrid nanocomposites of ZIF-8 with graphene oxide exhibiting tunable morphology, significant CO2 uptake and other novel properties

    Ram Kumar;Kolleboyina Jayaramulu;Tapas Kumar Maji;C. N. R. Rao

  • Guest-induced asymmetry in a metal-organic porous solid with reversible single-crystal-to-single-crystal structural transformation.

    Tapas Kumar Maji;Golam Mostafa;Ryotaro Matsuda;Susumu Kitagawa

  • Metal-Free Catalysis: A Redox-Active Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Microporous Polymer for Selective Visible-Light-Driven CO2 Reduction to CH4.

    Soumitra Barman;Ashish Singh;Faruk Ahamed Rahimi;Tapas Kumar Maji

  • Temperature induced structural transformations and gas adsorption in the zeolitic imidazolate framework ZIF-8: a Raman study.

    Gayatri Kumari;Kolleboyina Jayaramulu;Tapas Kumar Maji;Chandrabhas Narayana

  • Lanthanide–organic frameworks for gas storage and as magneto-luminescent materials

    Syamantak Roy;Anindita Chakraborty;Tapas Kumar Maji

  • Supramolecular Hydrogels and High-Aspect-Ratio Nanofibers through Charge-Transfer-Induced Alternate Coassembly†

    K. Venkata Rao;K. Jayaramulu;Tapas Kumar Maji;Subi J. George

  • Luminescent Microporous Metal–Organic Framework with Functional Lewis Basic Sites on the Pore Surface: Specific Sensing and Removal of Metal Ions

    Kolleboyina Jayaramulu;Raghu Pradeep Narayanan;Subi J. George;Tapas Kumar Maji

  • Coordination polymer gels: soft metal–organic supramolecular materials and versatile applications

    Papri Sutar;Tapas Kumar Maji

  • Magneto-structural xorrelations in 2D and 3D extended structures of manganese(II)-malonate systems.

    Tapas Kumar Maji;Saugata Sain;Golam Mostafa;Tian-Huey Lu

  • Amine-Responsive Adaptable Nanospaces: Fluorescent Porous Coordination Polymer for Molecular Recognition

    Ritesh Haldar;Ryotaro Matsuda;Susumu Kitagawa;Subi Jacob George

  • Tunable emission from a porous metal-organic framework by employing an excited-state intramolecular proton transfer responsive ligand.

    K. Jayaramulu;Prakash Kanoo;Subi J. George;Tapas Kumar Maji

  • Covalent grafting of molecular photosensitizer and catalyst on MOF-808: Effect of pore confinement toward visible light-driven CO2 reduction in water

    Sanchita Karmakar;Soumitra Barman;Faruk Ahamed Rahimi;Tapas Kumar Maji

  • Porous lanthanide–organic framework with zeolite-like topology

    Tapas Kumar Maji;Golam Mostafa;Ho-Chol Chang;Susumu Kitagawa

  • Confining charge-transfer complex in a metal-organic framework for photocatalytic CO2 reduction in water

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  • Chemistry of porous coordination polymers

    Tapas Kumar Maji;Susumu Kitagawa

  • Chiral Porous Metal–Organic Frameworks of Co(II) and Ni(II): Synthesis, Structure, Magnetic Properties, and CO2 Uptake

    C. M. Nagaraja;Ritesh Haldar;Tapas Kumar Maji;C. N. R. Rao

  • Temperature-Controlled Synthesis of Metal-Organic Coordination Polymers: Crystal Structure, Supramolecular Isomerism, and Porous Property

    Prakash Kanoo;K. L. Gurunatha;Tapas Kumar Maji

  • Visible Light Driven Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction to CO/CH4 using Metal-Organic 'Soft' Coordination Polymer Gel.

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  • Post-synthetic metalation in an anionic MOF for efficient catalytic activity and removal of heavy metal ions from aqueous solution.

    Anindita Chakraborty;Sohini Bhattacharyya;Arpan Hazra;Ashta Chandra Ghosh

  • Amide Functionalized Microporous Organic Polymer (Am-MOP) for Selective CO2 Sorption and Catalysis

    Venkata M. Suresh;Satyanarayana Bonakala;Hanudatta S. Atreya;Sundaram Balasubramanian

Frequent Co-Authors

Nirmalendu Ray Chaudhuri
Nirmalendu Ray Chaudhuri Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Susumu Kitagawa
Susumu Kitagawa Kyoto University
Joan Ribas
Joan Ribas University of Barcelona
Swapan K. Pati
Swapan K. Pati Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Subi J. George
Subi J. George Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Ryotaro Matsuda
Ryotaro Matsuda Nagoya University
Sundaram Balasubramanian
Sundaram Balasubramanian Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Ennio Zangrando
Ennio Zangrando University of Trieste
C. N. R. Rao
C. N. R. Rao Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Chandrabhas Narayana
Chandrabhas Narayana Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research

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