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​2021​

  • Nagarajan, K.; Thomas, A.; Ebbesen, T. W., Chemistry under Vibrational Strong Coupling. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 16877. (corresponding authorship)

  • Joseph, K.; Kushida, S.; Smarsly, E.; Ihiawakrim, D.; Thomas, A.; Paravicini-Bagliani, G. L.; Nagarajan, K.; Vergauwe, R.; Devaux, E.; Ersen, O.; Bunz, U.; Ebbesen, T. W., Supramolecular Assembly of Conjugated Polymers under Vibrational Strong Coupling. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 19665.

  • Thomas, A.; Devaux, E.; Nagarajan, K.; Rogez, G.; Seidel, M.; Richard, F.; Genet, C.; Drillon, M.; Ebbesen, T. W., Large Enhancement of Ferro-Magnetism under Collective Strong Coupling of YBCO Nanoparticles, Nano Lett., 2021, 21, 4365.

  • Wang, K.; Seidel, M.; Nagarajan, K.; Chervy, T.; Genet, C.; Ebbesen, T. W., Large Optical Nonlinearity Enhancement under Electronic Strong Coupling, Nat. Commun., 2021, 12, 1486.

  • Sau, A.; Nagarajan, K.; Patrahau, B.; Lethuillier-Karl, L.; Vergauwe, R. M. A.;   Thomas, A.; Moran, J.; Genet, C.; Ebbesen, T. W. Modifying Woodward‐Hoffmann Stereoselectivity under Vibrational Strong Coupling, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 5712. 

2020​

  • ​Nagarajan, K.; George, J.; Thomas, A.; Devaux, E.; Chervy, T.; Azzini, S.; Joseph, K.; Jouaiti, A.; Hosseini, M. W.; Kumar, A.; Genet, C.; Bartolo, N.; Ciuti, C.; Ebbesen, T. W. Conductivity and Photoconductivity of a p-Type Organic Semiconductor under Ultra-Strong Coupling, ACS Nano, 2020, 14, 10219.

  • Pang, Y.; Thomas, A.; Nagarajan, K.; Vergauwe, R. M. A.; Joseph, K.; Patrahau, B.; Wang, K.; Genet, C.; Ebbesen, T. W., On the Role of Symmetry in Vibrational Strong Coupling: The Case of Charge-Transfer Complexation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 10436. (Highlighted as Hot Paper)

  • Thomas, A.; Jayachandran, A.; Lethuillier-Karl, L.; Vergauwe, R. M. A.; Nagarajan, K.; Devaux, E.; Genet, C.; Moran, J.; Ebbesen, T. W., Ground State Chemistry under Vibrational Strong Coupling: Dependence of Thermodynamic Parameters on the Rabi Splitting Energy, Nanophotonics, 2020, 9, 249.

2019​

  • Vergauwe, R. M. A.; Thomas, A.; Nagarajan, K.; Shalabney, A.; George, J.; Chervy, T.; Seidel, M.; Devaux, E.; Torbeev, V.; Ebbesen, T. W., Modification of Enzyme Activity by Vibrational Strong Coupling of Water, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 15324. (Highlighted as ‘VIP article’)

  • Thomas, A.; Lethuillier-Karl, L.; Nagarajan, K.; Vergauwe, R. M. A.; George, J.; Chervy, T.; Shalabney, A.; Devaux, E.; Genet, C.; Moran, J.; Ebbesen, T. W., Tilting a Ground-state Reactivity Landscape by Vibrational Strong Coupling, Science, 2019, 363, 615.                                  

2018

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  • Nagarajan, K.; Gopan, G.; Cheriya, R. T.; and Hariharan, M., Long Alkyl Side-Chains Impede Exciton Interaction in Organic Light Harvesting Crystals, Chem. Commun., 2018, 53, 7409. 

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2017​

  • Nagarajan, K.; Mallia, A. R.; Muraleedharan, K.; Hariharan, M., Enhanced Intersystem Crossing in Core-Twisted Aromatics, Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 1776. (Featured as a cover page)

  • Banda, H.; Damien, D.; Nagarajan, K.; Raj, A. Hariharan, M.; Shaijumon, MM., Twisted Perylene Diimides with Tunable Redox Properties for Organic Sodium‐Ion Batteries, Adv. Energy Mater. 2017, 7, 1701316. (Featured as a cover page)

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2016

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  • Nagarajan, K.; Mallia, A. R.; Reddy, V. S.; Hariharan, M., Access to Triplet Excited State in Core-Twisted Perylenediimide, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120, 8443. 

2015

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  • Banda, H.; Damien, D.; Nagarajan, K.; Hariharan, M.; Shaijumon, M. M., A Polyimide based All-Organic Sodium Ion Battery, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, 3, 10453. 

​2014​

  • Nagarajan, K.; Rajagopal, S. K.; Hariharan, M., C-H• • •H-C and C-H• • •π Contacts Aid Transformation of Dimeric to Monomeric Anthracene in the Solid State, CrystEngComm, 2014, 16, 8946. 

  • Rajagopal, S. K.; Philip, A. M.; Nagarajan, K.; Hariharan, M., Progressive Acylation of Pyrene Engineers Solid State Packing and Colour via C-H• • •H-C, C-H• • •O and π-π Interactions, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 8644. (Featured as a cover page)​

2013

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  • Cheriya, R. T.; Nagarajan, K.; Hariharan, M., Single-Component Organic Light- Harvesting Red Luminescent Crystal, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2013, 117, 3240. 

  • Sharma, P.; Damien, D.; Nagarajan, K.; Shaijumon, M. M.; Hariharan, M., Perylene- Polyimide-Based Organic Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2013, 4, 3192. 

  • Joy, J.; Cheriya, R. T.; Nagarajan, K.; Shaji, A.; Hariharan, M., Breakdown of Exciton Splitting through Electron Donor-Acceptor Interaction: A Caveat for the Application of Exciton Chirality Method in Macromolecules, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2013, 117, 17927. 

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2012

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  • Cheriya, R. T.; Joy, J.; Rajagopal, S. K.; Nagarajan, K.; Hariharan, M., DNA- Enforced Conformational Restriction of an Atropisomer, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2012, 116, 22631. 

Before Joining TIFR

2026

  • Kothapalli, G. M.; Chakraborty, P.; Maiti, S.; Voora. V. K.; Nagarajan, K.* Molecular Mode Selective Diels-Alder Cycloreversion under Vibrational Strong Coupling, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2026, 17, 5513–5519 (Featured as a front cover)

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  • Seidel, M.*; Nagarajan, K.* Engineering Material Properties through Hybrid Light–Matter States. ACS Appl. Opt. Mater. 2026, 4, 671–683.

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2025

  • Dang, M.; Maiti, S.; Chakraborty, A.; Kothapalli, G. M.; Nagarajan, K.* Altering Glass Transition in Polymer Films through Vibrational Strong Coupling. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2025, 16, 12361–12368 (Featured as a front cover)

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  • Jayachandran, A.; Patrahau, B.; Ricca, J. G.; Mahato, M. K.; Pang, Y.; Nagarajan, K.  Thomas, A.; Genet, C.; Ebbesen, T. W. A Phenomenological Symmetry Rule for Chemical Reactivity Under Vibrational Strong Coupling. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202503915.

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  • Thomas, A.; Devaux, E.; Nagarajan, K.; Chervy, T.; Seidel, M.  Rogez2, J. Robert, G.; Drillon, M.; Ruan, T. T.; Schlittenhardt, S.; Ruben, M.; Hagenmüller, D.; Schütz, S.; Schachenmayer, J.; Genet, C.; Pupillo, G.; Ebbesen, T. W. Exploring Superconductivity under Strong Coupling with the Vacuum Electromagnetic Field. J. Chem. Phys. 2025, 162, 134701.

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2024

  • Maiti, S.; Kothapalli, G. M.; Nagarajan, K.* Impacting Non-Covalent Interactions through Vibrational Strong Coupling, ChemPlusChem, 2024, e202400591.

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  • Gera, R.; De, P.; Singh, K. K.; Jannuzzi, S. A. V.; Mohanty, A.; Velasco, L.; Kulbir, Kumar, P.; Marco, J. F.; Nagarajan, K.; Pecharromán, C.; Rodríguez-Pascual, P. M.; DeBeer, S.; Moonshiram, D.; Sen Gupta, S.; Dasgupta, J. Trapping an Elusive Fe(IV)-Superoxo Intermediate Inside a Self-Assembled Nanocage in Water at Room Temperature. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 21729.

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  • Wang, K.; Tao, W.; Nagarajan, K.; Kushida, S.; Sandeep, K.; Genet, C.; Ebbesen, T. W. Study of the Selection Rules of Molecular Polaritonic Transitions by Two-Photon Absorption Spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2024, 128, 10534.

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