Publications

From Ph. D. and Post-Doctoral Research

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

Thomas, A.; Devaux, E.; Nagarajan, K.; Chervy, T.; Seidel, M.; Hagenmuller, D.; Schutz. S.; Schachenmayer, J.; Genet, C.; Pupillo, G.; Ebbesen, T. W., Exploring Superconductivity under Strong Coupling with the Vacuum Electromagnetic Field, ArXiv, 2019, arXiv:1911.01459v2.
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. (Highlighted in: Phys.org(https://phys.org/news/2019-03-mirrors-chemical.html)ACS Central Science (https://pubs-acs-org.scd-rproxy.u strasbg.fr/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.9b00219)Chemistry World (https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/mirrors-in-the-dark-enable-chemical-control/3010100.article?fbclid=IwAR0rY2BFiIhiJ-7nypTnSksR5HNFhIgG4uIwL_rvHnhPosJ4ge0TJeX-B30CNRS INC (https://inc.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/une-selectivite-chimique-par-couplage-vibrationnel )

2018

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.

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)

2016

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

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

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.

2012

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.