Thalappil Pradeep
Institute Professor, Deepak Parekh Institute Chair Professor and
Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai – 600 036, INDIA
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Research Summary
Thalappil Pradeep’s research explores water across scales – from molecular and interfacial phenomena to technologies that deliver societal impact. Through contributions spanning clean water technologies, microdroplet chemistry, ice and clathrate science, and atomically precise materials, his work connects fundamental chemistry with large-scale human needs.
A major part of his work has focused on affordable drinking water technologies based on advanced nanomaterials. These efforts led to the development of widely deployed purification systems for arsenic and other contaminants, providing access to safe water for millions of people across India. To accelerate translation of laboratory discoveries into societal technologies, he founded the International Centre for Clean Water at IIT Madras Research Park.
Alongside societal technologies, his group investigates the fundamental chemistry and physics of water interfaces. His recent work on charged water microdroplets has revealed unusually rapid chemical transformations, including spontaneous mineral weathering and nanoparticle formation under ambient conditions. These studies have contributed to the emerging area of microdroplet mechanochemistry and have highlighted the unique reactivity of electrified aqueous interfaces.
Another major direction of his research concerns ice and cryogenic molecular systems. His laboratory has explored ultra-thin ice films, low-temperature surface chemistry, and clathrate hydrates formed under extreme conditions relevant to planetary and interstellar environments. These studies aim to understand how water behaves in confined, cryogenic, and extraterrestrial settings.
His broader research interests include atomically precise clusters, molecular materials, spectroscopy, interfacial chemistry, and advanced instrumentation. In atomically precise clusters, his group has discovered new structures, new phenomena, and new applications. His work has helped establish that clusters can exhibit molecule-like behaviour, bridging the gap between atoms, molecules, and materials.
Prof. Pradeep has mentored a large number of doctoral students, established major national research facilities including the National Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility at IIT Madras, and co-founded several technology start-ups. His group is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together chemistry, materials science, water technology, spectroscopy, cryogenic science, and instrumentation.
Prof. Pradeep is a Fellow of all major science and engineering academies in India, as well as TWAS, AAAS, African Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea, and the US National Academy of Engineering. His recognitions include the Padma Shri, Vigyan Shri, Nikkei Asia Prize, VinFuture Prize and Eni Award.
The research directions of the group may broadly be viewed through three interconnected themes:
1. Water for society
2. Water as reactive matter
3. Water in extreme environments
Interests:
- Molecular & nanoscale materials, microdroplets, water purification, molecular surfaces, scientific instrumentation
Other Interests:
- Education
- Popular science in English and Malayalam
- Teaching aids
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Contact
Professor In-charge
International Centre for Clean Water (ICCW)
Education
Post-doctoral research
Purdue University, Indiana
Ph.D.
Indian Institute of Science
Post-doctoral research
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
B.Sc., M.Sc.,
Calicut University
Post-doctoral research
Purdue University, Indiana
Post-doctoral research
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D.
Indian Institute of Science
B.Sc., M.Sc.,
Calicut University
Career
IIT Madras
1993 - 1995
IIT Madras
1995 - 2000
IIT Madras
2000 - 2003
IIT Madras
2004
IIT Madras
2010
IIT Madras
(one of the first such appointments)
2016
IIT Madras
2015
Visiting Appointments
• Visiting Scientist, Purdue University, Indiana 1994
• Fulbright Scholar, Purdue University, 1998
• Visiting Scientist, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 1999
• Visiting Scientist, Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea, 2000
• Visiting Professor, University of Leiden, 2002 (2 times)
• Visiting Scientist, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland 2002
• Adjunct Professor, Institute of Life Sciences, Ahmedabad University, 2013-2016
• JSPS Fellow, Hyogo University, Japan 2006
• Visiting Scientist, Institute of Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan 2006
• Distinguished Visiting Professor, PSG Institute of Advanced Studies, Coimbatore, 2013 – 2020
• Visiting Professor, Manipal University, 2018- present
• Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow, University of Manchester, 01/2026-12/2027
• Hovde Distinguished Visiting Professor, Purdue University, 08/2026 – 07/2028
Short list
- Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Prize
- TWAS Prize in Chemistry
- Padma Shri
- Nikkei Asia Prize
- Elected fellow of all the science and engineering academies of India, RSC, TWAS, AAASand AAS
- JC Bose National Fellowship
- IISc Distinguished Alumnus Award
- Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW)
- VinFuture Prize
- Eni Award
- Prof. M. V. Pylee award
- NAE Fellowship
- Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship
- Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar – Vigyan Shri
Full list
- National Talent Test Award 1975-78
- Calicut University Merit Scholarship 1983-85
- Indo-US Science and Technology Fellowship 1992-93
- Rajiv Gandhi Award for Innovative ideas in Science and Technology, 1995
- Young Affiliate of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, 1996
- Senior Fulbright Fellowship, 1998
- Tamilnadu Scientist Award 2000
- Materials Research Society of India Medal 2002
- Young Scientist Award, Chemical Research Society of India, 2003
- B.M. Birla Science Prize of 2000 awarded in 2003
- Swarnajayanti Fellowship (Project) of the DST
- Chemical Research Society of India Medal 2004
- Fellow, Madras Science Foundation, 2005
- Editorial board member of two journals in chemistry
- Swadeshi Sastra Puraskaram – 2007, Swadeshi Science Movement of Kerala, part of Vignana Bharati
- National Research Award in Nano Science and Technology by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, 2008
- Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Prize in chemical sciences, 2008
- Elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 2009
- Editorial Board Member of the journal, Nano Reviews 2010-
- Kerala Sahitya Academy Award for Knowledge Literature 2010
- Professor S. S. Deshpande National Award 2011
- Editorial Board Member of the journal, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2012-
- International Editorial Advisory Board Member of the journal, Particle 2012-
- International Editorial Advisory Board Member of the journal, Surface Innovations 2012-
- India Nanotech Innovation Award 2012
- Adjunct Professor, Institute of Life Sciences, Ahmedabad University 2013-
- Distinguished Visiting Professor, PSG Institute of Advanced Studies, Coimbatore 2013-
- Elected fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, 2014
- Member, Editorial Board of the journal, Chemistry – An Asian Journal, 2014
- Associate editor, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2014
- Member, Advisory Board of the journal, Nanoscale 2014
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC 2014
- JC Bose National Fellowship 2015
- Lifetime Achievement Research Award of IIT Madras 2015
- Member, Editorial Board of the journal, Scientific Reports (Nature Group) 2015
- Elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, 2016
- Elected fellow of The National Academy of Sciences, 2015
- Member, Editorial board of International Journal of Water and Wastewater Treatment, 2015
- Institute Chair Professor, 2016
- Deepak Parekh Institute Chair Professor, 2017
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of the journal, Chemistry of Materials, 2018
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of the journal, ACS Nano, 2018
- IITM Alumni Association Award for Faculty in Innovation, Chennai, Sep 29, 2018
- The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Prize in Chemistry, 2018
- Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2018
- Elected Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), 2018
- Member, Advisory Board of the new RSC journal, Nanoscale Advances
- Member, Governing Council, Technology Information, Forecasting & Assessment Council (TIFAC)
- Member, Research Advisory Council, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
- Member, Research Advisory Board (RAB), Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University
- Padma Shri (the fourth highest civilian award in India), 2020
- Nikkei Asia Prize, 2020
- Silver medal of the Chemical Research Society of India, 2020
- Member, Advisory Board of ChemComm., 2020
- National Water Award, 2020
- IISc Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2021
- Vishwakarma Medal of the Indian National Science Academy, 2021
- VASVIK Industrial Research Award, 2021
- Laureate of the 10th edition of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW), 2022
- VinFuture Special Prize for Innovators from Developing Countries, 2022
- Sastra-CNR Rao Prize in Materials Chemistry, 2023
- Eni Award, 2023
- International Excellence Award of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany and the Fellowship of SCHROFF Foundation, 2023
- Careers360 Faculty Research Award for the most outstanding Researcher in the country in the field of Materials Science, 2023
- International Medal for Materials Science and Technology of the Materials Research Society of India, 2023
- Gold Medal Award, Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha, 2024
- Prof. M. V. Pylee Award for the Distinguished Academician in India 2023, awarded in 2024
- Eminent Engineer Award of Engineering Council of India (ECI) 2023, awarded in 2024
- Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray Memorial Award of the Indian Chemical Society 2023, awarded in 2025
- Vikram Sarabhai Award of the Indian Society of Analyical Scientists 2024, presented in 2025
- Gold medal, Society for Materials Chemistry, 2025
- Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship 2025
- Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar – Vigyan Shri – 2025 – second highest award of the country for scientists
- International Award for Excellence in Research, 19th Global Congress on Manufacturing and Management, presented at VIT Vellore, December 10, 2025
- Vigyan Ratna of Panjab University, 2025
- Goyal Prize in Chemical Sciences for the year 2023-24, awarded in 2026
Research projects Ongoing
- Fingerprinting authenticity of Ayurvedic preparations by ambient electrospray deposition Raman spectroscopy, SHRI proposal, DST, Rs. 53.8884 lakhs for IITM, Rs. 41.3656 for Manipal Academy of Higher Education (principal investigator with Santhosh Chidangil, Manipal, Co-PI)
- Atomically precise naked cluster assemblies from ligand-stabilized clusters: New materials for catalysis, DST/DFG, Rs. 72.028 lakhs (principal investigator, with Manfred Kappes)
- National facility of cryo-electron microscopy: Remotely operable, 24x7 for academia and industry, SERB, Rs. 28.6 crores (principal investigator) with IIT Tirupati, IISER Tirupati, IIT Palakkad, RGCB Thiruvananthapuram, Sastra Tanavur, VIT Vellore and MRF Chennai
- Carborane-protected metal nanoclusters: A new family of materials with atomic precision - DST/Czech Republic Joint Proposal, Rs. 37 lakhs (principal investigator, with Tomas Base)
- Centre of Excellence on Molecular Materials and Functions, Ministry of Education, Rs. 16.8 crores (principal investigator)
- Atomically Precise Materials for Sustainable Water and Energy Harvesting, SERB, Rs. 75.32 lakhs (principal investigator)
Important research projects completed
- DST Unit on Nanoscience, DST, Rs. 1165.8 lakhs (principal investigator)
- DST Unit of Nanoscience Phase II, DST, Rs. 555.5 lakhs (principal investigator)
- Thematic project on frontiers of nanoscience and nanotechnology (TPF), DST, Rs. 541 lakhs (principal investigator)
- Thematic Unit of Excellence (TUE) on water purification using nanotechnology at IIT Madras, DST, Rs. 1081 lakhs (principal investigator)
- SUTRAM for EASY water, DST, Rs. 890 lakhs (co-principal investigator with Prof. Ligy Philip)
- Sustainable ion exchange resin-based technology for rare earth extraction, Ministy of Mines, Rs.52.51 lakhs (principal investigator)
- Affordable clean water in arsenic affected areas, Millennium Alliance, Rs. 50 lakhs (principal investigator along with Ramesh Kumar)
- Arsenic free South 24 Parganas district, DST, Rs. 374.88 lakhs (principal investigator)
- Capacitive deionization technology for the extraction of germanium and selenium: two elements of strategic relevance, Ministy of mines, Rs. 30 lakhs (principal investigator)
- Fluoride removal from drinking water, Rs. 8 lakhs (socially relevant projects, supported by a group of individuals)
- Field tests of drinking water purifiers, IGCAR, Rs. 6 lakhs (principal investigator)
- Chemistry at ice surfaces, DST, Rs. 500 lakhs (principal investigator)
- Chemical transformations of clathrate hydrates under ultra-high vacuum, DST, Rs. 76.5 lakhs (principal investigator)
- Dust free glass, Saint-Gobain Research India Ltd. Rs. 36 lakhs (principal investigator with Prof. R. Nagarajan)
- Improve rubber to steel bonding in steel radial tyres through scientific understanding, MRF Ltd. Rs. 130 lakhs (principal investigator)
- Soft ionization ion mobility mass spectrometry of atomically precise clusters of noble metals, Rs. 608 lakhs (principal investigator)
- Quantum cluster solar cells, Rs. 134.48 lakhs (principal investigator)
Implementation projects
- Providing, fixing and maintenance of nano material based household water purifiers for providing in arsenic affected habitations of punjab, Government of Punjab, Rs. 48.5 crores (principal investigator), undertaken by ICCW.
- House-hold water purifiers in the state of Punjab, Government of Punjab, Rs. 4.85 crores (principal investigator), undertaken by ICCW.
Instruments developed in the recent past
- A state-of-the-art UHV ion scattering spectrometer with two mass spectrometers has been constructed. This is one of the very first of its kind to conduct studies on molecular surfaces at 10-11 torr.
- An ultra-low evergy (1-10 eV) mass selected ion scattering instrument working in the range of 7-1000 K to study ice surfaces has been developed. The instrument is coupled with low energy sputtering, temperature programmed desorption and reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy. Recently, a thermal evaporator to deposit metals has also been added.
Selected Publications
- Microdroplet mechanochemistry, Thalappil Pradeep, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. (2025)14 (2025), 25-30 (DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5c12102)
- Spontaneous weathering of natural minerals in charged water microdroplets forms nanomaterials, B. K. Spoorthi, Koyendrila Debnath, Pallab Basuri, Ankit Nagar, Umesh V. Waghmare and Thalappil Pradeep, Science, 384 (2024) 1012-1017. (DOI: 10.1126/science.adl3364)
- Bimetallic nanocluster-based light-emitting diodes with high external quantum efficiency and saturated red emission, Jose V. Rival, Savita Chand, Arijit Jana, Nonappa, Vasudevanpillai Biju, Thalappil Pradeep, Pachaiyappan Rajamalli, and Edakkattuparambil Sidharth Shibu, Adv. Mater. 37 (2025) 2507893. (DOI: 10.1002/adma.202507893)
- Site-specific substitution in atomically precise carboranethiol-protected nanoclusters and concomitant changes in electronic properties, Vivek Yadav, Arijit Jana, Swetashree Acharya, Sami Malola, Harshita Nagar, Ankit Sharma, Amoghavarsha Ramachandra Kini, Sudhadevi Antarjanam, Jan Machacek, Kumaran Nair Valsala Devi Adarsh, Tomas Base, Hannu Hakkinen and Thalappil Pradeep, Nat. Commun. 16 (2025) 1197. (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56385-w)
- Understanding the kinetics of CO2 hydrate formation in dry water for carbon capture and storage: X-ray diffraction and in-situ Raman studies, Gaurav Vishwakarma, Vikas Dhamu, M Fahed Qureshi, Gaurav Bhattacharjee, Thalappil Pradeep and Praveen Linga, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 17 (2025) 4865–4874. (DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c17727)
- Multicolor photoluminescence of Cu14 clusters modulated using surface ligands, Arijit Jana, Subrata Duary, Amitabha Das, Amoghavarsha Ramachandra Kini, Swetashree Acharya, Jan Machacek, Biswarup Pathak, Tomas Base and Thalappil Pradeep, Chem. Sci. 15 (2024) 13741-13752. (DOI: 10.1039/D4SC01566E)
- Phosphine protected atomically precise silver-gold alloy nanoclusters and their luminescent superstructures, Madhuri Jash, Arijit Jana, Ajay K. Poonia, Esma Khatun, Papri Chakraborty, Ankit Nagar, Tripti Ahuja, K. V. Adarsh, and Thalappil Pradeep, Chem. Mater., 35 (2022) 313–326. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03222)
- Assembling atomically precise noble metal nanoclusters using supramolecular interactions, Abhijit Nag, and Thalappil Pradeep, ACS Nanoscience Au, 2 (2021) 160-178. (DOI: 10.1021/acsnanoscienceau.1c00046)
- Self-assembly of precision noble metal nanoclusters: Hierarchical structural complexity, colloidal superstructures, and applications, Jose V. Rival, Paloli Mymoona, Kavalloor Murali Lakshmi, Nonappa, Thalappil Pradeep and Edakkattuparambil Sidharth Shibu, Small, (2021) 2005718 (DOI: 10.1002/smll.202005718)
- Clathrate hydrates in interstellar environment, Jyotirmoy Ghosh, Rabin Rajan J. Methikkalam, Radha Gobinda Bhuin, Gopi Ragupathy, Nilesh Choudhary, Rajnish Kumar, and Thalappil Pradeep, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 116 (2019), 1526-1531 (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1814293116).
- Rapid isotopic exchange in nanoparticles, Papri Chakraborty, Abhijit Nag, Ganapati Natarajan, Nayanika Bandyopadhyay, Ganesan Paramasivam, Manoj Kumar Panwar, Jaydeb Chakrabarti, and Thalappil Pradeep, Science Advances, 5 (2018), eaau7555 (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau7555).
- Approaching materials with atomic precision using supramolecular cluster assemblies, Papri Chakraborty, Abhijit Nag, Amrita Chakraborty and Thalappil Pradeep, Acc. Chem. Res., 52 (2019), 2–11 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00369).
- Camouflaging Structural Diversity: Co-crystallization of Two Different Nanoparticles Having Different Cores But the Same Shell, Mohammad Bodiuzzaman, Atanu Ghosh, Korath Shivan Sugi, Abhijit Nag, Esma Khatun, Babu Varghese, Ganesan Paramasivam, Sudhadevi Antharjanam, Ganapati Natarajan and T. Pradeep, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 189-194 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201809469)
- Isomerism in supramolecular adducts of atomically precise nanoparticles, Abhijit Nag, Papri Chakraborty, Ganesan Paramasivam, Mohammad Bodiuzzaman, Ganapati Natarajan, and Thalappil Pradeep, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140 (2018), 13590–13593 (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b08767)
- Atomically Precise Nanocluster Assemblies Encapsulating Plasmonic Gold Nanorods, Amrita Chakraborty, Ann Candice Fernandez, Anirban Som, Biswajit Mondal, Ganapati Natarajan, Ganesan Paramasivam, Tanja Lahtinen, Hannu Häkkinen, Nonappa, Thalappil Pradeep, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 57 (2018), 6522-6526 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201802420).
- Fullerene-Functionalized Monolayer-Protected Silver Clusters: [Ag29(BDT)12(C60)n]3– (n = 1–9), Papri Chakraborty, Abhijit Nag, Ganesan Paramasivam, Ganapati Natarajan, and Thalappil Pradeep, ACS Nano, 12 (2018), 2415–2425 (DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b07759).
- Organic solvent-free fabrication of durable and multifunctional superhydrophobic paper from waterborne fluorinated cellulose nanofiber building blocks, Avijit Baidya, Mohd Azhardin Ganayee, Swathy Jakka Ravindran, Kam Chiu Tam, Sarit Kumar Das, Robin H. A. Ras, and Thalappil Pradeep, ACS Nano, 11 (2017), 11091–11099 (DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b05170).
- Sequential dihydrogen desorption from hydride protected atomically precise silver clusters and the formation of naked clusters in the gas phase, Atanu Ghosh, Mohammad Bodiuzzaman, Abhijit Nag, Madhuri Jash, Ananya Baksi, Thalappil Pradeep, ACS Nano, 11 (2017), 11145–11151 (DOI:10.1021/acsnano.7b05406).
- Unusual accumulation of silver in the aleurone layer of an Indian rice (Oryza sativa) landrace and sustainable extraction of the metal, Soujit Sen Gupta, Ananya Baksi, Priyabrata Roy, Debal Deb, Thalappil Pradeep, ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., 5 (2017), 8310−8315 (DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b02058).
- Interparticle reactions: An emerging direction in nanomaterials chemistry, K. R. Krishnadas, Ananya Bakshi, Atanu Ghosh, Ganapati Natarajan, Anirban Som, Thalappil Pradeep, Acc. Chem. Res., 50 (2017), 1988−1996 (DOI:10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00224).
- Au22Ir3(PET)18 : An unusual alloy cluster through inter-cluster reaction, Shridevi Bhat, Ananya Baksi, Sathish Mudedla, Ganapati Natarajan, Venkatesan Subramanian, Thalappil Pradeep, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8 (2017), 2787-2793 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01052).
- Manifestation of geometric and electronic shell structures of metal clusters in intercluster reactions, K. R. Krishnadas, Ananya Baksi, Atanu Ghosh, Ganapati Natarajan and Thalappil Pradeep, ACS Nano, 11 (2017), 6015-6023 (DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b01912).
- Atomically precise clusters of noble metals: Emerging link between atoms and nanoparticles, Indranath Chakraborty and Thalappil Pradeep, Chem. Rev., 117 (2017), 8208-8271 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00769).
- Confined metastable 2-line ferrihydrite for affordable point-of- use arsenic free drinking water, Anil Kumar Avula, Anirban Som, Paolo Longo, Chennu Sudhakar, Radha Gobinda Bhuin, Soujit Sen Gupta, Anshup, Mohan Udhaya Sankar, Amrita Chaudhary, Ramesh Kumar and Thalappil Pradeep, Adv. Mat., 28 (2016), 2827–2833 (DOI: 10.1002/adma.201604260).
- Structure-conserving spontaneous transformations between nanoparticles, K. R. Krishnadas, Ananya Baksi, Atanu Ghosh, Ganapati Natarajan and Thalappil Pradeep, Nat. Commun., 7 (2016), 13447-13456 (DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13447).
- Cooking induced corrosion of metals, Soujit Sen Gupta, Ananya Baksi, Vidhya Subramanian and Thalappil Pradeep, ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., 4 (2016), 4781–4787 (DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b00980).
- Extraction of silver by glucose, Ananya Baksi, Mounika Gandi, Swathi Chaudhari, Soumabha Bag, Soujit Sen Gupta and Thalappil Pradeep, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 55 (2016), 7777-7781 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201510122).
- Cluster mediated crossed bilayer precision assemblies of 1D nanowires, Anirban Som, Indranath Chakraborty, Tuhina Adit Maark, Shridevi Bhat and Thalappil Pradeep, Adv. Mater., 28 (2016), 2827-2833 (DOI: 10.1002/adma.201505775).
- Intercluster reactions between Au25(SR)18 and Ag44(SR)30, K. R. Krishnadas, Atanu Ghosh, Ananya Baksi, Indranath Chakraborty, Ganapati Natarajan and Thalappil Pradeep, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138 (2016), 140–148 (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b09401).
- Metallic nanobrushes made using ambient droplet sprays, Depanjan Sarkar, Maheswari Kavirajan Mahitha, Anirban Som, Anyin Li, Michael Wleklinski, Robert Graham Cooks and Thalappil Pradeep, Adv. Mater., 28(2016), ( DOI: 10.1002/adma.201505127).
- Molecular ionization from carbon nanotube paper, Rahul Narayanan, Depanjan Sarkar, R. Graham Cooks and Thalappil Pradeep, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 53 (2014), 5936–5940 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201311053)