My research interest includes functional soft materials, supramolecular self-assembly, metal-organic gel, supramolecular gel, gas absorption, drug delivery.

• Suman Samai, Prabir Ghosh, Kumar Biradha, Does crystal or gel matter to stereochemistryof a reaction? Silver complexation-promoted solid-state [2+2] reaction of anunsymmetrical olefin. Chem. Commun., 2013, 49,4181–4183.
• Suman Samai, Kumar Biradha, Chemicaland Mechano Responsive Metal Organic Gels of bis(benzimidazole) Based Ligandswith Cd(II) and Cu(II) Halide Salts: Self Sustainability, Gas and Dye Sorptions.Chem. Mater., 2012, 24,1165–1173.
• Suman Samai, Kumar Biradha, CoordinationPolymers of Flexible bis(benzimidazole) Ligand: Halogen Bridging and Metal-AreneInteraction. Cryst. Growth. Des., 2011, 11, 5723–5732.
• Suman Samai; Joykrishna Dey, Kumar Biradha, Aminoacid based low-molecular-weight tris(bis-amido) organogelators. Soft Matter, 2011,7, 2121–2126.
• Suman Samai, Kumar Biradha, Halogen···halogen interactions in assemblingβ-sheets into 2D layers in the bis-(4-halo-phenylamido)alkanes and theirco-crystals via inter-halogen interactions. Cryst. Eng. Comm., 2009, 11, 482–492.
  

• 2007-2012: Ph.D, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur,India
• 2003-2005: M.Sc, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur,India
• 2000-2003:B.Sc (Hons in Chemistry), Vidyasagar University, Midnapur, India
  

• Sept 2014 — Present:Post-doctoral Fellow, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology(KAUST), Saudi Arabia
  
• Oct 2012-Feb 2014: Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgetown University,USA

2011 - Best poster Award by RSC Advances