Browsing by thesis submitted date"2018"
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An experimental study on thermoelectric transport at van der Waals interfaces
When two planar atomic or molecular layers are brought to sub-nanometer proximity, they form a van der Waals interface because the van der Waals force forms the dominant attractive force between them. The van der Waals ... -
Exploration of exfoliation, functionalization and properties of MXenes via first-principles and machine learning
The monolayers of early transition metal carbides and carbonitrides named MXenes are exfoliated from the corresponding bulk MAX phases (Mn+1AXn, M = early transition metal, A = group IIIA or IVA element and X = carbon ... -
Exploration of multiferroicity, emergence of exchange bias effect and glassy magnetism in doped hexagonal rare-earth manganites
In recent days, the need for device miniaturization has led to immense research activities in the field of material science. It has become essential to discover and design new materials or to modify the existing materials ... -
Exploration of the Recombination Repair Pathway in Mycobacteria : Identification and Characterization of New Proteins
Genomic integrity is a fundamental requisite for survival and proliferation of all organisms. The genetic material is continuously threatened by a multitude of extrinsic and intrinsic factors. Consequently, the presence ... -
An Exploratory Framework for Cyclone Identification and Tracking
Analyzing depressions plays an important role in meteorology, especially in the study of cyclones. In particular, the study of the temporal evolution of cyclones requires a robust depression tracking framework. To cope ... -
Externally Induced Instabilities in Contactless Functional Droplets
Many natural and technological processes involve spray or cluster of droplets which are subjected to chaotic external environment. Study of the behavior of a single droplet is therefore crucial to understand the dynamics ... -
Fabrication and Characterization of Multilayer MoS2 Coated Etched Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors and Side-hole Packaged Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors with Enhanced sensitivity for Different Applications
In summary, MoS2 coated, etched FBG sensors have been used for various applications. Firstly, the strain sensitivity has been studied; a high strain sensitivity of 6.3 pm/μɛ with a linear range of sensing response from 0 ... -
Fabrication and Characterization of Nanostructured Antibacterial Surfaces
Bacterial antibiotic resistance is becoming wide spread due to the excessive and unregulated use of antibiotics in healthcare and agriculture. At the same time the development of new antibiotics has become slow. Adding ... -
Fabrication, micro-computed tomography based quantitative 3D microstructure evaluation of 3D printed bioceramic scaffolds and FE modelling of biomedical implant prototypes
In summary, this thesis provides the following outcomes: a) Formulation of novel powder-binder combination for 3D powder printing of resorbable bone-tissue scaffold. b) The effect of post-processing approach on the macro ... -
Factors Regulating Cerebellar Granule Neuron Progenitor Proliferation
Cerebella granule neuron progenitors (CGNPs) give rise to a homogenous group of neurons called the cerebellar granule neurons in the developing cerebellum (a hindbrain structure classically associated with fine motor ... -
A Fast Constant-Time Approximation for Locally Adaptive Bilateral Filtering
Smoothing is a fundamental task in low-level image processing that is used to suppress irrelevant details while preserving salient image structures. The simplest smoothing mechanism is to average neighboring pixels using ... -
Fast High-Dimensional Filtering
Smoothing (diffusion) is a fundamental task in low-level vision and image processing. In the context of natural images, where edges (sharp discontinuities) play an important psychovisual role, the smoothing process needs ... -
Fast Solvers and Preconditioning Methods in Computational Electromagnetics
Method of Moments (MoM) is an integral equation based solver and is one of the most popular computational techniques to solve complex 3D Electromagnetic problems efficiently and accurately. Compared to the conventional ... -
First Principles Based Mobility Estimation of Graphene
Electron-phonon coupling (EPC) plays a vital role in detecting transport properties (e.g. mobility) of any material. First principles-based estimation of the mobility for any new material could act as a useful guideline ... -
Flame Particle Tracking Analysis of Turbulence-Premixed Flame Interaction
This work describes the computational and theoretical developments made in the understanding of turbulence-premixed flame interaction, using both lean and rich H2-air mixtures, in a flow field of near-isotropic turbulence. ... -
Flow and Forces on Rigid and Flexible Plates in Unsteady Rotational Motion
The swimming motion of fishes have long fascinated scientists and engineers. Over the past few decades, researchers have studied physical models mimicking the tail beat of fishes in an effort to extract key physical ... -
Fluctuations in quantum transport in topological insulators
Topological insulators (TIs) belong to a new class of materials characterized by linear surface states, which emerge in the bulk band gap due to non-trivial topology of the band structure. These surface states have various ... -
Frequency and Temperature Dependent Mechanical Behavior of Three-Dimensional Cellular Structures of Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes: Role of Microscopic Interfacial Interaction
Three dimensional (3D) cellular structures with high mechanical strength and stability are recently proven to provide a crucial platform for multifunctional application in various fields namely biomedical, soft robotics, ... -
From collective relaxation phenomena to phase separation in binary mixtures and some contributions to the hydration dynamics in the vicinity of biologically active molecules
The thesis presents detailed results of theoretical analyses based on extensive computer simulation studies with an aim to explore, quantify whenever possible, and understand the collective excitations, relaxation processes ... -
From Independent Control to Self Propulsion of Helical Nanoswimmers : Towards All Magnetic Active Matter
There has been a surge of interest in recent years to design and fabricate various types of motile micro/nanoparticles that can be maneuvered using chemical, optical, thermal, electrical or magnetic energy sources. A ...