Browsing Division of Chemical Sciences by Subject "Graphene"
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Ab-initio Modeling and Designing of Materials for Thermoelectrics, Optoelectronics and High Temperature Applications
Designing a material for a particular application requires an atomistic understanding of its properties. Recent development in first principles methods and supercomputing speeds has enabled researchers to compute materials ... -
Aqueous and Non-aqueous Dispersions of Graphene and Boron Nitride Nanosheets : NMR Measurements and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Preface Ever since the discovery of graphene in 2004, there has been considerable interest in two dimensional (2D) nanomaterials due to their distinctive properties and the prospect of potential applications. A ... -
Controlled Nanoscale Growth of 2D Materials and Their Heterostructures
Unique ranges of properties of two dimensional (2D) materials foster new opportunities in many scientific and technological fields. Beyond pristine 2D materials, their heterostructures provide more possibilities in real ... -
Efficient Photodetectors Based on Reduced Graphene Oxide
Chapter 1: In chapter 1, we have presented a brief introduction on photodetector and its various applications. Chapter 2: Chapter 2 is the discussion about experimental methods and characterization tools. In this chapter, ... -
Ground State Studies Of Strongly Correlated 2D Systems
(2013-02-14)The quest for obtaining higher Tc superconductivity led to the discovery of cuprates about 20 years ago. Since then, they continue to puzzle the scientific community with their bizarre properties like non-BCS superconductivity, ... -
High Capacity Porous Electrode Materials of Li-ion Batteries
(2017-12-12)Lithium-ion battery is attractive for various applications because of its high energy density. The performance of Li-ion battery is influenced by several properties of the electrode materials such as particle size, surface ... -
Investigation Of Inorganic Nanomaterials & Polymer Films
(2014-07-30)The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the research work carried out on the synthesis and chemical modification of nanomaterials whereas the second part describes the preparation and characterisation ... -
Investigations of Borocarbonitrides and Nanocarbons
The thesis consists of three parts of which Part 1 describes the investigations of borocarbonitrides. In this Part, Section 1.1 provides the synthesis and characterization of different compositions of borocarbonitrides. ... -
Investigations Of Graphene And Open-Framework Metal Carboxylates
(2013-08-02)The thesis contains two parts. Part 1 describes the investigations on graphene and contains five sections. Section 1, gives a brief overview of graphene and other nanocarbons. The other four sections deal with various ... -
Investigations Of Graphene, Noble Metal Nanoparticles And Related Nanomaterials
(2015-02-04)The thesis consists of four parts of which part 1 presents a brief overview of nanomaterials. Parts 2, 3 and 4 contain results of investigations of graphene, nanofilms of noble metal nanoparticles and ZnO nanostructures ... -
Mechanisms of Formation and Thermal Stabililty of Functional Nanostructures
(2018-02-22)There are many challenges in materializing the applications utilizing inorganic nanoparticles. The primary drawback is the degradation of properties due to aggregation and sintering either due to elevated temperatures or ... -
New Avenues to Transition Metal-Based Water Splitting Electrocatalysts
Solar energy is by far the most abundant renewable resource available to mankind. However, it is diffused and intermittent, and often geographically separated from that of the production results in underwhelming utilization ... -
Novel 1-D and 2-D Carbon Nanostructures Based Absorbers for Photothermal Applications
(2018-03-02)Solar thermal energy is emerging as an important source of renewable energy for meeting the ever-increasing energy requirements of the world. Solar selective coatings are known to enhance the efficiency of the photo thermal ... -
Rational Design of Advanced Hybrid Nanostructures for Catalysis and Electrocatalysis
(2017-11-28)The hybrid nanostructures exhibit excellent performances in various fields such as catalysis, sensing, and energy conversion as compared to their individual ones. The thesis deals with the new methods for the synthesis of ... -
Synthesis And Characterization of Cationic Lipids And Carbon Nanomaterials Based Composites for the Delivery Of Bioactive Oligo/Polynucleotides and Drugs In Vitro and In Vivo
(2017-11-27)The biggest hurdle in success of gene and drug therapy is designing and preparation of suitable bio-nanomaterials to carry the desired nucleic acid and drug to the targeted site. The work described in the present thesis ... -
Theoretical Studies Of Electronic Excitation Energy Transfer Involving Some Nanomaterials
(2013-10-21)Electronic Excitation Energy Transfer is an important intermolecular photophysical process that can affect the excited state lifetime of a chromophore. A molecule in an electronically excited state can return to the ground ... -
Theoretical Studies of Energy Transport in Complex Systems
(2018-05-09)Photosynthesis involves the absorption of photons by light-harvesting pigments and the subsequent transfer of excitation from the absorption centre to the reaction centre. This highly efficient phenomenon of excitation ... -
Tuning Electronic Properties of Low Dimensional Materials
(2017-11-22)Discovery of grapheme has paved way for experimental realization of many physical phenomena such as massless Dirac fermions, quantum hall effect and zero-field conductivity. Search for other two dimensional (2D) materials ...