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Overcoming Challenges Associated with Hydrogen Storage Efficiency and Fuel Cell Catalysis : An Ab Initio Study
Fuel cells offer the best solution to the imminent energy and environmental crisis staring at
our face, urging the scientific community to overcome all the challenges faced by its effective
commercialization. These harness ...
Vanadium Complexes for DNA Crosslinking and Photodynamic Applications
The present thesis work deals with the studies involving synthesis of vanadium-based complexes as photoactivated chemotherapeutic as well a photodynamic therapeutic agent. Their interactions with DNA, as double-stranded ...
Integration of AlGaN with (111) Si Substrate by MOCVD
AlGaN is an important semiconductor material for electronic and optoelectronic applications.
The change in composition of AlGaN (AlN to GaN) provides a range of bandgaps extending
from 6.01 eV, far ultraviolet, to 3.4 ...
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 ...
A Study of Photophysics and Photochemistry of I-III-VI2 Nanocrystals
This thesis, entitled “A Study of Photophysics and Photochemistry of I-III-VI2 Nanocrystals” primarily deals with the properties of I-III-VI2 semiconductor nanocrystals composed of earth abundant, environmentally benign ...
III- Nitride Thin Films and Nanostructures on Si(111) by Plasma Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy
This thesis focuses on studying heterostructures of GaN, Silicon and AlN. GaN nanostructures are grown on bare Si (111) with and without a GaN buffer layer and GaN film was grown on an AlN layer. Apart from the material ...
Accelerated search for thermoelectric and topological materials using first-principles and machine learning
In summary, we have performed first-principles calculations to study the topological phase transitions
in chalcopyrite compounds as a function of hydrostatic pressure. These compounds are
topological insulators in the ...
Achieving Efficiency and Specificity in Multifarious Systems for Anti-cancer Gene Therapeutics
The research work described in this thesis encompasses the syntheses, characterization and bioactivity determination of various novel systems crafted for achieving high efficacy and targeted gene therapeutic effect in ...
Mechanistic Understanding of Organic Solar Cells: A Detailed Investigation on Role of Förster Resonance Energy Transfer, Dielectric Constant and Exciton Dynamics
Organic solar cells (OSC) have been emerging as promising energy harvesting technology because of their low-cost fabrication, semitransparency, solution processability and ability to be produced in large scale using ...
Development of Novel NMR Methodology and Investigation of Challenging Chemical Problems
The thesis is entitled as "Development of Novel NMR Methodology and Investigation of Challenging Chemical Problems ". The research work reported in this thesis is mainly carried out in two directions. The initial focus ...