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Studies on Nanostructured Transition Metal Oxides and Related Composites for Supercapacitor Electrodes
Supercapacitors have acquired considerable scientific and technological position in energy storage field owing to their compelling power capability, good energy density, excellent cycling stability and ideal safety. ...
Supramolecular Self-assembly of Diketopyrrolopyrrole with Emergent Photophysics and Unprecedented Photoconductivity
Structural fluctuation in organic molecular semiconductors often plays a key role in fragmenting the conducting pathways even in their condensed phases due to the large fraction of free volumes, acting as trap sites for ...
Minerals to Functional Materials: Comprehensive Evaluation of Vanthoffites and Related Materials towards Futuristic Multifunctional Applications
The thesis provides a systematic investigation of materials derived from different mineral species such as vanthoffite and related minerals structures. Search of new multifunctional materials continues to be a challenge ...
A Study of Synthesis and Optoelectronics of Copper Iron Chalcogenide Nanocrystals
Copper iron chalcogenides constitute a promising class of optoelectronic materials courtesy of their narrow bandgaps and earth abundant constitution. However, they are yet to receive the attention they deserve due to the ...
Phase Modulated Selective NMR Methods for resolving overlapping spin systems and rapid data acquisition : Application in metabolomics
research work is focused on the development of new fast solution NMR methods
for resolving overlapping spin systems and their application to NMR based
metabolomics. In this work two new solution NMR pulse sequences are ...
Engineered Catalytic Metal—Metal-Oxide Nano-heterostructures for CO Oxidation
Owing to its interesting chemistry and toxic nature, catalytic oxidation of CO is of both fundamental and practical interest. Two applications, viz. CO conversion in the catalytic converters and pre-treatment of CO-rich ...
Alluaudite Class of High-Voltage Cathodes for Sodium-Ion Battery Applications: A Synthesis, Structure, Property Correlation Study
The work presented in this thesis demonstrates
alluaudites as a niche class of compounds forming the
rich treasure house of sodium insertion hosts. The
potential of this open frame-worked alluaudites is
immense and ...
Enabling Lithium Metal Anode for Garnet Electrolyte based Solid State Batteries
Solid-state lithium metal batteries (SSLMB) employing inorganic solid electrolytes (ISE) in conjunction with lithium metal anode and intercalation cathode are considered among the most promising alternatives for Li-ion ...
Structural and Electrochemical Investigation of Fluoro(hydroxy)phosphate Based Cathode Materials for Secondary Batteries
Structural and electrochemical investigation of LiFePO4OH hydroxyphosphate material. The synthesis and structure of this material is explained. The hydrothermally synthesized material crystallizes in triclinic structure ...
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 ...