Division of Chemical Sciences: Recent submissions
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Vibrational Microspectroscopic Studies of Biomedical Conditions Using Model Systems
(2018-05-08)Over the last century, despite enormous advancements in biomedical research and the development of sophisticated analytical instruments many diseases continue to be a burden on humankind particularly on the aged. This is ... -
Design, Development and Applications R & D on Substrate-Integrated Lead-Carbon Hybrid Ultracapacitors
(2018-05-08)Electrochemical capacitors or supercapacitors or ultracapacitors are potential energy storage devices that could help bringing major advances in future energy storage applications. Unlike batteries that store energy in ... -
Syntheses and Structure Elucidations of Ternary Metal (Cu/Co)Complexes with Nucleic Acid Constituents
(2018-05-07)The thesis is divided into four chapters Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction to the metal-nucleic acid interactions, the role of synthetic models to understand them with both solution (potentiometric) and solid state ... -
Internal Structure and Self-Assembly of Low Dimensional Materials
(2018-05-01)The properties of bulk 3D materials of metals or semiconductors are manifested with various length scales(e.g., Bohr excitonic radius, magnetic correlation length, mean free path etc.) and are important in controlling their ... -
Microwave Spectroscopic and Atoms in Molecules Theoretical Investigations on Weakly Bound Complexes : From Hydrogen Bond to 'Carbon Bond'
(2018-05-01)Weak intermolecular interactions have very strong impact on the structures and properties of life giving molecules like H2O, DNA, RNA etc. These interactions are responsible for many biological phenomena. The directional ... -
Functionalized Nanostructures : Iron Oxide Nanocrystals and Exfoliated Inorganic Nanosheets
(2018-05-01)This thesis consists of two parts. The first part deals with the magnetic properties of Fe3O4 nanocrystals and their possible application in water remediation. The second part is on the delamination of layered materials ... -
Anodized Zirconia Nanostructures
(2018-05-01)Electrochemical anodization is a facile technique to synthesize ordered oxide nanostructures. Though the number of materials exhibiting anodized nanostructures has increased considerably in the recent years, only nanoporous ... -
Vapour Phase Transport Growth of One-Dimensional Zno Nanostructures and their Applications
(2018-05-01)One-dimensional (1D) nanostructures have gained tremendous attention over the last decade due to their wide range of potential applications. Particularly, ZnO 1D nanostructures have been investigated with great interest ... -
Novel Synthetic Strategies towards Acetylenic Biscarbamates/Biscarbonates and Organochalcogen Derivatives
(2018-05-01)Bisacetylenic cabamates/carbonates are most useful compounds in finger mark development, for the synthesis of polymeric gels and other material applications. Organochalogen derivatives are the organic compounds containing ... -
Building Upon Supramolecular Synthons : Some Aspects of Crystal Engineering
(2018-04-24)Crystal engineering offers a rational way of analyzing crystal structures and designing new structures with properties. The supramolecular synthon concept was introduced in 1995 and has shown versatility and utility in the ... -
Hyperbranched Polyacetals and Polydithioacetals
(2018-04-23)Dendrimers are a class of perfectly branched symmetric monodisperse macromolecules, which are synthesized using a stepwise procedure. Due to their highly symmetric structure, they possess a definite core, discrete generations ... -
Development of CMOS-Compatible, Microwave-Assisted Solution Processing of Nanostructured Zine Ferrite Films for Gigahertz Circuits
(2018-04-16)The development of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), especially the dream of integrating analog, digital and radio frequency (RF) components on the same chip that is commonly known as System-on-a-Chip (SoC), is ... -
Dynamics of Water under Confinement and Studies of Structural Transformation in Complex Systems
(2018-04-16)The thesis involves computer simulation and theoretical studies of dynamics of water under confinement and structural transformation in different complex systems. Based on the systems and phenomena of interest, the work ... -
Path Integral Approach to Levy Flights and Hindered Rotations
(2018-04-12)Path integral approaches have been widely used for long in both quantum mechanics as well as statistical mechanics. In addition to being a tool for obtaining the probability distributions of interest(wave functions in the ... -
Targeted Delivery of Cytotoxic Metal Complexes into Cancer Cells with and without Macromolecular Vehicles
(2018-04-12)Anticancer active metal complexes such as cisplatin are routinely used for treating various cancers since 1978. However, the side effects of cisplatin overwhelm its therapeutic potential, especially in the latter stages ... -
Organic Transformations in Water : Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies towards Green Methodologies
(2018-04-12)This thesis entitled “Organic Transformations in Water: Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies towards Green Methodologies” is in two parts. Part-I describes various synthetic studies aimed at developing improved methodologies; ... -
Rational Design of Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Conjugated Polymers for Ambipolar Charge Transport
(2018-04-12)The present thesis is focused on the rational design of Diketopyrrolopyrrole based π- conjugated polymers for organic electronics. The thesis is organized into six different chapters and a brief description of the individual ... -
Phase Behaviour in Crystalline Solids : Exploring the Structure Guiding Factors Via Polymorphism, Phase Transitions and Charge Density Studies
(2018-04-11)The thesis entitled "Phase Behaviour in Crystalline Solids: Exploring the Structure Guiding Factors via Polymorphism, Phase Transitions and Charge Density Studies" consists of five chapters divided into two parts. A basic ... -
Chemistry of Ru(II) Complexes Bearing Sigma Bonded H-X (X = H, Si, C) Species/Fragments
(2018-04-11)Introduction The chemistry of transitional metal complexes bearing σ-bonded H−X (X = H, Si, C) species/fragments, the so called σ-complexes, are key intermediates in catalytic processes such as hydrogenation, hydrosilylation, ... -
Studies on Near-IR Light Photocytotoxic Oxovanadium Complexes
(2018-04-11)The present thesis deals with different aspects of the chemistry of oxovanadium(IV) complexes, their interaction with double stranded DNA, photo-induced DNA cleavage, photo-enhanced cytotoxicity in visible light and red ...