Division of Chemical Sciences: Recent submissions
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Structural and Dynamic Studies of Protein-Nanomaterial Interactions
(2017-11-28)My thesis is divided into five chapters, starting with a general introduction in first chapter and sample preparation and protein-NMR assignment techniques in second chapter. The remaining three chapters focus on three ... -
Materials Chemistry in Search of Energy Materials : Photovoltaics and Photoluminescence
(2017-11-28)One third of world’s total energy is used in production of electricity and one fifth of the total electricity produced in the world is used in lighting. Hence, the materials that have high potential in the field of ... -
Synthesis of Metal and Metal Oxide Nanosponges for Hydrogen Storage and Catalytic Applications
(2017-11-28)Nanoporous metal represents a particular form of a metal, which combines the characteristics of metals, such as good thermal and electrical conductivity, catalytic activity with the materials properties characteristic 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 ... -
Novel NMR Methods for Fast Data Acquisition : Application to Metabolomics
(2017-11-24)Synopsis My research work is focused on: (i) development of novel Fast NMR methods in solution state and their application to metabolomics and small molecules. (ii) NMR based metabolic study of human IVF to assess embryo ... -
A Computational Study of C-H Binding, C-H Activation and Fluxional Processes of d6 Half- Sandwich Complexes
(2017-11-24)Significant developments have been made in the field of C–H activation. However, various disadvantages, mainly low reactivity and selectivity, limit their usage in large-scale synthesis. It is crucial to understand the ... -
Efficient Dislocation Reduction Methods for Integrating Gallium Nitride HEMTs on Si
(2017-11-23)Gallium Nitride (GaN) and its alloys with InN and AlN, the III-nitrides, are of interest for a variety of high power-high frequency electronics and optoelectronics applications. However, unlike Si and GaAs technology that ... -
A Dynamical Approach to Plastic Deformation of Nano-Scale Materials : Nano and Micro-Indentation
(2017-11-22)Recent studies demonstrate that mechanical deformation of small volume systems can be significantly different from those of the bulk. One such interesting length scale dependent property is the increase in the yield stress ... -
Synthesis of Glycosyl Amino Acids, Glyco Amino Acids & α-Amino γ-Lactams from Carbohydrate Derived Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes
(2017-11-22)Synopsis The thesis entitled “Synthesis of Glyco-amino-acids, Glycosyl-amino-acids, and α-Amino γ-Lactams from Carbohydrate Derived Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes” is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1: Introduction ... -
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 ... -
Organic Imine Cages : Self-Sorting and Application
(2017-11-14)Biological systems have the incredible ability to accomplish uncommon chemical transformations with supreme delicacy. Many of those chemical transformations take place within the pocket of enzymes, which provide unique ... -
Biomimetic Studies on Tyrosine- and Phenolate- Based Ligands and their Metal Complexes
(2017-11-14)Tyrosine (4-hydroxyphenylalanine) is one of the naturally occurring 22 amino acids. The importance of tyrosine is due to the presence of its phenolic side chain. In biological systems, the tyrosyl residue in proteins is ... -
Mechanistic Insights Into Small Molecule (Amine-Boranes, Hydrogen, Methane, Formic Acid Carbon dioxide) Activation Using Electrophilic Ru(II)-Complexes
(2017-11-09)Current fossil fuels (Coal and Petroleum) based economy is not sustainable in the long run because of its dwindling resources, and increasing concerns of climate change due to excessive carbon dioxide (CO2) emission. To ... -
Dissimilar Hetero-Interfaces with Group III-A Nitrides : Material And Device Perspectives
(2017-10-31)Group III-A nitrides (GaN, AlN, InN and alloys) are materials of considerable contemporary interest and currently enable a wide variety of optoelectronic and high-power, high-frequency electronic applications. All of these ... -
Exploring Transition Metal Oxides Towards Development of New Functional Materials : Lithium-ion Battery Cathodes, Inorganic Pigments And Frustrated Magnetic Perovskite Oxides
(2017-10-11)Transition metals (TMs) are ‘elements whose atoms have partially filled d-shell, or which can give rise to cations with an incomplete d-shell’. In TMs, the d-shell overlaps with next higher s-shell. Most of the TMs exhibit ... -
An Architectural Exploration in Coordination Driven Self-Assembly & Fluorescent Imidazolium Salts as Picric Acid Receptors
(2017-10-11)Nature has always remained a constant source of inspiration for chemists for synthesizing natural products, mimicking enzymatic reactions or to construct molecular architectures resembling biological assemblies. With the ... -
Synthesis And Self-Assembly Properties of Chiral Diketopyrrolopyrrole Based Copolymers
(2017-10-05)Applications of conjugated polymer (CPs) in optoelectronic devices are critically depend on nature of thin film morphology. In thin film of CPs, the distribution of conjugation length is highly heterogeneous because of ... -
Influence of Ancillary Ligands in the Chemistry of Transition Metal σ-Complexes
(2017-09-27)This thesis work is based on an investigation of intermediates involved in various metal mediated catalytic reactions such as hydrogenation, hydroboration, functionalization of methane etc. An intermediate dictates the ... -
Crystal Engineering : From Molecule To Crystal Structure Landscape
(2017-08-21)Crystal engineering underlies the essence of natural affiliation between the molecule on the one side and the crystal as a supramolecular assembly on the other. Molecular recognition is the fundamental cause for this ... -
Synthesis, Physiochemical And Electrochemical Studies On Iridium, Osmium And Graphene Oxide-Based Nanostructures
(2017-05-25)Nanoscience dominates almost all areas of science and technology in the 21st century. Nanoparticles are of fundamental interest since they possess unique size dependent properties (optical, electrical, mechanical, chemical, ...