Electrical double-layer formed at the interface between an electrode and an electrolyte has been a topic of innumerable studies. The electrical interface plays a crucial role in kinetics, mechanisms and applications in ...

In this thesis, I have investigated gas phase infrared spectroscopy of environmentally as well as astrophysical important large organic molecules such as naphthalene, methy-lated naphthalene, fluorine, methyalted fluorine ...

The bite angle of a diphosphine ligand plays an important role in determining the reactivity of a transition metal complex. The coordinated dihydrogen on a transition metal center can be activated toward homolysis or ...

Surfactant bound stable colloids of Au, Ag, and Pd were prepared by the solvated Metal Atom Dispersion (SMAD) method, a method involving co-condensation of metal and solvent vapors on the walls of a reactor at 77 k. The ...

This thesis reports the theoretical investigations aimed at understanding the structure, stability and properties of a few inorganic compounds. The first chapter presents an introductory overview of the theories used to ...

In the thesis work we investigate four problems connected with dynamical processes in condensed medium, using different techniques of equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Biology is rich in dynamical ...

In recent years, coinage metal nanoparticles have emerged as materials with largest quadratic optical nonlinearity. Their first hyperpolarizabilities (β) are very high (105-106 x 10-30 esu) but such large values were quite ...

Supercooled liquids are formed when a liquid is cooled below the melting temperature, avoiding crystallization. The system gets trapped in one of the many metastable states in the free energy surface. In supercooled state, ...

The remarkable modifications in the characteristics of materials on a nanoscale, caused by surface effects, quantum confinement, and dependence on shape, leads to diverse applications of nanomaterials, such as in catalysis, ...