Inorganic and Physical Chemistry (IPC): Recent submissions
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Development and Evaluation of Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation Coatings for Spacecraft Applications
Spacecraft structures are often fabricated out of light weight materials in order to reduce the overall mass, thereby reducing the launch cost and/or increasing the payload capability. Aluminium alloys, especially AA6061, ... -
Design and Development of Proteasome Activity Modulators: A Novel Strategy for the Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus
Design and Development of Proteasome Activity Modulators: A Novel Strategy for the Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus Abstract The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) is the major pathway for degradation of the intracellular ... -
Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework (ZIF-8) Supported Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Applications
Nanoparticles have gained great interest in various fundamental and applied areas of science and technology due to their tunable size dependent properties which is not achievable by their bulk counterparts. Nanoparticles ... -
Sol-gel based organic-inorganic hybrid coatings for corrosion protection of aerospace aluminium alloy
Aluminium metal is known for its high electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity and high reflectivity. Aluminium alloys of 2XXX series, particularly the 2024 alloy with the quaternary Al–Cu–Mg–Mn composition are widely ... -
Protein Adsorption on Gold Nanoparticle and Protein Surfaces Probed by Second Harmonic Light Scattering
Second harmonic light scattering (SHLS) is a highly sensitive technique to probe reactions at interfaces/surfaces because of symmetry breaking at the interface/surface produces a large surface polarization which gives ... -
Mechanistic Studies of Transfer Hydrogenation Catalyzed by Ru(ll)-Half-Sandwich and Group 6 NHC complexes
The thesis explores the mechanistic aspects of transfer hydrogenation of ketones and hydrosilylation of imines; two commonly used organic transformations catalyzed by ruthenium half-sandwich complexes of 2-oxazolidinethiones, ... -
Analytical models of selected stochastic processes in condensed phase systems
This thesis is a record of the research I have carried out over the last five years to understand a selection of problems in the broad area of single-molecule physics. These problems cover four broad themes: (i) dynamically ... -
Chemistry of carbonized metallic nanomaterials
Magnetic nanomaterials have received significant attention because of their remarkable properties enabling applications in various fields such as catalysis, as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging, in sensing ... -
Design and Application of Self-Assembled Coordination Cages for Catalysis and as Drug Carrier
In summary the present thesis accounts for the design and synthesis of various coordination cages formed through the self-assembly reaction of the newly designed pyridine and pyrimidine based ligands with various 90° ... -
Aqueous and Non- aqueous dispersions of MoS2 Nanosheets
The focus of this thesis is an attempt to provide a molecular perspective of the interactions of solvent and ligand molecules with sonication assisted exfoliated MoS2 nanosheets in aqueous and non-aqueous dispersions. In ... -
The Structural Chemistry of Boron, Borospherenes and Borophenes: A Computational Study
Structural complexity is one of the characteristics of boron chemistry. The 3D solids formed from icosahedral B12 units is thought of as most favorable arrangement for boron allotropes. However, recent discoveries in this ... -
Blue and Red Shifting H-Bonding in X−H···Y(X=C, O: Y = O, N, S) Complexes: A Gas Phase FTIR and ab initio Study
Regular H-bonding is essential for sustenance of many chemical and biochemical processes and has been investigated thoroughly since its discovery in the 1920’s. However, experimental finding of blue shifting of X-H stretching ... -
Design and Synthesis of Cyclic Diselenides and Selenenyl Sulfides for Biomimetic Applications
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) plays important roles in cell signaling and redox reactions. However, elevated levels of H2O2 and organic peroxides induce oxidative stress, resulting in damage to biomolecules such as DNA, ... -
Platinum(II)-BODIPY Conjugates for Organelle Targeted Photodynamic Therapy in Red Light
The serendipitous discovery of Cisplatin (CP, Peyrone's chloride) as an anticancer agent in 1965 by Barnett Rosenberg led to the evolution of other platinum-based anticancer drugs, namely, Carboplatin in 1989 and Oxaliplatin ... -
Cobalt-nhc Complexes and Diazabutadienes in Activation of Mono/Diboron Compounds and Their Application in C-b Coupling Reactions
Boronic acid(esters) have been well recognized as an indispensable coupling partner in the Suzuki-Miyaura cross coupling reactions producing a vast spectrum of molecules, applicable in the diverse field ranging from medicinal ... -
Structural and Solvent Effects on Excited State Dynamics of Rhenium(I) Tricarbonyl α-Diimine Complexes: A Time-Resolved Spectroscopic and Computational Study
The nature of the lowest excited state in rhenium(I) complex with 1,10-phenathroline as ligand was first reported by Mark Wrighton and David. L. Morse. Since then many rhenium(I) complexes with different ligands having ... -
Ethylene Glycol in the Liquid State: Structure, Conformation and Dynamics - A Study Using Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Ethylene glycol (EG) is an important organic molecule with unique properties and a wide range of applications. The EG molecule shares a structural motif with many biomolecules and serves as a part of the training set for ... -
Non-covalent interactions in Crystals and Heterocycles of Sulphur and Selenium
Hydrogen bonding plays a very important role in the fields of both chemistry and biology. Conventionally it is represented as D-H---A, where D is the donor atom, A is the acceptor atom and H is the hydrogen atom. It has ... -
Design, Synthesis and Optical Characterization of 1,8-Naphthalimide based D-pi-A System
Design, Synthesis and Optical Characterization of 1,8-Naphthalimide based D-pi-A System Luminescent materials find a lot of application in the field of OLEDs and bio-medical applications [1-2]. Our group has recently ... -
Computational Study of General Relationships in Chemistry: C−C, C−N, and B−B Coupling, B−B Catenation, and 2D Metal Borides
Elements in the periodic table are categorized into four major blocks, main group (MG) elements, transition metals (TM), lanthanides (Ln), and actinides (An), which differ dramatically. Recent studies revealed some interesting ...