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Diffusion Of Hydrocarbons In Zeolites And Ions In Water
(2013-02-13)Diffusion is a fundamental process which occurs in a wide variety of phases. It plays an important role in chemistry, physics, biology, materials science etc. In recent times, diffusion in confined systems has been widely ... -
Disorder, Polymorphism And Co-Crystal Formation In Molecular Crystals : An In-Depth Study In Terms Of Weak Intra- And Intermolecular Interactions
(2011-09-21)Three distinct aspects, disorder, polymorphism and co-crystal formation have been addressed in molecular crystals in terms of intra- and intermolecular interactions involving halogens, weak hydrogen bonds and van der Waals ... -
Dissipative Mechanisms in Organic Light-emitting Diodes: Role of Intramolecular Charge Transfer and Delayed Fluorescence
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are emerging to replace conventional lighting technology due to their flexible device structures, multicolour emission, and ease of fabrication. However, one of the key challenges in ... -
Diversity and Structure-Property Correlation in Disordered Multicomponent Organic Crystal Forms
The search for new multifunctional materials continues unabated, and with the realization that in solids, the material property can be tailored using the variability provided by molecular and submolecular forces. Harnessing ... -
Doping And photophysical Properties Of II-VI Semiconductor Nanocrystals
(2010-06-03)Semiconductor nanocrystals with sizes comparable to the corresponding bulk excitonic diameter exhibit unique size-dependent electronic and optical properties resulting from quantum confinement effect. Such nanocrystals not ... -
Dynamics in complex systems: liquid crystals, biological water, supercooled water and enzymes
The origin of the glassy orientational dynamics, both single particle and collective, of nematogens near the isotropic-nematic transition has been addressed in several publications in recent years [5-7, 12]. In these ... -
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 ... -
The Effect of Gamma Radiation on Protein Structure and Dynamics
Gamma radiation being the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation has applications in number of different fields such as in medicine for treating cancer, food sterilization and in astronomy for studying phenomenon ... -
Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Investigations of Some Redox Active Biomolecules
The thesis attempts to ask a few questions related to heme electrochemistry and provide possible answers to these in terms of experimental results obtained and reported in the current literature. It is expected that the ... -
Electrochemical Detection Of Proteins : Myoglobin As A Case Study
(2015-09-08)An effective electrochemical sensor for myoglobin (Myb) detection was developed using a simple procedure of denaturing the protein with guanidine hydrochloride and detecting the released heme group by cyclic voltammetry. ... -
Electrode Design and Interface Engineering for Boosting Electrochemical Performance of Aqueous Zinc-based Batteries
Aqueous zinc-based batteries (AZBs) have emerged as promising next-generation energy storage systems due to the abundance of zinc, which expectedly should lower the battery cost. Additionally, Zn-based batteries will be ... -
Electron spectroscopic investigations of nitrogen adsorbed on transition metal surfaces and of oxide superconductors.
1.4 Conclusions The core and valence level binding energies and vibrational stretching frequencies of nitrogen adsorbed on clean as well as modified transition?metal surfaces are summarized in Tables I.1–I.3. From Table ... -
Electron spectroscopic studies of the adsorption and reactivity of oxygen on transition metal surfaces covered with alkali and alkaline earth metals
Characteristic Cl(2p) and O(1s) peaks are seen by XPS attributable to distinct adsorbed chlorine and oxygen species on potassium and barium dosed Ag surfaces: a) There is selective stabilization of molecular dioxygen species ... -
Electronic and Magnetic Structures of Some Selected Strongly Correlated Systems
(2018-01-04)Transition metal oxides and chalcogenides are an ideal platform for demonstrating and investigating many interesting electronic phases of matter. These phases emerge as a result of collective many body interactions among ... -
Electronic structure and Photophysical study of semiconducting nanocrystallites
Sizable photocurrent was observed from the CdS-4.5 and CdS-2.2 nanocrystalline films, although the EL efficiency was weak. The I-V characteristic of CdS-4.5 and CdS-2.2 has a typical diode behavior with the onset voltage ... -
Electronic, Magnetic and Local structure of Some Selected Strongly Correlated Systems
According to independent electron band structure theories, transition metal oxides (TMOs) with partially filled 3d valence band are predicted to be metallic in nature. Though in reality, most of them are insulators. Mott ... -
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 ... -
Engineering Dielectric Properties of Nanomaterials
Metallic nanostructures can exhibit plasmonic modes due to coherent oscillations of the free electrons under electromagnetic excitations. Therefore, they find diverse applications in optical sensing, photonics, and ...