Browsing Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU) by Title
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Structure-Function Control in Organic Co-Crystals/Salts Via Studies on Polymorphism, Phase Transitions and Stoichiometric Variants
(2018-06-19)The thesis entitled “Structure-function control in organic co-crystals/salts via studies on polymorphism, phase transitions and stoichiometric variants” consists of five chapters. The main emphasis of the thesis is on ... -
Studies On Advanced Lead-Acid Batteries
(2011-09-30)Subsequent to the studies on precursor lead-acid systems by Daniel, Grove and Sindesten, practical lead-acid batteries began with the research and inventions of Raymond Gaston Planté in France as early as in 1859, and, ... -
Studies on Alkaline Iron Electrodes for Nickel-Iron Accumulators
A battery is a companion whose interests are world-wide and whose society has never-ending interests. Batteries have applications in cars to space and there is ever growing addiction to batteries. A battery consists of two ... -
Studies on Correlation between Microstructures and Electronic Properties of Organic Semiconductors
(2018-07-05)The work carried out in this thesis systematically investigates the correlation between microstructures and electronic properties of organic semiconductors. The major directions that were pursued in this thesis are: (i) ... -
Studies On Direct Methanol And Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells
(2009-03-09)A fuel cell is an electrochemical power source with advantages of both the combustion engine and the battery. Like a combustion engine, a fuel cell will run as long as it is provided fuel; and like a battery, fuel cells ... -
Studies On Electrode Materials For Lithium-Ion Batteries
(2007-11-16)In the early 1970s, research carried out on rechargeable lithium batteries at the Exxon Laboratories in the US established that lithium ions can be intercalated electrochemically into certain layered transition-metal ... -
Studies on Frustrated Spin Chains and Quasi-One-Dimensional Conjugated Carbon Systems
(2018-01-28)In this thesis, we investigate the entanglement and magnetic properties of frustrated spin systems and correlated electronic properties of conjugated carbon systems. In chapter 1, we present different approaches to solve ... -
Studies on Nanostructured Transition Metal Oxides and Related Composites for Supercapacitor Electrodes
Supercapacitors have acquired considerable scientific and technological position in energy storage field owing to their compelling power capability, good energy density, excellent cycling stability and ideal safety. ... -
Studies On Nanostructured Transition Metal Oxides For Lithium-ion Batteries And Supercapacitoris
(2011-01-21)Rechargeable Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors are the most promising electrochemical energy storage devices in terms of energy density and power density, respectively. Recently, nanostructured materials have gained ... -
Studies On Polymer Hydrogel Electrolytes For Application In Electrochemical Capacitors And Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells
(2010-07-26)In recent years, electrochemical capacitors have emerged as devices with the potential to enable major advances in electrical energy storage. Electrochemical capacitors (ECs) are akin to conventional capacitors but employ ... -
Studies on Quinoidal Diketopyrrolopyrrole Derivatives and their Applications
Quinoidal π-conjugated molecules have endowed significant attention over the years especially due to inherent high electron affinity and amphiprotic redox behavior, establishing their application as versatile active material ... -
Studies on Soluble Lead Redox Flow Battery
Redox flow batteries (RFBs) offer an opportunity to make renewable energy storage more affordable and could accelerate prospects for utility-scale development of solar/wind energy storage. RFBs can be almost instantly ... -
Studies on switching of J and H aggregates in Donor-Acceptor molecular materials
The aggregation of molecular materials plays a central role in determining their functional properties. In the aggregated state, conjugated chromophores may exhibit enhanced emission, in comparison to their dilute ... -
Studies on the synthesis and applications of I-III-VI2 semiconductor nanocrystals
Nanomaterials have been a topic of extensive research for the past several decades. This is because their properties act as a bridge between their bulk and atomic counterparts. Broadly, nanoparticles can be characterized ... -
Study of Charge Separation in Quantum Dots and Their Assemblies
(2018-06-15)This thesis reports a passive method for Fermi level regulation in quantum dot assemblies through ground state transfer between QDs. Here, ZnTe/CdS, and PbSe/CdSe core/shell QDs were used as valence band electron donors, ... -
A Study of Dissipative Phenomena in Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Quantum dots (QDs) are semiconductor nanoparticles, where carriers are confined in regions smaller than a few tens of nanometers. The physics governing the behavior of these nano structures are fundamentally different from ... -
Study of Diverse Chemical Problems by NMR and the Design of Novel Two Dimensional Techniques
(2018-05-18)The research work reported in this thesis is focused on the chiral analysis, quantification of enantiomeric composition, assignment of absolute configuration of molecules with chosen functional groups. The weak intra-molecular ... -
Study of Enantiomeric Discrimination and Enzyme Kinetics using NMR Spectroscopy
(2018-04-06)Obtaining enantio pure drug molecules is a long standing challenge in asymmetric synthesis implying that the identification of enantiomers and the determination of enantiomeric purity from a racemic mixture are of profound ... -
A Study of Photophysics and Photochemistry of I-III-VI2 Nanocrystals
This thesis, entitled “A Study of Photophysics and Photochemistry of I-III-VI2 Nanocrystals” primarily deals with the properties of I-III-VI2 semiconductor nanocrystals composed of earth abundant, environmentally benign ...