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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 ... -
Mechanistic Understanding of Organic Solar Cells: A Detailed Investigation on Role of Förster Resonance Energy Transfer, Dielectric Constant and Exciton Dynamics
Organic solar cells (OSC) have been emerging as promising energy harvesting technology because of their low-cost fabrication, semitransparency, solution processability and ability to be produced in large scale using ... -
Metal Ion Mediated Riboswitch Folding and Cognate Ligand Sensing
Riboswitches are noncoding RNA molecules that can control gene expression upon cognate ligand binding. Riboswitches are primarily present in bacteria and are crucial for bacteria's survival, which makes riboswitches ... -
Metal Sulphide Based Semiconductors for Solar Photon Energy Harvesting
Sun light is a relatively infinite source of energy available on the earth compared to all other renewable and non-renewable energy sources put together. Harvesting solar photons in an effective and efficient manner can ... -
Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) Compounds : Synthesis, Structure, Sensing and Catalytic Studies
(2018-06-29)The metal-organic framework (MOF) compounds have witnessed rapid growth in the past decade and currently emerged as a highly unique area in the field of chemistry, materials science, and multiple branches of engineering. ... -
Methodological Developments in NMR for Chiral Analysis using Selective Excitation
The NMR spectroscopy as usually practiced in isotropic achiral solvents is unable to differentiate enantiomers, unless the intermolecular diastereomeric interactions are imposed with an enantiomerically pure reagent. Chiral ... -
Microscopic Investigations of Dynamics of Linear Diatomics and Ions in Water and Aqueous Binary Mixtures
This thesis explores the structural and dynamical aspects of small, charged and neutral, solute molecules in both pure water and in aqueous binary mixtures, with emphasis on water-ethanol binary mixture. We employ both ... -
Minerals to Functional Materials: Comprehensive Evaluation of Vanthoffites and Related Materials towards Futuristic Multifunctional Applications
The thesis provides a systematic investigation of materials derived from different mineral species such as vanthoffite and related minerals structures. Search of new multifunctional materials continues to be a challenge ... -
Modeling Electronic Properties Of Strongly Correlated Conjugated Molecular Systems
(2015-08-17)Organic conjugated systems are attractive because of wide range of applications, which includes stimulated emission from -conjugated polymers, optical switches, organic solar cells and organic light emitting diodes, to ... -
Modeling Magnetic Anisotropy in Single Chain Magnets
This thesis embodies work on modeling magnetic anisotropy in molecular magnets. Understanding the factors that govern the magnitude of anisotropy in these materials is crucial for tailoring molecules that can be used in ... -
Molecular Dynamics Studies of Diffusion in Confined Regions
Diffusion of guest molecules under confinement of zeolites shows many interesting properties due to guest-host interactions. This thesis explores some of these interesting behaviours relating to the diffusion of guest ... -
Molecular Simulations Of Temperature Induced Disorder And Pressure Induced Ordering In Organic Molecular Crystals
(2007-09-05)Crystallographically solids with well defined crystal structures are normally assumed to be highly ordered. However, it is not uncommon to find considerable degree of disorder amongst many of these crystalline substances. ... -
New Anions In The Assembly Of The Open-Framework Compounds : Synthesis, Structure And Properties
(2013-02-18)Open-framework inorganic materials constitute an important area of study in materials chemistry, because of their potential applications in areas such as sorption and catalysis. After the discovery of nanoporous aluminium ... -
New NMR Methods with high resolution and sensitivity for rapid data analysis
work is focused on: (i) Development of new fast and sensitivity enhanced NMR methods in solution state and their application to metabolomics and (ii) development of novel NMR methods in solution state for the rapid resonance ... -
NMR based Studies and Applications of Molecular Interactions : From Small Moleculecules to Bio-nanoconjugates
(2018-06-13)The work described in this thesis involves the study of weak interactions by NMR spectroscopy and using them to develop novel applications. The two different applications chosen are i) using molecular interactions for ... -
Noble Metal And Base Metal Ion Substituted Ceo2 And Tio2 : Efficient Catalysts For Nox Abatement
(2009-08-07)In recent times, as regulations and legislations for exhaust treatment have become more stringent, a major concern in the arena of environmental catalysis is to find new efficient and economical exhaust treatment catalysts. ... -
Novel and Fundamental Studies of Separation Methods Leading to Very High Degree of Separation of Molecular Mixtures and Related Studies
Separation of molecular mixtures will often require in chemistry, biology, physics and material science. Existing methods of separation can at best yield a separation factor of 10^4 . They also incur huge expenditure of ... -
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 ...