The thesis entitled “Exploring Intermolecular Space by Charge Density Analysis in Molecular Crystals” consists of five chapters. A short introductory note highlights the importance of intermolecular interactions and presents ...

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 ...

The present thesis focuses on the selection of polymers and methods to fabricate stable and stimuli responsive multilayer self-assembly via layer-by-layer (LbL) approach. The polymers utilized in this study are biodegradable ...

The interest in conjugated polymers has been two-fold. A rich variety of intriguing physical phenomena, combined with its immense technological implications in the area of molecular electronics, sensors etc. has inspired ...

This thesis is about excitation, detection, properties and applications of multiple quantum coherences applied to different dipolar coupled spin systems. Major focus of the work is on spectral simplification, measurement ...

Metal-insulator transition is one of the most important properties observed in certain materials which has been studied widely using a wide range of experimental techniques as well as theoretical models. This kind of a ...

The studies on cocrystals and salts presented in the the chapters clearly bring out the influence of intermolecular interactions as the main evaluators of the cocrystal-salt regime. The observations made in Chapter 2 ...

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 ...