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Growth Kinetics And Electronic Properties Of Semiconducting Nanocrystals In The Quantum Confined Regime
(2009-03-04)
Properties of nanocrystals are extremely sensitive to their sizes when their sizes are smaller or of the order of the excitonic diameter due to the quantum confinement effect. The interest in this field has been concentrated ...
Organically-Templated Open-Framework And Hybrid Materials
(2008-01-25)
Open-framework inorganic and inorganic-organic hybrid materials constitute an important area of study in materials chemistry, because of their potential applications in areas such as sorption and catalysis. Besides ...
Layered Oxides And Phosphates Of Bismuth: New Structural Types And Related Properties
(Indian Institute of Science, 2007-05-22)
The thesis entitled "Layered Oxides and Phosphates of Bismuth: New Structural Types and Related Properties" consists of three parts and six chapters. It begins with an introductory note providing a brief overview of the ...
Investigations Of Open-Framework Metal Phosphates, Phosphites And Phosphite-Oxalate Materials
(2009-05-19)
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Investigation Of Electronic And Magnetic Structure Of Transition Metal Oxides With Emphasis On Magnetoresistive Systems
(2009-09-10)
Electronic structure of transition metal oxides has been a subject of intense research since decades due to the wide spectrum of properties that they exhibit, like high temperature superconductivity, metal-insulator ...
Theoretical And Computer Simulation Studies Of Vibrational Phase Relaxation In Molecular Liquids
(2009-05-18)
In this thesis, theoretical and computer simulation studies of vibrational phase relaxation in various molecular liquids are presented. That includes liquid nitrogen, both along the coexistence line and the critical isochore, ...
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. ...
Synthesis And Investigation Of Transition Metal Oxides Towards Realization Of Novel Materials Properties
(Indian Institute of Science, 2007-03-23)
Transition metal compounds, especially the oxides, containing dn (0 ≤ n ≤ 10) electronic configuration, constitute the backbone of solid state/materials chemistry aimed at realization of novel materials properties of ...