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A Few Case Studies of Materials Designed for Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction for Ammonia Synthesis and Rechargeable Li-N2 Battery
Ammonia (NH₃) is a cornerstone of the fertilizer industry, with approximately 80% of its global production used to sustain agriculture and feed the global population [1, 2]. Beyond its role in agriculture, NH₃ is a carbon-free ... -
Monolayer MoS2-based heterostructure devices on Silicon and Flexible Substrates
This work presents a comprehensive study of MoS2-based field-effect transistors (FETs), investigating three key aspects: hysteresis effects, asymmetric I-V characteristics, and piezoelectric properties. Through an exploration ... -
Resource allocation patterns and strategies in the mutualism between figs and fig wasps
Mutualism involves exchange of services and rewards between the partners, resulting in a net benefit to all those involved. In many mutualisms, hosts are larger partners that interact with several individuals of smaller ... -
Unravelling Delayed Luminescence Characteristics of Aminoboranes and Borylaniline: Fundamentals and Applications
The advancement of organic delayed luminescence (thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) and room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP)) materials holds significant promise for applications in optoelectronics, bioimaging, ... -
Intra- and inter-cellular drivers of Epithelial-Mesenchymal heterogeneity in cancer cells
Phenotypic heterogeneity is a fundamental feature reported across prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. This heterogeneity enables an isogenic cell population to be composed of distinct subpopulations with varying functional ... -
Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Quantum Materials at High Pressure and Low Temperatures
The photo-induced carrier dynamics using ultrafast spectroscopy provides insights into understanding of electron-electron interactions, electron-phonon interactions, quasiparticle formation, carriers recombination, trapping ... -
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 ... -
Enhancement Techniques for OTFS and Hybrid Reflection Modulation
Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation and hybrid reflection modulation (HRM) are emerging technologies in wireless communications. OTFS provides robustness in high Doppler channels. HRM improves rate and ... -
Synthesis and Characterization of Cobalt-NHC Complexes: Application in Regioselective Hydroboration of Unsaturated Compounds
Boronic acid(esters) have been recognized as an indispensable coupling partner in several cross-coupling reactions, producing a vast spectrum of molecules applicable in diverse fields, from medicinal to materials sciences.[1] ... -
Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Copper Oxide Electrodes Doped with First-Row Transition Metals
The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is critical in electrochemical applications such as fuel cells, metal-air batteries, and industrial processes like chlor-alkali and H2O2 synthesis. Its universality lies in the fact that ... -
Bioengineering strategies to model and modulate immune cells
Optimal activation of immune cells is necessary to elicit a protective response against pathogens and foreign objects. In dysregulated immune systems, cells are aberrantly activated or exhausted. Understanding biochemical ... -
Twist Angle Dependent Phononic and Photoluminescence Properties of Twisted Bilayer Heterostructures
This thesis presents research work on twisted bilayer graphene (t-BLG) and twisted tungsten diselenide (t-WSe2) using various measurement techniques. Since the isolation of graphene in 2004, two-dimensional (2D) materials ... -
A Digital Health framework for Personalized medicine: Development of a new algorithm for identifying concise actionable driver gene panels and application in Cancer and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Precision medicine, enabled by next-generation sequencing (NGS), has shown tremendous potential for use in a clinical setting for disease diagnosis and treatment. The biggest promise is to make treatments more precise and ... -
Energy Loss in Elastic Plastic Low Velocity Impacrt In Presence of Electric Field
Impact phenomena are prevalent in various fields, including the impact between celestial bodies, particle dampers, sports mechanics, and granular media. Impacts between bodies often exhibit inelastic behaviour due to ... -
Robust Fabrication Methods for Solid-state Nanopores
Solid-state nanopores represent a versatile and robust technology for high-precision single-molecule detection, offering distinct advantages over biological nanopores in terms of durability, size control, and integration ... -
Host-Guest Chemistry of Water-Soluble Coordination Cages and their Applications
Host-guest interactions are key to enzyme-substrate recognition, where the enzyme acts as a host, providing a specific cavity for the guest to bind. Inspired by host-guest interactions observed in nature, a significant ... -
Symmetry broken collective electronic phenomena in perovskite titanates
According to Landau’s theory, the organizing principle for understanding phase transitions is rooted in the change in a system’s underlying symmetry, which is quantitatively captured by the order parameter. In strongly ... -
Detection and Dynamics of Electron Bubbles in Liquid Helium-4
Liquid helium surfaces display fascinating phenomena resulting from the interaction be- tween helium atoms and excess electrons. These interactions are characterized by (i) a long-range attraction due to the finite ... -
Development of Scalable UAV Swarm-based Cooperative Search and Mitigation Approaches for Wildfire Management
Climate change has significantly exacerbated wildfire seasons, increasing their frequency, duration, and scale of destruction. Globally, wildfires destroy approximately 400 million hectares of land annually, resulting in ... -
Design and Development of Hybrid Catalyst for Hydrogen Storage: A Demonstrative Concept using Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHCs)
The urgent need to address CO2 emissions resulting from the industrial revolution has placed a strong emphasis on the reduction of greenhouse gases. As a result, hydrogen has gained significant attention as a sustainable ...