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Investigation of cell membrane dynamics: A potential marker for lipid response towards membrane-active proteins and peptides
The cell membrane is made up of lipids and proteins held together with intermolecular hydrophobic/hydrophilic interactions. These physical non-covalent interactions help in maintaining the integrity of the cell membrane, ... -
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 ... -
Control of shock-induced vortex breakdown in Transonic regime on a slender delta wing body configuration using blowing
Modern high speed aircrafts feature highly swept and low aspect ratio wings, mainly to increase the critical Mach number and reduce the wave drag. A special case of swept wings is wings with triangular planform commonly ... -
A Study of the Low-Energy Spectrum and Phase Structure of a Yang-Mills Matrix Model
Yang-Mills theory is a non-Abelian gauge theory based on the gauge group SU(N), and lies at the heart of the QCD, the theory underlying strong interactions. Due to the fundamental property of asymptotic freedom, a study ... -
Modeling, Analysis and Control of Reconfigurable Battery/Grid Tied Solar Photo-Voltaic Inverter
Grid reliability and power outages are key concerns today, due to the ever-increasing energy demand. Traditionally, Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) with battery storage have been employed to contend with grid outages. ... -
Fuel Drop Splashing on Heated Solid Surfaces
Droplet-wall interactions on heated surfaces are significantly encountered in applications such as fuel spray impingement in combustors and spray cooling. The present thesis is focused on the splashing of fuel drops on ... -
Electrochemical Behavior of Metallic Coatings Containing Carbonaceous Additives
Coatings have been traditionally used for protection against corrosion. Therefore, substantial efforts have been focused on engineering the microstructure and morphology of coatings to enhance their corrosion resistance ... -
Mechanical Reliability of Metal-Si Systems at different Length scales under Thermal Cyclic Loading
Metal structures of nanometer to micrometer sizes in different configurations, such as thin films, thick coatings and 3D interconnects, are widely used for conducting electrical signals in several semiconductor-based ... -
Electric Field-Guided Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes in Polymer Matrix Composites for Structural Applications
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been extensively researched for diverse applications in recent years. In the present work, the use of low frequency non-uniform alternating electric fields to manipulate the alignment behavior ... -
Face Recognition in Unconstrained Environment
The goal of computer vision is to provide the ability to machines to understand image data and infer the useful information from it. The inferences highly depend on the quality of the image data. But in many real-world ... -
First Principles Study of Oxides : Bulk, Interfaces and Defects
In the recent years, oxides have been the focus of numerous theoretical and experimental studies. This is because of a wide variety of exotic physical phenomenon, such as multiferroicity, charge ordering, metal-insulator ... -
Engineered Catalytic Metal—Metal-Oxide Nano-heterostructures for CO Oxidation
Owing to its interesting chemistry and toxic nature, catalytic oxidation of CO is of both fundamental and practical interest. Two applications, viz. CO conversion in the catalytic converters and pre-treatment of CO-rich ... -
Power Combining of Raman Fiber Lasers
Fiber lasers have become ubiquitous in industry and research for their numerous attractive properties that other lasers such as solid state lasers lack. However, conventional doped fiber lasers, though providing high power, ... -
Self-organisation of bacteria through swarming
Swarming is a unique example of social behaviour in bacteria. They represent the collective effort of bacteria to translocate on moist substrates. The bacteria extract fluid from the substrate through osmosis and produces ... -
Non-covalent interactions in Crystals and Heterocycles of Sulphur and Selenium
Hydrogen bonding plays a very important role in the fields of both chemistry and biology. Conventionally it is represented as D-H---A, where D is the donor atom, A is the acceptor atom and H is the hydrogen atom. It has ... -
Energy-Efficient Data Fusion Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are finding increasing use in applications such as environmental monitoring, military surveillance, and healthcare due to their low cost and ease of deployment. However, the nodes in a ... -
First-principles based study of graphene inserted tellurene-metal interface
Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted extensive research interest since the journey started with the successful isolation of graphene in 2004. 2D materials have shown remarkable advancement in the ... -
Understanding the role of arginine clusters in β-hairpin antimicrobial peptides
The work described in this thesis describes the role of arginine clusters and the importance of their position in B-hairpin antimicrobial peptides. Here, we have tried to explore the role of guanidinium groups in the ... -
Some phenomenological studies of the Higgs boson(s) in the Standard Model and beyond
The fundamental particles and their interactions are described by the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. Various experiments has been performed over the years and they indicate towards the consistency of the SM with ... -
A Study on Isogeometric Analysis of Laminated Composite Beams
A myriad of physical processes in engineering and other science branches is represented using differential equations with boundary conditions. Finding the exact solution for the differential equation is quite challenging ...