Until mid of 1990s there were two kind of porous materials, namely inorganic materials and carbon based materials. In case of microporous inorganic solids, the largest two subclasses of porous inorganic solids are ...

It is well-known that cells can adapt and grow in different biochemical conditions. The study of cell-substrate interaction is an important research area which has implications both in basic cell and molecular biology ...

The dawn of nanoscience and nanotechnology is considered to be the lecture There's plenty of room at the bottom delivered by a visionary physicist, Richard Feynmann in 1959 [1]. Drexler elaborated this idea in his technical ...

Low-dimensional materials have attracted a huge attention of chemists and physicists in recent years.[1, 2] The appearance of anomalous novel properties in these materials has made them very interesting to investigate. ...

Molecular magnetism deals with the magnetic properties of materials consisting discrete molecules or assemblies of molecules. Generally, the molecular magnets consist of solid lattice made of molecular building blocks1 ...

The year 2011 has witnessed the completion of 100 years of discovery of superconductivity. It was discovered in the year 1911 by H. K. Onnes in mercury while measuring its resistivity at low temperatures. He observed a ...

The thesis consists of seven chapters of which the first chapter provides a brief overview of graphene. Chapter 2 deals with the synthesis and characterization of graphene. When graphene research was initiated in our ...

Semiconductors have revolutionised many aspects of life over the past 50 years. Techniques which have led to low cost, high density processing of silicon have resulted in silicon integrated circuits becoming ubiquitous ...

The prefix nano in ‘nanoscience’ means a billionth (1 × 10-9 ). It deals with various aspects of matter, having dimensions of the order of a billionth of a meter (1 nm). At the nanoscale, the fundamental properties of ...

Hybrid materials derived from organic and inorganic components are receiving enormous attention owing to their applications in the fields of biology, energy, catalysis, reinforcements, etc. 1 These materials are broadly ...