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  • Supramolecular and covalent strategies to control pore size, philicity and surface charge of mesoporous silica 
    Kumar, B V V S Pavan (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2014)
    Space ? the final frontier , the preface to a well-known television series not only captures the challenges encountered in space travel adventures, but also in the field of porous materials, whose mandates are to control ...
  • Dielectric and interface engineering strategies for polymer field effect transistors 
    Senanayak, Satyaprasad P (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2014)
    Conventional microelectronics has been the driving force for modern electronic devices, sensors, displays and energy sources. Semiconductors such as inorganic silicon and gallium arsenide, insulators like silicon dioxide, ...
  • Effect of surface nitridation on the growth of GaN films on c-sapphire, Si(111) and Si(100) surfaces 
    Shetty, Satish (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2014)
    Group III-nitrides are the most promising wide bandgap semiconducting materials for high efficiency optoelectronic device applications1,2 that operate very well without aging effects, even with very high dislocation ...
  • Optoelectronic polymer devices for biomimicking visual response and developing neuronal interfaces for artificial retina applications 
    Gautam, Vini (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2014)
    The integration of biological systeM.S. at cellular and systeM.S. level with soft materials having electronic and sensory capabilities opens up interesting possibilities. Synthetic polymers have been extensively used for ...
  • Application of Raman spectroscopy in probing biomolecular interactions 
    Siddhanta, Soumik (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2014)
    Historically, light scattering by small particles and related discussions can be traced back to the era of Leonardo da Vinci. He correctly predicted that the blue color of the sky was due to light scattered o macroparticles ...
  • Investigations of nitrides, oxynitrides, borocarbonotrides and other materials 
    Kumar, Nitesh (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2014)
    Nitrogen is the most abundant element in the earths atmosphere constituting 78.09 % by volume. It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless and inert diatomic gas at standard conditions. Despite its abundance only few hundred ...
  • Investigations of metal nanoparticles, nanocarbons including graphene, and artificial photosynthesis 
    Maitra, Urmimala (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2014)
    Interparticle dipolar coupling leads to a shift in plasmon absorption maxima as particles are brought from infinite distance to the proximity of each other. The distance between the particles can thus be related to the ...
  • Artificial photosynthesis and generation of hydrogen by splitting water 
    Gupta, Uttam (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2014)
    Energy and environmental issues have become the biggest technological challenges of today. The global energy demands have been stipulated to rise from current level of 12 TW per day to 27 TW by 2050. The current sources ...
  • Raman scattering and synchrotron x-ray diffraction studies on rare-earth based functional oxides 
    Bhadram, Venkata Srinu (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2014)
    When light interacts with a medium, it is either transmitted or absorbed following the laws of reflection and refraction, but a tiny fraction is scattered by inhomogeneties in the medium. These inhomogeneties can be ...
  • Investigation of unusual oxidation state and spin state transition in rare earth transition metal oxides 
    Sen, Abhijit (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2014)
    Transition metal oxides construct one of the most interesting classes of inorganic solid materials via manifestation of wide range of structures, properties and their interesting applications. The intriguing properties ...
  • First-principles studies of surfaces of a metallic oxide : ReO3 
    Suchitra (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2014)
    Transition metal oxides exhibit a wide range of behavior ranging from metallic conductivity, insulating, superconducting, ferroelectricity, colossal magnetoresistance, etc. They have applications ranging from catalysis, ...
  • Exploring the connections between yielding and microscopic irreversibility in athermal amorphous rafts 
    Kandula, Neelima (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2014)
    This thesis consists of three chapters. First chapter gives an introduction to structural glasses and sheared glasses. We have also motivated our work with experimental and numerical studied on amorphous systeM.S.. Chapter ...
  • Electrical characterization and potential applications of graphene-like nanocarbon and Au nanoparticle- PDMS nanocomposite 
    Dutta, Dipanwita (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2014)
    The prefix nano came from the Greek word ???o? or the Latin word nannus, both meaning dwarf. At the 11th Conference Gnrale des Poids et Measures (CGPM) in 1960 it was adopted as an official SI prefix, meaning 10-9 of an ...
  • Synthesis and modification of gold nanorods for biomedical applications 
    Sonu, K.P. (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2014)
    Research on nanomaterials has recently drawn attention of world scientific community due its highly interdisciplinary nature.1,2 The demand for the design of new nanomaterials and their self-assembled structures is ever ...
  • Studies of electric field assisted solvent drying for efficient bulk heterojunction solar cells 
    Raaghesh, A.V. (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2014)
    Semiconducting properties have been discovered in certain classes of organic materials, with charge transport properties different than those in conventional inorganic materials like silicon. These classes of organic ...
  • Experimental and quantum calculation of molecular systems of biological and chemical importance by Raman, infrared and SERS 
    Kundu, Partha P. (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2014)
    Study of interaction of light with matter is a subject of molecular spectroscopy. Theories developed by Maxwell, Young and other scientists in the nineteenth century established that light could be thought as an ...
  • Versatile applications of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and derived materials 
    Kolleboyina, Jayaramulu (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2013)
    Porous materials are the solids of great technological importance, due to their ability to interact with gases and liquids, not only at the surface, but throughout their bulk.1 Indeed, a porous materials mania is sweeping ...
  • Nanomaterials and nanodevices of relevance to water, energy and healthcare 
    Gupta, Ritu (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2013)
    If one were to close eyes and imagine the smallest possible object on earth, nano will surely be three orders lower in size! Nanoscience refers to objects of very small length scale beyond visual inspection. Nano in Greek ...
  • Investigations of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in bulk and nanoscale 
    Sikdar, Nivedita (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2013)
    Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are novel class of crystalline hybrid materials (1?3) existing as infinite array of metal ions or clusters (Fig. 1) and organic struts, connected by coordination bonds.(4) These are mostly ...
  • Chemical investigations of graphene 
    Gopalakrishnan, K. (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2012)
    Carbon is one of the most interesting elements in the periodic table and it plays a unique role in nature. Carbon has the ability to form very long chains of interconnecting C-C bonds which is known as catenation. Due ...

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