The aim of our research work presented in this thesis is on the studies of edge effects
on electronic band structure of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). Theoretical studies on
GNRs predict that band gaps depend upon its width ...
Using current techniques, GNR layers suffer from edge roughness during fabrication.
In addition, MLGNRs turn into graphite as number of GNR layers increase that further
degrades the performance of MLGNRs. This thesis ...
In recent decades, InfraRed Thermography (IRT) for Thermal Non-Destructive Testing &
Evaluation (TNDT&E) has encountered wide spread applications for the characterization
of various solid materials due to its non-contact, ...
Betweenness Centrality measures, erstwhile popular amongst the sociologists and psychologists,
have seen wide and increasing applications across several disciplines of the late. It
is a measure that quantifies the ...
The alcohols, amines and nitro compounds, both aromatic and aliphatic are ubiquitous in
various pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, natural products and dyes. They play a very
significant role in constructing different drug ...
Miscible displacement flows in porous media are of significant importance in many
industrial, environmental, and engineering applications, such as enhanced oil recovery,
chromatography separation, CO2 sequestration, ...
Cancer is the second most leading cause of deaths in the world after heart disease.
Treatment strategy for cancer varies as per the type and origin of the disease. Widely used
standard cancer treatment modalities are ...
Heterocyclic rings like benzimidazole/benzothiazole act as a pharmacore in the structure
of many clinically useful chemotherapeutic agents and is critical precursor for generating
new derivatives with a wide spectrum of ...
The present thesis mainly concentrates on the problems of determining the structure of the
unit groups and unitary subgroups of finite modular group algebras. We obtain the structure
of the unit group and the unitary ...
Collagen is the most abundant proteins in soft and hard tissues of the mammals,
and collagen of several types form different hierarchy levels of these tissues by assembling
at various length scales. Due to lack of ...
The development of chemosensors for the identification and quantification of important
physiological and environmental analytes are of considerable importance. The search is
focused for the high sensitivity, selectivity ...
Chapter 1: Introduction
Heterocyclic or carbocyclic rings are common scaffolds found in the natural products and
bioactive molecules. Due to the importance of these bioactive molecules, organic chemists
are involved in ...
Transport in porous media has remarkably influenced the propagation of fluids in a variety of
chemical as well as physical systems. This thesis is primarily concerned with the mathematical
modelling of the flow of miscible ...
Majority of the present solar thermal systems are constructed using surface
absorption-based absorbers, wherein solar energy is first absorbed by a selectively coated
solid surface and then transferred to a working fluid ...
Development of synthetic receptors is an important and active research field of
chemistry. The construction of artificial chemosensors for
cations/anions/biomolecules is of considerable importance due to the diverse
a ...
Sustainability in manufacturing can be realized by developing a machining system,
that reduces consumption of resources for converting raw materials into useful product.
Moreover, it must produce waste that can directly ...
Task scheduling of applications represented by a directed acyclic graph (DAG) on multiprocessors
is an NP-HARD problem Garey and Johnson [1979]. The growing requirement
to utilize the underlying parallelism for quick ...