Theses submitted to IISER Pune in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the BS-MS dual degree and Ph.D programmes. Also, project reports submitted by the students.
Metazoan embryonic development relies on precise cellular and morphogenetic processes, which are highly-energy intensive. Mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell, play vital roles in various such morphogenetic events for ...
Life is hypothesized to have originated in primordial or prebiotic soup, which is thought to have been a heterogenous mixture of various chemicals present on early Earth. However, even the simplest unicellular forms of ...
Malaria caused by the Plasmodium falciparum is driven by alterations in the infected RBC surface by recruiting antigens that can bind to the endothelial receptors (cytoadherence). The clonally variant multigene family of ...
The emergence of correlated phases in low-dimensional quantum materials presents a platform for discovering new physics and phenomenon. These emergent orders such as charge density wave (CDW), magnetism, superconductivity, ...
Organocatalysis has become one of the essential pillars of asymmetric catalysis, complementing enzyme and chiral metal catalysis. Over the last few decades, various carbon-carbon and carbon-hetero (C-C and C-X) bond-forming ...
Diazo compounds are highly valued in synthetic organic chemistry due to their broad reactivity and wide-ranging applications. They exhibit distinct reactivity towards metals as well as visible light. It is well known that ...
NHC/NHSi-ligated Transition Metal Complexes: Versatile Platforms for Catalysis and Small Molecule Activation
Sandeep Kaulage and Shabana Khan*
The chemistry of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) and N-heterocyclic silylene ...
Excessive accumulation of greenhouse gases such as methane (CH₄) and carbon
dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere is a major contributor to global environmental
challenges. An effective approach to mitigate this issue is to ...
The Membrane-associated Periodic Skeleton (MPS) is a critical cytoskeletal structure observed in diverse neuronal subtypes across multiple species. Since its identification in 2013, it has been demonstrated to be essential ...
Diazo compounds are highly versatile as well as valuable reagents whose reactivity can be fine-tuned through metal catalysis, photochemical activation, and radical pathways to enable divergent and selective synthetic ...
Nature has always been the underlying inspiration for various solar energy conversion technologies and among them, solar-to-chemical energy conversion in photosynthesis is considered to be the most elegant way to make ...
In recent years, algebraic quantum field theory (AQFT) and modular theory have provided significant insights into gravitational degrees of freedom. Notably, the works [1–3] demonstrate that the inclusion of gravitational ...
One of the goals of early universe cosmology is to understand the physics of inflation. Since we cannot visually access this epoch, we rely on indirect observations, e.g., measuring temperature correlations on the CMB. By ...
The revival of radical chemistry in organic synthesis has fuelled a renaissance in visible-light photoredox catalysis. This mild and versatile approach has rapidly gained traction across diverse fields, from biomedical ...
Understanding the behavior of time-evolving systems is central to contemporary data science, with wide-ranging applications in domains such as finance, biology and environmental studies. These systems are often high-dimensional, ...
Light carries energy, linear momentum, and angular momentum, which can be directly transferred to microscopic and nanoscopic objects. This transfer allows precise control and manipulation of their motion by suppressing ...
Fluctuations play a crucial role in the operation of small-scale devices, where thermal and quantum effects significantly influence the efficiency, power output, and stability of machines. This thesis investigates performance ...
Quantum-level energy storage and usage is gaining significant interest among scientific communities with a newly introduced concept in quantum thermodynamics, namely ergotropy. Ergotropy quantifies the maximum amount of ...
Proteins, through their activity and interactions, are the predominant class of molecules enabling the functioning of the living cell. They are linear polymers of amino acids that fold based on covalent and non-covalent ...
The standard model of particle physics (SM) describes fundamental particles and their interactions. The predictions of the SM have been extensively tested in the experiments. However, it does not explain key phenomena such ...