The main motivation of all the works included in this thesis is to design and synthesize of functional porous materials for different sustainable applications. In the domain of porous materials, metal-organic frameworks ...
Our daily life is unimaginable barring catalysis, which has emerged as a fundamental need toward the basic necessities of life. With a booming world economy in combination with ever escalating global population and shrinking ...
Sustainable chemical synthesis have gained much attention in 20th century. Catalytic reactions to construct the complex organic molecules and drugs with the high selectivity, eliminate the byproduct, avoid the multistep ...
Chemistry paved the path for making modern society livable by fulfilling the basic needs of daily life through rapid industrialization. However, the toxic waste produced by chemical industries vitiates the environment ...
MreB, the bacterial ancestor of eukaryotic actin, determines the shape of most of the rod-shaped bacteria. Until now, functional studies for MreBs have been carried out for cell-walled rod-shaped bacteria. MreB filaments ...
The degrees of expression of the hundreds of genes in a eukaryotic cell influence its phenotype and functioning. The binding of proteins such as transcription factors to particular regulatory regions on the DNA play an ...
Layered two-dimensional materials (2D) have aroused huge research interest since the breakthrough of graphene. Prominent among them are the transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), with distinct optical, electrical, and ...
Nitroxyl (HNO), which is a one electron reduced sibling of nitric oxide (NO), activates intracellular signalling pathways, and has vasodilatory and anti-oxidant properties. Recently, a small molecule that generates HNO has ...
The long-term approach to reduce the harmful environmental effects of plastic pollution, as illustrated by the marine accumulation of inert microplastics, includes the 11 development of biodegradable plastics (1,2). ...
Thoracic air sac pressure of zebra finches was recorded during the song to study the correlation between respiration and introductory notes (INs) of their song. Introductory notes are short vocalizations preceding the song ...
Several research papers have predicted the existence of azeotropic clusters. Our motivation was to validate this prediction by simulating and observing azeotropic behaviour in vapour-liquid equilibrium. To achieve this, ...
All organisms use mechanosensation to sense and respond to their immediate environment by translating physical stimulus to biochemical information. Plants being sessile in nature, rely heavily on mechanosensation to enable ...
Seed size is an important plant functional trait related to important axes of plant function like regeneration and stress (shade, drought and herbivory) tolerance. Globally seed size has been found to be related to plant ...
We use the term ‘mutation spectrum’ to refer to the frequency distribution of the types of mutations that an organism tends to undergo overtime. However, more often than not, this mutation spectrum tends to be somewhat ...
Microtubules (MT) form cytoskeletal polymers consisting of α− and β−tubulin dimers. Understanding MT polymerization kinetics can shed light on intrinsic physiological properties and diversification (Jain et al., 2021). In ...
Post-translational modification of a substrate protein by SUMO (Small Ubiquitin-related modifier) can modify its activity, localization, interaction or function. A large number of SUMO targets in cells have been identified ...
Circle packing problem refers to most number of circles which could be fit inside a boundary. Asters or radial microtubules are closely associated with the geometry of a cell. Spatial patterns of microtubule motors are ...
Most of our understanding of human embryonic development is limited by technical and ethical difficulties in acquiring samples and mainly relies on comparative studies in mice and other higher mammals. Although this approach ...
Malaria is one of the world's deadliest diseases, with India being a prominent hotspot for malaria. According to WHO, 77% of the cases are reported from Southeast Asia. Malaria therapy must begin with an accurate and timely ...
The Special AT-rich sequence Binding proteins SATB1 and SATB2 play a significant role in many biological processes ranging from the development of an organism to disease. SATB1 and SATB2 show 61% sequence identity in the ...