Serine hydrolases are one of the largest and most diverse enzyme families. The members of this family play important roles in almost all physiological processes and many are therapeutic targets. Yet many of their members ...
Seifert fiber spaces are compact 3-dimensional manifolds that are foliated by circles. Seifert fiber spaces with isolated singular fibers have been well-studied. We focus on Seifert fiber spaces which have singular surfaces ...
Lead halide perovskites are being extensively explored in recent times for their promising
optoelectronic properties. However, lead toxicity and structural stability impose some
limitations for their wide spread ...
Carbene is the key reactive intermediate that has been utilized widely in varieties of synthetic transformations ranging from cycloaddition to site-selective functionalizations. Controlling the reactivity of carbenes is ...
The homoleptic lanthanide-amide complexes (Ln[N(SiMe3)2]n (n = 2, 3), (Ln = La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Ho, Yb and Lu) were introduced in 1973 by Bradley and co-workers. However, their catalytic potential is not well ...
Self-assembly is undoubtedly one of the most efficient ways to create complex materials with distinct functions. The ability to control the interparticle interactions between the building blocks is the key to achieving the ...
This thesis attempts to abstract and generalize some key features of the composite fermion (CF) wavefunctions. CF theory successfully explains the experimentally observed fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) in the lowest ...
Integro-differential operators arise naturally in biological modeling and mathematical finance. We aim to conduct an in-depth study of integro-differential operators and their regularity properties in this thesis. We start ...
The α,β-unsaturated γ-lactams represent important synthetic targets due to their presence in natural products, diverse biological activities, and their utility as building blocks for the synthesis of other compounds. These ...
Membrane tubulation coupled to fission is fundamental to numerous cellular processes. It manifests in all known forms of vesicular trafficking and its precise regulation is critical for inter and intra-cellular cross-talk. ...
This thesis investigates the charge density waves (CDW) in two transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Doping and strain are used to tune the CDWs, helping to understand the ...
Thermoelectric materials are a fascinating class of materials that possess the unique ability to directly convert heat energy into electrical energy and vice versa. In recent times, they have attracted significant attention ...
TAR RNA binding protein (TRBP) has been known for its involvement in the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway. TRBP aids the Dicer-mediated pre-miRNA cleavage and recruitment of the RISC complex. While doing so, TRBP binds to ...
The primary objective of my doctoral research was to elucidate the fundamental principles
underlying ion channel formation through non-covalent interactions and to investigate their
anion selectivity within the lipid ...
Hostplant location and conspecific aggregation on the hostplant are the key behaviors of several herbivore insect species. The cues used by insects for host identification and aggregation initiation have been researched ...