• Anchoring Cu(II)-based Low-Dimensional S=1/2 Spin Lattices onto Functionalized Graphene 

  Gupta, Kriti (2020-11)

  Magnetic materials with spins restricted in low-dimensions provide an intriguing platform to study spin interactions. Coupled with geometric frustration (for example, Kagome lattice), long-range magnetic ordering is ...
• Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Low-valent Compounds of Main Group Elements: Application in Organic Transformations 

  Raut, Ravindra (2020-08-14)

  Though the intriguing properties of main group compounds are harvested in every aspect of chemistry, there is a lot of scope for developing main group chemistry. In low valent state main group elements can mimic the ...
• Encapsulation of Magnetic Oxides inside Carbon Nanotubes 

  Kapoor, Aakanksha (2020-07-07)

  Transition Metal Oxides (TMOs) are well-known to host a diverse range of exotic electronic and magnetic ground states. Carbon Nanotubes (CNT), on the other hand, possess exceptional electrical, thermal and mechanical ...
• Synthesis, Surface Engineering and Stability of CsPbX3 (X= Cl, Br, I) and BaZrS3 Perovskite Nanocrystals 

  Ravi, Vikash Kumar (2020-07-31)

  Colloidal CsPbX3 (X= Cl, Br, I) perovskite nanocrystals have emerged as a new class of optoelectronic material. One of the major challenges now is to improve their stability. One of the major emphasis of my thesis is to ...
• Analysis of cytoplasmic organization and compartmentalization in syncytial Drosophila embryo 

  Thukral, Sameer (2020-01)

  Syncytial nuclei found in fungi, plant endosperm, insect embryos and muscles maintain an autonomous 'nuclear-cytoplasmic region of influence', thereby generating compartments within a seemingly shared cytoplasm. Molecular ...
• Exploring Structural and Chemical Reactivity of γ-Amino Acids in the Design of Peptide Foldamers and Small Molecule Peptidomimetics 

  Veeresh, K (2020-11-20)

  The progress in the field of foldamers constructed from the unnatural amino acid building blocks revealed that the folding phenomenon is not restricted to proteins. The advancement in the foldamer research has opened doors ...
• Design, Synthesis, Characterization and Redox Properties of Planar and Non-planar Macrocycles Derived from Thiophene Subunits 

  Gaur, Rakesh (2019-10-07)

  Oligomers and macrocycles of thiophene have attracted significant attention for their structural, electronic, and redox properties. Synthesis of macrocyclic thiophenes is a challenging task due to the competitive and facile ...
• Development of Supramolecular Non-gated and Stimuli-responsive Channels for Selective Ion Transport and Chemotherapeutic Applications 

  Malla, Javid (2020-03-13)

  The fundamental aim of this thesis is the development of new artificial ion transport systems for therapeutic applications. The main focus of my research was to develop the biomimetic supramolecular ion channels which can ...
• Identification and characteriation of novel tumor suppressors using in vivo tumor model in Drosophila melanogaster 

  Nagarkar, Sanket (2020-11-03)

  Cancer is a disease that hitch hikes growth regulatory network and causes uncontrollable cell proliferation and metastasis which is usually fatal. Genetic alterations in cancer cells enable such hitch hiking of regulatory ...
• Advanced Porous Materials (APMs) as Host to Develop Composite Materials: Stability and Functional Studies 

  Mollick, Samraj (2020-10-08)

  Porosity is an important property of materials and observed in rocks, soils, biological tissues, ceramics, zeolites etc. The exquisite control over the order and functionality of porous architectures led to the design of ...
• Molecular Level Tuning of Redox-active 2D-Covalent Organic Frameworks for Energy Storage 

  Haldar, Sattwick (2020-07-29)

  Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) offer a dynamic platform to play with its chemical functionalities as well as with it’s the structure and symmetry. The choice of symmetry of the building units drives the propagation the ...
• Exploration of Silver-Assisted Gold Catalysis for the Synthesis of Anticoagulant Heparin Pentasaccharide and a Heptasaccharide of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Cell Surface 

  Walke, Gulab (2020-05-15)

  Heparin is a well-known linear polysulfated polysaccharide with alternating D-glucosamine (GlcN) and either D-glucuronic acid (GlcA) or L-iduronic acid (IdoA) units of the glycosaminoglycan family. Since 1940, it has been ...
• Analysis of mitochondrial dynamics and oxidative phosphorylation function in neuroblast differentiation in Drosophila melanogaster 

  Dubal, Dnyanesh (2020-07)

  Mitochondrial structure is regulated by a dedicated machinery for fusion and fission. Recently mitochondrial architecture regulation is known to be involved in stem cell proliferation and differentiation, and the molecular ...
• Postsynthetic Modification of Nucleic Acids and Generation of Nucleoside Supramolecular Synthons by Palladium-Mediated Reactions 

  Walunj, Manisha B. (2020-05-20)

  Probing the structure of nucleic acids is paramount in understanding their recognition properties and ensuing functions. Nucleic acids are commonly studied by biophysical techniques like fluorescence, NMR, EPR and X-ray ...
• Investigation of dispersal ecology and evolution using laboratory populations of Drosophila melanogaster 

  Mishra, Abhishek (2020-09-21)

  The spatial distribution of populations is shaped by phenomena such as range shifts and range expansions. The process underlying these phenomena (i.e. dispersal), however, is often demography- and context-dependent. The ...
• Elevational Diversity Profiles of Aves and Lepidoptera (Sphingidae) – A Comparative Analysis in the Eastern Himalayas 

  Mungee, Mansi (2019-06-20)

  In this dissertation we present a comparative study of the diversity patterns of two disparate organismal groups – Lepidoptera: Sphingidae (hawkmoths) and Aves (birds) – along an elevational gradient spanning 200-2800 m ...
• Design, Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Dis-Assembly Studies of Monodisperse Protein-Dendron Conjugates 

  Bhandari, Pavankumar (2020-09-10)

  The fundamental objective of this thesis is to introduce a methodology to design self-assembling, stimuli-responsive, protein-dendron conjugates. The research during my doctoral study was mainly focused on designing a ...
• Modelling collective mechanics of microtubule aster motility and positioning by molecular motors 

  Khetan, Neha (2020-01-30)

  Microtubules (MTs) and MT associated proteins form an essential component of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton. Asters are radial arrays of MTs, involved in vital cellular processes such as spindle assembly,chromosome segregation, ...
• Characterizing Protein Surfaces for Binding Associations 

  Sen, Neeladri (2020-09-07)

  Proteins interact with one another and other biomolecules to carry out their function. These interactions are mediated via residues on surfaces of proteins and other biomolecules. In this thesis, we studied both protein-protein ...
• Pachner moves on geometric triangulation 

  Phanse, Advait (2020-05-22)

  As every smooth manifold can be smoothly triangulated so triangulations are a useful tool to combinatorially study manifolds. It is known that any two smooth triangulations of a manifold are related by a finite sequence ...

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