Abstract : The emergence of collective motion on large length scales is the hallmark of a wide variety of active living matter. Bird flocks fish schools bacterial swarms and etc are a few examples.…
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Aug 14, 2015
Abstract: The liquid phase in a supercooled state (i.e. at a temperature below the melting temperature) eventually relaxes towards the stable crystal phase. The estimation of the properties of the…
Aug 06, 2015
Abstract: DNA apart from being the molecule of life has recently emerged as an excellent material for construction at nanoscale. Due to appropriate persistence length and sequence specific self…
Jul 30, 2015
Abstract: The Wacker oxidation of olefines to carbonyl compounds by an oxidizing agent under aqueous acidic conditions in the presence of PdCl2/CuCl2 catalyst mixture is considered as an example of…
Jul 23, 2015
Abstract : Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a meshless particle based Lagrangian numerical method that has been in development for the past three decades. Commensurate with the exponential…
Jul 14, 2015
Abstract : The constituents of an energized granular mixture tend to separate due to difference in their size and/or density. Segregation in spite of being an important and seemingly simple…
May 25, 2015
Abstract: One of the greatest issues facing mankind is the development of economic and sustainable systems and processes to meet the growing demand for energy. The challenges are twofold: reducing…
May 21, 2015
Abstract: Even with today's depressed crude oil prices the refineries across the world process about 2 Trillion USD worth of crude annually i.e. economic size close to India's GDP ! In an endeavor to…
Apr 30, 2015
Abstract: A safe and secure future for humanity depends to a large extent on the development of sustainable and economic energy resources and will require fundamental science and engineering…
Apr 17, 2015
Asbtract: The mechanics of granular materials (sand food grains powders) has historically been studied in the limiting regimes of slow and rapid flow. In the former the grains are densely packed and…
Apr 16, 2015
Abstract: Collections of grains (such as sand food grains mineral ores) often exhibit fluid-like behaviour despite the obvious differences between macroscopic grains and fluid molecules. But there…
Apr 09, 2015
Abstract: While the GDP of India is growing around 7-8%/year Indian Chemical Industry is growing around 10-11% per year.By Revenue Indian Chemical Industry is 3rd in Asea and 12th in the world.…
Apr 01, 2015
Abstract: From a view point of global sustainability tremendous efforts is being made by the synthetic chemist to develop non hazardous energy efficient and environmentally benign routes for…
Mar 26, 2015
Abstract: Acetaminophen (APAP) which is a widely used over-the-counter drug and considered safe and effective as an analgesic and antipyretic drug is associated with hepatotoxicity in overdoses. To…
Mar 19, 2015
Abstract: While the evolution of hydrogen gas is often a troublesome process accompanying electrodeposition this feature can be exploited to template the growth of highly porous surfaces. This…
Mar 17, 2015
Abstract: A central area of research in the soft matter community is in organic/organic hybrid materials with nanoscale inorganic particles. These materials have been focused on due to their promise…
Feb 19, 2015
Abstract: Microwave (MW) rapid heating has received considerable attention as a new promising method for one-pot synthesis of metallic nanostructures in solutions. In this concept advantageous…
Feb 12, 2015
Abstract: A computational scheme for rational solvent design based on the computer aided molecular design (CAMD) approach has been developed. The CAMD approach employs structure property correlations…
Feb 10, 2015
Abstract: Many petrochemical compounds that are candidates for microbial production are also solvent-like in nature. Examples of such compounds are fuels and other bulk chemicals such as precursors…
Feb 09, 2015
Abstract: CSIRO the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is Australia's national science agency. It is one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world and…