2014: Recent submissions

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Anti-fungal potentials of extracellular metabolites of Western Ghats isolated Streptomyces sp NII 1006 against moulds and yeasts

Himani Jayamurthy; Sajna, K V; Dastagar, S G; Pandey, A (NISCAIR, 2014)

Realization of hazardious effects of chemical fungicides has led to an interest in the usage of biocontrol agents. The present study, therefore, evaluates the biocontrol efficacy of Western Ghats (India) soil bacterial ...
Dilute acid pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis of sorghum biomass for sugar recovery- A statistical approach

Akanksha, K; Arjun Prasad; Rajeev K Sukumaran; Nampoothiri, K M; Pandey, A; Rao, S S; Binod, P (NISCAIR, 2014)

Sorghum is one of the commercially feasible lignocellulosic biomass and has a great potential of being sustainable feedstock for renewable energy. As with any lignocellulosic biomass, sorghum also requires pretreatment ...
Design guidelines for the cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna using the recently proposed HEM12 delta mode

Guha, D; Banerjee, A; Kumar, C; Antar, Y M M; Sebastian, M T (IEEE, 2014)

Excitation of the higher-order HEM12 delta mode in a cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna (CDRA) was a big challenge, which was recently resolved by the present authors, nearly 30 years after the invention of the ...
Colossal thermoelectric power in charge ordered lanthanum calcium manganites (La0.5Ca0.5MnO3)

Lija, K J; Samatham, S S; Senoy Thomas; Ganesan, V; Al-Harthi, S; Liebig, A; Albrecht, M; Anantharaman, M R (AIP Publishing, 2014)

Lanthanum calcium manganites(La0.5Ca0.5MnO3) with a composition close to charge ordering, synthesized by high energy ball milling, was found to exhibit colossal thermoelectric power. Thermoelectric power (TEP) data was ...
Room temperature curable silica ink

Jobin Varghese; Surendran, K P; Sebastian, M T (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014)

A facile formulation of room temperature curable silica ink screen printed on flexible and rigid substrate for printed electronic applications is presented. The colloidal stability and room temperature curability of the ...
A novel SrPbCeTiO ferroelectric thin film grown by pulsed laser ablation

Krishnaprasad, P S; Mohanan, P; Subodh, G; Sebastian, M T; Jayaraj, M K (Springer, 2014)

Complex perovskite oxide ferroelectric thin films are of great technological interest because of their high dielectric constant and large tunability. In this paper, we report the structural and electrical properties of ...
Organic nanoparticles composed of Frechet-type dendrons: Synthesis, characterization, self-assembly and reversible guest encapsulation

Sreedevi, K; Gopidas, K R (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014)

Novel organic nanoparticles composed of Frechet-type dendrons have been synthesized by a simple one-pot reaction, which involved etching off the gold core in a first generation gold nanoparticle-cored dendrimer (AuG(1)). ...
Sensitive naked eye detection of hydrogen sulfide and nitric oxide by Aza-BODIPY dyes in aqueous medium

Adarsh, N; Megha, S K; Ramaiah, D (American Chemical Society, 2014)

With an objective to develop optical probes for biologically important anions and neutral molecules, we synthesized three novel NIR absorbing aza-BODIPY derivatives, 3a-3c, and have systematically tuned their photophysical ...
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacterial strain-mediated induced systemic resistance in Tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) through defense-related enzymes against brown root rot and charcoal stump rot

Mishra, A K; Morang, P; Deka, M; Nishanth Kumar, S; Dileep Kumar, B S (Humana Press Inc., 2014)

Induction of systemic resistance in host plants through microbes and their bioactive metabolites are attaining popularity in modern agricultural practices. In this regard, individual application of two strains of Pseudomonas, ...
Multifunctional star-shaped polylactic acid implants for use in angioplasty

Nagarajan, S; Kiran, M S; Tsibouklis, J; Reddy, B S R (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014)

Towards the development of new biomaterials for use in angioplasty, star-shaped polylactic acids have been synthesised and shown to adhere well to living cells, by in vitro and in vivo experiments, and to hydrolyse over ...
Self-assembled near-infrared dye nanoparticles as a selective protein sensor by activation of a dormant fluorophore

Anees, P; Sreejith, S; Ajayaghosh, A (American Chemical Society, 2014)

Design of selective sensors for a specific analyte in blood serum, which contains a large number of proteins, small molecules, and ions, is important in clinical diagnostics. While metal and polymeric nanoparticle conjugates ...
Apigenin and quercetin ameliorate mitochondrial alterations by tunicamycin-induced ER stress in 3T3-L1 adipocytes

Nisha, V M; Anusree, S S; Priyanka, A; Raghu, K G (Springer, 2014)

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an important organelle with functions like protein synthesis, folding, and calcium homeostasis. ER stress, a condition that dramatically affects protein folding homeostasis in cells, has been ...
Material characterization and microwave substrate applications of alumina-filled butyl rubber composites

Chameswary, J; Namitha, L K; Brahmakumar, M; Sebastian, M T (Wiley, 2014)

Composites of butyl rubber with micron alumina (BRAL) and nanoalumina (BRnAL) have been prepared by sigma mixing. The stress-strain curves of both BRAL and BRnAL composites show the mechanical flexibility of the composites. ...
Nickel(II) complexes of pentadentate N5 ligands as catalysts for alkane hydroxylation by using m-CPBA as oxidant: a combined experimental and computational study

Sankaralingam, M; Balamurugan, M; Palaniandavar, M; Vadivelu, P; Suresh, C H (Wiley, 2014)

A new family of nickel(II) complexes of the type [Ni(L)(CH3CN)](BPh4)(2), where L= N-methyl-N,N',N'-tris(pyrid-2-ylmethyl)-ethylenediamine (L1, 1), N-benzyl-N,N',N'-tris(pyrid-2-yl-methyl)-ethylenediamine (L2, 2), ...
Probing structural variation and multifunctionality in niobium doped bismuth vanadate materials

Sameera, S; Prabhakar Rao, P; Vineetha James; Athira Raj, K V; Chitradevi, G R; Sandhyakumari, L (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014)

Multifunctional materials are developed in BiV1-xNbxO4 solid solutions via structural variations. A citrate gel route has been employed to synthesize these materials followed by calcination at various temperatures leading ...
Remarkable changes in the photoluminescent properties of Y2Ce2O7:Eu(3+) red phosphors through modification of the cerium oxidation states and oxygen vacancy ordering

Athira Raj, K V; Prabhakar Rao, P; Sreena, T S; Sameera, S; Vineetha James; Renju, U A (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014)

A new series of red phosphors based on Eu(3+)-doped yttrium cerate [Y1.9Ce2O7:0.1Eu(3+), Y2Ce1.9O7:0.1Eu(3+) and Y2Ce2-xO7:xEu(3+) (x = 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25 and 0.50)] was prepared via a conventional solid-state ...
Microwave dielectric and thermal properties of mixed rare earth ortho phosphate [REmixPO4]

Bahuleyan, A; Jobin Varghese; Surendran, K P; Sebastian, M T (Elsevier, 2014)

A cost effective protocol to develop microwave substrate is proposed whereby a mixed rare earth orthophosphate [REMIXPO4] ceramic was prepared using a natural mixture of rare earth oxides, which is a byproduct derived from ...
Isolation, selection and evaluation of yeasts for use in fermentation of coffee beans by the wet process

Pereira, G V D; Soccol, V T; Pandey, A; Medeiros, A B P; Lara, J M R A; Gollo, A L; Soccol, CR (Elsevier, 2014)

During wet processing of coffee, the ripe cherries are pulped, then fermented and dried. This study reports an experimental approach for target identification and selection of indigenous coffee yeasts and their potential ...
Mesochanneled hierarchically porous aluminosiloxane aerogel microspheres as a stable support for pH-responsive controlled drug release

Linsha, V; Talasila, S; Peer Mohamed, A A; Ananthakumar, S (American Chemical Society, 2014)

The molecular-scale self-assembly of a 3D aluminosiloxane (Al-O-Si) hybrid gel network was successfully performed via the cocondensation of hydrolyzed alumina (AlOOH) and (3-aminopropyl)trimethoxysilane (APS). It was ...
Pathways of cylindrical orientations in PS-b-P4VP diblock copolymer thin films upon solvent vapor annealing

Bhoje Gowd, E; Koga, T; Endoh, M K; Kumar, K; Stamm, M (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014)

The orientation changes of perpendicular cylindrical microdomains in polystyrene-block-poly(4-vinylpyridine) (PS-b-P4VP) thin films upon annealing in different solvent vapors were investigated by in situ grazing incidence ...

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