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Kankan Bhattacharyya: A Pioneer of Experimental Research in Ultrafast Spectroscopy
The life and scientific contributions of Professor Kankan Bhattacharyya are highlighted in this article. The qualities that made him a great human being and an inspiring personality to a generation of the scie...
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Rational design, preparation and characterization of a ternary non-ionic room-temperature deep eutectic solvent derived from urea, acetamide, and sorbitol
Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have emerged as a new kind of solvent and an excellent alternative to ionic liquids, thanks to its simplicity in preparing and availability of a large number of potential constitu...
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Chickpea peel waste as sustainable precursor for synthesis of fluorescent carbon nanotubes for bioimaging application
In this study, we report a controlled one-pot green synthesis of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) via pyrolysis of sustainable agriculture waste (chickpea peel) at 400 °C in aqueous medium. These MWCNTs d...
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Yellowish-orange phosphorescent iridium(III) complexes of bis-cyclometalated ligand with pyrazolone derivatives: synthesis, characterization, photophysical and thermal properties
Three novel heteroleptic iridium complexes containing 2-phenylbenzothiazole (bt) as the cyclometalated ligands and variety of pyrazolone-based Schiff-based derivatives as ancillary ligands were synthesized and...
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Mixed Solvent Chemistry through Synergistic Solvation: Structure, Property and Function of t-Butanol—Dichloromethane Binary Solvent Mixtures
The present study elucidates the synergetic solvation behavior of t-butanol–dichloromethane (t-BuOH–DCM) binary solvent mixtures. UV–visible absorption, emission and 1H-NMR spectroscopy along with analytical mod...
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Graphene–Metal Nanoparticle Hybrids: Electronic Interaction Between Graphene and Nanoparticles
In the present investigation, graphene (G) and graphene decorated with Ag (Ag-G), Au (Au-G) metal nanoparticles as well as AuAg alloy (AuAg-G) nanoparticles (NPs) have been successfully synthesized via solutio...
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Excited-state proton transfer from pyranine to acetate in methanol
Excited-state proton transfer (ESPT) of pyranine (8-hydroxypyrene-1,3,6-trisulphonate, HPTS) to acetate in methanol has been studied by steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. The rate consta...
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Solvation dynamics in a worm-like CTAB micelle
The solvation dynamics of 4-(dicyanomethylene)-2-methyl-(p-dimethyl-aminostyryl) 4Hpyran (DCM) is studied in a worm-like micelle consisting of cetyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and sodium salicylate (NaSa...