Publications by authors named "Suhas Mutalik"
Article Synopsis
- The surface chemistry of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, particularly InP QDs, significantly affects their properties and applications, especially in optoelectronics.
- Replacing insulating organic ligands with shorter inorganic alternatives improves charge mobility and stability, making them suitable for devices like LEDs and photodetectors.
- The study investigates the ligand exchange using group III metal salts and reveals that these salts create stable metal-solvent complexes, enhancing the colloidal stability of InP QDs in polar solvents for extended periods.
Article Synopsis
- 3D superlattices of colloidal quantum dots have potential for next-gen optoelectronic devices due to their tunable optical properties and coherent electrical transport.
- Previous research mostly focused on 2D arrays, which struggled with long-range order and transport issues.
- Controlled nanoscale ordering of 3D quantum dots has achieved record electron mobilities and demonstrates the possibility of highly tunable optical properties, paving the way for advanced optoelectronic materials.
Hydrogels are a popular class of biomaterial that are used in a number of commercial applications (; contact lenses, drug delivery, and prophylactics). Alginate-based tough hydrogel systems, interpenetrated with acrylamide, reportedly form both ionic and covalent cross-links, giving rise to their remarkable mechanical properties. In this work, we explore the nature, onset and extent of such hybrid bonding interactions between the complementary networks in a model double-network alginate-acrylamide system, using a host of characterisation techniques (; FTIR, Raman, UV-vis, and fluorescence spectroscopies), in a time-resolved manner.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSilver nanoparticle (AgNP) and AgNP/reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanocomposite impregnated medical grade polyviscose textile pads were formed using a facile, surface-mediated wet chemical solution-dipping process, without further annealing. Surfaces were sequentially treated in situ with a sodium borohydride (NaBH) reducing agent, prior to formation, deposition, and fixation of Ag nanostructures and/or rGO nanosheets throughout porous non-woven (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF