Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad&nbsp;(IIT Palakkad or IIT PKD) is a public autonomous&nbsp;engineering&nbsp;and&nbsp;research&nbsp;institute located in&nbsp;Palakkad,&nbsp;Kerala. It was&nbsp;one of the five new&nbsp;IITs&nbsp;proposed in the&nbsp;2014 Union budget of India. The campus was inaugurated on 3 August 2015. The institute has 94 faculty, 978 students, and 63 non-teaching staffs.

IT Palakkad currently offers four-year Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) and two years MS programmes in 8 different engineering disciplines including&nbsp;Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil among others.

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IIT Palakkad

Department of Mathematics

Goldman Bracket: Center, Geometric Intersection Number &amp; Length Equivalent Curves

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

World University root node

Psychology and Developing Societies

Book Review: Stefan Ecks, Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India

The influence of discrete and randomly distributed fibers (DRDF) on the improvement of the resistance to cracking of clay-based landfill covers was studied by conducting a series of centrifuge model tests. A motor-based differential settlement simulator (MDSS) was used to induce differential settlements to the soil layers during centrifuge tests performed at 40g using the 4.5 m radius beam centrifuge at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. A digital image cross-correlation (DIC) technique was used to capture deformations of the model barriers and to obtain strain field distributions. Thickness of the unreinforced barriers (URSB) and fiber-reinforced barriers (FRSB) were varied as 15 mm (similar to 0.6 m in the field) and 25 mm (1.0 m). Fiber lengths were varied as 30, 60, and 90 mm. The strain at water breakthrough of 15 mm (0.6 m) and 25 mm (1 m) FRSB were respectively 1.9 and 2.2 times higher compared to identical URSBs. A relatively crack-free surface was observed for FRSB with longer fibers even after subjected to differential settlement of 1 m. © 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers.

Department of Civil Engineering

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Centrifuge modeling and digital image cross-correlation analysis of geofiber-reinforced clay-based landfill covers

The reaction of carbon dioxide with α-siloxy silanes assisted by cesium fluoride is studied by means of DFT calculations with the B97D functional. Different mechanistic models are examined, including explicit introduction of cationic counterions and solvent molecules. The reaction is confirmed to proceed through carbanionic intermediates generated by Brook rearrangement, a carbon-to-oxygen transfer of a silyl group. The cesium cation is shown to play a critical role in stabilizing the key transition state. © 2017, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Department of Chemistry

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Computational study on the mechanism of the reaction of carbon dioxide with siloxy silanes

In this work, we developed an electrochemical aptasensor by using methylene blue (MB) redox probe labeled aptamer as a signaling fragment and functional graphene oxide (FGO) as the signal-enlarging platform. The role of functionalized graphene oxide was not mere to serve as a covalent immobilization support for aptamer sequences, but its catalytic signal amplification behavior towards methylene blue was demonstrated for the first time in the present work. The functionalized graphene oxide was cast on screen-printed carbon electrodes (SPCE), and then the MB-tagged aptamer was covalently immobilized on SPCE by using hexamethylenediamine (HMDA) as a spacer via carbodiimide amide-bonding chemistry. Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) analyte molecule detection was accomplished by the aptamer conjugated redox probe, which undergoes/involves a conformational change in the complex structure of aptamer consequent to AFB1 binding. The proposed assay permitted to detect AFB1 in the linear range of 0.05–6.0 ng mL−1 with a very low limit of detection (LOD) (0.05 ng mL−1). The present principle aptasensor was tested to screen the alcoholic beverage samples for AFB1 detection and good recovery values were obtained. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd

Electrochimica Acta

An electrochemical aptasensor based on functionalized graphene oxide assisted electrocatalytic signal amplification of methylene blue for aflatoxin B1 detection

Indian Concrete Journal

Need of an efficient particle size analysis and its influence on properties of concrete

A pilot scale atomization setup is built to produce metal powder by atomizing molten tin from an annular free-fall nozzle, using high-speed nitrogen gas. The primary breakup mechanism of liquid tin is investigated using high-speed shadow imaging technique starting from the inception of the atomization process. Two different protrusions of the melt nozzle at different gas flow rates are investigated. The atomization process starts by the initiation of surface waves in varicose and sinuous modes of instability. The primary breakup of the molten liquid column is characterized by a series of bag breakup events in multiple directions and subsequent breakup of the rim. The primary breakup mechanism through bag breakup in a free-fall nozzle is very different from breakup mechanisms through "melt-sheet" formation and "umbrella breakup" reported earlier in the context of close-coupled nozzles. © 2017 by Begell House, Inc.

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Atomization and Sprays

Study of primary breakup of molten tin during powder production in free-fall configuration

A V-shaped 4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide derived dipyridyl ligand comprising the Tröger's base structural motif has been synthesised and subsequently used in the formation of two new supramolecular coordination polymers. © 2017 The Royal Society of Chemistry.

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Chemical Communications

Supramolecular coordination polymers using a close to 'V-shaped' fluorescent 4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide Tröger's base scaffold

We demonstrate that synthetically controlled concurrent stabilization of Fe and O vacancy defects on the surface of interbraided nanoscale hematite (Fe2-δO3-v) renders an interesting surface chemistry which can reduce CO2 to CO at room temperature (RT). Importantly, we realized a highly enhanced output of 410 μmol h-1 g-1 at RT, as compared to that of 10 μmol h-1 g-1 for bulk hematite. It is argued based on the activity degradation under cycling and first principles density functional theory calculations that the excess chemical energy embedded in the defect-stabilized surface is expended in this high-energy conversion process, which leads to progressive filling up of oxygen vacancies. © 2017 American Chemical Society.

ACS Omega

Room-Temperature Activation of CO2 by Dual Defect-Stabilized Nanoscale Hematite (Fe2-δO3-v): Concurrent Role of Fe and O Vacancies

A V-Shaped 4-amino-1,8-napthalimide derived tetracarboxylic acid linker (L; bis-[N-(1,3-benzenedicarboxylic acid)]-9,18-methano-1,8-naphthalimide-[b,f][1,5]diazocine) comprising the Tröger's base (TB) structural motif was rationally designed and synthesised to access a nitrogen-rich fluorescent supramolecular coordination polymer. By adopting the straight forward precipitation method, a new luminescent nanoscale Zn(ii) coordination polymer (TB-Zn-CP) was synthesized in quantitative yield using Zn(OAc)2·2H2O and tetraacid linker L (1 : 0.5) in DMF at room temperature. The phase-purity of as-synthesised TB-Zn-CP was confirmed by X-ray powder diffraction analysis, infra-red spectroscopy, and elemental analysis. Thermogravimetric analysis suggests that TB-Zn-CP is thermally stable up to 330 °C and the morphological features of TB-Zn-CP was analysed by SEM and AFM techniques. The N2 adsorption isotherm of thermally activated TB-Zn-CP at 77 K revealed a type-II reversible adsorption isotherm and the calculated Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area was found to be 72 m2 g−1. Furthermore, TB-Zn-CP displayed an excellent CO2 uptake capacity of 76 mg g−1 at 273 K and good adsorption selectivity for CO2 over N2 and H2. The aqueous suspension of as-synthesized TB-Zn-CP showed strong green fluorescence (λmax = 520 nm) characteristics due to the internal-charge transfer (ICT) transition and was used as a fluorescent sensor for the discriminative sensing of nitroaromatic explosives. The aqueous suspension of TB-Zn-CP showed the largest quenching responses with high selectivity for phenolic-nitroaromatics (4-NP, 2,4-DNP and PA) even in the concurrent presence of other potentially competing nitroaromatic analytes. The fluorescence titration studies also provide evidence that TB-Zn-CP detects picric acid as low as the parts per billion (26.3 ppb) range. Furthermore, the observed fluorescence quenching responses of TB-Zn-CP towards picric acid were highly reversible. The highly selective fluorescence quenching responses including the reversible detection efficiency make the nanoscale coordination polymer TB-Zn-CP a potential material for the discriminative fluorescent sensing of nitroaromatic explosives. © The Royal Society of Chemistry.