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WELCOME to V.K. Jindal’s Home Page Uptil
recent past, we have devoted significant effort on understanding
harmonic and anharmonic effects in simple, molecular and complex solids.
Codes were developed in early eighties to compute phonon line widths and
shifts in molecular crystals. Experiments using inelastic neutron scattering
were also carried out to measure the temperature dependence of phonon
profiles and correlating these with theoretical models for organic molecular
crystals. Study of micellar systems using Small Angle Neutron Scattering
Experiments leading to shear induced organization and decay of rod-like
mi-cells was carried out. Since
recently, we have been involved in areas of research, like modelling
structure and dynamics of doped and undoped carbon cluster solids, fullerene
solids, carbon nanotubes and nanoparticales, simple and organic molecular
crystals. We also study anharmonic effects, and energy flow in materials
under high static and dynamic pressure. Experimental activities
involve irradiation of thin film samples to heavy and swift ions and characterizing
them looking for phase transformations, effect of fluence and ion mass and
charge, and modification of chemical bonding. We also work on methods to
produce carbon nanotubes. Fullerene Solids and
Nanotubes: Using theoretical model potentials, we study bulk, structure and
thermodynamic properties of materials of carbon nanotubes and fullerenes.
This has also helped in studying phase transformations under high pressure
and temperature in these materials. Also structure of single wall nantubes
has been studied in detail under hydrostatic pressure. Very
recently, we started to investigate heterofullerenes and
polynitrogen clusters inside fullerene cage and use abinitio
calculations to study electronic, structural and vibrational
properties. For information on specific issues, click the links on
the left.
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