Thapar University

About: Thapar University is a education organization based out in Patiāla, Punjab, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Computer science & Cloud computing. The organization has 2944 authors who have published 8558 publications receiving 130392 citations.

Synthesis of nitrogen doped mesoporous carbons for carbon dioxide capture

Abstract: Nitrogen doped mesoporous carbons were prepared by nanocasting method at varying carbonization temperatures followed by characterization in terms of their structural, textural and chemical properties. Melamine-formaldehyde resin and mesoporous silica were used as the polymeric precursor and hard template respectively. Meso-structural ordering of the template was retained by the prepared carbons as suggested by the structural analysis. Evolution of nitrogen and oxygen functionalities along with textural properties of nitrogen doped carbons were regulated by the carbonization temperature. The prepared carbons obtained by carbonization at 700 °C exhibited a maximum surface area of 266 m2 g−1 along with a nitrogen content up to 21 weight%. CO2 adsorption was studied in a fixed-bed column at several temperatures (30 to 100 °C) and CO2 concentrations (5 to 12.5%). Adsorbent reusability was examined by carrying out multiple adsorption–desorption cycles. MF-700 showed the highest CO2 adsorption capacity of 0.83 mmol g−1 at 30 °C. CO2 adsorption kinetics were investigated by fitting experimental CO2 uptake data to different adsorption kinetic models, out of which the fractional order model was found to fit over the complete adsorption range with the error% between experimental and model predicted data within the range of 5%. In addition, the isosteric heat of adsorption was estimated to be around 17 kJ mol−1, confirming the occurrence of the physiosorption process.

Amassing the Security: An ECC-Based Authentication Scheme for Internet of Drones

Abstract: The continuous innovation and progression in hardware, software and communication technologies helped the expansion and accelerated growth in Internet of Things based drone networks (IoD), for the devices, applications and people to communicate and share data. IoD can enhance comfort in many applications including, daily life, commercial, and military/rescue operations in smart cities. However, this growth in infrastructure smartness is also subject to new security threats and the countermeasures require new customized solutions for IoD. Many schemes to secure IoD environments are proposed recently; however, some of those were proved as insecure and some degrades the efficiency. In this article, using elliptic curve cryptography, we proposed a new authentication scheme to secure the communication between a user and a drone flying in some specific flying zone. The security of the proposed scheme is solicited using formal Random oracle method along with a brief discussion on security aspects provided by proposed scheme. Finally, the comparisons with some related and latest schemes is illustrated.