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  • Novel and interesting antibiotic scaffolds from endophytic fungi of Sri Lankan origin 
    Ratnaweera, Pamoda B (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2019-09)
    Antibiotic resistance within a wide range of infectious agents is increasing steadily, causing a growing public health crisis in the world today. The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported infectious and parasitic ...
  • Chirality of Molecules 
    Gunaratna, Medha .J (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2019-09)
    Chirality is the existence of different configurations (three dimensional arrangements) of a substance with an identical chemical formula.
  • My life with light 
    Perera, Tharushi .A (2019-09)
    I sincerely thank Dr. Ranmal Gunatilake, Hon. Editor, Institute of Chemistry Ceylon for the opportunity to address the Chemistry in Sri Lanka readers through the medium of this guest editorial. It is a real honor ...
  • A Breakthrough in Battery Research: Lithium Ion Batteries 
    Rathuwadu, Nadeesha (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2020-01)
    As the energy crisis is growing, the need of having a sustainable energy economy has become crucial more than ever to cope with the high energy dependence and demand of the modern day-to-day work
  • Perovskites; Next Star Material for Clean Energy 
    Wijesekara, Anjana (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2020-01)
    One of the major challenges humanity must address is to transition away from a reliance on fossil fuels for energy production to clean, renewable sources of energy. There are three major motivations which drive research in ...
  • Electrochemical Energy Storage: Supercapacitors 
    Panangala, Samitha D (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2020-01)
    Various technologies are operated to supply the energy demands such as fossil fuels, nuclear energy, and renewable energy sources. Fossil fuels are depleting at an alarming rate emphasizing the need of alternative ...
  • Bubble Nucleation-based Electrochemical Detection of Surfactants 
    Ranaweera, Ruchiranga; Luo, Long (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2020-01)
    The formation and evolution of vapor and gas bubbles in a liquid body is a phenomenon of vast fundamental and applicative interest, for example, in commercial electrolytic processes in cavitation, in biomedical ...
  • Opium Alkaloids 
    Weerasiri, Kushan (Institute of Chemistry, 2020-01)
    Alkaloids constitute a class of nitrogen containing organic compounds that possess significant pharmacological properties. They occur mainly in plants and to a lesser extent in microorganisms and animals. The name ...
  • Chemistry of Perfumes 
    Qader, M Mallique; Perera, K .Sarath. D. (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2020-01)
    Perfumes or fragrances are the fusion of science and art: where chemists become creators and molecules make memories. Fragrances are unique.
  • Isomerism in Coordination Compounds 
    Perera, K. Sarath. D. (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2020-01)
    Isomers (compounds with the same chemical formula) can be broadly classified into (i) stereoisomers (e.g. geometrical and optical) with the same connectivity but having different spatial arrangements and (ii) structural ...
  • Valence Bond Theory 
    Perera, K. Sarath. D. (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2020-01)
    Metal centres of d-block form coordination compounds with ligands which can donate a pair of electrons. These ligands are known as sigma donors or Lewis bases. Some ligands that consist of suitable vacant orbitals ...
  • Biophysical Techniques to Probe Nanoparticle-Protein Interactions 
    Perera, Yasiru Randika (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2020-05)
    Nanoparticles (NP) have been used in the advancement of medicine and biotechnology, with applications ranging fromclinical diagnosis, drug delivery, tobiosensing. Nanoparticlecomposition canvary significantly from metals ...
  • Role of a Chemist in a Pandemic Situation 
    Rajapakse, R.M.G (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2020-05)
    The entire world is severely and adversely affected by the newly emerged Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection which was first discovered in the Wuhan Province of China in December 2019
  • Virtual Screening for Drug Discovery; Hurdles to Overcome for Better Drug Prediction 
    Perera, Anton Sameera (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2020-05)
    he cost to develop a new drug that would enter the market is found to be $2.6 billion, and only a percentage of less than 12% of new drug candidates that would enter clinical trials would obtain FDA approval as a ...
  • Viral Pandemics Through the World History in a Biochemical Viewpoint 
    Deshapriya, Uthpala (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2020-05)
    Disease and illness have affected humans since the dawn of life. Some of these diseases might affect a considerable portion of the human population at once while some are limited to a minuscule number.
  • Role of Biochemistry in Health Care; Progression from past to present 
    Elvitigala, D.A.S. (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2020-05)
    ‘Biochemistry’ is a relatively young scientific discipline among most of the subject disciplineswe are dealing with today, evidenced by its day by day expansion through new scientific discoveries.
  • The Role of Smoking Abeyance During Respiratory Virus Epidemics 
    Rathnayaka, Rajitha Kalum (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2020-05)
    Respiratory conditions impose an enormous burden on society. Oodles of people suffering and die because communicable and non-communicable respiratory diseases in every year.
  • Body and Surface Sanitization | Do’s and Don’ts 
    Ariyananda, Piyal (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2020-05)
    Suddenly the world surrendered to an unexpected creature unknown to its overly anticipated future plans. Predictions, anticipations, models, and discussions on the possible nuclear war, environmental disasters, ...
  • Fate and Transport of Viruses in Groundwater Environments 
    Vithanage, Meththika (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2020-05)
    Groundwater is widely used as drinking water supplies around the world, specifically in the developing economies. About 96 percent of all usable freshwater is found as groundwater, which globally provides 25 to 40 ...
  • Drug Discovery in Combating Viral Diseases 
    Samarakkody, Ann Sanoji (Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, 2020-05)
    Continued efforts toward discovery of novel therapeutic strategies is pivotal in combating viral diseases. Lack of proper therapies for a virus will inevitably cause a localized health crisis to move from an epidemic ...