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The availability of tech-savy and skilled human resource is one of the major factors affecting the growth and development of a country. Education plays a vital role in shaping the human resource. Education is a key factor for deciding the human development index (HDI). Our constitution makers have directed Union and State governments to take necessary steps and frame policies to bring education within reach of citizens of the country.Imparting quality education in schools and colleges has always been at the focus of education policy makers. The methods of imparting education and learning have been debated and modified to suit the changing requirements. The teacher centered class-room teaching is still most widely used way of imparting education in India. It needs to be modified to suit the modern requirements, if not fully replaced by other methods of learning. The information and communication technology (ICT) is looked as a means of upgrading and overhauling the complete education system. In medicine, tourism, travel, business, law, banking, engineering and architecture ICT's impact is enormous. However education is lagging far behind in this regard. ICT can reform our education system to bring it at par with global systems without compromising our social values. The use of ICT in imparting education makes it learner oriented rather than the present teacher oriented system. ICT allows teachers to work as coaches and mentors of students rather than content experts. It is believed that ICT encourages and support independent learning. Physics lies at the heart of most of technological developments. So the knowledge of Physics should be given to the learners in a very effective manner. Smart classes will definitely enhance the reach and effectiveness of Physics teaching; however it would require a huge investment. This paper tries to find out ways and means in which ICT should be introduced in Indian education system with special reference to physics teaching to enhance its reach and effectiveness.

Zinc Oxide (ZnO) is an intrinsic n-type metal oxide-based semiconductor with a wide bandgap and has attracted much attention of researchers due to its unique properties and applications in optoelectronic devices, ceramics, catalysis, pigments and many others. Herein, ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) have been successfully synthesised by a simple and cost-effective chemical co-precipitation method. The product is characterized by x-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy (UV-Vis), photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL) and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). The XRD pattern confirms the formation of the wurtzite phase ZnO nanoparticles. The structural information and composition were further confirmed by FTIR where the stretching vibration bands appeared at 493 cm–1, 562 cm–1 and 831 cm–1 are due to the Zn-O bond. The absorption edge is observed at 359 -nm which is due to its quantum confinement effect whereas the PL emission is observed in the range of 370 nm-600 nm. M-H loop shows the presence of room temperature ferromagnetism in ZnO nanoparticles possibly due to the presence of oxygen vacancies.

Graphene, a unique allotrope of carbon, has garnered a huge amount of attention amongst researchers as its unique properties and promising applications in various real-life domains like in efficient batteries, solar cells, medicinal technologies, environmental remediation, circuit boards, lighting and display, and anti-corrosion has resulted in its commercial exploitation and implementation in everyday life. Since 2004 graphene has been one of the most beautiful scientific and technological achievements. The unique electronic cloud forming the bond between different carbon atoms in graphene leads to several inquisitive questions raised in the field of quantum physics. Till now graphene has been exploited for its electronic and optical properties but new research has shown that phononic properties of graphene will lead to the development of “killer” practical applications in the future. In this review article we have explored the structure, properties and the phononics of graphene with a special reference to few-layer graphene (FLG) and graphene Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs).