IIT Madras is a public technical and research university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Founded in 1959, it is recognised as an Institute of National Importance.

IIT Madras has been ranked as the top engineering institute in India for four years in a row by the National Institutional Ranking Framework of the MHRD

It currently offers undergraduate, postgraduate and research degrees across 16 disciplines in Engineering, Sciences, Humanities and Management. About 596 faculty belonging to science and engineering departments and centres of the Institute are engaged in teaching, research and industrial consultancy.

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Detailed theory on a method of analysis of kinetic data based on sample size autocorrelation function was developed to identify the presence of reaction path heterogeneity based on the master equation approach. The behavior of such functions under ideal conditions as well as under heterogeneity conditions was discussed and some of the potential applications of this method have been summarized. Application of this theory to renaturation kinetics of DNA not only revealed the presence of path heterogeneity in the second zipping phase and quantified it but also proved that it was due to nonreactive modes of dynamics on conformational energy landscape, which agreed well with earlier studies.<h4>&nbsp;</h4>&nbsp;