Advanced Water Technology

Flexible Thermoelectric Converters. Advanced Technologies and Treatment Process Optimization. Using machine learning simulation for water quality prediction in water treatment and distribution systems. Advanced oxidation process in water treatment. Novel material application in Environmental field. Industrial wastewater treatment. Stormwater runoff treatment and reuse.

Battery Materials & Devices

Redox targeting-based flow batteries for high density large-scale energy storage. Integrated energy storage & decoupled on-demand hydrogen production. Redox-mediated electrometallurgical spent battery materials recycling. High-Performance Flexible Thermoelectric Materials. Flexible Thermoelectric Converters.

Characterisation of Nanomaterials

Characterization of multifield coupling phenomena and funactional properties of advanced materials by using advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) techniques. In-situ micromechanical characterization of advanced materials. Development of new multifrequency SPM techniques. Data-driven image analysis for SPM techniques.

Nanocatalyst & Hydrogen Energy

Development of various hybrid nanomaterials with hetero-structures for photocatalytic applications in Energy and Environment. Unique Plasmon resonance properties of metal nanoparticles will be utilized to develop various hybrid nanomaterials with enhanced linear and nonlinear optical properties for various biomedical and optoelectronic applications. Conjugated polymers act as two-photon light harvesting materials for various biomedical applications such as bio-sensing, bio-imaging and photodynamic cancer therapy to improve their efficiencies.

Electronic Nanomaterials

Research areas include materials and heterostructures for spin-orbit torque and devices, spin Hall effect, Rashba effect, orbital Hall effect, spin wave, spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance, non-volatile magnetic memory-based logic devices and neural network computing.