1. Energy Harvesting (EH)

              

          a) Novel perovskite quantum nanostructures

          b) Organic Photovoltaics (OPVs) Based on Donor-Acceptor Polymer

               Assemblies

          c) Photoelectrochemical hydrogen and fuel generation devices using 

              semiconductor quantum dots and plasmonic effects

          d) Nano-engineered materials for next generation Thermoelectrics

          e) Metal-Organics and Hybrids for Thermoelectricity

          f) Developing non-noble metal nanoparticle based porous electrocatalysts

             for water splitting

         g) Nanocatalysts for efficient production of solar hydrogen and solar fuels

             (CO2 reduction)

               h) Organic and hybrid organic-inorganic ferro- and piezoelectric materials as

              nanogenerators and mechanical energy harvesters

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                                        2. Energy Storage (ES)

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            Nanostructured mesoporous materials for charge storage

            (Batteries (Li/Na), Supercapacitors, Pseudocapacitors

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3. Energy Conservation (EC)

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            Fabrication of Large Area Arrays of Nano-Scale Light Emitting Diodes

            (LEDs) and OLEDs

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4. Specialized Materials Characterization (MC)

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         a) Advanced linear and non-linear nano-optics methodologies for optical and

             opto-thermal processes in photovoltaic and photocatalytic nano-structures

         b) Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy for Probing the chemistry of Fuel cell,

              Battery and Water Splitting Reactions

         c) Time-of-Flight Photoconductivity and Transient Spectroscopies for Optimization

              of Dispersive Electronic Transport in Devices using Nanomaterials

         d) Atomic scale investigation and manipulation of surfaces and interfaces with

             scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM)

         e) Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance for characterizing Energy Materials

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                           5. Theory and Predictive Modelling (TPM)

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         a) First principles calculations and modeling studies for energy harvesting

             materials and Interfaces

         b) Nanoscale modeling of CO2 absorption and Ionic Liquid Doped Polym

             Electrolyte Membranes for Clean Energy