The current research activities focused on various facets of colloids and functional materials, specifically involve:

Colloids: The development of synthetic strategies to fabricate colloidal particles with desired shape & size, their stabilization /dispersion and multi-directional assembly/patterning at larger length scale ranging from nm to µm to mm; modelling of colloids using DEM method.

Environmental Materials: Exploration of architectural chemistry for surface modification of mesoporous oxides and perovskites with nano metal/oxides for adsorption and decomposition of gaseous pollutants. Tuning of band gap energy of d0 and d10 elements for effective utilization in photocatalysis under solar light for decomposition of water and degradation of pollutants.

Catalysis: Fabrication of catalytic materials for the decomposition of organic & inorganic contaminants, low temperature CO and VOC oxidation, adsorbents and solid acid catalysts applications.

Coatings: Development of conducting coatings based on alumina, prosthetic coating on metal implants and rare-earth pigment based surface coatings.

Nanomaterials: Exploring various synthetic approaches based on electrophoretic deposition, langmuir blodgett and soft-chemistry (with or without template) to fabricate ordered arrays of perovskite, photocatalyst and semi-conducting hierarchical nanostructures and their possible applications in catalysis, opto-electronic devices etc.

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Efforts being put to fabricate high performance intermediate temperature SOFC and honeycomb SOFC.

Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting: To enhance the hydrogen–(-an energy carrier) production, the fabrication of an efficient photosensitive semiconductor and optimization of other PEC cell parameters is being undertaken.

Supramolecular Photochemistry: Molecular photonics and chemical logics, molecular recognition exploiting the supramolecular host-guest interaction.