Advanced Characterizations (AC)

• Advanced spectroscopic techniques for understanding emergent materials
• Operando insights into structure property correlations in energy materials
• Multi scale microstructural characterization of functional materials
• Low temperature transport properties of nanostructured materials

Quantum Materials & Devices (QD)

• Light matter interaction in low dimensional materials-Quantum Emitters)
• Thermal transport properties in van der Waal materials and topological insulators
• Superconductivity in strongly correlated system
• Spin on material properties and magnetic structures in quantum materials

Energy and Sustainable Materials (EN)

• Electrocatalytic Refinery for Sustainable Production of Fuels and Value-Added Products.
• Emerging Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical materials for Solar to Chemical Energy Conversion.
• Emerging Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical materials for Solar to Chemical Energy Conversion.
• Sustainable Materials for rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors.
• Thermoelectric and Phase-Change Materials for Waste Heat Recovery.
• Low-dimension and soft thermoelectric materials for body heat energy harvesting.

Environmental & Health Monitoring (EH)

• Functional nanomaterials and hybrid systems for Desalination and water Reclamation
• Smart and adaptive sensor-Actuator systems for chemical, gas and biological detection
• Advanced Bio Sensors and Bio interfaces for real time heath Monitoring and diagnostics.
• Carbon Capture, Utilization and storage (CCUS) Materials for a carbon-neutral future.

Electronics, Optics & Photonics (EL)

• Organic electronic materials from charge transport to applications
• Heterostructures and superlattices for photonics
• Emerging materials for plasmonic and nanophotonics
• Low dimensional hybrid perovskites for photoelectric devices

Computational Materials Science & Materials Informatics (CM)

• Simulation and modelling.
• Materials discovery via data-driven AI methods and Machine Learning.
• Advanced theoretical frameworks and Materials design.

Biomaterials & Soft Materials (BM)

• Advances in biomaterials characterisation and properties
• Bio-inspired materials for therapeutic
• Soft material-based wearable electronics
• Biocompatible, ingestible and bioresorbable soft materials and electronics

Advanced Functional Materials (AFM)

• Topological insulators, Ferroelectric, and Multiferroic Materials for Quantum and Energy Applications
• Emerging 2D and van der Waals Heterostructures Beyond Graphene
• Defect and Strain Engineering in Functional Oxides and Chalcogenides
• Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs), Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs), and Hybrid Perovskites for advanced devices
• Polymer and Biochar materials for sustainable future

Thin films & Surfaces (TF)

• Advances in Silicon Nanodevices-Fabrication and Quantum- related phenomena
• Functional Thin Films and surface for Energy, Optoelectronic, and Spintronic devices
• Epitaxial Quantum Materials and Interfaces-Precision Growth and Control for Next-Gen Devices

Industry-Academia Partnership (IA)

• Industrial Prespectives on Advanced Characterization Tools
• Bridging Academia and Industry for Advanced Devices
• Synergizing Industrial Challenges with Academic Expertise in Material Science
• Materials to device Innovations