Based on the expertise of the expert team at IISER TVM, the following will be the thrust areas of research.

Condensed Matter Physics
• Spintronics
• Quantum Materials

Energy Materials and Devices
• Materials development for next generation batteries
• Advanced materials for electro-/photocatalytic solar fuel generation
• Thermoelectric Materials

Biomaterials and Bioengineering
• Biodegradable Drug Carrier Systems
• Antimicrobial Coatings
• Bone Tissue Engineering

Computational Materials Science
• Computational electrodynamics
• First-principles approaches

Materials Modelling
• Intermolecular force field development
• Plasmonics

Supramolecular Chemistry
• DNA Nanotechnology
• Cancer Therapy

Opto-Electronic Materials
• Semiconductor quantum dots and plasmonics
• Time-resolved single molecule/particle and transient spectroscopy

Smart and Adaptive Materials
• Chemical and BioSensors devices