1. Phase Separated Composite of Films (PSCOF)

2. Magnetic Field Induced Alignment of Liquid Crystal

3. Characterizations of LC Alignment Surfaces Using X-ray Reflectivity*

4. Biaxial Nematic and Smectic Mesogens*

5. Bent-Core Liquid Crystal Materials*

6. Photo-Voltaic Discotic Liquid Crystals

7. Chromonic Liquid Crystals*

8. Biophysical Characterization of Lipids and Lipid/protein Interactions

9. Dynamics of Liquid Crystal Elastomers*

10. DeVries Smectic Phases*

11. Phasmidic Materials

12. Nematic Liquid Crystals doped with Quantum Dots/Rods

*active research projects.