The Department conducts research in the following areas:

• Biocatalysis
• Coordination and organometallic chemistry
• Chemical waves (experiments)
• Chemical waves (therory)
• Control of inorganic phase growth
• Design and synthesis of novel photo-active dendrimers
• Developing new probe molecules based on nanocapsules, nanocrystals, curcurmin and PAHs for physical and biophysical studies
• Discotic liquid crystals
• Fluorescence sensing and spectroscopic investigation on multi-component analysis and biosensor development
• Fluorescence spectroscopy, imaging and applications
• Generalized hydrodynamics
• Hybrid solid materials
• Irreversible nonequilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
• Laboratory and field investigations of atmospheric chemistry processes
• Luminescence, solid surface room temperature phosphorescence (SS-RTP) and diffuse reflectance spectrometry (DRS)
• Molecular recognition
• Monitoring of organic and inorganic pollutants in industrial effluent under rigorous conditions
• Nanoscopy and single molecule studies in physical and biophysical chemistry
• New methods for depollution of water contaminated by organic pollutants
• Nonlinear dynamics in chemistry
• Organic light emitting diodes (OLED's), organic field effect transistors (OFET's), and organic solar cells
• Patterns and fractals in precipitate and metal electro-deposition systems
• Photocatalysis
• Photoelectrochemistry of semiconductors
• Photophysical and Biophysical Chemistry
• Probe Chemistry
• Reactive intermediates
• Self-assembled mono-layers (SAMs) of bioactive material and poly-peptides on metal surfaces
• Solid-state stacking of organic materials
• Study of electronic structure of unsaturated transition metal complexes and their reactions
• Supramolecular chemistry
• Surface chemistry
• Synthesis, assembly and physical properties of nanostructured materials
• Synthesis of biomaterials for drug delivery
• Synthesis of carbocyclic DNA analogs
• Synthesis of electron-deficient materials for organic electronics and
  opto-electronics applications
• Synthetic heterocyclic chemistry
• Use of the reductive properties of Zero Valent Iron for the degradation of pesticides and chlorinated organic compounds in water