Nanostructured Carbon based Electrodes for
Electrochemical Energy Storage
Development of
carbon based materials for Electrochemical
Energy Storage Systems such as Batteries, Supercapacitors and
Fuel Cells.
Advanced Materials for Renewable Energy Technologies
Nanotubes, nanowires, nanopillars, and nanostructured sheets which are under consideration as
electrodes for advanced energy generation, storage, and conversion devices.
Artificial Polymer Nanodielectrics
Development of polymer nanodielectric materials for flexible electronics and
energy storage solutions. These are artificial metal embedded polymer
nanomaterials with high volumetric efficiency and suitable for high energy
density high capacitance rating.
NanoEnergetic Materials Technology Development of energetic materials built at the nanoscale and creation of test procedures to evaluate the ignition performance. These are core-shell nanoparticles and nanowires and which have potential applications as explosive and propellants.
Field Emissive Cold Cathode Technology
Development of field emissive electron sources based on thin
film and nanotubes materials. It is expected that these electron
sources will lead to advanced communication systems, high
temperature sensors, and a significant improvement in the
performance of electric ion space-thrusters.
Nitride Materials and Heterostructures
Development of BN-CN-TiN-TaN thin films –based structures for
high temperature applications in microelectronics (MIS, LEDs, and detectors),
micro-power devices (high frequency switching power supplies),
and passive hard coatings for tribological applications.
Energy Storage
1.
Formulation of CNT/graphene based electrodes for Li-Ion
batteries.
2.
Solid state Gel-like electrolytes for Li-Ion Batteries.
3.
Supercapacitor materials made of metal nanoparticles–oxide
core-shell structure embedded in polymers.
Energy Conversion:
1.
Titanium
dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2-NP) and thin films for
photo-catalytic activities.
2.
Polymers -
doped TiO2-NP for efficient photovoltaic absorption.
NanoEnergetics
1.
Formation
and processing of functionalized Al nanoparticles fuel.
2.
Functionalization of Al-Al2O3 core-shell
nanoparticles for covalent binding with prospective
oxidizers such as like Bi2O3 or I2O5.
CNT-Nanocomposites
1.
Fabrication
of percolative and coated CNT-Polymer nanocomposites.
2.
Fabrication
of highly dispersed CNT and/or graphene based polymer
nanocomposites.
3.
Functionalization of CNTs and graphene platelets.
Materials Synthesis
1.
Carbon
nanotubes (CNTs).
2.
Production
of boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) by high energy milling
technique.
3.
Wet
chemistry synthesis of core-shell based metal nanoparticles.
4.
Thin films
formulation by spin-coating techniques.
This film growth
1.
Boron
nitride, carbon nitride, titanium/tantalum nitride using ion
assisted physical vapor deposition techniques (ion source,
electron cyclotron source, neutral beam).
2.
Low
temperature SiO2 deposition using Plasma Enhanced
CVD.
Devices Fabrication & Characterization
1.
Supercapacitors.
2.
Batteries.
3.
Pressure
sensors.
4.
Broadband
and narrowband microwave resonators.
Modeling/simulation
1.
FEM
Analysis.
2.
Large scale
multi-physics coupling simulation.