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