Research Topics in New Materials
1. AI Chips and AI Processors, AI for Materials
-- AI Chips and AI Processors
- Low-power Analog AI Processor
- In-memory Processing
- Phase-change Material
- Phase-change Memory
-- AI for Materials Science and Engineering
- Dataset and tools for employing AI for materials
- Integrating experiments with AI techniques
- Graph neural network
- Comparison of AI techniques for materials
- Challenges applying AI to materials
- Uncertainty quantification and building trust in AI predictions
- Generative modeling
- Using AI to develop classical force-fields
- Natural language processing
- AI creates New Materials
2. Bio-Materials, Bio-SoC, Bio-Nanotech, Bio-NEMS/Bio-MEMS, Biomedical Devices and Optics
-- Bio-Materials
- Bioinspired Materials
- Biomaterials - Cells
- Biomaterials - Proteins
- Biomaterials - Vaccines
- Biomedical Materials
- Biomineralization
- DNA and RNA
- Drug delivery
- Implants
- Tissues
- Biomolecular Engineering
- Biomimetic Materials: Characterization, Chemistry and Self-Assembly
- Biocompatible Materials for Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering
- Biomaterials for Device Biointerface with Anti-infective and Antibacterial Applications
- Functional Nanomaterials for Therapeutic Delivery, Diagnosis and Detection
- Materials for Advanced Drug Delivery
- Bio-compatible Materials and Packaging
- Synthesis and Fabrication of Biomaterials and Devices
- Polymer/Silicon Hybrid Microsystems
- Orthopaedic Polymers
- Interactions of Biomaterials and Cells
- Nanomaterials and biological systems
- Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
- Recent Advances in Rapid Prototyping of Biomaterials
- Biologically Derived Materials from Natural Resources
- New Frontiers in Polymers and Fibers for Biomedical Applications
- Standards in Biomaterials Development
- Biomolecular Materials
- Translational genomics in engineering
- Tissue engineering
- Neuro-engineering
- Cell engineering
- Cellular and biomolecular Engineering
- Device-tissue integration
- Nano-mechanisms for molecular systems
- Materials engineering & microfabrication
- Biomedical polymer material
- Biomembranes
- Bioceramics and composites material
- Artificial organs
-- Biomedical Devices and Bio-SoC (Bio-System-on-a-Chip)
- System-on-a-Chip
- Bio-Chips
- Bio-System-on-a-Chip (Bio-SoC)
- Organ-on-A-Chip
- Organ on a chip technology and its role in future healthcare
- Body-on-A-Chip
- Bioelectromagnetics applications
- Bioinstrumentation
- Electrophysiology techniques
- Biomedical Signal Processing
- Circuits for Biomedical Applications/Devices
- Physiological system and medical devices
- Organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors (OMIECs)
-- Bio-Nanotech
- Bio-Nanotechnologies, Bio-NEMS, Bio-MEMS
- Nanomedicine
- Biomaterials for nanomedicine
- Nanoscale Materials, Structures and Devices
- Optical Micro- and Nanometrology
- Advanced Micro/Nano Fabrication Techniques
- Micro- and Nano-scaled Sensors and Actuators
- Lipid Nanoparticle Development
- Nanocellulose
- Nanostructures for Bio Sensing and Detection
- Nanomedicine: Emerging Nanomaterials for Bioimaging, Targeting and Therapeutic Applications
- Nanoscale Electromechanical Phenomena in Advanced Materials for Biological Applications
-- Bio-NEMS/Bio-MEMS
- Nanotechnology, NEMS, MEMS
- MEMS Supercapacitor
- MEMS Packaging Optimization
- Bio-NEMS/Bio-MEMS
- Optical MEMS
- Optofluidics
- Microfluidics for Biomedical Applications
- NEMS/MEMS for Biomedical Applications
-- Biomedical Devices and Optics
- Biomedical Optics
- Biophotonics
- Biomedical Sensing Materials, Electrodes, and Devices
- Implantable Medical Devices
- Biosensors and Bioelectronics
- Security and Sensing
- Biochemical Sensors
- Photonic Sensors
- Ultra-thin, Flexible Sensor
- Nanobiosensors
- Biosensors for Theranostics and Imaging
- Bioinstrumentation
- Nanoscale 3D and 4D Tissue Engineering Manufacturing
- Stem Cell Technology
- Self-healing Bioelectronic and Biosensor Miomaterials
- Environmental Biosensors
- Biosensors for Live Imaging
- Biosensors in Drug Delivery and Clinical Chemistry
- Graphene sensor
- Micro/Nanofluidics
- Materials in Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip
- Biomimetic Devices and Systems
- Miniaturized Diagnostic Medical Devices
- Body Area Sensor Networks
-- Biophysics
- Molecular biophysics
- Biophysics and structural biology
- Biophysical approaches to cell biology
- Complex biological systems
- Computational and theoretical biophysics
- Membrane biophysics
- Protein engineering and synthetic biology
- Proteomics and genomics
- Structural biology
-- Biomechanics
- Mechanobiology
- Orthopedics
- Musculoskeletal mechanics
- Cardiac mechanics
- Mechano-electrochemical responses of soft and hard tissues
- Cell-matrix interactions
- Cellular biomechanics
- Functional tissue engineering
- Image-based functional anatomy
- Computer-assisted surgery and surgical planning
- New Emerging Areas
-- Sports Engineering
- Aero- and hydrodynamics.
- Biomechanics, materials and human material interaction.
- Measurement, feedback and simulation
- Motivation and persuasion to compete in sports, play and exercise
- Sports infrastructure and facilities
- Wearable exoskeletons and prostheses
- Machine learning and computer Vision
- Autonomous and Connected Vehicles
- Automotive system dynamics and control
- Stroke rehabilitation Robotics
- Dynamic Walking and balance control
- Golf biomechanics and club optimization
- Human movement prediction for orthopedic surgery
- Olympic and paralympic sports engineering
3. Biochemistry, Water Purification
-- Biochemistry
- Lipid Chemistry & Discovery, Formulation & Process Development
-- New Materials and Systems for Water Purification
- Wastewater and Recycle
- Biological Wastewater Treatment
- Nanotechnology for Drinking Water and Waste Water Treatment
- Biocatalysis for Water Treatment and Reuse
- Human Pathogenic Viruses
- Advanced Water Purification Technology Using Membrane Process
- Desalination Principles and Approaches
- Microbial Desalination Cells
- Water Desalination Via Ion Concentration Polarization
- Portable Solar Powered Water Purification Systems
- Drinking Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes
- Water Softening Technology
- Ultrapure Water Technology
- Other Emerging Topics
4. Microsystems and Nanodevices
- Carbon nanotube transistors, molecular transistors
- Spintronics and quantum devices
- Photovoltaics
- Nanoengineered thin films and materials
- Advanced nanofabrication techniques such as nanoimprinting, self assembly
- Nanostructures and nanodevices for the detection and treatment of diseases
- Microarrays for DNA analysis and drug development
- mMcrofluidics and Lab-on-a-chip systems for diagnostics and bioanalysis
- Micro and nano-electro-mechanical devices for sensing and actuation
- Optical and radio-frequency micro-electro-mechanical systems
- Chplets technology
5. Green and Electronic Materials
-- Electronic Materials and Devices
- Electrical Materials
- Two-Dimensional and Related Materials: Fundamental Science, Preparation, and Applications
- Compound Semiconductor and Wide Bandgap Materials for Electronic and Optical Devices
- Advanced Interconnects and Packaging, Materials, Characterization, and Methodology
- Advanced Technologies for Memory Devices and Flexible Electronics
- Advanced Materials and Related Technology for Next Generation Displays
- Electromagnetic Metamaterials
- Plasmonics and Metamaterials
- Nanomaterials and Composites
- Nanoscale Materials, Structures and Devices
- Wireless Electronic Skin
- Novel Nano-fabrications Techniques
- Materials Chemistry and Physics
- Solid State Physics
- Flexible Electronics
- Green electronics
- Heterogeneous Electronics
- Complementary Oxide-Thin Film Transistor Technology
- Flexible Photovoltaic Devices
- Flexible and Stretchable Electronics
- AI Chips
- AI Accelerators
-- Sensor Technologies
- Smarter sensors
- Power-efficient sensors
- Soft and virtual sensors
- Sensor fusion
- Biosensors
- Electric current, magnetic or radio sensors
- Humidity sensors
- Fluid velocity or flow sensors
- Pressure sensors
- Thermal or temperature sensors
- Optical sensors
- Position sensors
- Environmental sensors
- Chemical sensors
- Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) Detectors
-- Green Materials for Electronics and Advanced Technologies
- Aluminium
- Borosilicate Glass
- Iron Alloys
- Graphene
- Biomaterials
6. Photonic Materials
- Photonics and Nano Devices
- Nanoscale Optics
- Novel Photon Sources
- Advanced Optoelectronic Materials
- Optical Metamaterials
- Nonlinear Optics
- Organic Electronic and Opto-electronic Materials
- Organic Photonic Materials and Devices
- Organic Sensors
- New Materials for Organic Light-emitting Diodes (OLEDs)
- Nano-optics
- Optoelectronics and Nanophotonics
- Plasmonics
- Microwave Photonics
- Computational Materials Science and Engineering
- Materials Informatics
- Composites
- Organic-Inorganic Composite Materials
- Materials Performance
- Materials Characterization, Processing and Manufacturing
- Mechanical Properties and Responses to Deformation
- Microstructure and Property Relationships in Materials
- Micro- and Nano-fabrication
- Nanotechnology, NEMS, MEMS
- Interfacial Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- Nanostructured Materials
- Synthesis and Architecture of Nanomaterials
- Nanowires, Nanoparticles, and Quantum Dots
- Nanotubes and Nanowires
- Nanowires and Thermoelectric Materials
- Heat Energy Harvesting Technology
- High-density Rechargeable Batteries
- Carbon Nanotubes: Growth, Processing, Characterization and Devices
- Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene: Synthesis, Functionalisation and Applications
- Graphene, BN, MoS2 and Other 2D Materials and Devices
- Graphene-based Biosensors (Optical, Electrical etc)
- Graphene Optoelectronics
- The Physics and Applications of Nano-photonics and Photodetectors-based on Graphene, related 2D Materials
- Recent Theoretical Advances and Simulation Studies of Graphene, 2D Materials
- Graphene-Enhanced Materials for 3D Printing
- 3D and 4D Printing Materials
- Nanodevices and Nanofabrication
- Nanodevices, Enabling Nanotechnologies, Integrated Nanosystems
- Silicon Nanophotonics: Modulators, Switches, Light Emission
- Optomechanical Relay
- Flexible Silicon Photonics
- Materials, Structures & Devices for Nanoscale Electronic-Photonic Integration
- Next Generation Semiconductor Devices
7. Magnetic, Semiconductor, and Superconducting Materials
-- Magnetic Materials
- Advanced Magnetic Materials
- Electromagnetics
- Magnetic Materials: Soft and Hard
- Magnetic Materials: Theory, Property Measurements and Analyses (Tools and Technologies)
- Magnetic Materials: Theoretical Calculation and Simulation
- Magnetic Materials for Energy
- Advanced Magnetic Materials and Their Applications
- Nanoscale Magnetic Materials and Applications
- Fabrication of ferromagnetic materials; hard and soft types (powders, bulks, thin-films, composite materials)
- Search of rare-earth free magnetic materials
- Alternative ways to generate high magnetic fields including superconducting trapped-field magnets
- Processing technologies: Deposition of films, structuring, ink jet-printing, 3D-printing, new shapes of materials (nanowires, porous materials, composites)
- Investigation of microstructure
- Magnetic imaging (MRI, magnetic force microscopy, magneto-optics)
- Tuning the magnetic properties to higher efficiency
- Materials issues for spintronics
- Optimizing the properties magnetic materials for given applications
- New emerging applications of magnetic materials
-- Semiconductor Materials
- Semiconductor Physics
- Semiconductor Metrology and Inspection
- Carbon Electronics
- Surface Acoustic Waves
- Quantum Optics
- Terahertz Research
- Molecular Beam Epitaxy
- 2D Transport
- 1D Transport
- Quantum Dot Refrigeration
- Fundamentals of Low Dimensional Systems
- Defects in Semiconductors
- Semiconductor Band Structures
- Analog Integrated Circuit Design
- CMOS Device Reliability
- CMOS Technology
- Nano CMOS Device Quantum Simulation
- Semiconductor Inks
-- Superconductors and Superconducting Materials
- Room temperature superconductor
- Low temperature superconducting materials
- Superconductors are materials that offer no resistance to electrical current. Prominent examples of superconductors include aluminium, niobium, magnesium diboride, cuprates such as yttrium barium copper oxide and iron pnictides.
- Superconducting materials have been used experimentally to speed up connections between computer chips, and superconducting coils make possible the very powerful electromagnets at work in some of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines used by doctors to examine soft tissue inside their patients.
8. Organic Polymer Materials, Soft Materials, Hybrid Materials
-- Organic Polymer Materials
- Chemical Materials
- Advanced Polymeric Materials
- Polymeric Materials
- Smart Polymers
- Polymer Organic Semiconductor Materials and Devices
- Electro-optic (EO) Polymers and Devices
- Hydrogels and Water-Soluble Polymers
- Membrane Materials and Technologies for Emerging Applications
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Smart Materials
-- Soft Materials
- Soft materials include liquids, colloids, polymers, foams, gels, granular materials, liquid crystals, flesh, and a number of biomaterials.
-- Hybrid Materials
- Nanoparticle
- Graphene
- Nanotubes
- Hydrogel
- Nanostructured Materials
- Graphene Oxide
- Reduced Graphene Oxide
9. New Energy Materials, Perovskite, and Other Materials
- Advanced Carbon Materials
- Advanced Ceramic Materials
- Nanoscale Materials, Structures and Devices
- Mechanical Behavior and Performance of Ceramics and Composites
- Electroceramics
- Next Generation Bioceramics and Biocomposites
- Virtual Materials (Computational) Design and Ceramic Genome
- Porous Ceramics: Novel Developments and Applications
- Advanced Ceramic Coatings for Structural, Environmental and Functional Applications
- Carbon Dots (CDs)
- Mxenes Materials
- Carbon nanocomposites: mcellulose metal oxide nanocomposites, metal oxide-carbon nanostructures and metals‑carbon nanostructures
- Nanostructured Ceramics
- Nanoceramics and Nanohybrids for Energy, Environment and Healthcare
- Geopolymers, Chemically Bonded Ceramics and Eco-friendly and Sustainable Materials
- Inorganic Membranes and Their Applications
- Energy and Environment Materials
- Solar Chemistry and Photocatalysis
- Hybrid, Organic and Perovskites Photovoltaics
- Solar Cells (Perovskites, Organic, Hybrid, Dye Sensitized, Si-based)
- Photocatalysis and Photosynthesis (Photocatalytic Water Splitting, Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction, Photoelectrochemical Cells, Solar Fuel Generation, Interfacial Charge Dynamics)
- Energy Conversion and Storage (Electrochemical Batteries, Supercapacitors, Thermoelectrics)
- Thin Film Photovoltaic Device
- Nanoimprinted Organic Solar Cells
- Next-generation Solar-cell Materials and Devices
- Nanostructure Materials for Solar Energy Conversion
- Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems
- Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion: Silicon and Beyond
- Photovoltaics: Organic and Hybrid
- Hydrogen Production and Storage
- Artificial Photosynthesis
- Advanced Ceramic Materials and Processing for Photonics and Energy
- Fuel Cells Components
- Fuel Cell Electrochemistry
- Materials for Fuel Cells
- Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC)
- Fuel Cell Technologies and Applications
- Fuel Cell Systems and Applications
- Microbial Fuel Cells
- Electrochemistry
- Electrocatalysis
- Materials and Technologies for Solid State Lighting
- LEDs
- Solid-state Devices for Light Emission and Detection
- Advanced Materials and Technologies for Energy Generation and Rechargeable Energy Storage
- Rare Earth Oxides for Energy, Optics and Biomedical Applications
- Ion-Transport Membranes
- Advanced Structure Materials
- High-Entropy Alloys and Metallic Glass Materials
- Structural Light Alloys
- Advanced Steels
- Advanced Structure Materials: Superalloys
- 3D Additive Manufacturing Materials and Technology
- Materials for Extreme Environments
- Structural Materials
- Materials Challenges for Future Nuclear Fission and Fusion Technologies
- High-entropy Materials
- High-entropy Materials for Catalysis
- Materials Technology for Nuclear Waste Treatment and Disposal
- Nuclear Power Reactor Waste and Deep Geological Disposal of Waste
10. Energy Storage Technology and Materials
-- Energy Storage Systems
- Mechanical energy
- Gravity storage systems
- Thermal energy
- Chemical energy
- Electrochemical energy
- Electrical energy
-- New Battery Technologies
- Solid-state batteries
- Lithium-sulfur batteries
- Cobalt-free lithium-ion batteries
- Sodium-ion batteries
- Fluoride-ion batteries
- Iron-air batteries
- Zinc-based batteries
9. Metals, Ceramics, Composite Materials
- Intelligent window technology
- Liquid Metal
- Metallurgy
- Advanced Iron and Steelmaking
- Metal Forming
- Steel Products and Properties
- Self-Healing Metals and Advanced Metal-matrix Composites
- Tribology
- Corrosion
- Surface Science and Engineering
- Modern Trends in Surface Engineering
- Surface Dynamics
- Surface Diffusion
- Surface Modification
- Non-Ferrous Metals and Alloys
- Microstructure Engineering
- Hydrometallurgy
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Superconductors
- Economics and Management of Metallurgical Production
- Advanced Ceramics and Composites for Sustainable Nuclear Energy and Fusion Energy
- Structural Materials
- Composite and Nano Materials
- Metal and Alloy Materials
- Other Emerging Topics
11. Quantum Materials, Quantum Computing and Technologies
-- Quantum Computing
- Quantum sensing
- Quantum algorithms
- Quantum communication
- Quantum computing
- Quantum Intelligence
- Quantum materials
- Benchmarking quantum hardware
- Quantum chemistry
- Quantum error correction
- Quantum optical microscope
- Quantum simulation
- From quantum spin systems to anyons
- Hybrid quantum systems
- Quantum computation
- Quantum computing applications
- Quantum machine learning
- Quantum networks
- Chemical kinetics and quantum mechanics
- Integrated quantum photonics
- Nanoelectronics-based quantum information processing
- Nanoscale quantum thermometry
- Quantum measurement, metrology and lithography
- Quantum circuit optimization
- Quantum error characterization/suppression/mitigation
-- Quantum Dot Technology
- QD-LED displays
-- Quantum Dots for Biological Applications
- Biofabrication
- Biomaterials
- Biomechanics
- Bioprocess Engineering
- Biosafety and Biosecurity
- Biosensors and Biomolecular Electronics
- Industrial Biotechnology
- Nanobiotechnology
-- Quantum Effect
- Discrete
- Quanta
- Particle and wave duality
- Probabilistic
- Uncertainty
- Superposition
- Schrödinger’s cat
- Cat state
- Entanglement
- Spooky action at a distance
- Bell’s theorem and Bell’s inequality
- Bell states
- Phase
- Interference
- Wave function
- Density matrix or density operator
- Probability amplitude
- Unitarity principle
- Basis state
- Computational basis state
- Quantum state
- State vector
- Collapse of wave function on measurement
- Measurement
- No-cloning theorem
- Hamiltonian
- Schrödinger’s equation
- Time evolution
- Fermi-Dirac statistics
- Bose-Einstein statistics
- Fermions
- Bosons
- Pauli exclusion principle
- Spin
- Integer spin
- Half-spin or half-integer spin or spin 1/2
- Spin up and spin down
- Cooper pairs
- Superconductivity and superfluidity
- Tunneling
- Josephson effect
- Quantum hall effect
- Macroscopic quantum effects
- Zero-point energy and vacuum fluctuations
-- Quantum Chemistry
- Computational quantum chemistry
- Experiments of chemical systems
- Experimental and theoretical methods
- Electronic structure and computational chemistry
- Wave model
- Valence bond
- Molecular orbital
- Density functional theory
- Chemical dynamics
- Adiabatic chemical dynamics
- Non-adiabatic chemical dynamics
- Atomic physics
- Computational chemistry
- Condensed matter physics
- Electron localization function
- Physical chemistry
-- Quantum Materials
- Quantum Materials
- Quantum Science and Engineering
- Quantum Chemistry
- Computational Chemistry
- Quantum Chemistry and Machine Learning
- Quantum Electronics
- Quantum Information Science
- Q-Silicon
- Quantum Optics
- Quantum Dots
- Quantum-Enhanced Ultra-Precise Sensing
- Exploring Quantum Computing for High-Energy Physics
- Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs)
- quantum technologies
- Quantum Sensing
- Quantum Metrology
- Quantum Imaging
- Photonic-based quantum computation
- Quantum nano-photonics
- Quantum nano-photonics for applications in quantum communication, computation and biomedical imaging