We study structural, physical, and chemical properties of novel reduced-dimensional materials. This includes (i) electrical, optical, and magnetic properties of 1-demensional and 2-dimensional materials;

(ii) electrocatalytic activities of nanoparticles for HER, OER, and CO2 reduction (iii) electrochemical intercalation properties of nanostructured battery materials for Li-ion and Li-S batteries. Our lab has the capability for low and high temperature (8-1000 K) measurements of electrical and magnetic properties at magnetic fields from -1 to 1 Tesla. We also have the characterization techniques including polarized Raman spectroscopy, field emission, thermionic emission etc. Another area of exploration is the material properties under extreme pressure (upto 20 GPa) using a diamond anvil cell. Our group has developed various material synthesis techniques including chemical vapor deposition (CVD), plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), chemical vapor transport (CVT) etc. Based on the basic properties measured on our novel materials, we aim at developing chemical sensors, electrolyzers, batteries/supercapacitors etc.