■ Biomimetic Inorganic Nano-materials
- Artificial photosynthesis system
- Cofactor NADH/NADPH regeneration
- Carbon dioxide conversion
- New bio-nano materials: interaction
- Detection of DNA and proteins
- Sensor for metal ions, small molecules

■ Artificial Photosynthesis
As part of a broad effort to achieve breakthrough innovations in energy production, our research is aimed at developing revolutionary methods to generate fuels directly from sunlight.

■ Biosensing
Biosensors combine a biological component, which can offer exquisite selectivity of detection, with a physical component to provide the readout mechanism. The biological element includes antibodies and enzymes which offer highly selective and sensitive detection chemistries.

■ Computational Physical Chemistry
- DNA and chromatins in biology and nanotechnology
- Crowding effects on biopolymer conformation and protein-protein associations
- Ice crystallization
- Stimuli-responsive polymers

- Fluorescent Probes
- Activatable Photosensitizers
- Molecular Recognition
- Organo Functional Materials

■ Chiral Chemistry
- Synthesis of chiral receptors
- L-D conversion of amino acids
- Origin of homochirality

■ Supramolecular Chemistry
- Chiral supramolecule
- Molecular recognition by supramolecules
- Peptide Chemistry

■ Next generation solar cells
- Organic Photovoltaics
- Plasmonic Solar Cells

■ Organic Semi-conducting materials and devices

- Chemical Dynamics & Spectroscopy
- Surface Chemistry & Catalysis
- Synthesis of one-dimensional nanomaterials
- Hybrid organic-inorganic functional materials

- New (Asymmetric) Catalytic Reactions
- Tandem Catalysis
- Synergistic and Cooperative Catalysis
- Catalyst Immobilization
- Ionic Liquid Chemistry
- Ionic Liquid-Nano Hybrids

■ Discovert and development of natural products as potential treatments for diseases
- Discovery of new antibiotics to treat human pathogens; Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA), Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and several hospital-acquired Gram-negative strains
- New cancer chemoprevention agents from a wide range of organisms
- Discovery of small natural products for treating central nervous system (CNS) disorders

My Lab focuses on the broad field of bioinspired inorganic chemistry relevant to biological and environmental processes, mainly involving in the first-row transition metal complexes.

Our research focuses on nanoscale materials and phenomena, impacting diverse areas of science and technology ranging from biomedicine to alternative energy. We use concepts and tools in biology to organize nanoparticles into mesoscale or macroscale assemblies with controllable architecture and properties. Our primary interest in this effort is to understand collective properties of nanomaterials and to learn how to manipulate materials properties through self-assembly.

■ Colloidal self-assembly of nanoparticles and amphiphilic block-copolymers
- Size-controlled assembly of magnetic polymersomes

■ Functional block copolymers
- Hierarchical assembly of conducting block-copolymers
- DNA nanostructures with enhanced binding properties

■ Synthesis, assembly, and properties of plasmonic nanoparticles
- Spiky nanoshell as a highly efficient SERS substrate
- Synthetic approach to mata-materials

■ Nanoscale materials for bioanalytical/medical applications and sustainable energy