Properties of Carbon Nanotubes.- Electronic properties of Si and Ge pure and core-shell nanowires from first principle study.- Compositionally Graded III-nitride Nanowire Heterostructures: Growth, Characterization, and Applications.- Mechanical Characterization of Graphene.- Nanostructured ZnO materials: synthesis, properties and applications.- Nanosized gold and silver spherical, spiky and multi-branched particles.- Magnetite and other Fe-oxide nanoparticles.- Hierarchical Self-assembled Peptide Nano-ensembles.- Nanostructure Formation in Hydrogels.- Nanomanipulation and nanotribology of nanoparticles and nanotubes using atomic force microscopy.- Fabrication, properties and applications of gold nanopillars.- Stabilization and characterization of iron oxide superparamagnetic core-shell nanoparticles for biomedical applications.- Bio-inorganic nanomaterials for biomedical applications (Bio-silica and Polyphosphate).- Lipids as biological materials for nanoparticulate delivery.- Magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications.- Mechanical Properties of Nanostructured Metals.- Properties of Diamond Nanomaterials.- Sensing the mechanical properties of supported micro- to nano- elastic films.- Metal structures as advanced materials in Nanotechnology.- Metal oxide nanocrystals and their properties for application in solar cells.