Faculty

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Name Areas of Research
Prof. Kattera A. Suresh Soft Condensed Matter - Liquid Crystals, Surface Science.
Dr. S. Krishna Prasad Photoinduced Phase Transitions, Restricted Geometry Effects, Charge Transport, Rheology, High Pressure Effects, Xray Scattering, Metallic Nano-particles, Chromonic and Ionic Liquid Crystals.
Dr. Geetha G. Nair Photoinduced phenomena in liquid crystals,  Chromonic liquid crystals, Liquid crystal Gels: Electro-optics and Viscoelastic properties,Mixtures of Banana and Calamitic Liquid Crystals: Polarization and Electro-optical studies.
Dr. D. S. Shankar Rao Xray diffraction, Pressure studies, Phase transitions and critical phenomena, Electric and electroptic effects of chiral and bent core.
Dr. Veena Prasad Synthesis and characterization of liquid crystals.
Dr. C. V. Yelamaggad

Design and synthesis of a wide variety of multifunctional molecules capable of exhibiting liquid crystalline and other molecular materials properties.
Dr. P. Viswanath Interfaces in soft matter, Phase transitions, Langmuir monolayer.
Dr. S. Angappane Magnetic nanoparticles, Dilute magnetic semiconductors, Multiferroic oxides, Thin films.
Dr. Neena Susan John
 Nanoscale properities of materials by probe microscopy, molecular adsorption on surfaces.
Prof. K. S. Krishnamurthy Electric and magnetic field effects in liquid crystals, soft matter.
Prof. H.L.Bhat

Condensed matter physics, Nonlinear optical materials, Strongly correlated electronic systems.
Prof. G.S.Ranganath Optics and Liquid Crystals.