1. Energy Materials and Devices (CNR Rao, KS Narayan and Premkumar Senguttuvan)
2. Porous Materials (Tapas K Maji, M Eswaramoorthy)
3. Thermoelectrics (Kanishka Biswas)
4. Nanomaterials (Ranjani Viswanatha, CNR Rao, Chandrabhas Narayana)
5. Semiconductor Heterostructures (Bivas Saha, S M Shivaprasad)
6. Materials for Catalysis (CNR Rao, Sebastian C Peter, Tapas K Maji, M Eswaramoorthy)
7. Magnetic Materials and Multiferroics (A Sundaresan)
8. Nanofabrication (G U Kulkarni)
9. Polymers (Sridhar Rajaram)
10. Supramolecular Materials (Subi J George, Sarit S Agasti)
11. Biomaterials (T Govindaraju, J Haldar, Sarit S Agasti)
12. Soft Matter (Rajesh Ganapathy)
