Research Areas at CSIR-NCL

• Advanced Functional Materials
• Agricultural Biotechnology 
• Analytical Chemistry
• Artificial Intelligence
• Biomass for Energy, Fuels, and Chemicals
• Bioorganic Chemistry 
• Biotransformation and Enzymes
• Catalysis (Homogeneous and Heterogeneous)
• Chaos Theory and Turbulence
• Chemical Engineering
• CO2 storage and utilization
• Coal Gasification and Combustion
• Complex Fluids and Polymer Engineering
• Crystal Chemistry and Crystallography
• Crystallization
• Effluent Treatment/Water Recycle and Reuse
• Electrochemical Power Sources and Energy Technology
• Environmental Biotechnology  
• Fuel Cells
• Fluid Modeling and Computational Fluid Dynamics 
• Genomics and Molecular Parasitology
• Green Chemistry
• Hydrogen Generation
• Machine Design
• Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
• Mass Spectrometry
• Materials Chemistry/Physics
• Materials for Solar Energy
• Materials for Biomedical Applications
• Mathematical and System Biology
• Medicinal Chemistry
• Metabolomics
• Microbial and Mammalian Cell Culture
• Microbial Fermentation
• Microbial Technology and Microbial Genetics
• Micro-fluidics
• Mixing and Micro-mixing
• Molecular Host-pathogen Interactions
• Molecular Marker Technology
• Multiphase Flows
• Multiphase Reactors
• Nanomaterials 
• Nonlinear Dynamics
• Organic Chemistry 
• Physical Organic Chemistry
• Plant Tissue Culture 
• Polymer Science
• Process Design Modeling and Simulation
• Process Engineering and Scale-up
• Process Intensification
• Proteomics
• Reaction Engineering
• Reactive Separations
• Separation Science
• Soft Condensed Matter Theory
• Solid State NMR of Materials
• Structure-function and Crystallography of Biomolecules
• Structure-Property-Processing Correlation Studies
• Surfaces and Interfaces
• Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Science
• Tissue Engineering
• Tribology
• Utilization of Natural Gas
• Wireless Process Sensors and Process Control