复杂流体和纳米结构材料的部门研究在用于高效工业催化和电催化的纳米结构材料的合成和制造，颗粒流，悬浮液，乳液和气泡流的多相流，聚合物的设计与合成以及它们的研究方面具有特殊优势。结构-性质关系，燃料电池的材料和装置，太阳能或生物质的转换和能量存储，混合过程，成核和自组装，基于碳和石墨烯的材料及其纳米复合材料，用于药物输送的纳米结构材料的开发以及纳米多孔材料和多孔介质中的运输和吸附研究。
Departmental research in complex fluids and nanostructured materials has particular strengths in the areas of synthesis and fabrication of nanostructured materials for efficient industrial catalysis and electrocatalysis, granular flow, multiphase flow of suspensions, emulsions and bubbly flows, design and synthesis of polymer and investigation of their structure-property relationships, materials and devices for fuel cells, solar or biomass conversion and energy storage, mixing processes, nucleation and self-assembly, carbon and graphene based materials and their nanocomposites, development of nanostructured materials for drug delivery, and nanoporous materials and studies of transport and adsorption in porous media.