Research Themes:














2022

Sustainable Surface Chemistries for Super Liquid Repellency,
Durable Surface Chemistries for Harsh Exposure Environments

2021

Anti-Fingerprint Surfaces, Bioinspired Anti-Underwater Icing,
Plastrons, Contact Electrification.

2020

Robust Superamphiphobicity, Bioinspired Anti-Icing Surfaces, Frost- Growth and Propagation Behaviors, and Frost- and Ice- Resilient Surfaces. Anti-bubbling Surfaces.
 
2019

Dynamic Self-Lubrication, Adaptive Wetting, Pinching-off Liquid Nanodroplets, and Surface Entropy Directed Energy Storage.

2018
 
Development of Lubricant Infused Slippery Surfaces for Anti-Icing, and Scalable Superamphiphobic/omniphobic Interfaces. Anti-foaming Surfaces.

2017
 
Development of Superomniphobic Surface Textures and Bioinspired Concepts for Wettable-Dewettable Membranes.
 
2016
 
Development of Smart Self-Assembling Materials and
Superamphi and oleo-phobic Surface Textures.
 
2015
 
Development of Stimuli Responsive Smart Materials and
Mechanically Toughened Superhydrophobicity.
 
2014
 
Facile and Scalable Development of Super-hydrophilic and
Highly Adhesive Super-hydrophobic Interfaces.
 
2013
 
Development of Green (Biomimetic) and
Efficient Biocatalytic Methods via
Recyclable Immobilized Enzymatic Biocatalysis.
 
2011-2013
 
Synthesis of Tough Hybrid Polymer Composites through
exploitation of Interpenetrating Composite Nanostructures.
 
2011
 
Optimization and Scaling Microbial Fuel Cell Technologies at Siemens (Singapore).