Properties of Carbon Nanotubes -- Electronic properties of Si and Ge pure and core-shell nanowires from first principle study -- Compositionally Graded III-nitride Nanowire Heterostructures: Growth, Characterization, and Applications -- Mechanical Characterization of Graphene -- Nanostructured ZnO materials: synthesis, properties and applications -- Nanosized gold and silver spherical, spiky and multi-branched particles -- Magnetite and other Fe-oxide nanoparticles -- Hierarchical Self-assembled Peptide Nano-ensembles -- Nanostructure Formation in Hydrogels -- Nanomanipulation and nanotribology of nanoparticles and nanotubes using atomic force microscopy -- Fabrication, properties and applications of gold nanopillars -- Stabilization and characterization of iron oxide superparamagnetic core-shell nanoparticles for biomedical applications -- Bio-inorganic nanomaterials for biomedical applications (Bio-silica and Polyphosphate) -- Lipids as biological materials for nanoparticulate delivery -- Magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications -- Mechanical Properties of Nanostructured Metals -- Properties of Diamond Nanomaterials -- Sensing the mechanical properties of supported micro- to nano- elastic films -- Metal structures as advanced materials in Nanotechnology -- Metal oxide nanocrystals and their properties for application in solar cells.