He is considered to be the father of Nanochemistry. His career’s work, which include pioneering studies of new classes of nanomaterials, mesoporous materials, photonic crystals and most recently nanomachines, epitomizes how leading-edge research in Nanochemistry can be most effectively directed towards solving contemporary challenges in Nanotechnology and how these contributions have brought true benefit and well being to mankind.
He has pioneered the field of Nanochemistry with landmark papers that defined synthetic strategies, self-assembly protocols, experimental and theoretical methods for making and understanding structure, property and function relations of new classes of nanomaterials, and showed the way to harness their chemical and physical attributes for a myriad of advanced applications, exemplified most recently by his invention of photonic ink and elastic ink, two new and exciting photonic crystal technologies being developed by Opalux Inc., a new company of which he is a co-founder, www.Opalux.com.