| 1 | Low-dimensional systems (Nanoscale, Nanostructured Materials, 2D layered systems, etc.) (Shape, Size, Structural aspects using microscopy methods, such as HRTEM (Aberration corrected TEM), STEM, APT, 3D reconstruction of nano-scale objects such as nanowires, nanotubes, 2D layered systems, spintronic materials, and other nano particles |
| 2 | Thin films, Coatings, Surface and Interfaces (Surface and Interfaces structures with Electron (TEM, STEM, EELS, SEM, LEEM, PEEM, etc.) and Probe microscopies (STM, AFM, KFM, etc.); Interfacial Roughness, Diffusion and Reactions, Mixing, Composition analysis at atomic scale, depth profiling using microprobe systems; Correlation of theory/simulation with experimental measurements, investigation of interfaces between dissimilar materials essential in electronics, medical and smart materials applications.), magnetic domain structures |
| 3 | Industrial Applications of Microscopy methods |
| 4 | Electron microscopy Insitu techniques In-situ – Low and High Temperature Kinetics in nanoscale systems; gaseous environments; In-situ – Mechanical measurements; In-situ electrical transport measurements; In-situ Ion beam – TEM applications; Real time study of ion induced enhanced diffusion, kinetics, precipitate dissolution, etc. |
| 5 | Electron microscopy of advanced engineering materials |
| 6 | High-resolution including aberration-corrected microscopy |
| 7 | Advances in Instrumentation and Techniques (a) Computational methods for data acquisition, analysis and visualization; (b) Advances in aberration corrected techniques for electron microscopy methods; (c) In-situ, environmental and time-resolved microscopies (d) 3D imaging (e) Lorentz microscopy (f) Advances in STEM and TEM imaging (g) Advances in SEM, LEEM, SPLEEM, FIB, AFM, STM, & other probe scanning methods (h) Spectroscopy - Advances in EELS and EDS (i) Advances in Tomography methods: TEM/STEM, APT, etc. |
| 8 | Chemistry and Spectroscopic Techniques and their uses |
| 9 | Applications of Atom Probe Tomography |
| 10 | Microscopy pf Functional Materials |
| 11 | Radiation Damage and Defects |
| 12 | Diffraction, Crystallography and Aperiodic Structures |
| 13 | Imaging with Ions beams: Ion Microbeam, SIMS, He-ion microscopy, etc. |
| 14 | Bioremediation and Ore beneficiation; Bioremediation of toxic elements |
| 15 | Geological Sciences Electron microanalysis and Ore; Electron microanalysis & Crustal Evolution; Microscopic Techniques and Mineralogy; |
| 16 | Electron Microscopy and Energy materials Fuel Cell Materials; Battery Materials; Solar Energy Materials; |
| 17 | Electron microscopy of Glass and Ceramic materials |
| 1 | Cryo-electron microscopy (3D structures of macromolecules & supramolecular assemblies, Ultrastructure of Cells and Cell organelles and Recent developments) |
| 2 | Biomedical imaging, diagnostics, therapy and biotechnology (Nano medicine, drug delivery, Stem Cells, high-throughput screening and Interaction of Cells with materials, Pathology for Renal, muscles disease, Dentistry, Embryology and Developmental biology, Dermatology, Neurobiology and Intestine and Bone, Ophthalmology, response of cells to pharmacological and bioactive compounds, etc.) |
| 3 | Electron microscopy for Life Sciences (Structure of Cells and Cell organelles, Immuno-electron microscopy, Virology, 3D-Tomography, Correlative microscopy, Single Particle Analysis, Macromolecular assemblies ) |
| 4 | Imaging whole organism, tissue, and cell structures (In vivo image of small/large animals, whole plants, Imaging live tissue, thick tissues and optically opaque tissues, brain structure and brain anatomy, Fine structure of different cells, cellular cytoskeletons, cell-cell contact points, cellular Mitochondria and ER, chromosome, chromatin, nucleus, nuclear matrix, nuclear pores, synapse and dendritic spines, etc) |
| 5 | Imaging cell functions (XY-Z, t, ? resolution)(Cell division, fast cellular transport & dynamics, cell adhesion and migration, ionic homeostasis through ion channels, pumps and receptors, cellular metabolism, cellular uptake, endocytosis, exocytosis and phagocytosis, etc) |
| 6 | Advancement in light microscopy and Imaging techniques (Confocal microscopy, Spinnig disk microscopy, TIRF microscopy, Light shield microscopy, DIC microscopy, Digital Optical Microscope Applications - high contrast, etc) |
| 7 | Advanced techniques for Biological sample labeling and preparation (Cryo EM specimen preparation, soft-biological samples for EM, difficult biological samples for OM, sample labelling, staining and other preparations) |
| 8 | Alternative microscopic approaches for biological structure and function (AFM, Scanning probe microscopy, Traction force microscopy, Raman spectra-microscopy, Laser capture dissection microscopy, fluorescence life time imaging, Innovations in light / laser microscopy and optical nanoscopy, etc. |
| 9 | Novel molecular probes and tools for imaging (GFP variants for imaging; Genetically encoded proteins other than GFP; Nanoparticles and Quantum dots ; Novel antibodies, toxins, peptides and lectins; Smart materials for bio-imaging; Biomaterials; Application of auto-fluorescence in imaging, Application of FRAP and Photo-activation in imaging, Innovations in illumination: novel light/laser sources, Innovations in detection: novel and advanced detectors) |
| 10 | Imaging Methods in Medicine (MRI, USG, PET, X-ray Radiography, etc.) |
| 11 | Microscopy for Macromolecular Structure and Assemblies (Microscopy for protein oligomers and aggregates , Virus and viral components, Imaging lipids, lipid droplets and lipodomics, Imaging biological membranes and liposomes, Macromolecular Assemblies, Nucleic acids and carbohydrates, Other Macromolecular Structure and Assemblies) |
| 12 | Microscopy for animal physiology and development (Embryology and andrology, developmental biology, neurobiology, cardiac biology, others); |
| 13 | Microscopy for health, diseases and other patho-physiologies (Cancer Cells and tumor, Genetic disorders and pathophysiology, host-pathogen interactions, microbes and viruses, infection biology, Disorders in bones and teeth, Renal and Intestine disorders, muscles diseases,�) |
| 14 | Bio-nano interface with AFM and SPM methods |
| 15 | Light Microscopy of organisms with thick cell wall (Plants, Fungus and other lower eukaryotes, Bacteria); Microscopy applications in Paleontology and Palaeobiology; flow cytometry and in vivo imaging; , Invertebrate biology & taxonomy |
| 16 | Virology Immuno-electron microscopy and microanalysis; |
| 17 | Ocular Microbiology Ultrastructure of defected eye organs, Corneal regeneration |