Bio and Chemical Energy Group          

• Bio-Hydrogel Platforms for Extreme Environments
• Water-use reduction systems within agriculture
• Air-to-Water Systems: Next-Gen Atmospheric Water Harvesting Technologies
• Circular Biomass-to-Agri-input platform technologies
• Waste-to-Value Systems for a Circular Bioeconomy
• Carbon Capture, Usage  and Storage (CCUS)  
• Sustainable Chemicals and Materials
• Low-Carbon Fuels: Advanced Pathways for Sustainable Energy Production
• Hydrogen: Production, Storage, and Utilization Systems

 Renewable Energy Group        

• AI‑Enabled Energy-Materials Discovery and Manufacturing for solar energy
• Advanced Photovoltaic Technologies for High Efficiency and Reliability
• Thermal Management for Energy Systems
• Ultra-Low energy cooling systems
• Dual‑Use Land (agrivoltaics) and Energy Systems
• Integrated and Embedded Solar Energy Solutions (building, vehicle, greenhouse etc.)
• Autonomous, Solar‑Powered Smart Devices and Infrastructure (e.g. IoT)
• PV Failure Analysis & Anomaly Detection & Predictive Maintenance 
   

 Energy Modelling Group        

• Advanced digital infrastructure modelling - systems and utilities (power, e-transport, water)
  • Grid planning: infrastructure optimization and resilience  (contingency analyses and cascading failures)
  • Scenario modelling on energy mix demand, cost, decarbonization
  • Decarbonization journeys using AI
  • Territorial services and utilities siting
  • AI and Digital twins and condition based maintenance modelling 
     
• Technology and system/device/component modelling
  • Digitization of water desalination plants 
  • Digitization and controlled Agriculture
  • Advanced thermodynamics systems – Cooling/heating engines/systems
  • Solar PV yields, reliability and efficiency using machine learning across regions
  • Water harvesting systems 
     

 Sustainable, Optimized Agri/Aquaculture   

• Agricultural irrigation water reduction technologies
• Waste-to-Biomaterials Platforms for Circular Agriculture
• Platforms for Scalable Alternative Protein production and processing
• Sustainable precision fertilizers and soil enhancers
• Low energy, controlled environment agriculture
• Low energy cooling and greenhouse systems
• Agri-Photovoltaics
• Off-grid decentralized and modular desalination systems for saline aquifer ground water remediation for agriculture
• Ceramic brackish water RO membranes for high throughput, low-cost ground water treatment for agriculture
• Digital precision agriculture systems – sensors, modelling, advanced controls, AI, pest detection
   

• Next-generation membranes for energy-efficient desalination
• Ceramic RO membranes for high recovery desalination
• Ceramic nanofiltration for seawater pre-treatment and partial desalination of RO brine for resource recovery
• Reinforced hollow fiber membranes for high throughput industrial brine mining and resource recovery
• Reinforced hollow fiber membranes for pressure retarded osmosis to recover salinity-gradient energy from produced water and seawater brine
• Advanced membrane distillation membranes for off-grid photothermal desalination for brackish and seawater desalination
• Digitization of desalination and water distribution networks for NRW reduction and system optimization
• Integrated Brine Mining Platforms for water and mineral resource recovery from industrial brines
• Novel media-based crystallization technology for harvesting high purity industrial minerals from Industrial brines
• Electro-chemical membrane technologies for on-site acid and base production from brines, for reuse
• Hollow fiber membranes for high throughput membrane distillation crystallization of salts from industrial brines
• Electro-membrane separation technologies for brine concentration and resource recovery