My current research interests are in the synthesis and characterizations of various functional and multifunctional oxide materials (such as dielectrics, ferroelectrics, ferromagnetics, magnetoelectric multiferroics, magnetstrictive, magnetoresistive, magnetocaloric, magneto-optic, etc) in nanoparticle, thin film, composite, and bulk powder forms, in order to understand the size-structure-property relationships in these systems. Such understanding will render these materials for their applications in a variety of devices and for energy applications. I am also interested in understanding the cross-coupling of the physical properties in various multilayered, nanocomposites, and heterostructured films of functional materials due to their novel properties, which in many case cannot otherwise be achieved in homogeneous single phase system. Another interesting aspect of my research is to understand the effect of stress/pressure, which can be chemical pressure or hydrostatic pressure on the magnetic properties of the multiferroics. In case of films, additional tensile/compressive stresses can be tuned by proper selection of substrates that could to modulate the transition temperatures in the magnetic/ferroelectric materials. My research is interdisciplinary in nature, thus allowing collaborations with researchers from different departments, such as chemistry, materials science & engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering within UConn and many National Laboratories and other universities.