Erasable Paper/Transient Documents: A low cost paper that can be used over and over again to save energy and mitigate paper manufacturing and disposal costs.

Electronic Reimageable Paper: The development of low cost paper surrogates and reflective displays based on reversible particle migration.

Smart Materials: The use of block copolymers as supramolecular materials; self-assembly; photonic device materials; large area microelectromechanical sytems (MEMS).

Ink Dispersion Stabilizers: developed telechelic polymers for stabilizing aqueous pigment dispersions.

Living free radical polymerization: development of a living free radical polymerization capable of producing high molecular weight, narrow polydispersity resins as well as unique architectures such as block, star and brush polymers and copolymers.

Synthesis and characterization of novel electronic materials: synthesis of functionalized dendrimers; functionalized arborols; structure property relationships in photogeneration; hole and electron transport materials; spiropyran photochromic and thermochromic systems; solution and solid state properties of pigments; solid state and solution NMR investigation of electronic materials.

Computer simulation and modelling: use of molecular orbital calculations in the prediction of pigment electronic spectra; calculations of pigment band structure and the investigation of crystallochromy and the quantum interference effect; molecular modelling of crystal aggregates.