Main scientific attention is given to:

• materials for optics,
• opto-electronics, photonics, electronics and spin-tronics (particularly for innovative information technologies, data recording and processing, optical and electrical sensors)
• renewable and new sources of energy,
• fuel cells and membranes, 
• materials for medicine,
• materials for heterogeneous catalysis 
• gas sorption

with applications in environmental protection, nanomaterials and nanotechnology.