Our research efforts are to establish a synergy between novel nanostructures, optics (plasmonics and photonics), biology and electro-kinetics (microfluidics and nanofluidics) and integrate them to develop transformative and disruptive new technologies using cost-effective tools. This will be instrumental in the development of fundamental understanding of interfaces and surface physics arising out of the interaction of metallic/dielectric atoms with biological molecules in an energy landscape.