Professor Balandin’s expertise covers a wide range of areas – from material science and solid-state physics to electronics and nanotechnology. His current research interests include 1D and 2D van der Waals quantum materials, charge-density-wave materials and their device applications, electronic noise in materials and devices, Brillouin – Mandelstam – Raman optical spectroscopy, phononics and phonon engineering, advanced materials for electromagnetic interference shielding and thermal management, engineering applications of graphene and related materials, emerging quantum devices and technologies.