N.V. Kamanina has current interest in the areas of investigations on inorganic soft materials of the UV and IR range, coatings, organic conjugated materials, liquid crystals, laser-matter interaction, fullerenes and biological objects. She has an experience in nanoparticles doping process of organics, in recording of amplitude-phase thin gratings in thin films as well as in developing of LC cells and spatial light modulators; she has an experience in optical limiting effect of laser radiation over visible and infrared spectral ranges, in medical applications of LC structures to orient human blood cell. She has published more than 250 scientific papers in the International and Russian journals. Her pioneer ideas and experienced contributions in a creation of nonlinear absorbers, spatial light modulators and liquid crystal cells for aligning erythrocytes of human blood were applied in technique and were certificated by 15 Russian Patents.