What are the different research fields in Inorganic Chemistry?

Research fields in Inorganic Chemistry are as wide as Inorganic Chemistry itself. Everything you read about in Chemistry textbooks were discovered at one time or another.
So research in Inorganic Chemistry will cover the chemistry & some of the physical properties of each of the individual elements in the periodic table and their compounds, apart from the organic chemistry of carbon.
A major discovery in Inorganic Chemistry could be something like the first example of the compound of an element having a new oxidation state. Or the first example of a compound of the element Neon. No known compounds of Neon exist. It is the least reactive element in The Periodic Table. So a major discovery like that would be accepted for publication in a major international scientific journals. Eg. Nature. A discovery like that may make it to the TV news as a story stating that for the first time in history all known elements are now known to form chemical compounds.

Here are a few research areas :

• Main group reaction chemistry
• Inorganic vibrational spectroscopy
• Transition metal chemistry
• Magnetochemistry
• Theoretical inorganic chemistry
• Non-aqueous solvent chemistry
• High temperature chemistry
• Fused salt chemistry
• Solid state chemistry
• Battery technology
• Nuclear chemistry
• Trans-Uranium chemistry
• Lanthanides and Actinides
• Organometallic chemistry
• Heterogeneous catalysis
• Homogeneous catalysis
• Materials chemistry
• Glass science
• Organoboranes
• Cryptands
• X-ray crystallography
• Electronic spectroscopy in inorganic chemistry
• Matrix isolation and low temperature chemistry
• Energetic materials