Physics and Engineers

We all know that engineering is a derivative of Physics,but what actually is required is conversion of physics into engineering.
Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity,a physical phenomenon but later we went on to use this physics to apply to almost every part of our lives.
Similarly we all reasearch for newly discovered physical phenomena and apply them to practicality.This is the soul reason of research in engineering .
Some of the latest in world is-
Free space Optical communication
Nanophotonics
Quantum computing
Meta materials
Carbon nano tubes
and many more will continue...