Energy, Environment and Green Chemistry

About

The greatest challenges facing 21st century are chemical in nature: addressing energy security and the development of sustainable industry, including the transition away from fossil fuels (decarbonisation) and the remediation of contaminated/polluted environments. Research in this field includes: the development of new materials and new processes for applications in energy conversion and storage, catalysis, cleaner chemical synthesis, such as advanced materials and devices used in battery, solid-state energy storage, supercapacitors, photovoltaics, liquid organic hydrogen storage, advanced catalysts for waste water treatment and green ammonia.

Groups

Banner Ting Group

Our research primarily focuses on the application of advanced nanoporous materials (such as 3D metal-organic frameworks, zeolites and nanostructured carbons) to important challenges in sustainable energies and environmental technologies.

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Projects

This project is ideal for Honours/Master students interested in the cutting-edge field of 3D printing and sustainable chemistry. You will gain valuable skills and experience in both areas, which will prepare you for a career in materials science, chemistry, or related fields.

Student intake

Open for Honours, Master, PhD, Summer scholar students

This project will develop these materials for biological applications, for example as an artificial skin (below).

Student intake

Open for Honours, Master, PhD, Summer scholar students

We are offering both computational and experimental projects in this field, focusing their research on (1) catalyst design and assembly, and (2) optimization and restoration of hydrogen carriers (related to organic synthesis).

Student intake

Open for Honours, Master, PhD, Summer scholar students

The project will involve training in the use of highly reactive, air-sensitive reagents which require handling under strict anaerobic conditions. X-ray crystallography and multinuclear NMR spectroscopy are the common characterisation techniques that will be used on a daily basis.

Student intake

Open for Honours, Master, PhD, Summer scholar students

The project will involve training in the use of highly reactive, air-sensitive reagents which require handling under strict anaerobic conditions, therefore training in strict air-sensitive chemistry will be given. X-ray crystallography and multinuclear NMR spectroscopy are the common characterization techniques that will be used on a daily basis.

Student intake

Open for Honours, Master, PhD, Summer scholar students

This projects will investigate materials chemistry of negative and positive electrodes that can enable such a high-speed, unusual operation of electrochemical energy storage cells.

Student intake

Open for Honours, Master, PhD, Summer scholar students

Members

Academic staff

Senior Lecturer
Rita Cornforth Fellow

HDR Convenor
Associate Director

Professor

Dr Lucy Gloag

Lecturer

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

ARC Laureate Fellow

Profile_Photo Teng Lu

ARC DECRA Fellow

Associate Director (Education)
Professor

V. Ting

Professor of Smart Nanomaterials