This project will focus on the discovery of new electrode materials, exploration of the electrochemical mechanisms of their reactivity with potassium and optimization of the electrode behavior.

The research includes the material synthesis, electron microscopy characterization and various diffraction and property measurement, with a potential to use national neutron/synchrotron facility.

This project will investigate the synthesis of BODIPY pyrazole and cobaloxime complexes and their use as sensitizers.

We are developing new pincer frameworks that include unconventional donors, e.g., o-silyl (–SiR3), carbene and o-boryl (-BR2) groups in the equatorial position.

This project aims to develop a novel, enhanced catalytic reaction that enables to decompose organic compounds in waste water for water purification using solar energy. The catalysts will be designed using multifunctional materials and then fabricated to study associated catalytic reaction process.

Using Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy we have been able to identify the sites of substrate water binding and important structural changes which facilitate substrate binding. We can now examine the formation of the last intermediate and the mechanism of O-O bond formation.