Functional Materials and Interfaces

Materials Chemistry involves the scientific study including the history of a material (its processing) influences its structure, and thus the material's properties and performance.

About

Functional materials are building blocks of modern society and play a critical role in the evolution of technology. The research in this field is interdisciplinary, providing the intellectual foundation to design, create and understand new forms of matters and their functionalities by revealing the detailed chemistry, structure, process-at-interface and properties/function of solid-state, organic, inorganic or hybrid materials. The application of functional materials and interfaces, from ceramics, nanomaterials, 2D materials, single molecules to polymers, covers designing sustainable new forms of matter with customized properties for applications in energy storage and conversion, future electronics, molecular imaging and sensing, informatics, environmental remediation and smart materials that can sense and respond to their environment.

Groups

Connal Group

At the Connal group we make polymers with applications across a multitude of industries which means we develop new materials for a range of applications.

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Glushenkov Group

Our research is focused on developing materials and technologies for energy storage in batteries and related devices.

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Hill Group

Our work covers organometallic chemistry with a particular focus include unsaturated ligands involving metal–carbon multiple bonding.

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Humphrey Group

Our research uses synthesis, spectroscopy, electrochemistry, and computational chemistry to generate new molecular materials with unusual optical properties.

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Liu Group

Our work is mainly concentrated on the interaction amongst synthesis, micro-structure and polarisation-related properties of functional materials.

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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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Tricoli Group

The Tricoli group research focuses on several fields of nanotechnology spacing.

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Yin Group

The group is interested in the synthesis, understanding and application of nano-to-atomic functional materials

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Projects

Materials chemistry of hybrid-energy storage in lithium-ion and sodium-ion capacitors

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.