Organic semiconducting materials for molecular electronics and optoelectronic devices.
Polymer design, synthesis and processing.
Semiconducting and metallic polymers with focus on high mobility field effect transistors and low cost “plastic” solar cells.
Bioelectronics at the nano scale, including the study of enzyme catalysis and development of new generation of biosensors.
Haptic engineering, robotics, and the mechanics and neuroscience of touch.
Density functional and many-body perturbation theory; Development of stochastic many-body methods; Electronic structure of nanoscale systems
Organic & Bioorganic; Materials Chemistry; Molecular Design & Synthesis; Devices, Assembly & Nanochemistry
Novel doping of organic semiconductors; Generation-recombination processes in organic BHJ solar cells
Multi-junction solar cells based on conjugated polymers.
Investigate molecular assembly and charge transport in high-mobility polymer field-effect transistors.
Charge transport in biofilm.
Recombination dynamics of organic photovoltaic devices
Design and synthesis of conjugated oligoelectrolytes for biological applications.
Lewis Acid Adducts
BHJ OPVs prepared through thermal and photo-precursor approaches
Charge transport in polymer non-fullerene acceptor solar cells
Design, synthesis and characterization of conjugated molecules
N-doping organic semiconductor materials
AFM c-AFM characterization
Photoconductive and conductive atomic force microscopy for nanoscale characterisation of organic semiconductor materials
cAFM and thermoelectric devices.
Device and structural characterization of aligned and multicomponent semiconductor systems.
OFET and organic ratchets.
Processing and characterization of organic solar cells.
Studying energetic disorder of organic solar cells
Molecular assembly of high mobility polymers in organic field effect transistors (OFET)
Synthesis and molecular designs of conjugated oligoelectrolytes for whole-cell biocatalysis
Organic Chemistry
Understanding the causes and effects of electronic traps in organic semiconductor devices, including organic photovoltaic cells, organic LEDs, and organic field-effect transistors.
Characterization of conjugated polyelectrolytes as interfacial enhancers in bioelectronics.
Materials Chemistry
Characterization of organic photovoltaics.
Development of small molecules for green-solvent processable organic photovoltaic devices.
Fundamental processes in organic semiconductor materials.
