Organic semiconducting materials for molecular electronics and optoelectronic devices.
Polymer design, synthesis and processing.
Organic and inorganic materials for electronic and photonic applications
Semiconducting and metallic polymers with focus on high mobility field effect transistors and low cost “plastic” solar cells.
Ultrafast optical spectroscopy, scanning probe microscopy, physics of nanostructures.
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.
functional fibers and textiles, polymer and device engineering, micro/nano fabrication and thin films
Supramolecular assemblies, organic electronics, functional polymers, complex fluids, ion exchange resins, metal supported catalysts and organic-inorganic hybrid materials.
Morphological and optoelectronic studies of BHJ thin films through cAFM and STM/STS techniques
Material chemistry and Biochemistry
Recombination dynamics of organic photovoltaic devices
Design and synthesis of conjugated oligoelectrolytes for biological applications.
Synthesis and application of conjugated polymers in the field of semi-conductors
Design, synthesis and characterization of conjugated molecules
N-doping organic semiconductor materials
cAFM and thermoelectric devices.
Fundamental study of excitons in organic semiconductors
Understand loss mechanisms in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells with nonfullerene acceptors
OFET and organic ratchets.
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
Study of charge-recombination in organic photovoltaics using non-fullerene acceptors
Development of small molecules for green-solvent processable organic photovoltaic devices.
Characterization of organic photovoltaics
Fundamental processes in organic semiconductor materials.
