We are a multi-disciplinary materials chemistry research group, exploring the design principles and applications of novel functional polymeric materials for real-world applications, potentially with global impact.

We focus our research efforts in two main areas:

• design, synthesis and application of electroactive porous conjugated materials for carbon dioxide conversion and wider energy and environmental applications (in collaboration with Zhixiang Wei and Kamran Amin). [Small 2024, Adv. Mater. 2023, Mater. Chem. Front. 2023, ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2023, Polym. Chem. 2021, Nano Energy 2021, JMC A 2020, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019]

• soft functional (3D-printed) polymer devices and biocompatible artificial actuators to enhance quality of life and contribute to enhanced independent living (in collaboration with Jonathan Rossiter). [Soft Sci. 2024, ChemistrySelect 2024, Soft Robotics 2023, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, Materials Advances 2021, Adv. Mater. Tech., 2019, Sci. Reports 2017, Nat. Commun. 2017]

We still have continued interest in the production of functional hierarchical supramolecular materials, although with diminishing formal activity. [Nat. Commun. 2022,  JMC C 2022, Chem Eur J 2022, Macrom 2021, ACS Macro Letters 2020, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2019]

Finally, please see our “Impact” pages to see where research from the Faul Research Group and collaborators is leading to exciting new areas of (commercial) activity and impact beyond the laboratory.

Please see our publications page for further details of all of our publications (many “open access” and freely available to download).