We are a multi-disciplinary materials chemistry research group, exploring the design principles and applications of novel functional materials. There is a strong focus on the design, synthesis and application of electroactive porous conjugated materials for carbon dioxide capture and conversion and wider energy applications (in collaboration with Zhixiang Wei and Kamran Amin).

Continued and active interest exist in the production of functional hierarchical supramolecular materials.

Closely related to these areas, a new area of activity is focussed on soft functional devices (including implantable actuators, 3D-printed functional materials and devices, in collaboration with Jonathan Rossiter).

Areas of activity are:

• Preparation of porous conjugated materials for gas capture and conversion and related energy and environmental applications [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]

• Design, preparation and characterisation of hierarchical functional supramolecular materials [Nat. Commun. 2022,  JMC C 2022, Chem Eur J 2022, Macrom 2021, ACS Macro Letters 2020, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2019, Chem. Eur. J. 2018, Macromolecules 2018]

• Soft functional devices [Soft Robotics 2023, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, Materials Advances 2021, Adv. Mater. Tech., 2019, Sci. Reports 2017, Nat. Commun. 2017]

Please see our publications page for further details.