Research Area:

The selective processing of inorganic structures with features on the nanometer scale has seen a great surge in interest over the last few decades.  These materials are known to possess interesting and useful optical, electronic and/or magnetic properties that can subsequently be exploited in a wide variety of applications ranging from novel forms of catalysis to solar energy conversion. The choice of application is contingent on not only the chemical composition of the material but also on the overall morphology, and even more precisely on the accessible surface area. Currently, there are a myriad of methods available for fabrication of such intricate inorganic structures. However, irrespective of employing a certain fabrication method, the formation of well-organized materials is not trivial as various parameters have to be regulated.  These include uniformity of size, stabilization against collapse, consistency in the chemical composition and growth of the overall structures with preferred morphology (thin films, spheres, fibers, helical spirals etc.). 

• Synthesis of Novel Transition Metal Oxide Precursors for Formation of Functional Oxides
• Deposition of Noble Metallic Nanoparticles Onto High Surface Area Oxides for Catalyst Formation
• Synthesis of Ferroelectric and Multiferroic Oxides Using a Templating Paradigm
• Fabrication of a Variety of Hollow Structures for Encapsulation Studies
• Synthesis of 1-Dimensional Oxides for Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Application
• Using Synthetic Peptide Fibrills as Templates for Formation of Metallic Nanowires