Research covers colloidal systems, low-dimensional materials, lithium and sodium batteries, supercapacitors, and related electronic and optical properties.
Current applications
Current work uses electronic-structure calculations and, for battery projects, materials synthesis and electrochemical characterisation.
Research covers nickel-rich lithium-ion cathodes, P2 sodium-ion oxides, MXene hosts for lithium-sulfur and sodium-sulfur systems, two-dimensional anodes, CR2032 cell development and patent applications.
A 2025 study examines how manganese doping changes the electronic structure and electrochemical properties of NiCo2S4 electrodes for supercapacitors.
Studies examine strain-dependent band valleys in WSe2, vacancy-induced polaronic states in blue phosphorene quantum dots and stacking-dependent excitonic properties in ReS2.
Research addresses non-equilibrium transitions in soft condensed matter. Experiments, scattering, rheology and molecular dynamics are used to quantify affine deformation, non-affine rearrangement and dissipation.
First-principles calculations determine how defects, strain, stacking, electric fields and chemical modification affect excitons, optical response and transport in quantum dots and two-dimensional semiconductors.
Density functional theory for electronic structure, adsorption, transport and optical response.
Particle-scale dynamics for colloidal transitions, mechanics and self-assembly.
Neural-network models for selected cathode stability and electronic-property calculations.
Materials synthesis, cell fabrication and characterisation for selected energy-storage systems.
Research combines electronic-structure calculations, materials synthesis and electrochemical analysis for battery cathodes, ion-transport materials, metal-sulfur hosts and transition-metal sulfide electrodes.
Eight selected articles from 61 peer-reviewed journal publications.
Reports particle-resolved structural changes at a colloidal crystal-fluid interface.
Reports experimental evidence for a dynamic first-order transition during shear banding in a colloidal glass.
Presents a particle-trajectory method for measuring free energy in hard-sphere colloidal glasses.
Quantifies stacking-order effects on excitons and interlayer interactions in bulk ReS2.
Calculates electric-field effects on electronic properties and lithium diffusion in penta-graphene nanoribbons.
Examines electronic effects of transition-metal and fluorine co-doping in P2 sodium-ion cathodes.
Examines electronic and electrochemical effects of manganese doping in NiCo2S4.
Examines vacancy-induced polaronic states and their effects on optoelectronic and transport properties.