Research topics

• The experimental methodologies on Rational Design aided by computations and modeling (a Materials Genome approach).
• Development of advanced in situ characterization techniques
• • In situ X-ray technologies utilizing synchrotron and bench top X-ray sources (diffraction, absorption and pair distribution function analysis, etc.)
  • In situ TEM
  • In situ solid state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (SS-NMR)
• Electrochemical energy conversion and storage technologies:
  • Li ion batteries
  • Na ion batteries
  • Solid state batteries
• Synthesis and characterization of novel nanostructures and nanomaterials; Nucleation and crystal growth of crystalline materials.