Ionic, Electronic and Photonic Transport Properties through Covalent Organic Framework and Nanomaterial Composites

Research Interests: Ionic transport, Solid State electrolyte, Optical properties, Plasmonics, Photonics

Teaching Interests: Transport Phenomenon, Material Science, Mathematics, Chemical Engineering Fundamentals

The research and teaching program I aim to build will revolve around investigating the physical properties of various organic and inorganic materials and composites thereof. The research environment will focus on discovering new ion-transport materials and metamaterials via parallel experimental and computational efforts. Materials discovery will be approached through developing physical understanding of the underlying causes of various electrochemical and optical phenomena. The group culture will promote collaboration of researchers at all stages of learning with others both within and outside the research group, laying the foundation for an internationally recognized and externally funded research program. I seek to develop materials that display unique physical properties at the intersection of various electrical, optical, and ionic phenomena. The proposed research focus areas are 1) ion transport and storage, for which composites of organic polymers and organic/inorganic cluster molecules will be developed; 2) design of optical substrates to allow temporal and spatial probing of various electrochemical processes; and 3) tunable metamaterial nanocomposites that display unique optical properties.