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Akinori Saeki received a Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry from Osaka University in 2007 and was anAssistant Professor at the Institute of Scientic and Industrial Research, Osaka University in2003–2009. Since 2010, he has been Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the Graduate School ofEngineering, Osaka University. He has joined in the Precursory Research for Embryonic Scienceand Technology (PRESTO) program operated by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) from2009 to 2013. His research interest is the dynamics of short lived reactive species in organicsemiconductors.

Aron Walsh is Professor of Materials Theory in the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technol-ogies at the University of Bath. He also holds a Royal Society Fellowship and a Starting Grantfrom the European Research Council. Aron gained his B.A. (Mod) and Ph.D. in Chemistry fromTrinity College Dublin under Graeme Watson. He then worked at the US National RenewableEnergy Laboratory, and later at University College London as a Marie Curie Research Fellow. Thefocus of the Walsh research group is structure–property relationships in condensed matter, withan emphasis on photoferroics, metastable materials, and electroactive metal–organicframeworks.

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Russell Binions completed his rst degree (in Chemistry) from the college of St Hild and St Bede,the University of Durham in 2001. He subsequently completed a Ph.D. in 2005 at UniversityCollege London (UCL). He spent a year working in industry for the Norville Optical Group beforereturning to UCL in autumn 2005 to complete postdoctoral positions working on thermochromicthin lms and zeolite modied gas sensors. He was awarded a Royal Society Dorothy HodgkinFellowship in 2008. Dr Binions is currently a Lecturer in Functional in the School of Engineeringand Materials at Queen Mary, University of London and an Honorary Senior Research Associateat UCL. He is the author of over 60 peer reviewed journal papers, 6 book chapters and 1 book. Hisresearch interests encompass new chemical vapour deposition techniques, metal oxide semi-conductor materials, gas sensors, photocatalysis, chromogenic materials, nanocomposite lmsand energy efficient building materials. In his spare time he enjoys all aspects of music.

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Xinbo Zhang joined Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC) as a professor of“Hundred Talents Program” of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2010. He received his Ph.D.degree from CIAC and was granted the CAS Presidential Scholarship Award in 2005. Then heworked as a JSPS and NEDO fellow at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science andTechnology, Japan. His interests mainly focus on functional inorganic materials for energystorage & conversion with fuel cells and batteries, especially lithium-air batteries. He has pub-lished more than 80 papers in Nature Communications, Angewandte Chemie, Int. Ed., AdvancedMaterials, Chemical. Society Reviews etc.

Nanfeng Zheng received his B.S. from the Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University in 1998.In 2005, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemistry, University of Cal-ifornia, Riverside. During 2005–2007, he worked as a research associate at University of Cal-ifornia, Santa Barbara. Hemoved to Xiamen University as a full professor in 2007. He is currentlya Changjiang Chair professor at Xiamen University. His research interests mainly focus on thedevelopment of advanced functional materials for both fundamental research and practicalapplications, particularly in the elds of catalysis and biology. He has published over 70 peerreviewed articles and has received several awards, including the National Distinguished YoungInvestigator Award from NSF-China (2009), Chinese Chemical Society-Wiley Young ChemistPaper Award (2009), Chinese Chemical Society Young Chemist Award (2010), DistinguishedLectureship Award from Chemical Society of Japan (2012), Fok Ying Tung Education FoundationAward for Outstanding Young Teachers (2012), and Zasshi-kai Lectureship from Department ofChemistry, the University of Tokyo (2013).

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Chad Vecitis is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering in the School of Engi-neering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Dr Vecitis received a B.A. degree (2001) inChemistry from Johns Hopkins, a Ph.D. degree (2009) in Chemistry from the California Instituteof Technology, and completed his post-doctoral research at Yale University. A current researchfocus in the Vecitis Environmental Technology Lab is the development of novel active porousmaterials for water, sustainability, energy, and sensor applications.

Shannon Boettcher is currently an Assistant Professor in Chemistry at the University of Oregon.His research interests center on developing inorganic materials for solar energy conversion andstorage. Boettcher received his B.A. in Chemistry at the University of Oregon in 2003. He receivedhis Ph.D. in Inorganic Materials Chemistry with Galen Stucky at UC Santa Barbara in 2008 wherehe was an NSF and UC Chancellor's Fellow. As a Kavli Nanoscience Institute PostdoctoralScholar, he studied three-dimensional Si structures for solar energy conversion and storage atthe California Institute of Technology working with Nate Lewis and Harry Atwater. In 2010, hereturned to the University of Oregon and in 2011 was named one of 18 DuPont Young Professorsworldwide.

Byeong-Su Kim has been an Associate Professor of the Department of Chemistry and School ofEnergy Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) since 2009.He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from Seoul National University. Aer hisPh.D. in polymer/nanomaterial chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 2007, he workedat MIT for his postdoctoral researches until 2009. His current research interests focus oncomplex macromolecular systems, including the synthesis and assembly of carbon nano-materials for energy, and self-assembled responsive block copolymers for biomedicalapplications.

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Christian Muller is an Assistant Professor in Polymer Technology at the Department of Chemicaland Biological Engineering of Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola. Prior to this appointment, hecompleted a one-year research fellowship at the Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona(ICMAB-CSIC) and a two-year post-doctoral stay at Linkopings Universitet. He holds a D.Sc. inMaterials Science from the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich (2008), forwhich he was awarded the ETH medal, as well as an M.Sci. and B.A. in Natural Sciences fromCambridge University (2004). Currently, his research focuses on the use of polymer semi-conductors in exible electronic components such as thermoelectric generators and plastic solarcells.

Bettina Valeska Lotsch is an Assistant Professor at the University of Munich (LMU) and inde-pendent group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany.She studied Chemistry at the Universities of Munich and Oxford, UK, and received her Ph.D.from LMUMunich in 2006 under the supervision of Professor Wolfgang Schnick, specializing inthe synthesis and structure elucidation of novel carbon nitride materials. From 2007 to 2008, sheconducted postdoctoral research as a Feodor-Lynen fellow in the group of Professor GeoffreyOzin at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her work was recognized by the E.ON culture prizeand the Fast-Track scholarship of the Robert Bosch Foundation. Her research is directed towardsthe rational design of multifunctional materials, including 2D materials and articial hetero-structures, photonic nanostructures for sensing, and functional frameworks for solar energyconversion.

Gengfeng Zheng obtained his B.S. degree at Fudan University in China (2000), and Ph.D. degreein Chemistry at Harvard University in USA (2006), under the guidance of Prof. Charles Lieber. Hewas a postdoctoral fellow working with Prof. Chad Mirkin at Northwestern University in USA(2007–2009). He has been a full professor at the Department of Chemistry and Laboratory ofAdvanced Materials at Fudan University since 2010. His research interests include low-dimen-sional semiconducting nanomaterials-based surface chemistry, biosensing, cell interface, pho-toelectrochemical conversion, photocatalysis and energy storage.



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Gleb Yushin is a tenured Associate Professor at the School of Materials and Engineering and aDirector of the Centre for Nanostructured Materials for Energy Storage at Georgia Institute ofTechnology. For his contributions to materials science, he has received numerous awards andrecognitions, including the prestigious R&D 100 Award, Honda Initiation Grant Award, NationalScience Foundation CAREER Award, Air Force Office of Scientic Research Young InvestigatorAward, and several distinctions from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),such as the Nano 50 Award. Dr Yushin has co-authored 22 patents and patent applications andmultiple publications on energy storage materials, including publications in Science and NatureMaterials. His current research is focused on advancing energy storage materials and devices forelectronics, transportation and multiple grid applications.

Hyeon Suk Shin is an associate Professor at the Interdisciplinary School of Green Energy, UlsanNational Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea. He received his Ph.D. fromthe Department of Chemistry at POSTECH in 2002. Aer working as a postdoctoral fellow at theUniversity of Cambridge, UK, and subsequently as a research professor at POSTECH, he joined anew university, UNIST, in 2008. His current research is focused on 2D materials, includinggraphene, h-BN, transition metal dichalcogenides, and their hybrids.

Jinsong Huang received his Ph.D. degree in Material Science and Engineering from theUniversity of California, Los Angeles in 2007. Aer serving in Agiltron Inc. as a research scientistfor two years, he joined the University of Nebraska Lincoln as an assistant professor in theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and DODYoung Investigator Award. His current research interests include solution processed electronicmaterials for applications in sensing, energy and consumer electronics. Specically he studiesmaterial and device engineering and science for electronic devices including solar cells,photodetectors, transistors, pyroelectric sensors, and electrocaloric cooling.



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Jan-Willem Bos is a lecturer in Energy Materials at Heriot-Watt University. He obtained a CumLaude rst degree in Chemistry from the University of Groningen, and came to the UK in 2002reading for a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. Aer a spell as a Research Associate in thegroup of Prof. RJ Cava at Princeton University he won a Royal Society of Edinburgh PersonalResearch Fellowship (held at the University of Edinburgh) before moving to his current post. Hiscurrent research is focused on the design, synthesis and characterisation of thermoelectricmaterials with improved waste heat recovery efficiencies.

Kevin Kittilstved is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Aerobtaining a B.S. from Gonzaga University, Kevin attended the University of Washington (Ph.D.,2006) under Daniel Gamelin on the electronic structure origins of carrier-mediated magneticordering in diluted magnetic oxide semiconductors. Kevin then spent three years at the Uni-versite de Geneve as a post-doc with Andreas Hauser. Aer a short post-doc with Daniel Gamelin,Kevin began his current appointment in 2011. Professor Kittilstved's current research program iscentered around controlling defects in multifunctional inorganic nanomaterials and molecularclusters for energy applications.

Liangbing Hu received his B.S. in Applied Physics from the University of Science and Technologyof China (USTC) in 2002. He did his Ph.D. at UCLA, focusing on carbon nanotube-basednanoelectronics. In 2006, he joined Unidym Inc. as a co-founding scientist. At Unidym, Liang-bing's role was the development of roll-to-roll printed carbon nanotube transparent electrodesand device integrations into touch screens, LCDs, exible OLEDs and solar cells. He worked atStanford University from 2009–2011, where he worked on various energy devices based onnanomaterials and nanostructures. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at University ofMaryland College Park. His research interests include nanomaterials and nanostructures, roll-to-roll nanomanufacturing, energy storage and conversion, and printed electronics.



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Natalie Banerji was born and raised in Geneva (Switzerland), in an international environmenttting her half-Austrian, half-Indian origins. In 2009, she obtained her Ph.D. degree in PhysicalChemistry from the University of Geneva under the supervision of Prof. E. Vauthey, aboutultrafast electron transfer processes. She then became fascinated with the properties of organicsemiconductors during a post-doctoral stay with Nobel laureate Prof. A. J. Heeger at theUniversity of California in sunny Santa Barbara. Currently, she leads her own research team atthe Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, funded by a three year Ambizione grant($600 000) from the Swiss National Science Foundation. When not braving the wind in the Swissmountains, she works hard to understand the detailed mechanisms involved in organic elec-tronics, organic solar cells and articial photosynthesis. She uses a variety of spectroscopy,photocurrent and terahertz techniques.

Michelle Moram completed a B.Sc. in Chemistry at University College Cork, followed by a Ph.D.in Materials Science at the University of Cambridge on defect reduction in III-nitride semi-conductors, winning the BACG Young Scientist of the Year award. This was followed by inde-pendent fellowships, including a Royal Society University Research Fellowship on new functionalnitride materials, then an appointment to a Lectureship at the Dept. Materials at ImperialCollege London in 2011. Recent awards include the IOM3 Silver Medal and a 2012 LeverhulmeResearch Leadership award. She now leads the Functional Nitrides research group, working onthe discovery and development of new nitride-based device materials.

Nico Bruns is an Associate Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at the Adolphe MerkleInstitute of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He studied Chemistry at the Universities ofFreiburg (Germany) and Edinburgh (Scotland) and graduated from the University of Freiburg asDiplom-Chemiker in 2003. He received his Ph.D. from the same University in 2007 under thesupervision of Prof. Jorg Tiller and Prof. Rolf Mulhaupt. From 2007 to 2008 he was a postdoctoralresearcher at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Prof. Douglas S. Clark. He thenjoined the University of Basel, Switzerland, where he led a research group as Habilitand from2008 to 2013. He received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, aMarie Curie Fellowship, a Holcim Stiung Wissen Fellowship, as well as the Pzer ResearchAward for Young Scientists. In 2013 he was awarded a Swiss National Science FoundationProfessorship, which enabled him to take up his current position. His research interests includeenzyme-catalyzed controlled/living radical polymerizations (ATRPases), protein cages and poly-mersomes as nanoreactors, and polymer–protein hybrid materials with the capability to self-report damage.



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David Payne is a Lecturer and Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department ofMaterials, Imperial College London. His research is concerned with the synthesis and charac-terisation of oxide materials, with aims ranging from the applied to the fundamental. Heprincipally uses photoelectron spectroscopy to interrogate the electronic structure of oxides inclose collaboration with fantastic theoreticians. He is currently in the process of commissioninga state-of-the-art high-pressure photoelectron spectrometer. This work could only be done withhis research group of whom he is immensely proud.

Richard Robinson is an Assistant Professor at Cornell University. His research is centered onunderstanding the fundamental physics of nanomaterials, and applying chemical and structuraltransformations to engineer the properties of nanoparticles for energy applications. His group istargeting new materials for lithium storage, thermoelectrics, and catalysis. Richard received hisB.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tus University. Then, aer several years atAccenture Technology Consulting, he returned to school and received his Ph.D. in AppliedPhysics from Columbia University, under Irving Herman. During that time he worked briey atBell Laboratories in the Physical Research Laboratory. Richard's postdoctoral fellowship was atthe University of California, Berkeley/LBNL in the research group of Paul Alivisatos. There, heworked on nanoparticle synthesis and chemical transformations of nanoparticles. In 2008Richard began a faculty position at Cornell University in the Materials Science Department, andbegan work on nanomaterials for energy applications. He has won a number of awards includingthe 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award, the NSF CAREER award, and the R&D 100 Award.

Rong Xu received her Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering (2004) from the National Universityof Singapore. She joined the School of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Techno-logical University in the same year as Assistant Professor and she was promoted to AssociateProfessor in 2010. Her main research interests include the development of semiconductorphotocatalysts for the production of solar fuels via water splitting and CO2 reduction, and thedesigning of functional materials for environmental applications.



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Felix Schacher was born in Lichtenfels, Germany, in 1980. Aer nishing his graduate studies inChemistry at the University of Bayreuth, Germany in 2006, he completed his doctoral work undersupervision by Prof. Axel H. E. Muller in 2009. His thesis focused on living anionic polymeri-zation techniques and nanostructured systems based on block copolymers in the bulk and insolution. Aerwards, he joined the group of Prof. Ian Manners as a DAAD postdoctoral fellow,working on the synthesis and self-assembly of organometallic block copolymers. Since 2010, hehas been a junior professor at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany. His researchinterests are polymer synthesis, self-assembly of polymer-based materials, and different char-acterization techniques related to block copolymer nanostructures.

Dwight Seferos attended Western Washington University, completing a B.S. degree in 2001. Heentered the graduate school at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he workedunder the supervision of Guillermo Bazan. Aer completing a Ph.D. in 2006, Seferos moved toNorthwestern University where he was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow withChadMirkin. In 2009, Seferos began his independent laboratory in the Chemistry Department atthe University of Toronto. He has authored or coauthored over 50 publications and has morethan 10 patents and patent applications. Since beginning his independent career he has beenrecognized with a DuPont Young Professor Grant (2011), Ontario Early Research Award (2011),Canada Research Chair (2012), and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2013).

Shenqiang Ren obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Science at the University of Maryland, CollegePark (USA), and worked as a postdoc fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)before his current position. He is Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Kansas(USA), leading the renewable and emerging nanomaterials (REN) group, working on earth-abundant materials chemistry and sustainable energy nanotechnologies, including energyharvesting nano-photovoltaics and high energy density nanomagnets.



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Steven McIntosh is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University,Bethlehem, PA, USA. He received his Bachelor of Engineering with 1st class honors from theUniversity of Edinburgh, UK, in 1999 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from theUniversity of Pennsylvania, USA, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. His Ph.D. research was con-ducted under the supervision of Prof. Raymond J. Gorte and Prof. John M. Vohs. He spent apostdoctoral period between 2004 and 2005 in the Inorganic Materials Science group at theUniversity of Twente, NL, working with Prof. Henny J. M. Bouwmeester. Dr McIntosh was anassistant professor at the University of Virginia, USA, from 2006 to 2010, prior to joining thefaculty at Lehigh University. His research areas are in solid state ionics, electrochemistry, andcatalysis. His research group worked closely with the instrument scientists and support staff atthe POWGEN beam line, Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA, todevelop the high temperature, controlled atmosphere, in situ capabilities for this instrument.

Wei Zhang obtained his B.Sc. from Peking University in 2000. He pursued his graduate studies atthe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Prof. Jeff Moore. Aerobtaining his Ph.D. degree in 2005, he moved to MIT to conduct postdoctoral research with Prof.Tim Swager. In 2008, he started his independent career in the Department of Chemistry andBiochemistry at University of Colorado-Boulder. His main research interest is to develop organicfunctional materials based on novel 2-D and 3-D molecular architectures that are constructedthrough dynamic covalent chemistry.

Xinliang Feng is a distinguished group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Researchand professor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His current scientic interests includegraphene, two-dimensional nanomaterials, organic conjugated materials, and carbon-richmolecules and materials for electronic and energy-related applications. He has published morethan 180 research articles. He has been awarded several prestigious prizes including the IUPACPrize for Young Chemists (2009), European Research Council Starting Grant Award (2012), andJournal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship Award (2013). He is an Advisory Board Member forAdvanced Materials, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, and Chemistry – An Asian Journal.



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Jun Yang received his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2006 from theNational University of Singapore. Aer postdoctoral research at Boston College and theUniversity of Toronto, he joined the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singaporein 2007. In 2010, he moved to the Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciencesas the Group Leader of Materials for Energy Conversion and Environmental Remediation(MECER). His main research interests include (i) applied catalysis, (ii) nanocomposites forenergy conversion, (iii) synthesis and application of novel nanocrystalline materials, and (iv)separation techniques.

Yonghui Deng received his B.S. in Chemistry from Nanchang University (2000) and Ph.D. inPolymer Chemistry & Physics from Fudan University (2005). He worked as a postdoctoralresearcher with Prof. Dongyuan Zhao (2005–2007), and aer that, he was promoted as anAssociate (2007) and full Professor (2011) in Fudan University. He has coauthored over 60scientic papers with total citations of over 2500. His research interests include core–shellnanomaterials, functional porous materials, and their applications in catalysis, sensors, andseparation, etc.

Yue Wu joined Purdue University as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering in August2009. He obtained his B.S. degree in Chemistry at the University of Science and Technology ofChina, Hefei, Anhui, P.R. China in 2001, with the Best Undergraduate Thesis Award. He obtainedhis Ph.D. degree in Chemistry at Harvard University (07/2001–06/2006). He then received a MillerFellowship for postdoctoral work in Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley (08/2006–07/2009). His Ph.D. research at Harvard University focused on semiconductor nanowiresand nanowire heterostructures for functional nanoelectronic memory and logic devices. AtBerkeley, he advanced the science of nanocrystal-based photovoltaic solar cells, especially thosemade from non-toxic and abundant materials. His independent research at Purdue on nano-structured materials for thermoelectric applications has gained recognition by peers worldwide,which has led to 17 conference presentations, 6 invited talks at industrial companies and federalgovernment research labs, and 18 invited colloquium/seminar presentations at other universi-ties. His publication H-factor is 22 for 43 peer-reviewed publications, with over 4600 citations.



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Zhiqun Lin is an Associate Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering atGeorgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering fromthe University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2002. His research interests include polymer solarcells, dye-sensitized solar cells, semiconductor organic–inorganic nanocomposites, photo-catalysis, quantum dots (rods), conjugated polymers, block copolymers, polymer blends, hier-archical structure formation and assembly, surface and interfacial properties, multifunctionalnanocrystals, and Janus nanostructures. He is a recipient of an NSF Career Award.

Guihua Yu is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Hereceived his B.S. degree with the highest honor in Chemistry from the University of Science andTechnology of China, and earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Harvard University with ProfessorCharles M. Lieber in 2009. Before starting at Austin in the fall of 2012, Dr Yu did three years ofpostdoctoral research at Stanford University. His research is focused on the novel synthesis andself-assembly of newmaterials with rationally designed nanostructures and properties for energyand environmental science and technologies, and the fundamental understanding of thestructure–property–performance relationship of materials at the molecular level.

Serena Corr obtained her B.A. (2002) and Ph.D. (2007) in Chemistry from Trinity College Dublin.She completed her Ph.D. work with Professor Yurii Gun'ko, where she developed new magneticmaterials for biomedical applications. In 2007, she began working as a postdoctoral researcherin the Materials Research Laboratory with Professor Ram Seshadri at the University of California,Santa Barbara. Aer a lectureship at the University of Kent, Serena joined the School ofChemistry at the University of Glasgow as a lecturer in Physical Chemistry in January 2013. Herresearch focuses on the design, synthesis and full characterisation of functional nanomaterialswhose applications include insertion electrodes for energy storage, biomedical diagnostics andtherapeutics and electronically responsive materials. Using a variety of synthetic approaches anda range of characterisation techniques, her group is particularly interested in understanding theintimate structure–property interplay in functional nanomaterials. A current major strategy isthe development of lower energy, quicker synthetic routes to highly crystalline nanoparticlesusing green routes such as microwave approaches, which drive down reaction times from days tominutes, and the development of molecular precursors to afford novel routes to nanostructuredfunctional materials.



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