Molecular Engineering

Big leaps at small scale

Our projects here are mostly based in the Department of Chemistry and focus on materials from molecular up to nanoscale or macroscale levels.

Teams are developing new materials, design and manufacturing processes, and prototype devices that will impact on many applications.

Additionally they're exploring new means of manipulating material properties such as porosity, absorption, adsorption, electrical conductivity and optics.

This work is already leading to better medical devices, fuel cells, home care products and cosmetics: real impact in the real world.

Project summary

• Manufacturing process for SrHfTiO3 high-k dielectric
• Atomic layer deposition processes for treating nanostructured materials
• Surfaces for Novel Chiral Separations
• Dry Water Methane Gas Hydrate - Technology Development
• Molecular Design and Chemoinformatics: A combined approach to novel molecules
• Aligned porous materials as monolith columns for high performance liquid chromatography
• Demonstration devices from new intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cell cathodes
• Atmospheric Pressure Plasma System for Functional Thin Films
• Development of ALD coating processes and materials to promote bone in-growth into SLM built bio-medical implants