Our group is dedicated to designing, synthesis and characterization of emerging inorganic functional materials for energy and health applications. We are particularly interested in, but not limited to, solid-state cooling materials, nonlinear optical materials, photocatalytic degradation catalysts, and thermoelectric materials. The successful design of functional materials requires comprehensive knowledge of chemical bonds, crystal and electronic structures, microstructures, interfaces, defect chemistry, crystal growth, and properties characterization. We always welcome talented undergraduate and graduate students to be engaged in our lab and address fundamentally essential problems at the interface of inorganic chemistry, condensed matter physics, and materials science. Students in our lab will become experts in designing functional materials through learning various synthetic methods, crystal growth techniques, characterization techniques (X-ray and neutron crystallography, thermal analysis and spectroscopy, etc.), physical property measurements, as well as theory simulations.
