Adaptive & Responsive Nanomaterials Group

We are a research team at University College London, based at the Department of Chemical Engineering and with close links to the soft materials community across campus. We study material formation on the nanoscale by molecular self-assembly and build functional nanoarchitectures for a variety of fields ranging from chemical sensing and biomedical diagnostics to photovoltaics and optical coatings.

Recent highlights by the group

Schematic of block copolymer directed metamaterials

Advanced Optical Materials (2021)

Block copolymer directed metamaterials and metasurfaces for novel optical devices

ToC figure of paper: Nanostructure Dependence of T-Nb2O5 Intercalation Pseudocapacitance Probed Using Tunable Isomorphic Architectures

Advanced Functional Materials (2021)

Nanostructure dependence of T‐Nb₂O₅ intercalation pseudocapacitance probed using tunable isomorphic architectures

Soft Matter (2021)

Temperature-induced liquid crystal microdroplet formation in a partially miscible liquid mixture

Table of content image for research article

Nanoscale (2020)

Fractionation of block copolymers for pore size control and reduced dispersity in mesoporous inorganic thin films

Nanoscale (2020)

Comparative characterisation of non-monodisperse gold nanoparticle populations by X-ray scattering and electron microscopy

Chemistry of Materials (2020)

Information entropy as a reliable measure of nanoparticle dispersity