Designing multifunctional materials for global challenges

Researchers currently on this research theme

• Ioanna Itskou
• Reza Vakili

Current funding

• ERC Starting Grant THEIA
• Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Examples of related publications

• Paramagnetic States in Oxygen-Doped Boron Nitride Extend Light Harvesting and Photochemistry to the Deep Visible Region, Chem. Mater., 2023, 35, 1858–1867
• A monolithic gold nanoparticle@metal-organic framework composite as CO₂photoreduction catalyst, Materials Nano Today, 2023, 21, 100293
• Evaluation of CO₂ and H₂O Adsorption on a Porous Polymer Using DFT and In Situ DRIFT Spectroscopy, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2022, 126, 8048–8057
• Cu-functionalised porous boron nitride derived from a metal–organic framework, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2022, 10, 20580-20592
• A Response Surface Model to Predict and Experimentally Tune the Chemical, Magnetic and Optoelectronic Properties of Oxygen-Doped Boron Nitride, ChemPhysChem, 2022, 23, e202100854
• Hypercrosslinked Polymers as a Photocatalytic Platform for Visible-Light-Driven CO₂ Photoreduction Using H₂O, ChemSusChem, 2021, 14, 1720-1727
• Intrinsic thermal desorption in a 3D printed multifunctional composite CO2 sorbent with embedded heating capability, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2019, 11, 46, 43337–43343
• The effect of materials architecture in TiO2/MOF composites on CO2 photoreduction and charge transfer, Small, 2019, 15, 1805473
• Porous boron nitride for combined CO₂ capture and photoreduction, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019, 7, 23931-23940
• Titanium dioxide/carbon nitride nanosheet nanocomposites for gas phase CO2 photoreduction under UV-visible irradiation, Appl. Catal. B, 2019, 242, 369-378
• CO₂ capture and photocatalytic reduction using bifunctional TiO₂/MOF nanocomposites under UV–vis irradiation, Appl. Catal. B, 2017, 210, 131-140
• Metal-organic frameworks based materials for photocatalytic CO₂ reduction, Mater. Sci. Technol., 2017, 33, 1737-1749
• Carbon nitride nanosheet/metal–organic framework nanocomposites with synergistic photocatalytic activities, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2016, 6, 5042-505
• Towards the use of metal–organic frameworks for water reuse: a review of the recent advances in the field of organic pollutants removal and degradation and the next steps in the field, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015,3, 22484-22506