We are working on a broad range of functional materials, from inorganic to organic and hybrid materials. Examples include layered double hydroxides (LDHs) and derived mixed metal oxides, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and derivatives, microporous organic polymers and molecules, polymer nanocomposites, nanostructured carbon materials including graphene, and organic-inorganic composite materials. One focus is on design and synthesis of novel microporous (pore size < 2 nm) materials and molecular sieves, such as Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity (PIMs) and MOFs. We synthesise and fabricate these functional materials for applications in energy conversion and storage, molecular separations, and heterogeneous catalysis.