Welcome to The Lin Research Group in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore. Our research focuses on Nanostructured Materials for Energy (NanoME). Major research thrusts in this area include functional materials for energy conversion and storage (e.g., solar cells, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, batteries, etc.); meniscus-assisted solution printing; precision synthesis of topologically complex polymers and multifunctional nanocrystals; polymer recycling and upcycling; self-assembly; and interfacial engineering of nanomaterials.
An extensive list of materials under investigation includes block copolymers; nonlinear polymers (e.g., star-like, bottlebrush-like, Janus, etc.); conjugated polymers; polymer-based nanocomposites; an array of nanocrystals with precisely controlled dimensions, compositions, architectures, and surface chemistry.
The overarching goal of our research is to unravel the fundamentals of the as-crafted nanostructured functional materials via precision synthesis and scrutiny of their dimension-dependent structure-property relationship, aiming at capitalizing on them for a wide diversity of applications in energy and sustainability, including solar cells, LEDs, scintillators, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis (e.g., ORR, OER, HER, AOR, MOR, UOR, etc.), hydrogen generation, circular economy, nanotechnology, and biotechnology.