Projects

We have long worked on the synthesis of multinary pnictide, chalcogenide and, more recently, halide semiconductors containing unusual elements.

We use heterocrystalline epitaxial shell growth as well as ligand modification in order to modify the surface chemistry and enhance the optical properties of nanocrystal quantum dots.

This work started with the synthesis and single particle photoluminescence of methylammonium lead halides.

We are interested in better understanding the effects of nanostructuring on catalysis. We are also interested in applying nanocatalysts to new, challenging transformations.

We are fascinated by entities containing multiple metals and main group elements. Recently, we introduced different families of heterobimetallic molecular complexes as single source precursors in the synthesis of intermetallic materials.