Research Interests include the development of new"bottom-up" concepts and approaches to the controlled fabrication of hybrid nanomaterials with functions that can be integrated into a range of applications such as catalysis, sensing, controlled drug release and nanocomposites.

Key Examples:

• Hybrid protocells (Nature Chemistry, 2018, 10, 1154; Nature Materials, 2018, 17, 1145; ACS Central Sci., 2018, 4, 1551)
• Soft hybrid materials (Small, 2018, Soft Matter, 2018, 14, 5950, Chem.Comm., 2012, 48, 7934, Angew Chem., 2011, 50, 9343, Soft Matter, 2011, 18, 8120; Chem. Eur. J., 2012, 18, 6008)
• Bioinorganic nanostructures/nanocomposites and organic supramolecular assemblies (Nanoscale, 2013, 7, 7161; Angew. Chem. 2012, 51, 732;  Nano Letters, 2007, 7, 2660)
• Designing novel routes for the synthesis of functional inorganic materials (Adv. Mater., 2012, 24, 5767)
• 2D layered materials and composites (Chem.Phys.Chem., 2012, 13, 2956; Adv. Funct. Mater., 2010, 21, 674; Adv. Mater., 2009, 21, 3159; Adv. Mater., 2009, 21, 2180; J. Mater. Chem., 2007, 17, 3894)