HPNanoPC Group
Research
Current Research Projects
● High Pressure Physics and Materials Science:
Structure, electrical transport, bandgap and mechanical properties of alloys, oxides, chalcogenides, oxy-chalcogenides, and borides at high pressure.
Microstructures of high-entropy borides quenched from high pressure
High pressure superconductivity of a layered van der Waals compound CuP2Se
● High Pressure Nanoscience:
Structural, mechanical, electrical, electronic and optical properties of nanomaterials at high pressure; non-classical nanocrystal growth under high pressure conditions.
Determined phase diagram of nanocrystalline materials
● High Pressure Chemistry:
High-temperature & high-pressure chemical reactions of molecules relevant to origin of life and sustainability of life at extreme conditions.
Structure of amino acid L-cystine
● Applications of Novel Materials in Catalysis and Energy Storage / Conversion:
Applications of novel materials, including layered van der Waals materials and high-entropy materials, in electrocatalytic splitting of water, solar energy conversion, and lithium batteries.
Electrochemical polarization curves
Research Facilities
We purchase from time-to-time scientific instruments to our HPSTAR labs, including shared large facilities (such as X-ray diffractometer, PPMS and Raman spectrometer) and instruments housed in PIs' individual labs. So far, our group has acquired an Agilent Cary 7000 UV-VIS-NIR spectrometer, an Agilent 8454 UV-VIS spectrometer, a Micrometrics NanoPlus-1 particle size analyzer, a Multi Autolab M204 electrochemical workstation, a Wuhan Corrtest CS310H Potentialstat and a CS353 AC-impedance instrument, a Spectro XEPOS XRF, an ezHEMS800 Hall-Effect measurement system, a Parr-4791 high temperature & high pressure reactor, several furnaces for syntheses of samples, etc.
ezHEMS Hall-Effect measurement system
Agilent Cary UV-VIS-NIR spectrometer; ZEISS microscopy
Micrometrics particle size analyzer; Agilent UV-vis spectrometer; Parr HTP reactor
We also make extensive use of national and international synchrotron facilities for our research:
High-pressure Infrared Spectroscopy Beamline Station 01B at Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF)