Materials Discovery

I start from the material I need — not the one I happen to find.

Data and chemical intuition tell me what to make.

I start from the material I need — not the one I happen to find.

Data and chemical intuition tell me what to make.

Better batteries and catalysts all depend on new materials.

Reaching one faster comes down to two things:

designing toward the property you need, and being able to synthesize it.

Better batteries and catalysts all depend on new materials.

Reaching one faster comes down to two things:

designing toward the property you need, and being able to synthesize it.

Design the target efficiently, reach what typical synthesis couldn't

Design the target efficiently, reach what typical synthesis couldn't

01 DESIGN FROM THE CHEMISTRY

I pair data-driven models with chemical intuition to design toward a target property. Electrochemical structure–property reasoning tells the models what matters, and the data narrows the search — so the right material takes fewer experiments to reach, not more.

02 OVERCOMING THERMODYNAMIC BARRIERS

Conventional synthesis can only make what equilibrium allows. Flash Joule heating heats and quenches in milliseconds, reaching alloy compositions that were previously out of reach — immiscible metals, high-entropy and metastable phases — as new electrocatalysts.

RELATED PUBLICATIONS

On-going  

Toward a closed design–make–test loop for redox-active materials

Linking chemistry-guided design, rapid synthesis, and electrochemical validation into one cycle

Under Review  

Flash Joule heating for low-critical-metal electrocatalyst synthesis

Using sub-second Joule heating to rapidly synthesize and screen alloy electrocatalysts while cutting reliance on scarce metals