Nano Research

Initially, our research focused on surface engineering, inspired by nature solutions to create nanostructures that we tried to translate into metal and metal oxide surfaces with nanopores and diverse nanostructural morphologies. These surfaces offer novel functionalities and properties, which we have explored for solving fundamental interfacial challenges and practical problems in areas such as microfluidics, sensing, molecular separation, and antibacterial protection.

Our research group has been at the forefront of nanotechnology for many years, specializing in the development and application of nanomaterials and nanostructures. Our work spans a wide range of topics within nanotechnology and explores how these innovations can be applied across various disciplines.

Building on our expertise in surface engineering, our research has evolved to encompass the synthesis of nanomaterials with various morphologies, including 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D structures, and their hybrids. We work with a broad range of materials, including metals, semiconductors, metal oxides, carbons, and polymers, leading to the creation of many new materials with exciting and unique properties. In recent years, our primary focus has been on graphene and other 2D materials, which have proven instrumental in developing innovative products, devices, and technologies.

We actively collaborate with researchers from diverse disciplines, including chemistry, physics, biology, electrical, mechanical, and civil engineering, medicine, and agriculture that we believe that such multidisciplinary cooperation is essential for tackling complex challenges.

Nanomaterals we are creating are instrumental in the development of innovative products, devices, and technologies, effectively addressing pressing global challenges in several areas:

• Environmental/clean water: Water purification, combating corrosion, and improving fire resistance.
• Energy Storage: Developing more efficient storage solutions.
• Healthcare: Advancing biomedical implants and diagnostic tools.
• Agriculture: Creating new fertilizers and pest control methods.
• Defense: Innovating sensors and radiation shielding technologies.
• Industry: Enhancing additive manufacturing processes and new technologies for manufacturing nanomaterials

By involving industry partners early in the development process, we successfully translate our research into new products, devices, and technologies that reach the market. So far, we successfully completed +50 research projects making valuable scientific contribution and significant impact supporting local industry and new start-ups.