Sustainably-Engineered Materials
The Titirici group focuses on developing sustainable materials for a fossil-free energy future. That’s why we focus on renewable resources, carbon materials and benign processing methods, such as hydrothermal carbonization and electrospinning. Predominantly, our research is based around green batteries and green catalysis for energy applications:
Find out more about the four main applications of our research by following the links below:
Sustainable carbon materials, for application in novel battery chemistry, including Na-ion, Li-S and multi-ion batteries.
Efficient, selective and sustainable catalysts, for fuel cells, electrolysers, electrochemical ammonia production and CO2 reduction.
Fluorescent CNDs from renewable precursors such as glucose, chitosan and a variety of biomass using the low temperature synthesis.
Carbon nanofibers, with tailored porosity, functionality and electronic conductivity, for supercapacitors.
Our research is facilitated by the various pieces of equipment we have in our laboratories, see some of what we have here: Titirici group equipment.
We also have a Group Brochure which collates everyone’s research projects into one easily-digestible brochure.