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)