The Materials Chemistry research group is a part of the Laboratory of Materials Chemistry and Chemical Analysis at the University of Turku. The laboratory belongs to the Turku University Centre for Materials and Surfaces (MatSurf), which is a cluster of materials scientists at the university from different disciplines representing physics, chemistry, and biomaterials. The collaboration within MatSurf enlarges the available instrumental park as well as the tight collaboration with the material research laboratory at the Åbo Akademi University.
The focus of the research in the group has been on soft materials like conjugated polymers and macromolecules since the mid-eighties. The research today comprises of 2D materials, fullerenes, porphyrins, Layered double Hydroxides, ionic liquids, layer-by-layer assembly of thin films, and other hybrid/composite materials. These materials are used in several applications such as solar cells, supercapacitors, electrochromics, and CO2 reduction.
The development of instrumental techniques for studying thin films is an important field in our research and special efforts have been put into in situ spectroelectrochemical measurement techniques. These characterization techniques enable simultaneous analysis of structural and electronic changes in a material.
