ProfessorJason Riley

Vice-Dean (Education) for the Faculty of Engineering

Department of Materials - Faculty of Engineering

RESEARCH

Overview
Dr Riley''s research group are primarily interested in the application of electrochemistry in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The group, which presently consists of five Ph.D. students, are preparing and characterising nanomaterials and considering their applications in intelligent wound dressings, solar cells, force transducers, rheology and display devices. Recently completed projects in the group include: the fabrication of a quartz crystal microbalance mounted in a channel flow cell to allow new insight in to heterogeneous reactions, the growth and mechanical analysis of bicontinuous porous copper, and mechanistic studies of the hydrothermal growth of ZnO nanostructures using electroanalysis to monitor the composition of the reaction medium.

Clockwise from top: The Research Group; Tin Oxide Nanotubes; CdSe-Q-dots; ZnO nanosyringes;Biocontinuous porous gold; QCM channel flow cell

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    High Energy Density Capacitors Manufactured with Optoelectronic Tweezers (CapOET)
    Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E1 Oct 2017 - 31 Mar 2021
    Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E: High Energy Density Capacitors Manufactured with Optoelectronic Tweezers (CapOET) (2017-2021)
  • GRANT
    EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account 2017-2020
    Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E1 Apr 2017 - 31 Mar 2022
    Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E: EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account 2017-2020 (2017-2022)