Yamauchi Group Honours Projects

 Supervisor Professor Yusuke Yamauchi

Advances in nanoarchitectonics enable a wide variety of nanostructured electrodes with tuneable shapes and surface for constructing sensitive and selective biosensors for detecting biomolecules, such as microRNA. Mesoporous metals have attracted significant interest for biosensing applications because of their large number of active/adsorption sites, enhanced diffusion path, and high inherent activities. This project will involve the precise structural, compositional and pore engineering of mesoporous metals (including alloys) for the sensitive and selective detection of biomolecules, such as microRNA as biomarkers for disease diagnosis.

 Supervisor Professor Yusuke Yamauchi

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are organic-inorganic hybrid materials which have attracted significant attention for energy storage devices because of their tuneable composition, porosity, and structure as well as their high surface area and pore volume. Additionally, they can serve as excellent precursors to create different porous materials, including porous carbons and inorganic materials (e.g., oxides, sulphides, phosphides, etc.). This project will focus on the nanoengineering of MOF-based materials from structural, compositional, and porosity point of view to optimise their functional performance in energy storage devices, such as supercapacitors.