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The Carbon and Hybrid Materials (CMH) team focuses on the design, synthesis and understanding of carbon-based and hybrid materials — including carbon/metal and carbon/ceramic nanocomposites — with precisely controlled physico-chemical properties (texture, structure, morphology and functionality). The team seeks to develop new materials and sustainable processes, to elucidate the mechanisms involved in their fabrication, and to investigate material interactions with their environment under thermal, mechanical, chemical and electrochemical constraints. CMH also aims to enhance the performance of carbon materials in energy storage and gas storage applications, catalysis and environmental remediation.

Key Research Themes

The CMH team conducts research across several interconnected themes, including:

• Development and eco-design of sustainable carbon and hybrid materials with controlled properties.
• Hard and graphitic carbon materials tailored for Li-, Na- and K-ion battery electrodes, including structure–property–performance relationships.
• Hybrid carbon materials incorporating metal-based nanoparticles, where nanoparticle size, distribution and chemical nature are controlled for enhanced performance.

Approach

CMH combines fundamental insights with practical applications, aiming to link synthesis conditions to material properties and eventual functionality. This includes studying how carbon-based and hybrid systems interact with gases, liquids and solids, and optimizing these materials for energy, catalysis, environmental and other advanced applications.

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