New Fellow

摘要

Ajayan Vinu has been working as a Professor of Nanomaterials at the University of South Australia since October 2015. Before moving to the University of SA, he was working as a full professor at the University of Queensland from September 2011 to September 2015. Professor Vinu is recognised as a world leader in the field of nanoporous materials, with specific interest in the material's application in carbon capture, energy storage, adsorption and separation, and catalysis. He has introduced a new field of research on nanoporous nitrides and developed novel methods for making new highly ordered nanoporous materials with improved textural parameters and multiple functions. His significant contributions to the field include the discovery of the first nanoporous carbon nitride materials with tunable pore structures and textual parameters; the discovery of the first nanoporous boron nitride and boron carbon nitride materials; and the development of a new class of carbon nanoporous materials with novel architectures, including carbon nanocage, and nanocoops, hexagonal and cubic nanoporous carbons. These nanostructures aim to enhance mechanical, conducting, field emission and energy storage properties for use in advanced materials for supercapacitors, catalysis, fuel cells and the photo-electrochemical conversion of greenhouse gas.