People

• 2019—Ongoing: Principal Investigator at Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center, Istanbul, Turkey.

• 2017—2018: Honorary Research Associate and Researcher Co-Investigator, University College London, Chemical Engineering, UK.

• 2016—2017: Scientific Consultant, Imperial Consultants (ICON), UK .

• 2016—2017: Senior Research Associate, Imperial College London, Department of Chemistry, UK.

• 2014—2016: Senior-Postdoctoral Research Associate, University College London, Chemical Engineering, UK.

• 2010—2014: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Imperial College London, Department of Chemistry, UK.

• 2007—2010: Doctoral Researcher, Durham University, Department of Chemistry, UK.

• 2002—2007: (Senior) Teaching/Research Assistant in Organic/Polymer Chemistry, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Department of Chemistry, Turkey.

1. Chemistry and engineering of 0D–, 1D–, 2D– and 3D–nanomaterials, particularly carbon-based nanomaterials including fullerene, carbon nanotubes, graphene, carbon nitride, molybdenum disulfide, black phosphorous, carbon dots and Max/Maxene.

• Liquid-phase exfoliation and processing.

• Surface modification via covalent and non-covalent strategies.

• Purification and spectroscopic and microscopic characterization.

• Preparation of their thin films, hydrogels, organogels and aerogels.

• Applications for composites, energy harvesting and chemical sensors.

2. Fluidic chemistry to continuous manufacturing of nanomaterials.

• Design and development of microwave promoted high throughput continuous reactors

• Manufacturing value-added colloidal nanomaterials (e.g. Fe2O3, TiO2, graphene etc.)

• Preparation plasmonic nanoparticles (e.g. Au, Ag) and their hybrids

• Surface modification and thin film preparation of manufactured materials

• Photocatalytic applications such as water splitting, H2 production, OER, CO2 reduction.

3. Supramolecular self-assembly of high aspect ratio nanoparticles to prepare conductive hierarchical composites.

4. Microwave-assisted biopolymer synthesis and their processing.

5. Organic Polymer Chemistry (synthesis, characterisation and test of mechanical properties).

6. Heterocyclic Chemistry (synthesis, purification, characterization and sensing).

7. Organometallic homo/cross coupling reactions (e.g. Sonogashira, Ullmann, Heck etc.) for highly conjugated molecular systems.

8. Silica-based (nano) materials for enhanced emulsion breakdown applications and separation (Surface grafting, characterization and their self-assembly).

9. Computational Organic Chemistry using HyperChem Release and modelling.