Our research group is interested in surfaces, and reactions at surfaces for a wide range of materials and applications. Including the wonderful 2D materials graphene, silicene, and MoS2, the classic Si-surfaces as templates for nanostructures, and the interaction of fullerenes with metals. This last project is part of the investigation of catalytically active W-carbide materials. In the past we have also observed the metal insulator transition in VO2, and the formation of fractal structures with fullerenes on graphite.
At present we focus on two questions: How does oxidation and corrosion of alloys begin covering the range from binary to high entropy alloys with mutiple phases? And how can we use ion matter interactions to dope 2D materials (transition metal dichalcogenides) with metals to generate new quantum states, electronic and magnetic dopants.
