We build chemical & material technologies for clean air, clean water & clean chemicals, turning decarbonisation science into deployable solutions.
The lab, April 2026
What we do
Chemical and material solutions across four connected research themes.
Renewables-Powered Carbon Capture
Novel adsorbents and solar/electro-driven processes that cut the energy cost of capturing CO2 from air and flue gas.
Waste-to-Fuel
Converting CO2 and waste feedstocks into clean, storable liquid and gaseous fuels.
Next-Generation Catalysis
Novel catalyst design and reaction engineering for selective, energy-efficient chemical conversion.
Featured research
Flagship results from Sayan's postdoctoral work and from the group
Solar-driven strategies in carbon capture technologies
A review surveying how sunlight can power carbon capture directly, with Sudipta Nayak, a predoctoral researcher in the group, as first author, now published in EES Solar and selected as a Hot Article.
Read the paper →Direct air capture of CO2 for solar fuel production in flow
A reactor that pulls CO2 straight out of ordinary air at night using a solid adsorbent, then uses concentrated sunlight by day to convert it into syngas, a key fuel building block, while breaking down plastic waste as the other half of the reaction.
Read the paper →Latest news
Recent milestones from the group.