Department of Physics, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way,
St. Catharines,
Ontario,
Canada L2S 3A1
Welcome to the Sustainable Nano Engineered Materials Lab @ Brock University!
The research in Dr. Kaur’s group is at the interface of physics, chemistry and materials engineering with focus on synthesis of novel nanostructured materials, studying physical and chemical properties of nanomaterials, and entailing multidisciplinary applications from clean energy technologies to antimicrobial coatings, and water treatment. Current projects funded by NSERC, Canada are focused on designing novel solid state electrolytes using advanced materials and electrocatalysts for innovative electrode design for electrochemical devices, such as batteries, supercapacitors and water electrolysers for clean hydrogen production.
Our group synthesizes, functionalizes, and characterizes nanomaterials, including two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitrides and MXenes and fabricate nanocomposites using polymers. We investigate the structural, and chemical properties of 2D materials and study their interactions with functionalizers and polymers using advanced spectroscopic and microscopic techniques to develop innovative applications and clean technologies.
Students working in Kaur group will gain experience in materials physics, engineering of nanostructures, electrochemistry, and advanced spectroscopic and characterization techniques, including infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy and electrochemical measurement techniques.
Students who are interested in joining the lab should contact Prof. Kaur @ jasneet.kaur@brocku.ca.
news
| Jun 2025 | Prof. Kaur’s recently published article selected as one of the top 10% of papers published in Sustainable Energy & Fuels, RSC journal. |
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| Jun 2025 | Hansima Keppetiyawa defended her MSc thesis on “Two-Dimensional Titanium Carbide MXene for Lithium-ion Conductive Solid-state Electrolytes”. Congratulations, Hansima! |
| May 2025 | Pritish Behura presented a research poster at the 247th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting at Montreal. Check out the abstract. |
| Mar 2025 | Prof. Kaur was invited for a department seminar at the Physics and Astronomy department of Trent University. She gave a talk on “Next-Generation Ion Conducting Membranes for Clean Energy Systems using Two-Dimensional Materials” where she discussed her recently published work on anion exchange membranes and showed some of the current work of her graduate students. |
| Feb 2025 | Prof. Kaur’s new work is published on “Wearable flexible solid-state supercapacitors: Interface engineering using functionalized hexagonal boron nitride” in Nano Energy. Congratulations to the team! |