Research Themes:











2027

Chemical-free and Energy-passive Engineering.

​2026

Wetting-enhanced Electrochemical Processes and
Interferometrically-Probed Stochastic Particle Surfaces
for Triboelectric Mobility Manipulation.​

2025

Understanding Charge-Assisted Fluoro-Free Super Liquid Repellency and the Development of Acid- and Alkali- Resistant Surfaces.

2024

Probing and Understanding Underwater Plastrons for

Use in Bubble Capture and Gas Delivery.

2023

Study of Reactive Wetting Phenomena and the Optimization of Perfluoroalkyl Surface Chemistries for Liquid-Like Repellency.

2022

Designing and Understanding Sustainable Surface Chemistries
for Super Liquid Repellency.

2021

Anti-Fingerprint Surfaces, Bioinspired Anti-Underwater Icing,
Plastrons, Contact Electrification.

2020

Robust Superamphiphobicity, Bioinspired Anti-Icing Surfaces, Frost- Growth and Propagation Behaviors, and Frost- and Ice- Resilient Surfaces. Anti-bubbling Surfaces.
 
2019

Dynamic Self-Lubrication, Adaptive Wetting,
Interferometric / Confocal Imaging, and
Surface Entropy Directed Energy Storage.

2018
 
Development of Lubricant Infused Slippery Surfaces for Anti-Icing, and Scalable Superamphiphobic/omniphobic Interfaces. Anti-foaming Surfaces.

2017
 
Development of Superomniphobic Surface Textures and Bioinspired Concepts for Wettable-Dewettable Membranes.
 
2016
 
Development of Smart Self-Assembling Materials and
Superamphi and oleo-phobic Surface Textures.
 
2015
 
Development of Stimuli Responsive Smart Materials and
Mechanically Toughened Superhydrophobicity.
 
2014
 
Facile and Scalable Development of Super-hydrophilic and
Highly Adhesive Super-hydrophobic Interfaces.
 
2013
 
Development of Green (Biomimetic) and
Efficient Biocatalytic Methods via
Recyclable Immobilized Enzymatic Biocatalysis.
 
2011-2013
 
Synthesis of Tough Hybrid Polymer Composites through
exploitation of Interpenetrating Composite Nanostructures.
 
2011
 
Optimization and Scaling Microbial Fuel Cell Technologies at Siemens (Singapore).