As the leader of this group, I welcome you to visit our website, correspond with members of our group and discuss your technical interests with us. Our laboratory is involved in the research of advanced nanomaterials with specific application areas in alternative energy, multifunctional nanocomposites, and electronics/sensor technologies. Our research focuses on the materials science and engineering of several technologies that will impact our society in the future. Energy generation and storage, chemical sensors, nanoelectronics, flexible displays, high performance composites, membrane technologies, coatings, and biomedical technologies are some of the areas we will broadly cover. With several collaborations at Rice and outside we are involved in a multi-disciplinary team effort with the goal of developing functional nanomaterials for a rich variety of applications.
We are committed to changing the world through discoveries and development of new materials. Our efforts begin where the imaginative mind meets the experienced. We are excited about what future technology can offer society. We want to be leading players in this endeavor. We want to be the missionaries of science in our lifetime. We want to influence young minds to make science their way of life.
Thank you for visiting us.
All the best,
Pulickel M. Ajayan
Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor of Engineering
Professor, Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Professor, Department Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Professor, Department of Chemistry
Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
E-mail: ajayan@rice.edu
Latest Articles

Graphite Cone/Disc Anodes as Alternative to Hard Carbons for Na/K-Ion Batteries - Advanced Functional Materials, (2025)
Atin Pramanik, Shruti Suriyakumar, Tymofii Pieshkov, Shreyasi Chattopadhyay, Sreehari K. Saju, Vinesh Vijayan, Bernd Zechmann, Debora Berti, Manikoth M. Shaijumon, Pulickel M. Ajayan

Comparative Assessment & Environmental Impacts of Lixiviants for Hydrometallurgical Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling - Advanced Energy Materials, (2025)
Sohini Bhattacharyya, Rosario Vidal, Salma H. Alhashim, Xi Chen, Pulickel M. Ajayan

Unlocking the Potential: Atomically Thin 2D Fluoritene from Exfoliated Fluorite Ore and Its Electrochemical Activity - Nano Letters, (2024)
Shreyasi Chattopadhyay, Preeti Lata Mahapatra, Manoj N Mattur, Atin Pramanik, Sunny Gupta, Tymofii S Pieshkov, Sreehari Saju, Gelu Costin, Robert Vajtai, Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, Boris I Yakobson, Pulickel M Ajayan

Three-dimensional printing of wood - Science Advances 10, eadk3250 (2024)
Md Shajedul Hoque Thakur, Chen Shi, Logan T Kearney, MASR Saadi, Matthew D Meyer, Amit K Naskar, Pulickel M Ajayan, Muhammad M Rahman

Cooperative Copper SingleāAtom Catalyst in 2D Carbon Nitride for Enhanced CO2 Electrolysis to Methane - Advanced Materials 36, 2300713 (2024)
Soumyabrata Roy, Zhengyuan Li, Zhiwen Chen, Astrid Campos Mata, Pawan Kumar, Saurav Ch Sarma, Ivo F Teixeira, Ingrid F Silva, Guanhui Gao, Nadezda V Tarakina, Md Golam Kibria, Chandra Veer Singh, Jingjie Wu, Pulickel M Ajayan