Dr Yousaf Khan

Contact

Email: y.khan@kingston.ac.uk
Location: Penrhyn Road
Faculty: Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education
School: School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy and Chemistry
Department: Department of Applied and Human Sciences, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

About

After graduating with my Chemistry BSc (Hons) from Kingston University, I completed my MSc in Chemical Research from the University College of London (UCL) where I specialised in physical, materials and computational chemistry. I returned to Kingston University to complete my PhD working on the synthesis and characterisation of organic-inorganic nanocomposites for photovoltaic, optoelectronic and semiconducting devices. I joined the teaching staff at Kingston University in 2019.

Academic responsibilities

PGTA

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Chemistry
MSc Chemical Research
PhD Materials Chemistry

Research

My research interests span several areas of chemistry and are currently focused around:

Materials chemistry

Semiconductors and semiconductor devices.
Conducting polymers.
Materials for post-Li ion batteries and renewable energies.
Intercalation compounds, chemistry and solid-state ionic conductors.

Computational chemistry

Electronic properties and design of organic semiconductors and single molecular donor-acceptor systems.
Electronic properties of conducting polymers
Probing organic reactivity and reaction mechanisms.
Inorganic coordination complexes and chemical bonding.

Organic chemistry

Solventless and solid-state green organic synthesis.