Zahra Fakhraai
Energy Research Interests: The Fakhraai group studies the effect of size, geometry, and interface interactions on the thermodynamics and optical properties of nanostructured materials. Understanding how interfaces and nanostructures affect material properties is crucial in many technological applications where soft materials are constrained at nanoscales, such as coatings, organic electronics, packaged biopolymers, and molecular catalysts. These studies include a detailed investigation of the evolution of morphology and dielectric properties of electrochemical interfaces, studies on the stability and surface properties of two-dimensional materials, and production of high-index coatings for applications such as AR displays.