Geoff Waterhouse

Biography

Geoff Waterhouse is Associate Professor in School of Chemical Sciences of Macdiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and NanoTechnology

Research Interest

Geoff’s research interests are diverse and multidisciplinary, spread across the fields of Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Biology and Nanotechnology. Current research is focussed around the development of efficient supported noble metal nanoparticle catalysts for hydrogen production from renewable sources, and the fabrication and characterisation of smart optical coatings (in particular bioinspired photonic crystal thin films) for optoelectronic and catalytic applications. The synthesis of perovskite-type oxynitrides, and the application of these materials as ecologically friendly pigments and visible-light driven photocatalysts, is also an area of current research activity. A central theme of his research is exploration of the fundamental relationships between the chemical, physico-chemical, structural, electronic and optical properties of solids and their function.