Dr. Qing Peng’s group focuses on understanding the surface/interfacial phenomena during the assembly of materials from molecular building blocks, or Molecular Legos.
Areas of Research:
- Surface/Interfacial Engineering Group
- Surface Engineering
Our interests are to develop new methods to assemble materials with control of the composition and structures down to the atomic level. We are interested in understanding the nucleation and growth mechanisms of vapor-substrate reactions by in‐situ/ex‐situ analytic methods for the purpose of growing materials with the controlled physiochemical properties.
At the current stage, we are studying the heterogeneous reactions in the following several areas:
- Understanding and controlling the surface reactions on hybrid perovskites
- Understanding and controlling the selectivity of surface reactions in area-selective atomic layer deposition
- Understanding and controlling the reactions at the vapor-liquid interface for nanomanufacturing
