Anna Klinkova

Professor Anna Klinkova's current research focuses on understanding the formation mechanisms and the structural behavior of inorganic nanoparticles with geometric complexity in various applications ranging from catalysis to quantum optics.

The ability to finetune nanoparticle geometry and create unusual nanoparticle shapes enables unprecedented control over their chemical and physical properties, e.g., enable new catalytic pathways for converting waste molecules such as carbon dioxide or urea to valuable products such as fuels, or an emergence of new quantum modes for applications in quantum computing. This research is highly interdisciplinary and involves synthetic materials chemistry, molecular and surface chemistry, a broad range of analytical and material characterization techniques, and, depending on a project, may involve electrochemistry, catalysis, self-assembly techniques, and computational methods (e.g., multiphysics simulations or ab initio calculations).