Jay Lee

Department: Chemistry

PI: Douglas Reed

I am a third-year graduate student in the Reed lab. My research is centered around making porous materials which are normally electronically insulating into highly conductive materials for applications in energy technology. Porous material of my choice is a class of molecules called metal-organic cages. These cage molecules are often solution processible and are amenable to traditional solution chemistry which are often difficult for similar heterogeneous materials. Using cage molecules as a platform we are investigating both non-covalent and covalent functionalization of cage molecules to enable electronic conductivity to these otherwise insulating materials.