- Surface chemistry of carbon nanoparticles (nanotube, graphene, graphene-oxide)
- Carbon aerogels (network polymer precursors, tuning of physical chemical properties)
- Modification of carbon surfaces with nitrogen incorporation
- Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) – carbon nanoparticle coupled systems
- Carbon based adsorbents
- Adsorbent – adsorbate interactions on consolidate and soft materials
- Relations between sorption- and surface chemistry properties
- Synthesis, modification and characterization of nanoporous systems
- Characterization of porous materials (e.g. BET surface, pore size distribution, density, iodine number, methylene blue number)