The Bocarsly group focuses on discovering, characterizing, and controlling advanced inorganic materials. We are especially interested in energy and quantum applications, including:

 - Electrodes for inexpensive, high-performance rechargeable batteries

- Quantum materials for next-generation computing and spintronics

- Materials for energy conversion and efficient heat pumping

 Towards this goal, we employ a variety of experimental and computational techniques including solid state synthesis, X-ray and neutron diffraction, magnetometry, solid-state NMR, thermodynamic measurements, and density functional theory calculations. We are particularly interested in developing advanced in situ methods to study materials under realistic operating conditions— for example, building battery cells that can operate inside a SQUID magnetometer or X-ray diffractometer.

Another area of research concerns strategies managing the ever-growing troves of experimental data that are generated in materials chemistry labs using the open-source datalab platform. This web-based software seeks to make it easy for experimentalists to quickly capture and organize data and metadata, preserving links between associated samples and techniques. This facilitates preservation and sharing of the data, speeds up analysis, and enables new machine learning approaches to data-driven discovery.