Chemistry at Illinois

PROFESSOR	INTERESTS
Roman Boulatov	energy transduction at the molecular, supramolecular, meso- and macroscopic scales, mechanochemistry of synthetic organic, coordination and organometallic compounds
Andrew Gewirth	inorganic spectroscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy, interfacial electrochemistry
Gregory S. Girolami	metal-organic chemical vapor deposition, organometallic chemistry and catalysis, synthesis of new molecular magnets
Yi Lu	design of metalloproteins and their application in electron transfer and biocatalysis; asymmetric catalysis using metalloenzymes; study of metal-binding sites in DNA/RNA enzymes
Catherine J. Murphy	Synthesis, properties, chemical sensing, biological applications and environmental implications of colloidal inorganic nanomaterials; optical probes of DNA nanoscale structure and dynamics
Ralph Nuzzo	chemistry of materials, nano and micro-scale fabrication, soft materials, integrated devices and self-organizing structures
Thomas B. Rauchfuss	synthetic organometallic and inorganic chemistry applied to biomimetic catalysis, ion separation, and dihydrogen activation
Patricia A. Shapley	selective oxidation catalysis; green chemistry; synthesis and reactivity of high oxidation state organometallic complexes; homogeneous catalysis
Kenneth S. Suslick	chemical and physical effects of ultrasound, heme proteins and their synthetic analogs, olfaction, sensors and artificial olfaction, protein microspheres for medical imaging and drug delivery

Inorganic Area Allied Faculty