PROFESSOR | INTERESTS |
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Paul V. Braun | Electrochemical energy storage; responsive polymers; self-healing materials; mesoscale materials; optical materials; chemical sensors; self-assembly |
Qian Chen | Colloidal nanoparticles: synthesis, assembly, property: multivalent ion batteries; polymer physics; in-situ electron microscopy imaging; bioimaging and machine learning |
Majed Fataftah | Inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry: synthesis, spectroscopy, and electronic structure; metalorganic frameworks; molecular magnetism; quantum information science |
Andrew A. Gewirth | Materials properties of surfaces and interfaces with relevance to energy storage; electrocatalysis; materials fabrication; electrochemistry |
Gregory S. Girolami |
Synthesis of transition metal and f-metal complexes and their use in catalysis, as precursors for the chemical vapor deposition of micro- and nanoelectronic devices, in energy applications, and for reprocessing of nuclear fuel |
Hee-Sun Han | Development of microfluidics & imaging technologies for systems biology; modeling the ensemble behavior of complex biological systems; imaging-based spatial omics; microfluidics-based high-resolution assays; bottom-up construction of synthetic cells |
Nicholas E. Jackson | Theoretical soft materials chemistry; electron and ion transport; machine learning applied to molecular and polymeric systems; multiscale all-atom and coarse-grained simulations |
Prashant K. Jain | Plasmonics; energy chemistry; artificial photosynthesis; nanocatalysis; sustainable chemical synthesis; nanoscale imaging; photophysics and photochemistry; nanocrystals |
Christy F. Landes | New spectroscopic tools to image chemical dynamics at interfaces at the limit of a single event; creating new models to understand and predict macroscale processes like protein separation and photocatalysis |
Stephan Link | Photophysics and photochemistry of nanomaterials; plasmonics; solar energy conversion; single-particle imaging; ultrafast spectroscopy |
Xiaotang Lu | Brain circuit imaging for understanding development and pathology of the central nervous system: correlated multidimensional (from nanoscale to whole brains) and multiplexed (transcriptomic and proteomic) imaging of the brain; (bio)chemical probes; tissue chemistry; imaging methods |
Liviu M. Mirica | Development and characterization of homogeneous and heterogenous transition metal catalysts |
Catherine J. Murphy | Synthesis, characterization, biological applications and environmental implications of colloidal inorganic nanoparticles; surface chemistry and plasmonic properties of gold nanoparticles; sustainability |
Joaquín Rodríguez-López | Interfacial electrochemistry; scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM); spectroelectrochemistry; automated electrochemistry; nanoelectodes; batteries; electrocatalysis; graphene electrodes; redox polymers; electrochemical simulation; reactive oxygen species |
Benjamin Snyder | Inorganic spectroscopy and electronic structure; porous materials; heterogeneous catalysis; zeolites; metal– organic frameworks |
Josh Vura-Weis | Femtosecond X-ray spectroscopy of catalytic reaction intermediates |
Other Faculty with Interests in Materials Chemistry:
PROFESSOR | INTERESTS |
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Mikael Backlund | Quantum sensing with solid-state defects; applications in hard and soft condensed matter physics |
Qing Cao (faculty affiliate) | Materials for novel (opto)electronic devices |
Dana D. Dlott (research faculty) | Laser spectroscopy under extreme conditions |
Damien S. Guironnet | Development of novel (de)polymerization methodologies; self-assembled polymers; catalyst encapsulation |
Mary L. Kraft (faculty affiliate) | Biological membrane imaging |
Deborah E. Leckband | Protein function at interfaces and under confinement; hybrid biomaterials; protein interactions with polymers |
Jeffrey S. Moore (research faculty) | Self-healing systems; mechanochemistry; encapsulated materials |
Ralph G. Nuzzo (research faculty) | Nano and microscale fabrication; integrated devices |
Lisa Olshansky | Switchable materials for renewable energy applications |
Kenneth S. Suslick (research faculty) | Sonochemistry; sensor arrays |
Xing Wang (research faculty) | Nucleic acids-based nanomaterials for applications in chemistry, biology, and medicine |
Hong Yang (faculty affiliate) | Nanomaterials for catalysis |