PROFESSOR INTERESTS
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
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