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Materials Chemistry Faculty

Areas: Organic, Materials
Specialties: Synthesis and Catalysis, Computational Chemistry, Environment and Energy, Photochemistry and Spectroscopy

The Alabugin research group focuses on the discovery of new chemical reactions, synthesis of unusual molecules, and stereoelectronic connections between structure and reactivity.

Areas: Inorganic, Materials, Physical, Organic
Specialties: Environment and Energy, Spectroscopy and Photochemistry, Synthesis and Catalysis

The Hanson research group focuses on the design, synthesis and characterization of light absorbing and emitting molecules for various applications.

Areas: Materials, Analytical, Physical
Specialties: Environment and Energy, Photochemistry and Spectroscopy, and Solid State Chemistry

The Hu research group focuses on the design, synthesis, and characterization of functional energy materials and advancement of solid-state NMR/MRI techniques.

Areas: Materials, Organic
Specialties: Environment and Energy, Nanoscience, Synthesis and Catalysis

The Kennemur research team focuses on the synthesis, characterization, and properties of functional polymers towards precise, biomimetic, stimuli-responsive, nanostructured, and/or sustainable materials.

Areas: Materials, Inorganic
Specialties: Environment and Energy, Solid State Chemistry

The Latturner group explores metal flux synthesis of inorganic semiconductors and intermetallics of interest for their magnetic and electronic properties.

Areas: Materials, Inorganic, Physical
Specialties: Environment and Energy, Nanoscience, Spectroscopy and Photochemistry, Solid State Chemistry

Our research focuses the development of new functional materials for applications in a wide range of technological areas from energy to environmental and information technologies.

Areas: Analytical, Organic, Materials, Physical
Specialties: Bioanalytical, Environment and Energy, Nanoscience, Photochemistry and spectroscopy, Synthesis and Catalysis

We focus on understanding, controlling and tailoring the interfaces between inorganic nanomaterials and various systems, including biological materials, metal complexes and fluorescent compounds.

Areas: Inorganic, Materials, Physical
Specialties: Computational Chemistry, Environment and Energy, Solid State Chemistry, Synthesis and Catalysis

The Ouyang research group develops and applies data-driven approaches to design and understand materials for energy storage and conversion.

Areas: Analytical, Materials
Specialties: Macromolecules

We specialize in understanding the weird and wonderful behavior of charged polymers, polyelectrolytes, at surfaces, as thin films and in the bulk.

Areas: Physical, Materials, Analytical
Specialties: Solid State Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Photochemistry and Spectroscopy

Solid-state NMR of the periodic table, diffraction methods, and quantum chemical computations to study numerous materials, like pharmaceuticals, nanoparticles, porous solids, and catalysts.

Areas: Inorganic, Materials, Physical
Specialties: Environment and Energy, Solid State Chemistry, Photochemistry and Spectroscopy, Synthesis and Catalysis

We study relationships between crystal and electronic structures and properties of materials, in order to design and synthesize better magnets, catalysts, and stimuli-responsive molecular materials.

Areas: Physical, Materials
Specialties: Computational Chemistry, Spectroscopy and Photochemistry

We explore chemical self-organization at the mesoscale, materials synthesis far from the thermodynamic equilibrium, hierarchically ordered matter, and prebiotic chemistry.

Areas: Inorganic, Materials
Specialties: Environment and Energy, Solid State Chemistry, Synthesis and Catalysis

We are principally interested in exploring the interface between traditional inorganic chemistry and materials science. To this end, techniques for studying the reactivity, structure, and bonding of inorganic complexes.

Areas: Biochemistry, Inorganic, Materials
Specialties: Nanoscience, Spectroscopy and Photochemistry, Environment and Energy, Solid State Chemistry, Synthesis and Catalysis

The Strouse group focuses on the molecular engineering and design of a wide range of stimuli responsive nanoscale materials.

Areas: Materials, Inorganic, Physical
Specialties: Environment and Energy, Solid State Chemistry, Synthesis and Catalysis, Nanoscience

The Zeng research team applies robotics and AI-driven experimentation to the development of inorganic materials and chemical processes for energy and environmental applications.

Areas: Materials, Organic
Specialties: Bioanalytical, Chemical Biology, Synthesis and Catalysis, Spectroscopy and Photochemistry

The Zhu group is interested in solving fundamental problems in chemistry and developing new technologies using the tools in supramolecular chemistry.