| PROFESSOR | INTERESTS |
|---|---|
| Paul V. Braun | Electrochemical energy storage; responsive polymers; self-healing materials; mesoscale materials; optical materials; chemical sensors; self-assembly |
| Majed Fataftah | Synthetic and physical inorganic chemistry applied to quantum information science, emergent magnetic materials, and bioinorganic chemistry |
| Qian Chen | Soft matter design, characterization, and applications |
| 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 complexes and their use as catalysts; as precursors for the chemical vapor deposition of thin films; as building blocks for novel magnetic materials |
| Hee-Sun Han | Synthesis and bioimaging applications of colloidal nanoparticles; micron-sized soft materials for single virus/cell analysis; microfluidics; in vitro/in vivo imaging; single virus/cell sequencing |
| 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; near-field manipulation of photophysics and photochemistry; super-resolution imaging of active sites in heterogeneous catalysis; artificial photosynthe-sis; imaging phase transformations in single nanocrystal |
| 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 |
| 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 | Nanoelectrochemistry; advanced electrochemical characterization and imaging of materials and interfaces for electrocatalysis and energy storage; redox polymers; ultrathin electrodes; electrochemical simulation |
| 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, condensed matter physics |
| Qing Cao (faculty affiliate) | Materials for novel (opto)electronic devices |
| Dana D. Dlott (emeritus faculty) | Laser spectroscopy under extreme conditions |
| Mary L. Kraft (faculty affiliate) | Biological membrane imaging |
| 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 (emeritus faculty) | Sonochemistry; sensor arrays |
| Hong Yang (faculty affiliate) | Nanomaterials for catalysis |