Materials/Nanoscience
The faculty in the Chemistry Department at ±¬ÁϳԹÏÍø have diverse interests in materials science, especially as this field intersects with nanoscience and nanochemistry. Major research thrusts involve developing novel, chemically well-defined routes to advanced materials, spanning metallic, semiconducting, organic, and carbon-based nanomaterials, biomolecular, polymeric, and supramolecular structures, porous structures like metal organic and porous organic frameworks, solid-state materials, and inorganic-organic hybrids like nano-bio conjugates, and their assemblies; uncovering their new chemical and physical properties and functions through experimental and theoretical avenues and learning about how they interface with, respond to, and mimic living systems; and utilizing such materials to change paradigms in energy, catalysis, biomedicine, environmental science, and assembly.
Materials/Nanoscience Research Areas:
Inorganic-Organic Materials
Porous materials • solar energy • catalysis • magnetism • chemical sensors • alternative energy appliances • gas storage and separation • theory collaborations • molecular sieving membranes
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Nanochemistry
Diagnostics • therapeutics • photovoltaics • catalysis • patterning • electronic structure • synthesis • magnetic separation • magnetic resonance imaging • synthetically programmable lattices
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Solid-State Materials
Synthetic technique development • electronic structure • theory-inspired research • solar energy • gamma ray detectors • thermoelectrics, superconductors • magnetic materials • batteries • nanostructuring • exploratory synthesis • transparent conducting oxides
Organic Nanotechnology & Materials
Supramolecular chemistry • mechanostereochemistry • molecular recognition • self-assembly • functionalized and mechanized molecules • metal-organic frameworks and porous organic materials • artificial photosynthesis
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Physical Nanotechnology & Materials
Synthesis of metal, semiconductor, and organic nanostructures, including quantum dots, plasmonic nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and self-assembled biomolecules • development of new photonic and energy conversion materials; non-equilibrium (stimuli-responsive) materials • molecular electronics, excited state dynamics of photoactive nanostructures • spin quantum resonance sensing • spin cluster engineering for hyperpolarization
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Soft Matter
Polymers • gels • biomaterials • soft robotics • nanoscopy • 3D printing • statistical mechanics • fluctuations
Dichtel, Gianneschi, Gingrich, Kalow, Kelley, Luijten, Marks, Mirkin, Odom, Nguyen, Olvera de la Cruz, Schatz, Stoddart, Stupp