Faculty Mentors/Research Areas:
Yingwen Cheng (Materials Chemistry and Electrochemistry)
Development of novel energy materials and electrolytes for more powerful beyond-lithium-ion batteries.
Elizabeth R. Gaillard (Biophysical Chemistry) Characterization of mechanisms of disease related damage in the human eye and other biological tissue.
Thomas M. Gilbert (Computational Chemistry) Computer modeling of (1) non-traditional pericyclic reactions and (2) relative energy of transition metal diastereomers.
Timothy J. Hagen (Organic Chemistry) Design and synthesis of small molecules that inhibit enzymes for treating malaria and infectious disease.
Oliver Hofstetter (Biochemistry) Development of new analytical techniques using antibodies as detection and separation agents.
James R. Horn (Biochemistry) Protein engineering and characterization of protein interactions relevant to protein biologics and drug design.
Douglas A. Klumpp (Organic Chemistry) Inventing new chemical reactions to make substances such as dyes/pigments, drugs, polymers and other targets.
Tao Li (Biomaterials and Nanotechnology) Design and synthesis of bio- inspired functional nanomaterials for medical and energy applications.
Evgueni E. Nesterov (Organic Materials and Polymers) Syntheticmethods towards semiconducting polymers; uorescent sensors andoptoelectronic materials and devices; organic photochemistry.
Irina V. Nesterova (Analytical Chemistry) Design and development of new molecular sensing systems for analysis of biologically relevant targets
Victor Ryzhov (Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry) Structure and reactivity of radical ions; gas-phase catalysis using metal ion complexes.
Lee S. Sunderlin (Mass Spectrometry) Thermochemistry and periodic trends in molecules that break the octet rule.
Ralph A. Wheeler (Computational Chemistry) Computer modeling to (1) optimize metalloenzyme reactions and (2) visualize motions correlated with ionic conductivity of electrolytes.
Tao Xu (Physical Chemistry and Nanoscience) Nanoscale materials for energy conversion, storage, utilization and safety monitoring.
Chong Zheng (Physical and Computational Chemistry) Metal organic frameworks as catalysts and energy storage materials.
