Research Areas and Faculty

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• Analytical
• Education
• Environmental
• Inorganic
• Organic and Polymer
• Physical

Analytical

• Atomic force microscopy of solid-liquid interfaces, studies of heterogeneous kinetics under well-defined chemical and transport conditions
  Steven Higgins, Ph.D.
   
• Audrey McGowin, Ph.D.

Education

• Inquiry-based technology in the classroom
  Suzanne Lunsford, Ph.D.
   
• Develop novel, research-oriented laboratories for instrumental analysis, physical chemistry and nanotechnology courses
  Ioana E. P. Sizemore, Ph.D.

Environmental

• Experimental and computational techniques applied to renewable energy alternatives
  Rachel Aga, Ph.D.
   
• Inorganic and bio-mineralization processes, aqueous geochemistry
  Steven Higgins, Ph.D.
   
• Green methods for environmental analysis
  Audrey McGowin, Ph.D.
   
• Study of environmental effects from platinum group metals
  Ioana E. P. Sizemore, Ph.D.
   
• Suzanne Lunsford, Ph.D.

Inorganic

• Cytotoxicity of redox active N-heterocyclic carbene annulated gold complexes
  Kuppuswamy Arumugam, Ph.D.
   
• Single-crystal x-ray diffraction to examine: polymer precursors and pendants with interest in their non-linear optical properties, sydnones, crystalline battery substrates, and novel organic and inorganic molecules
  David A. Grossie, Ph.D.
   
• Development of Surface Modified Electrodes
  Suzanne Lunsford, Ph.D.
   
• An Electrochemical Approach to Control the Ring size of Cyclic Polyesters

Organic and Polymer

• Electrochemical approach to control the ring size of cyclic polyesters, Functional polymeric hybrid materials
  Kuppuswamy Arumugam, Ph.D.
   
• Organic synthesis of haplomyrtin and cyclopentadienones, monomer/polymer synthesis of conducting and electronically active organic materials, study of thermally stable and potentially ordered polymers and bifunctional monomers
  William Feld
   
• Synthesizing funtionalized highly branched polymers, using kinetic parameters to control polycondensation reactions that lead to linear and branched polymers, synthesis of new and interesting monomers
  Eric Fossum, Ph.D.
   
• Combinatorial organic synthesis and bioorganic, heterocyclic natural products
  Daniel Ketcha, Ph.D.

Physical

• Computer simulations to study molecular hydrogen storage capacity in nanostructured carbon materials, study performance efficiency of organic photovoltaic materials
  Rachel Aga, Ph.D.
   
• Laser-initiated gas-phase chemical chain reaction and energy transfer kinetics observed with time-resolved infrared fluorescence techniques; Laser-excited fluorescence spectroscopy
  David Dolson, Ph.D.
   
• Developing probabilistic stochastic cellular automata models that simulate the evolution of a variety of complex physical and chemical systems, using computer-based methods to find relationships between the structures of molecules and their physical, chemical, and biological properties
  Paul G. Seybold, Ph.D.
   
• Emphasis on Raman and Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
  Ioana E. P. Sizemore, Ph.D.