Faculty and Staff

Research Interests

Nanotechnology

• Crystallographic studies of human viruses and viral proteins; molecular design

• Molecular and solid-state inorganic chemistry; thin films and nanometer-sized clusters molecules

• Computational and theoretical chemistry

• Physical Chemistry Surface and interfaces (spectroscopic investigations) Micro-, opto-, and nano-electronics Electronic and bio sensors Imaging

• Protein-DNA interaction; protein engineering; regulation of gene expression

• Surface science; thin film growth; molecular adsorption on surfaces

• Molecular beam-surface interactions; surface diffractive techniques

• Develop and integrate nanotechnologies and chemical functional genomics

• Inorganic and solid-state chemistry; hybrid materials and nanostructures

• Membrane mimetic/micellar/association colloid chemistry, chemical trapping via arenediazonium ions/reaction mechanisms

• Protein folding and conformational dynamics, single molecule microscopy, time resolved fluorescence, statistical information theory, amyloid formation

• Design and synthesis of novel, degradable polymeric materials