Faculty Research
- Edward Arnold
- Distinguished Professor / Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- Research Synopsis: Crystallographic studies of human viruses and viral proteins, molecular design
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- Teddy Asefa
- Professor
- Research Synopsis: Materials chemistry; nanoscience and nanotechnology; inorganic chemistry; nanobiomaterials
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- Jean Baum
- Distinguished Professor
- Research Synopsis: Structural studies of proteins by nuclear magnetic resonance techniques
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- Robert Boikess
- Professor
- Research Synopsis: General Chemistry texts, multi-lecturer course development and coordination
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- John Brennan
- Professor
- Research Synopsis: Molecular and solid-state inorganic chemistry, thin films and nanometer-sized clusters
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- Kenneth J. Breslauer
- Linus C. Pauling Distinguished University Professor
- Research Synopsis: Enabled by an outstanding group of colleagues, Breslauer’s Lab pursues several interrelated biophysical research programs. Collectively, these programs focus on characterizing the intra- and intermolecular forces that modulate the regulation and dysregulation of biological processes crucial to human health. Deciphering this language used in molecular communications is essential for the rational deign of diagnostic and therapeutic protocols.
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- Stephen K. Burley
- University Professor and Henry Rutgers Chair
- Research Synopsis: Structural biology, drug discovery, clinical medicine and oncology
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- Charles Dismukes
- Distinguished Professor
- Research Synopsis: Inorganic and physical chemistry with applications to heterogeneous catalysis, homogeneous catalysis, biological catalysis, photosynthesis, renewable solar-based fuel production, and tools for investigating these systems.
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- Richard H. Ebright
- Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- Research Synopsis: structural biology; single-molecule biophysics; RNA polymerases; antibacterial agents; antituberculosis agents
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- Paul G. Falkowski
- Board of Governors Professor and Director, Rutgers Energy Institute
- Research Synopsis: Biogeochemical cycles, photosynthesis, biological oceanography, molecular biology, biochemistry and biophysics, physiological adaptation, plant physiology, evolution, mathematical ...
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- Eric Garfunkel
- Distinguished Professor
- Research Synopsis: Nanoscience and technology, nanoelectronics, surface and interface science, materials for alternative energy, nanowires, catalysis, sensors, organic electronics, nanotoxicology
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Research Summary
We perform fundamental studies of surface, ultrathin film, interface and nanostructure systems of relevance to advanced technology. Past studies have included research on atomic and molecular adsorption and reaction, thin film growth, and catalysis. Over the past decade our work has mainly involved basic and applied research into new inorganic and organic materials for nanoelectronics. Current interests also include alternative energy materials (for photovoltaics, catalysis, and energy storage), nanowires, graphene, MEMS, bio-materials interfaces, sensors, and nanotoxicity. Our group uses ion scattering, electron spectroscopy, scanning probe and electron microscopies, and other surface and nanoscience methods.
CMOS nanoelectronics (next generation transistors)
New materials: The semiconductor industry critically needs new materials and structures to continue scaling transistors. Our research in this area is directed at understanding and controlling the atomic scale properties of future generation of MOS (metal-oxide-semiconductor) gate stacks (the core region of a transistor). This work involves a range of new materials for metal gate electrodes (with appropriate work functions), dielectrics (with a higher dielectric constant than HfO2), and semiconductors (including Ge and GaAs-based channels). Key factors in choosing alternative materials for MOS gate stacks are that the structure, once grown, should display a high capacitance and high on-off ratio, have a low concentration of electrical defects, be thermally stable, and be manufacturable in appropriate structures. Our research on dielectrics has focused on studies of high permittivity oxides of Zr, Hf, La, Ti and Al. Growth studies using atomic layer deposition have been critical in learning how to engineer ultrathin films. An important aspect of our work is to develop an understanding of (and correlation between) the structural, compositional and electrical properties of relevant materials and structures. In addition to dielectrics, develop the basic scientific and conceptual tools, physical characterization methods, growth methods, and work function engineering strategies to enable optimal metal electrodes to be realized in device application. In addition to new materials, we also examine novel structures, including nanowire-based devices.
Key collaborators in this work are Torgny Gustafsson, Bob Bartynski, Len Feldman and members of the SRC and Sematech communities.
Organic materials for electronics and photonics
Organic materials have begun to replace inorganics and a few advanced device applications, and there is hope that with appropriate R&D effort, much greater impact for organics is forthcoming. We work on a variety of device-related projects that involve studies of polymers, small organic molecules, organic crystals, and graphene. Our work focuses primarily on surface and interface science of these materials. The applications of our work range from photovoltaics (OPV) to lighting and display (OLED) to electronics (OFET). Recent polymer work has focused mainly on hybrid organic-inorganic photovoltaics with one project using electropolymerization to integrate polythiophenes with ZnO nanowires. Single crystal organic work has focused on understanding the surface chemistry of rubrene. Graphene work has concentrated on exfoliation chemistries, functionalization, and characterization. Past work involved a precise characterization of molecule-electrode and electrode-molecule-electrode systems for molecular electronics. In most cases, once bonding and structure at the surfaces and interfaces are well understood, we work on fundamental measurements of electrical transport or optical absorption/emission. As with our inorganic work, we use an appropriate range of powerful surface and thin film methods to help develop a full understanding of the system under investigation.
Collaborators in these projects include Manish Chhowalla, Vitaly Podzorov, Huixin He, Eva Andrei and Yicheng Lu.
Other projects include basic studies of:
- Atomic layer deposition
- Cluster-based methods of ultrathin film growth (with CSMC)
- Ionic liquid surfaces and interfaces
- Photoelectrocatalysis
- SiO2/SiC interfaces
- Nanotoxicology
- Nanowire growth and applications
- Electrodes for photonic and electronic devices
Publications
- Publications can be found at Garfunkel group main site.
- Alan Goldman
- Distinguished Professor
- Research Synopsis: Catalysis and catalytically relevant organometallic chemistry, reactions, and mechanisms.
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- Martha Greenblatt
- Distinguished Professor / Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
- Research Synopsis: Solid-State Chemistry: correlated electronic low-dimensional transition metal oxides and chalcogenides, superconductors, ionic conductors, catalysts for water oxidation
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- Yuwei Gu
- Assistant Professor
- Research Synopsis: Leveraging organic/polymer synthesis and biomacromolecular engineering to design and synthesize macromolecular systems that possess characteristics conventionally unique to proteins.
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- Gene S. Hall
- Professor of Analytical Chemistry
- Research Synopsis: Applied analytical chemistry, molecular fingerprinting of dietary supplements, multi element trace analysis of environmental and geological samples, CBD and omega-3 dietary supplements forensics, counterfeit consumer products, advanced chromatographic separations, laser desoprtion ionization TOF-MS, E-cigarette components.
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- Jane Hinch
- Associate Professor
- Research Synopsis: Molecular beam-surface interactions, surface diffractive techniques
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- Enver Cagri Izgu
- Associate Professor
- Research Synopsis: Molecular probes for bioimaging, biosensing, and diagnostics. Next-generation chemical architectures toward high-fidelity therapeutics. Functional lipid membranes and nucleic acids of both biological and non-biological nature. Design of artificial cells.
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- Leslie Jimenez
- Associate Professor
- Research Synopsis: Synthesis and characterization of analogues of antitumor antibiotics and coenzymes
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- Sagar D. Khare
- Associate Professor
- Research Synopsis: Design and redesign of enzymes
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- Spencer Knapp
- Professor
- Research Synopsis: Total synthesis of natural products and the development of new synthetic methods
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- Jeehiun Katherine Lee
- Professor
- Research Synopsis: Biophysical organic and analytical chemistry, computational chemistry, mass spectrometry, study of chemical reactivity, recognition, and catalysis
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- Ki-Bum Lee
- Distinguished Professor
- Research Synopsis: Develop and integrate nanotechnologies and chemical functional genomics
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- Jing Li
- DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR / BOARD OF GOVERNORS PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
- Research Synopsis: Inorganic and solid-state chemistry, hybrid semiconductors and nanostructured materials, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)
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- Mark Lipke
- Associate Professor
- Research Synopsis: Inorganic/organometallic chemistry and catalysis using novel synthetic and mechanistic approaches derived from the fields of supramolecular chemistry, porous materials, and polymer chemistry.
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- Andrew J. Nieuwkoop
- Associate Professor
- Research Synopsis: Magic angle spinning solid-state NMR of proteins, membranes, and materials.
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- Deirdre O’Carroll
- Associate Professor
- Research Synopsis: Our group is focused on nanoscale engineering of the efficiency and direction of light absorption and light emission in photonic devices which employ organic polymeric semiconductor ...
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- Wilma K. Olson
- Mary I. Bunting Professor of Chemistry
- Research Synopsis: Theoretical studies of nucleic acid conformation, properties, and interactions
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Research Summary
The goal of our research is to understand the influence of chemical architecture on the conformation, properties, and interactions of nucleic acids. The work attempts to clarify the role of local structure (e.g., primary base sequence, polyelectrolyte sugar-phosphate backbone) and ligand binding (e.g., proteins, drugs) on the overall folding of DNA and RNA. A second goal is to uncover structural details of nucleic acid structural transitions, such as those involving different DNA duplexes. The research combines a variety of computational approaches (Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations, potential energy calculations, developments and applications of polymer chain statistics, finite element analysis, systematic molecular modeling) with new developments in polymer theory. Problems of current interest include: (1) new computational methods to generate and analyze the folding of RNA, the junctions of DNA and RNA helices, and the sequence-dependent supercoiling of the DNA double helix; (2) computer simulation of the DNA conformational transitions; (3) improved procedures to analyze local structural morphology and to model the effects of base sequence and electrostatics on macromolecular flexibility; (4) new computational models of protein-nucleic acid interactions.
DNA conformational transitions
Visualization of the conformational transition of a 200 bp naturally closed circular DNA molecule from the circular form to the figure-8 form. The transition pathway is deduced by combining the lowest frequency bending normal mode of a torsionally stressed duplex about its minimum energy configuration and the corresponding mode of the same DNA with respect to the minimum energy figure-8 state. To see an animation please click on movie. (Image based on normal mode calculations performed by Dr. Atsushi Matsumoto)
DNA four-way junctions
Space-filling model of a square planar DNA four-way junction. The crossover single strands are colored blue and red. The other two single strands kinked at the central site are represented in green and yellow. To see an animation of open DNA four-way junctions moving back and forth from a square planar to a stacked form please click on movie. (Image based on molecular modeling studies performed by Dr. A. R. Srinivasan and Professor Wilma K. Olson).
Publications
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kQXaUBUAAAAJ&hl=en
- Richard Remsing
- Associate Professor
- Research Synopsis: theory and simulation of chemical and materials systems
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- Jean Rivera-Rios
- Assistant Professor
- Research Synopsis: Atmospheric oxidation mechanisms, aqueous-processing, and air pollution monitoring
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- Heinz D. Roth
- Distinguished Professor
- Research Synopsis: Chemistry of reactive intermediates, nuclear spin polarization, electron spin resonance
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- Zheng Shi
- Associate Professor
- Research Synopsis: We look at cells from the lens of physical chemistry.
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- Christopher Shuck
- Assistant Professor
- Research Synopsis: 2D Materials, Nonequilibrium Chemical Kinetics, Energetic Materials, Novel Materials Synthesis
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- Kate Waldie
- Associate Professor
- Research Synopsis: Coupling inorganic chemistry & electrochemistry for the design and study of organometallic catalysts
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- Lu Wang
- Associate Professor
- Research Synopsis: Our group utilizes theoretical and computational tools to elucidate the structure, spectroscopy and quantum effects of condensed phase systems.
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- Ralf Warmuth
- Associate Professor and Vice Chair Undergraduate Program
- Research Synopsis: Host-guest chemistry and peptide chemistry
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- Lawrence J. Williams
- Professor and Chair
- Research Synopsis: Computational & experimental mechanistic studies. New reaction discovery and method development. Synthesis of functional materials, including complex bio-active and natural products.
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- Darrin M. York
- Distinguished Professor / Henry Rutgers University Professor
- Research Synopsis: The development and application of multi-scale quantum methods for simulations of biological reactions.
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- Jianyuan (Jason) Zhang
- Assistant Professor
- Research Synopsis: Using synthetic and supramolecular approaches to control metal ions and clusters and the nanoscale for functional quantum materials and biomedical applications.
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