Faculty

Website: Afonin Lab Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology Design and assembly of nucleic acid-based nanoparticles for diagnostic and therapeutic applications.

Website: Bejger Research Group Design, synthesis, and assembly of molecular cluster materials and coordination polymers for energy applications. Research in the Bejger lab is focused on the design, synthesis, and assembly of molecular clusters for energy applications. The chemical and electronic structures of molecular clusters can be modified synthetically; this allows us to tune their […]

Nanomateirals synthesis and characterization, nanomedicine, and plasmonics. The enduring problem that faces cancer patients is that treatments can be very difficult, yet the benefits of the treatments can be uncertain. This is because toxic treatments destroy normal cells while often permitting the most aggressive cancer cells to survive. A straightforward solution is to selectively deliver […]

Website: Etzkorn Group Preparative and physical organic chemistry, construction of complex fluorinated frameworks for molecular recognition or self-assembly with potential applications in sensing and sequestration; mechanistic investigation of the chemistry of unusual polycyclic scaffolds; extended (fluorinated) pi-systems as ligands in organometallic systems. The Etzkorn group targets fluorinated molecular tweezers of different molecular architecture in a […]

Website: Krueger Research Team Biophysical Chemistry: Structural information on bio/nano-molecular associations using spectroscopic techniques; in particular, light scattering (UV-VIS, X-ray and neutron), FTIR, Circular Dichroism and visualization of those associations through the use of molecular modeling. A protein is a polymeric molecule, a long chain of individual units linked covalently together. In the case of […]