Theory and Modeling
Developing theories and using them through computer simulations helps us understand behavior.
Faculty
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scanning probe microscopy; electroanalytical chemistry; surface enhanced Raman scattering
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Organic Electronics and Photonics; Pi-Conjugated Polymers, Oligomers, and Molecular Materials; Electronic Structure of Electrically and Optically Active Organic Materials; Organic Semiconductors; Charge Transport in Organic Materials; Organic Solar Cells; Organic Transistors; Organic Light-Emitting Diodes; Organic/Organic, Organic/Metal, and Organic/Oxide Interfaces; Molecular Mechanics/Dynamics Simulations of Active Layers in Organic Devices; Mixed-Valence Organic Compounds; Second-Order and Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties; Two-Photon Absorption; All-Optical Switching
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Quantum mechanics; Quantum computing; Quantum information; Ion traps; Surface electrode ion traps; Molecular ions; Ultracold chemistry; Astrochemistry; Quantum control; Quantum error correction
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Organic materials; conjugated polymers; porous materials; energy.
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Biological imaging and spectroscopy; metal cluster fluorophores; fluorescent proteins; protein-protein interactions; novel imaging and spectroscopies; optically modulated fluorescence; statistics for multidimensional data analysis; antibacterial sensitivity; in vivo imaging
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Chemical dynamics in complex environments, Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, Multiscale methods, Protein dynamics and binding, Colloidal material structure and dynamics, hydrodynamics, and modern transition state theory methods; Dissemination of science to the public; open chemistry collaborative in diversity equity (OXIDE)
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Synthetic organic chemistry; physical organic chemistry; mechanisms; catalysis; environmentally benign tunable solvents; sustainable and environmentally benign chemistry.
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Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials; Three Dimensional Microfabrication; Organic Microlasers; Nanocomposite and Hybrid Energy Storage Materials, Photophysics of Conjugated Polymers; Plasmonic Enhancement of Optical Properties
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Quantum chemistry; intermolecular forces; pi interactions; theoretical chemistry; computational chemistry; algorithms; modeling; software development; high-performance computing
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Ultrafast spectroscopy; Multidimensional coherent spectroscopy; quantum spectroscopy; organic semiconductors; conjugated polymers; hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors; optoelectronics
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origin of life, protein structure and function prediction, modeling of cells and cellular networks, drug discovery, modeling of biological systems
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Materials chemistry; Inorganic chemistry; Low and negative thermal expansion materials; Oil well cements; Thermoelectrics; Ferroelectrics; Synchrotron x-rays; Neutron scattering; Crystallography; In-situ powder diffraction; High pressure; Low temperature synthesis; Sol-gel chemistry; Mixed metal oxides; Mixed metal fluorides
