Department of Chemistry > Research > Materials Chemistry

Our cross-disciplinary faculty are focused on the rational synthesis and characterization of new classes of organic, inorganic, and solid-state materials. Research groups are engaged in the study of electronic materials spanning molecular, 1-d, 2-d and bulk regimes, Janus particles, porous materials for energy storage, nanomaterial growth, cluster assembled materials, and conductive polymers. Opportunities for basic and applied research abound in areas including: catalysis, solar energy conversion, environmental remediation, optical and quantum computing, multiscale modeling of structure and dynamics, and biological imaging, sensing and repair.

Groups: Bowen, Bragg, Fairbrother, Hernandez, Kempa, Klausen, McQueen, Thoi, Tovar

Our Findings

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    Zinc‐Imidazolate Films as an All‐Dry Resist Technology

    The Fairbrother Group in collaboration with the Tsapatsis group in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering have introduced a new direction for solvent-free lithography, offering the prospect of scalable high-resolution patterning techniques […]

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    Autonomous Computing Materials

    The Hernandez Group has joined a cross-disciplinary team in response to NSF’s “Harvesting the Data Revolution” Initiative to propose and develop autonomous computing materials capable of keeping pace with Moore’s law […]