Chemical Physics

Alison Baski

• High index silicon surface structures

• Scanning tunneling microscopy

Massimo Bertino (Physics)

Marilyn Bishop (Physics)

Dusan Bratko

• Theory and modeling of ionic, colloidal and biopolymer solutions

Everett E. Carpenter

• Synthesis and application of nanoparticles

M. Samy El-Shall

• Nucleation phenomena, photo-induced nucleation, molecular clusters, ion equilibria, energetics and solvation in the gas phase, and electronic properties of molecules and clusters

Puru Jena (Physics)

Shiv Khanna (Physics)      

• Electronic structure and magnetic properties of atomic clusters

• Superatoms as forming a third dimension of the periodic table

• Cluster assemblies as a source of new nano-scale materials with tunable properties

• Endohedral metallofullerenes as novel contrast agents for tumor detection and treatment

• Designing new catalysts for propulsion and other applications

Alenka Luzar

• Computational modeling and statistical mechanics

• Neutron scattering experiments in liquid-condensed matter

• Physical and theoretical chemistry, biophysics and condensed phase chemical dynamics

Mikhail Reshchikov (Physics)

• Photoluminescence. Electrical and optical properties of wide-bandgap semiconductors

James Terner

• Time-resolved resonance raman spectroscopy of transients, excited states and chemical intermediates involved in chemical reactions of biological and photochemical significance