Materials/Nanoscience

Julio C. Alvarez

• Design, fabrication and characterization of electrochemical biosensors built in plastic microfluidic platforms

• Development of chiral nanostructured materials for heterogeneous catalysis

Dusan Bratko

• Theory and modeling of ionic, colloidal and biopolymer solutions

Everett E. Carpenter

• Synthesis and application of nanoparticles

Maryanne M. Collinson

• Fabrication and characterization of microporous and mesoporous materials prepared via the sol-gel process

• Applications of these nanostructured materials in analytical science (sensors, membranes, supports, etc.)

Hani M. El-Kaderi

• Design of low density and highly porous organic and inorganic polymers for use in storage, catalysis and sensing applications

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

Alenka Luzar

• Computational modeling and statistical mechanics

• Neutron scattering experiments in liquid-condensed matter

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