Materials and Nanoscience
In the mid-1970's Penn State Chemistry made a strategic decision to move towards the new interdisciplinary areas of materials and biological chemistry. The roots of our materials program emanate from surface studies but now spread to materials synthesis and characterization, solid state chemistry and nanotechnology. Several of the Chemistry faculty are members of the Penn State Materials Research Institute (MRI) and several are members of the NSF funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Center for Nanoscale Science (CNS).
| Name | Research Topic |
|---|---|
| Allara, David |
Chemistry at Interfaces |
| Allcock, Harry |
Polymer Synthesis, Materials Chemistry, and Biomedicine |
| Anderson, James |
Quantum Monte Carlo, Reaction Kinetics, Molecular Dynamics |
| Asbury, John |
Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy to Reactions in Solid-State Materials |
| Badding, John |
Photonic materials, carbon nanomaterials, nanostructured materials, thermoelectric materials, energy materials, solar cell materials and structures |
| Castleman, A. |
Devising Unique Materials Using Clusters as Building Blocks; Studying Element Mimics and Superatoms |
| Chen, Gong |
Nano Material for Molecular Imaging in Live Cells |
| Cremer, Paul |
-Surface Nanofabrication/Patterning -Cell Membrane Mimic, Vesicles and Supported lipid bilayers -SERS Metamaterials |
| Foley, Henry |
Nanoporous carbon materials: Membranes, Transport and Catalysis |
| Jensen, Lasse |
Molecular Plasmonics, Electronic Structure Theory, Computational Spectroscopy |
| Keating, Christine |
Functional Architectures at the Nano- to Mesoscale |
| Mallouk, Tom |
Chemical Applications of Solid State Materials |
| Maslak, Przemyslaw |
Physical Organic Chemistry |
| Mueller, Karl |
High Resolution Solid State NMR Spectroscopy |
| Phillips, Scott |
Responsive Materials |
| Schaak, Raymond |
Nanocrystals and Solid State Materials |
| Sen, Ayusman |
Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis, Polymeric Materials, Nanomotors, Nanofluidics |
| Williams, Mary Beth |
Peptide Linked Inorganic Supramolecular Assemblies as Molecular Wires and for Artificial Photosynthesis; Magnetic Nanoparticle Based Separations and Analysis |
| Winograd, Nicholas |
Imaging of Biomaterials with Mass Spectrometry |
