Inorganic Chemistry
Inorganic chemistry encompasses diverse topics and approaches involving most of the elements of the periodic table, ranging from elucidating fundamental structure-activity relationships in molecular systems to creating new materials.
Areas of Focus
Catalyst design • Organometallic chemistry • Bioinorganic chemistry • Nanomaterials • Solid-state chemistry • Electrochemical energy storage • Carbonate mineralization
Affiliated Faculty
Jonathan Barnes
Synthetic organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, stimuli-responsive materials, bionanotechnology
John Bleeke
Organometallic chemistry, pentadienyl- and heteropentadienyl-metal complexes, metallabenzenes and other aromatic metallacycles
Sophia Hayes
Optically-pumped NMR, solid state NMR of semiconductors, thin films, CO2-capture materials, catalysts, minerals and geochemical systems. NMR tensor computations for data-enabled science
Rich Loomis
Physical and materials chemistry, semiconductor nanomaterials, ultrafast laser spectroscopy, single-molecule microscopy, quantum-confinement effects, next generation solar cells, chemical reaction dynamics, clusters, ion time-of-flight mass spectrometry, velocity map imaging
Bryce Sadtler
Solar energy conversion, light-matter interactions, catalysis, nanoscale materials, single-particle fluorescence imaging
