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Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research Interests
The research effort can be divided into three primary areas: a) Developing systematic routes for the preparation, assembly, and characterization of nano-scale materials; b) Surface, defects, and structural analysis of nanomaterials by correlated optical, magnetic, mass spectroscopic, and thermodynamic spectroscopies; and c) Analysis of coupled structural, magnetic or electronic phase transitions in single crystal materials.
SYNTHESIS: The synthetic design team focuses on the development of synthetic methodologies for preparation of new materials, ternary materials, and industrially relevant synthetic methodologies. MATERIALS SPECTROSCOPY: The magnetics team probes the close interplay among charge, spin, and lattice degrees of freedom in solid state materials at the nanoscale. Magnetic and optical studies on dilute magnetic semiconductors suggest enhancement of magnetic perexchange between dopant ions in confined system, which arises from changes in the nature of coupling in size-restricted materials. MATERIALS ASSEMBLY: The materials assembly group designs next-generation nanomaterial assemblies through bio-scaffolding, organic assembly, or acid base chemistry. Bio-scaffolding targets the application of DNA, RNA, and proteins to assemble nano-scale materials.