Dr. Ngee Sing Chong: Chromatographic and spectroscopic methods for bioanalytical, environmental, materials, and forensic analysis
Dr. Charles C. Chusuei: Carbon nanomaterials, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, structure-property relationships of solid-aqueous solution interfaces, electrochemical sensing
Dr. Keying Ding: Our research revolves primarily around organometallics, catalysis and bioinorganic chemistry, solving challenging problems related to energy, environment and human health.
Dr. Andrienne C. Friedli: Organic materials chemistry: formation and modification of self-assembled organosiloxane films; organically modified nanoporous silicates; optical biosensors; polyelectrolyte synthesis and characterization; solvatochromic dyes; boron cluster liquid crystals; 3D visualization as a teaching tool in organic chemistry.
Dr. Scott Handy: My basic area of research interest is Organic Synthesis. Within this broad area, I have two areas under active investigation: deep eutectic solvents and the exploration of aurones as biologically active natural product analogs.
Dr. Paul C. Kline: Bioorganic and Biophysical Chemistry, Mechanistic Enzymology and Transition State Analysis of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reaction, Compound purification, identification and synthesis.
Dr. Jing Kong: The main theme of our research is to develop and apply density functional theory (DFT) methods for the study of molecules and materials.
Dr. Justin M. Miller: Biochemistry, Enzymology
Dr. Beng Guat Ooi: Bioanalytical, Biodegradation of environmental and food contamination, Mutagenicity, Study of kidney and bladder stone formation.
Dr. Dwight J. Patterson: Polymer Chemistry
Dr. Patricia Patterson: Developing Outreach/Resource programs that permit work with teachers and students in their environments.
Dr. Amy Phelps: Chemical Education: The Study of the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry
Dr. Gregory T. Rushton: The Rushton Research Group is interested in issues related to conceptual change in tertiary chemistry learning environments; classroom discourse practices; policy reform in K-16 chemistry education; large-scale demographic analyses of K-12 STEM teaching populations; science teacher leadership; curricular reform through research-driven decisions; pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in chemistry.
Dr. Michael Sanger: Identifying Student Misconceptions in Chemistry; Designing and Evaluating Instructional Methods to Confront Student Misconceptions
Dr. P. Gregory Van Patten: Physical Chemistry, Nanomaterials, Surface chemistry, Ultrafast spectroscopy, Photophysics
Dr. Anatoliy Volkov: physical chemistry, computational science, crystallography, geology/geochemistry/mineralogy
Dr. Chengshan Wang: Dr. Wang's research focuses on the application of peptide synthesis and FTIR spectroscopy in the pathology study of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
Dr. Mengliang Zhang: Instrumental analysis, chemometrics, forensic chemistry, environmental analysis, food analysis
