Department of Chemistry
Professor Emerita, Department of Chemistry
- Environmental & Green Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry
- Polymer Chemistry
Our research interests focus on the development of organic chemistry laboratory experiments and curriculum materials for the college and high school levels that exemplify modern green chemistry methodology, advances in sustainable…
Regents Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, College of Science & Engineering Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry
- Chemical Physics: dynamics and electronic structure
- Chemical Theory & Computation: dynamics and electronic structure
- Environmental & Green Chemistry: environmental computational chemistry
- Nanoscience & Materials Chemistry: computational studies
- Energy & Catalysis
- Chemical Biology
Research interests include:
- theoretical and computational chemistry,…
Associate Department Head, Lloyd H. Reyerson Professor, Department of Chemistry
- Inorganic & Organometallic Chemistry: organometallic synthesis and catalysis
- Organic Chemistry: organometallic synthesis and catalysis
- Polymer Chemistry: polymer synthesis
- Environmental & Green Chemistry: CO2 conversion
- Energy & Catalysis
Research in the Tonks group is focused on designing new and practical organometallic catalytic transformations for the atom-economical…
- Accepting new undergraduate research students
- Accepting new graduate research students
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Chemistry
- Inorganic & Organometallic Chemistry: materials synthesis
- Nanoscience & Materials Chemistry: solid state and porous
- Experimental Physical Chemistry: solid state
- Energy & Catalysis
Our research involves materials synthesis by templating and self-assembly methods. Using polymeric, surfactant, or colloidal templates we control the architecture of porous and nanostructured materials and…
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, Department of Chemistry
- Chemical Theory & Computation, development of simulation algorithms and force fields
- Chemical Physics, statistical mechanics of condensed phases
- Environmental & Green Chemistry, atmospheric nucleation and energy-efficient separations
- Nanoscience & Materials Chemistry, nanoporous and nanostructured materials
- Polymer Chemistry, phase behavior and self-assembly of block oligomers
- Energy &…