Analytical

Research in analytical chemistry is focused on:

• Gas chromatography.
• Mass spectrometry.
• Fourier transform infrared, Raman and positron annihilation spectroscopy techniques.

Inorganic

Research in inorganic chemistry is focused on:

• Bioinorganic chemistry, including synthetic and mechanistic coordination chemistry of essential and toxic metal ions.
• Inorganic reactions including thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of metal-ligand interactions in aqueous and other media.
• Correlation of electronic structure calculations with experimental measurements.
• Bioinorganic chemistry of the heaviest metals.
• Development of new synthetic methodology to novel organic-inorganic hybrids.
• Polymer-silicate composites.

Organic

Research in organic chemistry is focused on:

• Synthesis and molecular architecture of bile acids and benzenoid hydrocarbons.
• Synthesis and physical studies of novel host-guest systems.
• Total synthesis of complex natural products.
• Development of new synthetic methods.
• Development of new scaffolds and reagents for combinatorial chemistry.
• Medicinal chemistry.
• Chemical biology.
• Synthesis and elucidation of natural products and antitumor agents.
• Biomimetic materials chemistry of cyclodextrin derivatives.
• Immobilized enzymes for "green" enantioselective catalysis.

Physical

Research in physical chemistry is focused on:

• Using infrared and Raman spectroscopy to determine molecular conformations.
• Developing infrared spectroscopic techniques for the analysis of environmental pollutants.
• Using ab initio and semiempirical computational methods to predict chemical and physical properties of interesting chemical species.
• Quantitative structure activity relationships.
• Physical and biological properties of dental materials.
• Characterization of electronic and free-volume properties in materials.
• Positron and positronium chemistry.
• Organic conductivity and superconductivity.
• Brownian dynamic simulation.
• Developing and using solid-state NMR methods for structural and dynamical studies of proteins and peptides.

Polymer

Research in polymer chemistry is focused on:

• Synthesis of novel organic and organometallic polymers.
• Novel dendrimers and their applications.
• Core-shell nanoparticles as functional materials.
• Hybrid polymers for molecular electronics.
• Characterization of electronic/optical/photophysical properties of polymers.
• Study of free volume, phase transition, relaxation phenomena, and gas diffusion of polymers and polymer blends.
• Semiconducting polymers.