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Steven L. Bernasek
Chemical physics of surfaces, basic studies of chemisorption on well-characterized transition metal surfaces using electron diffraction and electron spectroscopy, surface reaction dynamics, heterogeneous catalysis. Affiliated with Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM)
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Stefan Bernhard
Synthesis and characterization of transition metal complex-based materials for optoelectronics (light-emitting devices, photovoltaics); redox polymers; chiral metal complexes.
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Andrew B. Bocarsly
Inorganic materials chemistry, chemistry of alternate energy systems, chemical mitigation of carbon dioxide, electrochemistry, photochemistry, semiconductor photoelectrochemistry, coordination chemistry. Affiliated with Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM)
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Roberto Car
Chemical physics and materials science; electronic structure theory and ab-initio molecular dynamics; computer modeling and simulation of solids, liquids, disordered systems, and molecular structures; structural phase transitions and chemical reactions. Joint Appointment with Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM)
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Jannette Carey
Biophysical chemistry: protein and nucleic acid structure, function, and interactions; protein folding and stability. Affiliated with Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) and Department of Molecular Biology
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Robert J. Cava
Materials chemistry; synthesis of new oxide, intermetallic, pnictide, and chalcogenide compounds and characterization of their crystal structures and electronic and magnetic properties. Joint Appointment with Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM)
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G. Charles Dismukes
Focus on biological and chemical methods for solar-based fuel production, photosynthesis, metals in biological systems and tools for investigating these systems. His published works describe the biology and chemistry of oxygen production in natural photosynthetic systems, the synthesis and characterization of bioinspired catalysts for renewable energy production, the use of microorganisms as cell factories for the production of bio-fuels including hydrogen from renewable sources.  Links to his group's research can be found at http://www.princeton.edu/~catalase/ and http://www.princeton.edu/~biosolar/
Affiliated with Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM).
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Abigail Doyle
Organic and organometallic chemistry: discovery and development of new catalytic routes to chiral building blocks of importance in the enantioselective synthesis of natural products, pharmaceuticals, and materials.
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Henry L. Gingrich
o-Carboranes, cholinergic insecticides, Diels-Alder reactions with inverse electron demand, 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions, heterocyclic chemistry, and design of undergraduate organic chemistry experiments.
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John T. Groves
Bioorganic and bioinorganic chemistry, synthetic and mechanistic studies of reactions of biological interest, transition metal redox catalysis, models and mimics of metalloenzymes, biochemical mechanisms of protein nitration, the chemical biology of iron acquisition by siderophores and models of biological membranes. Affiliated with Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) and the Center for Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry (CEBIC)
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Michael Hecht
Biochemistry and chemical biology, protein folding and misfolding, protein design, synthetic biology, Alzheimer's disease. Affiliated with Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) and Department of Molecular Biology.
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Robert P. L'Esperance
Chemistry of reactive intermediates, singlet oxygen, carbenes, and silylenes.
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David MacMillan
Organic synthesis and catalysis: new concepts in synthetic organic chemistry involving organocatalysis, organo-cascade catalysis, metal-mediated catalysis, and total synthesis of natural products and pharmaceuticals.
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Robert A. Pascal, Jr.
Physical organic and bioorganic chemistry, synthesis and structure of unusual aromatic compounds, cyclophanes, polycyclic aromatic compounds, enzymatic reaction mechanisms, design of mechanism-based inhibitors, lipid biosynthesis, biochemistry of mycobacteria and parasitic protozoa.
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István Pelczer
NMR spectroscopy, applications to organic chemistry and structural biology.  Metabolomics and metabonomics, mixture analysis, bioinformatics.
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Joshua Rabinowitz
Biochemical kinetics; cellular metabolism; chemical basis of complex biological processes.  Joint appointment with the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics.
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Herschel Rabitz
Physical chemistry, biomolecular modeling, laser control of molecular processes, molecular collisions, theory of chemical reactions, time- and space-dependent molecular manipulation. Affiliated with the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM)
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Clarence E. Schutt
Structural biology, structure and function of proteins and cellular organelles, X-ray crystallography. Affiliated with the Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) and Program in Neuroscience.

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Jeffrey Schwartz
Organometallic chemistry; surface and interface organic and Inorganic chemistry and their applications to bio- and electronic materials. Affiliated with Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) and Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials (POEM)
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Annabella Selloni
Computational physics and chemistry and modeling of materials; structural, electronic, and dynamic properties of semiconductor and oxide surfaces; chemisorption and surface reactions.
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Martin F. Semmelhack
Organometallic and electrogenerated intermediates in organic synthesis, synthesis of unusual ring systems in natural and unnatural molecules.
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Erik J. Sorensen
Organic chemistry, chemical synthesis of bioactive natural products and molecular probes for biological research, bioinspired strategies for chemical synthesis, architectural self-constructions, novel methods for synthesis.
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Zoltán G. Soos
Chemical physics, electronic states of conjugated polymers and ion-radical solids, paramagnetic and charge transfer excitons, one-dimensional models.
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Salvatore Torquato
Statistical mechanics and materials science; theory and computer simulation of disordered heterogeneous materials, liquids, amorphous solids, and biological materials; optimization in material science; self-assembly theory; modeling the growth of tumors. Modeling the growth of tumors. Joint Appointment with Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM)
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Emeriti
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Leland C. Allen
Theoretical chemistry: electronic structure theory; applications to physical, inorganic, organic, and biochemical problems
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Maitland Jones, Jr.
Reactions and spin states of carbenes, arynes, twisted pi systems, and other reactive intermediates; carborane chemistry. (Not accepting graduate advisees)
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Walter Kauzmann
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Donald McClure
Phosphorescence of organic molecules. Magnitudes of the intermolecular resonance energies in molecular crystals, assignment of symmetry types of excited molecular states through the use of the polarized spectra of mixed molecular crystals.
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Kurt Mislow
Development of theoretical concepts in stereochemistry; molecular chirality in organic, inorganic, and biochemical systems; design and classification of novel topological structures.
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Robert Naumann
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Giacinto Scoles
Chemical Physics: Laser spectroscopy, chemical dynamics and cluster studies with molecular beams. Materials Science: Structure and properties of organic overlayers adsorbed on crystal surfaces; atomic force microscopy, surface nanochemistry and protein-surface interactions. Affiliated with Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) (Not accepting graduate advisees).
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Edward C. Taylor
Organic synthesis; medicinal chemistry, heterocyclic chemistry.
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Associated Faculty
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Emily A. Carter
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering & Applied and Computational Mathematics
Development of quantum mechanics-based methods to predict behavior of molecules and materials, with applications to combustion chemistry, nanoscale physics, and materials science, with a new emphasis on alternative energy research. Also affiliated with PICSciE, Chemical Engineering, and PRISM

 
Benjamin Garcia
Department of Molecular Biology
Quantitative biochemistry applied to the analysis of chromatin and nuclear signaling proteins.
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Frederick M. Hughson
Department of Molecular Biology
Biochemical and X-ray crystallographic studies of intracellular trafficking and bacterial quorum sensing.
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Manuel Llinás
Department of Molecular Biology
Cellular metabolism; biochemistry; genomics; microbiology; parasitology.
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François M. M. Morel
Department of Geosciences
Environmental chemistry, trace metal geochemistry, metals-biota interactions. Director, Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI)
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Satish C. B. Myneni
Department of Geosciences
Environmental chemistry, ion hydration and complexation, interfacial chemistry, X-ray spectroscopy.
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Jeffry Stock
Department of Molecular Biology
Protein chemistry, cell biology, pharmacology. Affiliated with PRISM and the Program in Neuroscience.
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