(A complete list of faculty research interests can be found here on the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department website.)
Biochemistry, Chemical Biology, Medicinal Chemistry, and Organic Chemistry: Design, synthesis, and (bio)chemical characterization of chemical tools for studying enzymes that metabolize pharmaceuticals in live human cell cultures.
Inorganic Chemistry: Organic and inorganic materials for photovoltaics and photocatalysis; Near-infrared emitting materials for biosensing; Ordered inorganic nanostructures; Porphyrin chemistry.
Analytical Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Chemical instrumentation, Environmental Chemistry: Electrochemical sensors for detection of microplastics, proteins, living cells at single molecule level. Designing and engineering novel chemical instrumentation (in situ) to study electrochemical interfaces in energy storage, renewable energy and nanoconfined spaces. Electrocatalysis on non-noble metal materials and their reaction mechanisms towards electrochemical reactions.
Physical Chemistry: Computational design of materials for wastewater treatment; Computational screening of materials exhibiting enhanced catalytic activity and selectivity; Predicting reaction kinetics and thermodynamics of molecular transformations.
Biochemistry: Disease relevant zinc metalloenzyme biochemistry, Glutamate Carboxypeptidase II; Mechanisms of bacterial carbon compound metabolism and oligotrophic adaptations; Membrane protein biochemistry and synthetic biology.
Inorganic Chemistry: Supramolecular self-assembly: synthesis and characterization of mechanically interlocked molecules; Bioinorganic chemistry: synthesis and characterization of bio-inspired metal complexes as models for the active sites of metalloproteins.
Organic Chemistry: Synthesis of organic materials; New methodology for organic synthesis via phosphonates; Development of new experiments for organic labs.
Organic Chemistry: Organic synthesis of basket-shaped molecular containers based on Resorcin[4]arene and calix[4]arene; Synthesis of tweezer-shaped organic molecules; Molecular recognition studies upon the synthesized molecular hosts.
(No longer accepting research students)
Inorganic Chemistry: The design and use of biomimetic catalysts (molecules that mimic enzyme behavior) to carry out "green" oxidation reactions using atmospheric oxygen.
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Physical Science, Rm 3440
600 Lincoln Avenue
Charleston, IL 61920
(217) 581-5422
rsemeniuc@eiu.edu