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Research

Research and scholarship are the foundations of the undergraduate and graduate experience at TCU. Undergraduate researchers work side-by-side in the lab with PhD candidates, post-doctoral fellows and professors across a range of subdisciplines of chemistry to explore new materials, sustainable energy and new drug paradigms. Students report the results of these efforts through presentations at local, national and international conferences and through research publications. In addition to the summaries below, current faculty research presentations are provided. If you have questions about research, contact Professor Simanek (e.simanek@tcu.edu).

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Research

Onofrio Annunziata

Onofrio Annunziata
Professor, Physical Chemistry
Group Site: http://geo1.tcu.edu/annunziata/
Talks: Current Research Lectures

 

 

Macromolecular Chemotaxis

Protein Aggregation

Diffusion in liquids

Thermodynamics of colloidal solutions

Jeffery L. Coffer



Jeffery L. Coffer
Professor, Materials & Inorganic Chemistry
Group Site: https://personal.tcu.edu/coffer
Talks: Current Research Lectures

Silicon Nanostuctures for Drug Delivery

Drug Delivery & Tissue Engineering

Materials for Sustainable Energy
Sergei V. Dzyuba

Sergei V. Dzyuba
Professor, Organic & Physical Organic Chemistry
Group Site: http://personal.tcu.edu/sdzyuba/HOME.html
Talks: Current Research Lectures

Non-conventional media: ionic liquids, deep eutectic solvents, gels and supramolecular polymers

Molecular rotors: environment-sensitive probes, chemo- & bio-sensors
Kayla Green

Kayla N. Green
Professor, Bioinorganic & bioorganic chemistry
Group Site:
http://personal.tcu.edu/kaylagreen/
Talks: Current Research Lectures

Therapeutic agents for diseases arising from for oxidative stress: Alzheimer’s, Macular Degeneration, Cataracts

Organometallic Catalysis

Bioinorganic Models of Metalloenzymes

 

Benjamin G. Janesko

Benjamin G. Janesko
Professor & Chair, Physical & Computational Chemistry
Group Site:
https://janeskoresearchgroup.wordpress.com
Talks: Current Research Lectures

Petroinformatics

Creating and/or refining DFT forcefields

Developing computation

 

David E. Minter

David E. Minter
Professor, Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Talks: Current Research Lectures

Synthetic Methodology

Total Synthesis of Amaryllidaceae Alkaloids

Amine-borane Chemistry
Jean-Luc Montchamp

Jean-Luc Montchamp
Professor, Synthetic Organic & Phosphorus Chemistry
Group Site:
http://personal.tcu.edu/jmontchamp/montchamp.htm
Talks: Current Research Lectures

Organophosphorus chemistry

Synthetic Methodology

Bioorganic and medicinal chemistry

Asymmetric synthesis
Youngha Ryu

Youngha Ryu
Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Bioorganic Chemistry
Group Site:
http://personal.tcu.edu/yryu/
Talks: Current Research Lectures

Protein biochemistry

RNA biochemistry

Bioorganic Chemistry

Benjamin D. Sherman

Benjamin D. Sherman
Sustainable Energy & Inorganic Chemistry
Group Site: http://personal.tcu.edu/bdsherman/index.html
Talks: Current Research Lectures

Electrochemistry and photoelectrochemistry

Solar energy conversion

Sustainable biomass conversion

Materials synthesis

Eric Simanek

Eric Simanek
Robert A. Welch Professor
Organic & Physical Organic Chemistry
Group Site: https://ericsimanek.com
Talks: Current Research Lectures

Drug design

Drug delivery

Materials science (OLEDs)

Science education (K-16)