Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria present an ever-growing challenge to physicians. The growing antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria has caused the Centers for Disease Control …
The widespread use of nanomaterials in established and emerging technologies will inevitably lead to human and environmental exposures that must be characterized and managed to …
The current reliance on finite fossil fuels for the production of commodity chemicals has been recognized as unsustainable, and therefore has led to increasing pressure …
CO2 functionalization to commodity chemicals and molecular energy provide an powerful mechanism to leverage one of the world most abundant alternative sustainable carbon resources. This …
As the number of atoms in a cluster system increases, the number of local minima on the Born-Oppenheimer potential energy surface is expected to increase …
Cellular dinitrosyl iron complexes (DNICs) have long been considered nitric oxide (NO) carriers, though their chemical functionality is not well understood. I have demonstrated that, …
What defines the intrinsic dynamics of liquids? By studying the hard sphere liquids, whose potential energy landscape is so singular that traditional landscape approaches do …
The diamagnetic cobalt(III) dimethyl complex, cis,mer-(PMe3)3Co(CH3)2I, was found to promote selective C-C bond formation affording ethane and triplet (PMe3)3CoI. The mechanism of reductive elimination has …
The surfaces of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells are covered by glycocalyx which contains a complex network of glycans. Studies continue to reveal that these carbohydrates …
The activation of T-lymphocytes through antigen-mediated T-cell receptor (TCR) clustering is vital in the regulation of the adaptive-immune response and must be properly regulated to …
My first research project was to understand the size effect of Au nanoparticles (NPs) for CO2 reduction. I prepared 4-, 6-, 8-, and 10-nm polycrystalline …
Controlled synthesis of nanoparticles (NPs) is the key to developing highly efficient and stable catalysts for various reactions, including those involved in energy conversion systems, …
Monodisperse FePt NPs are synthetically controlled from chemically disordered face centered cubic (fcc) structure to ordered face centered tetragonal (fct) structure. The NP’s electrocatalytic efficiency …
Photochemical electrocyclic reactions have a long history of capturing the curiosity of scientists across disciplines. Especially the mechanisms leading to their high stereospecificity and the …
Structural characterization of organolithium compounds in solution is an important but challenging task. Solution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and X-ray crystallography are two of the …
Phosphorylation is the most commonly employed biological mechanism for regulating protein function. The opposing functions of kinases and phosphatases “tune” the activities of proteins. Serine …
Nitric oxide (NO) serves a number of important functions in biological systems. Many of these functions involve interaction of this free radical with the inorganic …
Charge transfer (CT) is one of the most important and most general reactions that exist in living cells, solar energy conversion devices, chemical synthesis and …
Transition metal mediated methods for the conversion of CO2 have the potential to provide more sustainable and economically attractive syntheses for acrylate and other commodities. …
