Chemistry Department

Biochemistry

• Liqing Chen, Assistant Research Professor
• Protein X-Ray Crystallography
• Steven Edmondson , Associate Research Professor
• Protein NMR


• Edward J. Meehan, Professor
  • X-Ray Crystallography of Biological Molecules
  
  
• John Shriver, Professor
  • Protein NMR
• Pam Twigg, Assistant Research Professor
  • Protein NMR

Computational Chemistry

• Stephen Paddison, Assistant Professor

  • molecular orbital calculations

  • ab initio molecular dynamics

  • statistical mechanics

• Will Setzer, Professor
  • Molecular Modeling of Cytotoxic Natural Products

Inorganic Chemistry

• Brian Ward, Assistant Professor
  • Supramolecular structures from inorganic coordination polymers
    
  • Low-dimensional inorganic coordination polymers
    
  • Magnetism
    
  • Electrically conducting organic cation-radical salts
    

Materials Processing

• William F. Kaukler, Assistant Research Professor
  • X-Ray Microscopy of Solidification Dynamics - UAH
  • X-Ray Microscopy for Solidification Dynamics - NASA-MSFC

Organic Chemistry

• William N. Setzer, Professor
  • Natural Products Drug Discovery
  • Synthesis and Mechanistic Studies of Antineoplastic Diacetylenes


• Carmen Scholz, Associate Professor
  • Microbial Synthesis of Novel Materials
  • Biodegradable/Biocompatible Materials


• Bernhard Vogler, Assistant Professor
  • Structure Elucidation of Natural Products
  • HPLC-NMR

Physical Chemistry

• James K. Baird, Professor
  • Hydrogen Diffusion in Metals
  • Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing of Materials
  • Shock Waves and Impact Phenomena
  • Quantum Theories of Heat Transfer
  • Hydrodynamics of Crystal Growth from Solution
  • Diffusion and Dynamic Critical Phenomena
  
  
• Jeffrey A. Sheehy, Associate Research Professor
  • Prediction and characterization of new molecules
  • Stabilization of high energy density matter (HEDM)
  • Molecular x-ray photophysics

Polymer Chemistry

• Carmen Scholz, Associate Professor
  • Microbial Synthesis of Novel Materials
  • Biodegradable/Biocompatible Materials

Surface Science

• Michael A. George, Associate Professor
  • Surfaces, Sensors, and Thin Films
  
  
• John C. Gregory, Professor
  • Fast Atom Reactions at Surfaces


• Emanuel Waddell, Assistant Professor
  
• laser ablation
  
• microfluidics
• surface characterization 
• directed cell growth
  


• Jeffrey J. Weimer, Associate Professor
  • Bonding of Silanes to Metal Surfaces
  • Silane Self-Assembled Monolayers
  • Characterization of Ti Used for Implants
  • Topography of Hydroxyapatite Surfaces (synopsis)
  • Structure of Protein Crystal Surfaces (synopsis)
  • Surface Spectroscopy of Metal Oxide Catalysts (synopsis)

	Pure Titanium

Tropical Rainforest

Crystal Structure

Poly-Hydroxy Butyrate

SEM of a Cantilever

Step Bunching

Hydroxyapatite Coating