Nanoscience and Materials

Architectural Diversity and Elastic Networks in Hydrogen-bonded Host Frameworks: From Molecular Jaws to Cylinders J. Am. Chem. Soc in press The Ward lab has demonstarted that guest-free guanidinium organomonosulfonates (GMS) and their inclusion compounds display a variety of lamellar crystalline architectures, using a combinatorial library of 24 GMS hosts and 26 guest molecules. A total of 304 inclusion compounds out of a possible 624 possible host-guest combinations were observed, despite the facile formation of the corresponding guest-free compounds. The large number of host-guest combinations explored permits grouping of the inclusion compound architectures according to the shape of the guests and the relative volumes of the organomonosulfonate groups.

Nanoscience and Materials Faculty

	James Canary DNA-directed assembly of organic polymers; nanoparticles as biomedical imaging agents; responsive chiral materials
	John Spencer Evans Biomineralization, genetically engineered materials; biophysical studies of protein-mediated crystal growth, assembly and nucleation processes.
	Alexej Jerschow NMR spectroscopy, imaging and microscopy; spin-noise NMR and imaging; multi-spin dynamics; intermolecular spin interactions and collective phenomena on small scales.
	Bart Kahr
	Kent Kirshenbaum Design and synthesis of peptidomimetics; multivalent display; macromolecular design; biomimetic chemistry
	David I. Schuster Fullerene chemistry; materials for electron and energy transfer.
	Nadrian C. Seeman Structural DNA Nanotechnology, including nanoconstruction of DNA objects, lattices and devices; nanorobotics and nanofabrication; DNA-based computation
	Marc A. Walters Walters group designs nanoparticulate contrast agents for MRI image enhancement. Related research focuses on the syntheses and characterization of metal complexes that form self-assembled monolayers (SAMS) on silver for use in contrast agents and sensors.
	Michael D Ward Materials and solid-state chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and self-assembly; interfacial chemistry; crystallization; atomic force microscopy; pathological biomineralization; crystals in disease
	Marcus Weck Polymer methodology, supramolecular polymer science; self-assembly; polymeric organic light-emitting diodes; biomimetic chemistry; polymers as support in homogeneous catalysis; biopolymers and materials for bone tissue engineering.

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