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Research in the Center for Photochemical Sciences focuses on a wide range of investigations into the role of light in chemical and physical processes. Such an emphasis enables collaborative, interdisciplinary research. Collaboration occurs between Center research groups, the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Collaboration also extends far beyond the University to national laboratories and other university research groups. This research focus encourages a strong academic/industrial interface and collaborative research between Center groups and major industries.
- Photopolymers; surface photoscience; imaging; photopolymerization science; analytical methodology in polymer science; organic photochemical processes; photoinitiator design; mechanisms of photochemical processes; stereolithography.
- Regulation of photosynthesis; stress physiology of cyanobacteria, development of luminescent bioreporter sensor systems for environmental monitoring, diversity of phototrophic prokaryotes in aquatic systems.
- Optoelectronics; thin semiconductor film preparation by pulsed-laser deposition; nonlinear optics; quantum electronics.
- Mechanisms of long-range electron transfer in biological systems; photodynamic therapy; de novo protein designs.
- Supersonic jet electronic spectroscopy of conformationally flexible molecules and clusters; effect of solvation and hydrogen bonding on structure.
- Supramolecular inorganic photochemistry; electron and energy transfer processes; luminescence-based chemical sensing; electro-optical and photoswitchable materials; electroluminescence; time-resolved absorption, luminescence, and infrared spectroscopy of metal-organic chromophores.
- Single-molecule spectroscopy and imaging microscopy, AFM, and NSOM studies of the dynamics of protein conformational change, DNA-protein interaction, and protein-protein interactions.
- Nucleocytoplasmic trafficking mechanism, nuclear envelope disassembly and assembly mechanisms and application of quantum dots in biological systems.
- Excited state proton and electron transfer in chemistry and biology. A study using optical and infrared femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy.
- Computational photochemistry and photobiology: Quantum-mechanics/molecular-mechanics methods for electronically excited states; Computer modeling of biological photoreceptors; Design of light-driven bio-mimetic molecular switches and rotors.
- Designing RNA-based label-free biosensors.
- Single-molecule electron transfer dynamics in solar energy conversion.
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