Research Focus

Organic, Bioorganic, and Materials Chemistry

Our group is involved in a multidisciplinary research effort that uses disciplines ranging from synthetic organic and inorganic chemistry to materials science and recombinant DNA technology to develop novel methods for the rational design and construction of functional biomaterial-based structures. Our goal is to provide novel applications in the field of molecular and system engineering as well as advance our fundamental understanding of living chemical processes. Currently, research projects in our laboratory deal with various aspects of peptide and protein architecture and folding, design of synthetic receptors and enzymes, fabrication of novel biosensor arrays, self-replicating molecular systems, and self-organized nonlinear autocatalytic chemical networks and ecosystems. selected references