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Centers & Institutes
The Department of Chemistry houses a number of collaborative, interdisciplinary and interdepartmental Research Laboratories, Groups, Centers and Institutes.
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Faculty and students also are members and participants in other University-wide Research Programs, Centers and Institutes
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The Chemical Sensors Group (UChemical Senors Group) consists of Chemistry Department faculty, postdoctorals and graduate students dedicated to research on and development of biosensors and chemical sensors. Currently the Chemical Sensors Group has a total of about 25 members and is funded by several federal and state grant agencies. The group's scientific collaborations are extensive and include those within the Group and those with other departments at UC (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Medical School departments, etc.), other Ohio universities, industrial partners, and international research groups. The cross-fertilization of ideas arising from graduate student interactions in this expanded arena of research has and will continue to yield benefits for the PhD program in chemistry and for the University as a whole. The recent external success of the Group places it in a unique position to make a major future contribution to the national needs in the areas of nanostructured materials and chemical sensors.
The Group's efforts currently focus on the design and development of electrochemical and optical sensors. Collaborative projects are mainstreamed in this group and PhD students in the Group typically have two Co-Advisors for their chosen research programs. Such programs have recently focused on a wide variety of topics including the synthesis and application of new nanostructured chemically-selective materials, electrochemical sensors based on chemically-modified electrodes, the design of new fiber optic sensors for important environmental contaminants, microfabricated immunosensors, the design of planar waveguide chemical sensors, nanostructured biomolecular sensor surfaces, and the design and performance of a new hybrid electrochemical/optical sensor.
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The Computational Sciences Institute focuses on...
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The goal of the Hoke S. Greene Laboratory of Catalysis is to enhance the understanding of the fundamentals of catalytic phenomena. The lab's historical emphasis begin with reactions involving catalysis by soluble transition metal carbonyls and their derivatives. Such catalysis is involved in the commercial synthesis of at least three commodity chemicals (acetic acid, vinyl acetate, and butyraldehyde) and is also of critical importance in the metalloenzyme chemistry of living organisms. More than 100 publications have resulted from the efforts of this laboratory since its inception in 1971. Nowadays, catalysis research focuses on enzymes, and the Greene Laboratory will soon be looking to find a new Director and Greene Chair holder.
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The primary purpose of the interdisciplinary Polymer Research Center is to respond to the very broad-based need for an understanding of polymeric materials. The faculty of the Center are drawn from the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science. They carry out a wide variety of research projects in collaboration with students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars. An extensive curriculum of approximately twenty courses on polymers is presently being offered, and this list is being augmented by additional courses under development.
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The Rieveschl Laboratories encompass the R. Marshall Wilson Mass Spectrometry Facility as well as the Mass Spectrometry activities of faculty members Joe Caruso and Pat Limbach. The Wilson Facility offers a wide range of basic and advanced mass spectrometry services to the University community. In addition, the Wilson Facility and the Caruso and Limbach laboratories are engaged in cutting-edge collaborative research involving ICP-MS, FTMS, and microchip-MS. More information on the R. Marshall Wilson Mass Spectrometry Facility
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One of the newest developments in the Department is the collection of talent in the field of Biomedical Chemistry. The well-funded and equipped research programs of Profs. Iyer and Smithrud focus on activities related to drug design, drug delivery and structure-activity relationships. More information on the Iyer research program
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UC/Agilent Metallomics Center for the Americas
Metals in various chemical forms (chemical compounds) are important to all biological systems, including human life. Metallomics is a chemical analysis process that fully characterizes the different forms of a metal in a particular sample type, such as the different forms of the elements manganese or iron that might exist in a red blood cell. The UC/Agilent Metallomics Center of the Americas contains approximately $900,000 worth of state-of-the-art equipment, which is used to enhance research in the area of metals and nonmetals analysis.
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