Research in physical chemistry at Georgia Tech is highly recognized worldwide and spans a wide range of fundamental studies through which we seek to provide understanding of the properties of molecules, nanoparticles,and materials and to exploit this knowledge for applications in technologies. Major theoretical research activities in physical chemistry being pursued include quantum chemical calculations of electronic and optical properties of molecules and materials, the energetics of intermolecular interactions, and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and dynamics calculations that are being developed for multiple-time-and-length scales and applied to complex processes, such as the folding of proteins.
Frontier experimental research emphasis areas include ultrafast spectroscopic studies of excited-state dynamics and of energy and electron transfer processes in molecular polymers, synthetic polymers and biopolymers and nanoparticle systems; development of ion trap devices for quantum computing; nonequilibrium reactions at surfaces activated by electrons or photons; kinetics of reactions of importance in atmospheric chemistry; studies of size-structure-property relationships for nanostructured materials; development and use of imaging and sensing probes to understand living cells; and studies of nonlinear optical properties of molecular and polymeric materials for optical information processing. Theoretical and experimental studies in physical chemistry can impact technologies for energy, displays, ultrahigh bandwidth telecommunications, nanoelectronics, sensing, and biomedical imaging.
Faculty
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Biophysics, Biochemistry, Chemical Biology, EPR spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, FT-IR spectroscopy, Photosynthesis, DNA synthesis, Proton coupled electron transfer, Redox signaling, Solar energy conversion, Biomimetics
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Biological imaging and spectroscopy; metal cluster fluorophores; fluorescent proteins; protein-protein interactions; novel imaging and spectroscopies; optically modulated fluorescence; statistics for multidimensional data analysis; antibacterial sensitivity; in vivo imaging
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Nanomedicine; nanocatalysis; plasmonics; laser spectroscopy.
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Chemical Electronics Atomic Metals and Alloys Electrochemistry
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Theoretical chemistry; quantum dynamics; non-adiabatic dynamics; quantum chemistry; quantum embedding; charge transport; light-matter interactions
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Fundamental scientific understanding of electronic and optical properties in conjugated organic materials. Nonlinear optics; all-optical switching; synthesis; doping; organometallic chemistry; surface modifiers; polymers; organic electronics; organic photonics; perovskites; TADF; OLED; OFET; OPV.
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Molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, quantum chemistry, high-performance computing, electrochemistry, electrochemical energy storage, self-assembly, nanostructured materials, ab initio modeling, machine-learning
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Collodidal nanocrystal stability; SERS; Safety of nanomaterials
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Quantum chemistry; intermolecular forces; theoretical chemistry; algorithms; modeling; machine learning and data generation; software development; high-performance computing
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Heterogeneous Catalysis; In-situ Spectroscopy; Biomass Conversion; Surface Chemistry, Kinetics; NMR; IR; Synthesis of Catalysts, Characterization of Solids
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Ultrafast spectroscopy; Multidimensional coherent spectroscopy; quantum spectroscopy; organic semiconductors; conjugated polymers; hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors; optoelectronics
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Nanomaterials, Nanogenerators for energy conversion; self-powered sysems; active or self-powered sensors; piezotronics and piezo-phototronics for new electronics and energy science
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Materials chemistry; Inorganic chemistry; Low and negative thermal expansion materials; Oil well cements; Thermoelectrics; Ferroelectrics; Synchrotron x-rays; Neutron scattering; Crystallography; In-situ powder diffraction; High pressure; Low temperature synthesis; Sol-gel chemistry; Mixed metal oxides; Mixed metal fluorides
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atmospheric chemistry; chemical kinetics; photochemistry; free radical kinetics and thermochemistry; reaction dynamics.
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Materials chemistry; Physical chemistry; Nanocrystals; Nanomedicine; Drug delivery; Tissue engineering; Regenerative medicine; Imaging; Colloidal science; Self-assembly; Electrospinning; Catalysis; Fuel cell technology
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Magnetic materials; nanoparticles.