Available Projects for Summer Research Students

Updated 12/20/2012

1	A Football Field in a Teaspoon: Making Really High Surface Area Electrodes
2	Advanced Composite Fibers and Materials from Ionic Liquid Solutions
3	Asymmetric Reaction Methodology
4	Beyond Raney Nickel: Next Generation Hydrogenation Catalysts
5	Binding of Potential Drugs to Cytochrome P450
6	Biochemistry of Chromium
7	Biomimetic Approaches to Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
8	Bioorganic Reaction Mechanisms of Enzymes
9	Biophysical Studies of Protein Dynamics
10	Biorefineries: Recovery of Chemicals from Biomass using Ionic Liquids
11	Cocrystals - Designing Molecular Pairs to Assemble together in a Cocrystal
12	Computational Geochemistry for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
13	Computational Approaches to Advanced Energy Systems - Actinide and Lanthanide Chemistry
14	Computational Biochemistry: Acid/Base Properties and Thermochemistry of Peptides
15	Computational Main Group Chemistry
16	Computational Studies of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions
17	Conducting Polymers for Surface Coatings
18	Crystal Engineering: Applications of X-Ray Diffraction Techniques
19	Designing Molecules that Reversibly Change Shape and Color Upon Redox Change
20	Development of Novel Catalytic Reaction Methodology
21	DNA as a Tool for Molecular Recognition
22	Electrochemical sensors
23	Electron Tunneling through Self-Assembled Monolayers
24	Ethics in Chemistry
25	Fluorescent Liposomes as Functional Nanoreactors
26	Gas-phase Structures of Peptide Ions
27	Green Chemistry: Fundamentals to Applications
28	Growing Organic Crystals and Determining the Crystal Structures - Exploring New Ways to Control Molecular Packing
29	How to Dramatically Improve the Graetzel Solar Cell
30	Hydrogen Storage Opportunities with Novel Valence Structures
31	Inhibition of DNA Repair Proteins by Heavy Metal and Their Relationship to Cancer
32	Inorganic Complexes as Models for Solar Energy Conversion
33	Inorganic-Organic Composite Solar Cells
34	Ionic Liquids as New Pharmaceuticals
35	Mass Spectrometry of Explosives
36	Mass Spectrometry Studies of Peptides
37	Mass spectrometry Studies to Characterize Protein-Protein Interactions
38	Medium Ring Carbocycles and Cytotoxic Xenia Diterpenoids
39	Metallotherapeutics
40	Metals and Free Radicals in Proteins
41	MnBi Nanoparticles for High Energy Permanent Magnets
43	Monolayers of Organic Unimolecular Rectifiers
44	Nanoparticle Synthesis for Solar Cell Applications
45	Nanoparticles from Complexed Precursors
46	Nanostructured Metal Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes
47	New Catalysts for Environmentally Benign Synthesis
48	New Dyes for Non-Linear Optical Applications – Advanced Materials
49	New Reagents for Organic Synthesis
50	Novel Antiinflammatory and Anticancer Agents
51	Novel Energetic Materials for next Generation Propulsion
52	Organic hybrid solar cells
53	Organofluorine Chemistry
54	Organometallic Catalysts in Organic Synthesis
55	Photocatalysis using Nanoparticles for Solar Energy Conversion and Pollutant Degradation
56	Photoreactive Crosslinking to Identify New Protein-Protein Interactions in Biological Samples
57	Polymer Micelles for a Magnetically Triggered, Targeted Drug Delivery System
58	Polymer Templating of Inorganic Nano-structures
59	Polymer Waveguides for Explosives Detection
60	Solar Cell Interfaces
61	Stable Phosphorus-derived Biradicals and their Chemistry
62	Supramolecular Chemistry: Interactions beyond the Covalent Bond
63	Synthesis of Agents for the Treatment of Diabetes
64	Synthesis of Asymmetrically Substituted Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
66	Synthesis of Inorganic Materials Using Biological Templates
67	Synthesis of Modified DNAs and RNAs.
68	Synthesis of Molecular-Scale Electronics Components
69	Synthesis of Nanostructured Thermoelectrics: Materials that Convert Heat into Electrical Power
70	Synthesis of New Semiconducting Materials
71	Synthesis of Unusual Valence Structures
72	Synthesizing New Organic Molecules as Catalysts that Can Be Turned "On/Off"
73	The Design and Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers for Solar-cell Applications
74	The Future of Unimolecular Electronics
75	Thermodynamics of Combustion
76	Thin Film Synthesis of Novel Oxide Materials Using Pulsed Laser Deposition
77	Total Synthesis of Natural Products
78	Ultrasensitive detection of small molecules using spectroelectrochemistry

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