Research in the Department of Chemistry
The University of South Dakota

Department Chair

Inorganic Chemistry, Main Group Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry, Nanocrystals, Solar Energy Utilization, Frustrated Lewis Pairs

Nanostructured-materials, Layer-by-Layer Assembly, surface-enhanced Raman scattering, Plasmonic Materials

Chemical Reactivity, Confined Spaces, Molecular Metal Oxides, Machine Learning, DFT

Organic Synthesis, Catalysis, Surface Chemistry, Nanotechnology

Fluoroorganic Chemistry and Pharmaceuticals, Fluorinated Functional Materials, Electrochemistry and Energy Storage, and Non-covalent Bonding and Crystal Engineering

Fluorescence Sensors, Inorganic Chemistry, Single-Crystal X-ray Crystallography

Electronic Structure, Multiconfigurational Methods, SMMs, Actinide Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry

Metal-Organic Supercontainers, Catalysis, Sensing, Porous Materials, Gas Adsorption

Bioanalytical, Analytical, Materials