Sustainability and Energy
Energy and sustainability are areas of critical importance in today’s society.
VCU's Department of Chemistry is pioneering advancements in clean, secure and energy-efficient systems, as well as implementing strategies such as carbon capture and sustainable management.
Research Topics
- Nanostructured materials for photocatalysis and electrocatalysis
- Synthesis of porous materials such as POPS, COFS and aerogels
- Material synthesis
- Hydrogen generation via photo/electrochemical water splitting
- Photovoltaics
- Batteries fuel cells
- Heterogenous and homogenous catalysis
- Renewable biocatalyst development
- Green chemistry and reaction mechanisms
Faculty
Director of Graduate Recruitment and Admissions
and Professor
Quantum dots
metal/semiconductor aerogels
metal phosphides nanocatalysts
Research Assistant Professor
Natural Product Biosynthesis
Biocatalyst Development and Engineering
Biomimetic Organic Synthesis
Co-Director of the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Program
and Professor
Inorganic chemistry
additive manufacturing
magnetic materials
Professor
inorganic chemistry
porous organic polymers
covalent organic frameworks
Mary Eugenia Kapp Chair in Chemistry
and Professor
Nanoscience
molecular clusters
graphene and carbon nanotubes
Assistant Professor
Electronic structure theory
quantum chemistry
noncovalent interactions
Associate Professor
Metals in Biology
Bioinorganic and Biomimetic Catalysis
Protein Assembly and Aggregation
Katharine Moore Tibbetts, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Nanoscience
laser synthesis
ultrafast dissociation dynamics