Interdisciplinary Research & Institutes
Much of the research in the department cuts across traditional boundaries, both within the field of Chemistry and into other disciplines such as Physics, Biology, Engineering, and Medicine. Examples include creation of biological sensors based on RNA (Chow) or novel metalloproteins (Benson), the study of non-covalent interactions in biological molecules by mass spectrometry (Rodgers), synthesis and theoretical investigations of new organometallic precursors for Chemical Vapor Deposition processes (Winter, Schlegal), and the synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles and nanostructures with size-dependent physical properties (Brock, Winter).
The faculty are further involved in several interdisciplinary institutes housed at Wayne State University:
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