
Principal Investigator
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Professor Zhan Chen (faculty web page) Professor of Chemistry Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (with Prof. Gabor A. Somorjai) |
Postdoctoral Researchers
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Polymer surfaces and interfaces, glass transitions, and spectroscopic characterization |
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Optimizing the orientation of conjugated polymers at interfaces to improve field effect transistor (FET) performance |
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Interaction of nanocapsules with cells, FWM, CARS and Digital Holographic imaging |
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Four-Wave Mixing (FWM) spectroscopy, CARS microscopy, SFG |
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SFG studies of membrane peptides and proteins |
Graduate Students
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Physical Chemistry Surface structures of anti-biofouling coatings and conductive polymers |
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Sarah Spanninga (joint with Prof. Martin) Macromolecular Sciences and Engineering Biosensing and conductive polymers |
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Andy Boughton (joint with Prof. Andricioaei) Materials Chemistry SFG and MD studies on the orientation of biomolecules at interfaces |
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Physical Chemistry SFG and MD studies of silane adhesion promoters at polymer interfaces |
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Analytical Chemistry SFG studies of antimicrobial peptide mimics and their interactions with cellular membranes |
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Physical Chemistry Interactions of antimicrobial peptides with supported lipid bilayers |
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Stephanie Le Clair (joint with Prof. Ramamoorthy) Analytical Chemistry SFG, solution NMR and solid-state NMR studies on amyloidogenic peptides and their interactions with bilayers |
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Visiting Graduate Student (Nanjin University, Department of Polymer Science) Polymer/metal interfaces: Structure, adhesion, and surface plasmon enhancement |
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Visiting Graduate Student (Southeast University, school of Biological Science and Medical Engineering) |
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Physical Chemistry |
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Visiting Graduate Student (Donghua University, College of Textiles) |
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Physical Chemistry |
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Physical Chemistry |
Undergraduates
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Bradley Holden Chemistry |
Visiting Professors
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Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, Guangzhou (China) |




















