Research

Artificial muscles, molecular actuator design, microscopic theory of nanotube and conjugated polymer actuation
Theory of conducting polymers: design of small bandgap conjugated polymers, polymers incorporating radial and linear conjugation
Application and development of methods for the calculation of the electronic structure of polymers
Theory of the vibrational spectroscopy of polymers, structure-spectrum relationships
Structure and electronic structure of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes; molecules inside nanotubes
π- stacking interactions, conducting organic materials
Modeling nanoporous carbons
High pressure chemistry of conjugated molecules