- Use of metalloporphyrin-based catalysts and photocatalysts
in the fabrication of nanostructured materials.
- Use of molecular mechanics, quantum chemical methods,
normal-coordinate structural decomposition, and resonance Raman spectroscopy to investigate heme proteins, especially new
multi-heme enzymes.
- Develop functional biomimetic nano-materials,
photonic materials, and other materials based on mechanisms
utilized in related biological
systems.
- Experimental and theoretical studies of
basic physical processes in biomolecular systems and their biomimes.
- Theory of vibronic
states, especially as relates to resonance
Raman and other vibrational spectroscopies.