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Our
research is motivated by the need to understand at a molecular level the
fabrication and functions of new catalysts, adsorbents, porous ceramics,
and heterogeneous polymers. These categories of technologically important
materials are linked by their crucial dependencies on local order/disorder,
which often governs macroscopic process or device performance. We are
broadly interested in heterogeneous solids, whose sizable variations in
local ordering and dynamics have pronounced influences on the adsorption,
reaction, optical, or mechanical properties of these materials. Through
development and application of state-of-the-art techniques of nuclear
magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, we observe many common molecular
features among these diverse systems, which provide new insights and design
intuition for our materials chemistry and engineering objectives. We benefit
from close collaborative research relationships with a number of industrial
partners and foreign laboratories.
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