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【简介】 Research in the department encompasses the many diverse interests of the research faculty and reflects the interdisciplinary nature of modern chemical research. While research still draws heavily on the traditional subdisciplines of organic, inorganic, physical, and analytical chemistry, students at Tufts receive a broad-based education that is less constrained by traditional subdisciplinary boundaries.
A number of current research projects illustrate the nature of research at Tufts. Projects include the creation of new classes of fiber optic chemical sensors for use as an “artificial nose”, the design of “smart” windows capable of changing their transmissivity with the flip of a switch, research and development of new field analytical technologies capable of accurate and rapid analysis of pollutants in the environment, and the use of robotic chemical laboratories for in-situ chemical analysis on the surface of Mars and the moons of Jupiter. Still other projects focus on uncovering new strategies for the treatment of diabetes mellitus, developing compounds which inhibit gene expression at the RNA or DNA level, understanding the chemistry on a raindrop, synthesizing molecular tweezers, evaluating the global warming potential of CFC substitutes, and discovering new strategies for understanding and controlling chemical reactivity at surfaces.
In this age of interdisciplinary research, the walls of the department have expanded beyond the Pearson-Michael Chemistry Complex to include collaborative work with government and industrial scientists as well as with other academic researchers, both on and off campus. A number of students have participated in such collaborative research and benefited from the opportunity.
The chemistry department currently offers a graduate program at the M.S. and Ph.D. level in organic, inorganic, physical, and analytical chemistry. Active research groups represent each of the four subdisciplines, and many projects cross traditional lines. A joint graduate program with the Tufts University Biotechnology Center offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry/Biotechnology for students who wish to apply their chemical training to emerging areas of biotechnology.
Research Groups:
d'Alarcao Group Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Kenny Group Lasers & Fiber Optics for Multidimensional Fluorescence Kounaves Group In-Situ Planetary Chemical Analysis & Electroanalysis Kumar Group Bioorganic Chemistry and Chemical Biology Lee Group Biosynthesis, Biomaterials, and Biomineralization Robbat Group Analytical Methods for Hazardous Site Field Investigations Rybak-Akimova Group Coordination, Supramolecular & Bioinorganic Chemistry Shultz Group Non-Linear Spectroscopy of Liquid Surfaces Utz Group Chemical Reactivity at the Gas-Surface Interface Walt Group Fiber Optical Chemical Sensors & Polymeric Microstructures
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