Current Areas of Research

• Properties of Nanostructures and Nanowires, including Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Nanoribbons
  
  
• Electronic and Structural Properties of Surfaces, Interfaces, and        Electroactive Polymers
  
  
• Chemical Reactions at Surfaces and Interfaces in Fuel Cells
  
  
• Clusters as Chemical Species
  
  
• Atomic Scale Dynamics of Friction and Wear
  
  
• Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Detonations
  
  
• Quantum Dynamics Simulations of Collisional Energy Transfer under Shock Conditions
  
  
• AES, NEXAFS, and ARAES spectral Line Shape Analysis
  
  
• Development of New Density Functional Methods to Treat Molecules,          Clusters, Polymers, and Surfaces
  
  
• Electron-and-Photon Stimulated Damage/Desorption/Dissociation
  
  
• Quantitative Surface Analysis