Research

• Artificial muscles, molecular actuator design, microscopic theory of nanotube and conjugated polymer actuation
• Theory of conducting polymers: design of small bandgap conjugated polymers
• 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