Dr. Schiza's research interests include the development and characterization of new materials, particularly nanomaterials, for potential applications to analyte sensing and photocatalysis of organic contaminants, specifically organochlorides and organophosphides. Dr. Schiza is interested in the synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles using the sol-gel process and the study of their chemical and physical properties using spectroscopic techniques such as Raman, fourier transform infrared (FTIR), fluorescence, and UV-visible spectroscopy. Further investigation of the surface properties of these materials, using techniques such as transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), can also be used in order to examine their structure and morphological properties.
