My research interests focus upon the use of solid-state NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, and quantum chemical calculations for the study of numerous materials, including organic solids (e.g., pharmaceuticals), inorganic systems (e.g., metal-organic frameworks and nanoparticles), and organometallic complexes (e.g., catalytic precursors). My students and I are working on the development of NMR crystallography, a method in which molecular-level structures of crystalline materials can be determined utilizing experimentally measured and theoretically derived NMR data as primary metrics. Finally, I am also very interested in understanding the spin physics underlying NMR experiments, and work on the development and applications of pulse sequences or the acquisition of solid-state NMR spectra of NMR-active isotopes of elements from across the periodic table - in particular, we focus on designing pulse sequences for efficient acquisition of ultra-wideline NMR spectra (i.e., spectra having powder patterns that are 250 kHz to several MHz in breadth – most peaks in NMR spectra have breadths of a few Hz or less, for comparison).
