Chemistry of Explosives, Chemical Agents, Biological Threats, Toxic Industrial Chemicals.
Vibrational Spectroscopy Standoff Detection of Threat Chemicals and Biological Agents (Raman and IR).
Synthesis, characterization, detection, and modeling of highly energetic materials (HEM) and homemade explosives
Nanotechnology sensing: SERS sensing platforms; nanostructures, physical reduction methods
SERS of Biomolecules and Microorganisms
Environmental Remediation Studies of Hazardous Chemicals
Benzimidazoles: synthesis, molecular-structure correlations (Coll. w/ Dr. Ricardo Infante, UPR-Arecibo)
Chemical Education and Nanochemistry, (Coll. w/ Dr. Jairo Castillo, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC)
Studies of adsorbate/substrate interactions; chemical modeling of properties; solid-solid solutions
Properties of solid/liquid solutions; solubilities; models for solution chemistry in non-electrolytes
Fabrication of samples and standards for far and near field detection experiments