Research Interest

We focus upon the use of solid-state NMR (SSNMR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and quantum chemical (DFT) calculations for the study of materials, including organic solids (e.g., pharmaceuticals), hybrid organic-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 for the acquisition of SSNMR spectra of isotopes of elements from across the periodic table – we focus on designing methodologies for efficient acquisition of ultra-wideline NMR spectra (i.e., with powder patterns that are 250 kHz to several MHz in breadth – for comparison, most NMR peaks have breadths of a few Hz or less).