Spectroscopy & Dynamics

Solid-state and molecular synthesis of f-element and main group metal systems. Combining high-pressure conditions, synchrotron X-ray techniques and computational predictions to elucidate the electronic structure of new compounds with applications in energy transport and information storage.

The Bluemel research interests span from inorganic, organometallic, and surface chemistry, to catalysis and polymer chemistry. Multinuclear NMR spectroscopy of dia- and paramagnetic liquids and solids is applied and further developed as a powerful method in all fields.

Development and application of high-resolution NMR spectroscopy with hyperpolarization methods, for elucidating molecular structure, reaction mechanisms and dynamics.

The use of fluorescence spectroscopy of jet-cooled molecules and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) and laser Raman spectroscopies, along with quantum mechanical calculations to investigate the dynamics of conformational energy changes in electronic ground and excited states of molecules.

Experimental physical/analytical chemistry focusing on the development of models to describe chemical reactivity and energy transfer on a microscopic, molecular, level with applications in atmospheric chemistry, combustion, and aerospace engineering.

Spectroscopy, optical and scanning probe microscopies, materials science, nanoscience, focusing on optical behavior of nanoscale materials with applications in solar energy, photocatalysis, and more broadly, photochemistry and nanophotonics.

Experimental and computational mechanistic organic, organometallic, and bioorganic chemistry, with an emphasis on unusual mechanisms where standard chemical ideas do not account for experimental observations.

Energy & charge transfer process in nanocrystalline semiconductor and metallic materials and their heterostructures, time-resolved and spatially resolved spectroscopy, applications in energy harvesting, photonics and photocatalysis.

Machine learning models for chemistry, virtual materials discovery, cheminformatics, spectroscopy, computational and theoretical techniques for bridging large length and timescales, simulations of organic electronics and semipermeable membranes, energy storage materials.

The Thomas group focuses on the development of new synthetic methods by investigating the kinetics and chemical reactivity of highly reactive intermediates via rapid injection NMR spectroscopy.