All first-year Science courses will be delivered virtually for Winter 2021. Due to the COVID-19 provincial lock-down, all students who were expecting in-person labs, should check their McMaster e-mail for important winter announcements..
Polymer Chemistry of Nanotubes; Dendrimer-Based Therapeutics; Covalent Functionalization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNTs); Supramolecular Functionalization of SWNTs; Carborane-Functionalized Dendrimers; Dendrimer-Based Imaging Agents
Mathematical methods, conceptual tools, and computational software for molecular modelling; New electronic structure theory methods; Concepts in quantum chemistry; Machine learning for chemical property prediction
Transition-state analysis in biochemical systems; enzyme mechanisms
Bioanalytical chemistry; fluorescence spectroscopy; biosensors
Bio-analytical chemistry; metabolomics; biomarker discovery; clinical chemistry; capillary electrophoresis/separation science; mass spectrometry; chemometrics/bioinformatics; bimolecular interactions; drug screening; newborn screening; population health; early detection/prevention of human diseases
New strategies for silicone synthesis using green chemistry, and targeting energy and biomedical applications.
Phospha-adamantanes in organopalladium cross-coupling reactions; carbenoid-based synthesis; synthesis of bioactive compounds
Quantum and semiclassical molecular dynamics; simulation of NMR spectra
Organometallic and Coordination Chemistry, Molecular Inorganic Synthesis, Ligand Design, Reactivity Studies and Catalysis, Atomic Layer Deposition
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging of Materials for Alternative Energy Storage & Conversion; Lithium Ion Batteries & Fuel Cells
Chemical education and pedagogy: creating, applying, and evaluating new technologies and assessment methods in the chemistry curriculum
Natural Products: how cells make these antibiotics, and how they work; fooling the biosynthetic machinery into using non-natural precursors to make non-natural, natural products
Surfaces, interface and low-dimensional materials; their electronic and chemical properties; doping, mobility and pattern formation; applications in corrosion inhibitors and water quality sensors
Organic Synthesis; Medicinal Chemistry; Natural Products; Organocatalysis; Transition-metal Catalysis;Total Synthesis
Pre-clinical molecular pharmacology of neurodegenerative diseases and cancer; intrinsically unstructured amyloidogenic proteins: protein kinases & signaling; functional protein dynamics and allosteric regulation; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
Micro- and nanostructured materials fabrication, characterization and applications; nanocellulose surface chemistry; biosensors; super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, biomolecular interactions
Thermoelectric materials; magnetocaloric phases; inorganic phosphors for temperature sensing.
Sol-gel chemistry; self-assembly; photonics and photo-induced transformations
Fluorine, noble gas, main group and transition metal chemistry; radiochemistry
Functional polymers; colloids and microspheres
Medicinal inorganic and radiopharmaceutical chemistry