Other Activities in the Biophysics Group

The Biophysics Group establishes the optical measurement science, modeling, and simulation tools to enable the characterization and control of biological molecules themselves and their interactions with nanomaterials. The ability to measure and quantify the assembly, aggregation, and transformations of biomolecules and of nanomaterials is critical to realizing many applications in homeland security, infrastructure, energy, and the environment.

The Biophysics group also participates in a wide variety of activities falling outside the topic of biophysics. Links to projects in these areas are below.

 

Environment:

Remote monitoring of point and distributed greenhouse gas emissions

 

Energy:

Hydrogen storage optimization in thin film combinatorial alloys

Photovoltaic carrier dynamics

Hydrogen generation in di-iron hydrogenase mimics 

 

Homeland Security:

Terahertz bi-directional reflection measurements 

 

Infrastructure:

Terahertz detection of rebar corrosion in concrete

 

Physical Measurements of Materials:

Electron transport in graphene

Magnetic nanoparticle metrology

Ultrafast molecular switch dynamics