In this class, students will acquire hands-on and/or applied experience in diverse aspects of the research process in any field of Chemistry under the direction and supervision of a faculty advisor. Typically, these projects are related to the research program of the advisor. Student experiences often include: familiarizing themselves with a research topic, generating interesting questions, designing experiments, acquiring technical and instrumentation skills, collecting and analyzing data, writing and/or presenting their results.

In this class, students will acquire hands-on and/or applied experience in diverse aspects of the research process in any field of Chemistry under the direction and supervision of a faculty advisor. Typically, these projects are related to the research program of the advisor. Student experiences often include: familiarizing themselves with a research topic, generating interesting questions, designing experiments, acquiring technical and instrumentation skills, collecting and analyzing data, writing and/or presenting their results.

Applications of solid-state NMR include (1) structural elucidation of solid materials, such as crosslinked polymers, gels, zeolites, and natural organic matter; (2) morphology and organization of heterogeneous materials, such as semicrystalline polymers, photovoltaic polymers, and composites; and (3) molecular dynamics and interactions. The information content obtained from ssNMR is highly complementary to that from microscopy and scattering techniques.