Research Overview

Welcome to the Craig group blog and website. For recent highlights from the group (both scientific and other), please visit our Latest News page.

The group’s research interests bridge physical organic and materials chemistry. Many of these interests are guided by the vision that important challenges in materials science might be better tackled not from the traditional perspective of an engineer, but rather from the molecular perspective of an organic chemist. To that end, research projects often begin by probing the relationship between the properties and reactivity of small molecular components and complex properties of materials incorporating those molecules. Current interests include the design and synthesis of self-healing polymers and the use of modern mechanochemistry in new stress-responsive polymers, catalysis, and the study of reactive intermediates. These areas require an interdisciplinary and nontraditional mix of synthetic organic and polymer chemistry, single-molecule spectroscopy, supramolecular chemistry, and materials characterization.

For more about our recent work, please View Selected Publications.