Advancing clean energy and health technologies increasingly requires sophisticated materials that can be tailored to solve specific challenges. Peptides have ideal properties to meet these needs, as they are enormously diverse, simple to synthesize, and increasingly easier to design. My lab will take advantage of these superlative properties to develop bio-inspired solutions for challenging separations in clean energy, the tailored synthesis of critical materials, and the development of complex functional scaffolds for medicine.
Students will gain skills in interdisciplinary techniques from coordination chemistry,
X-ray scattering and diffraction, materials characterization, bioorganic chemistry, and peptide design.
Oktawiec Lab 