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    UV curing: Used to make polymer networks

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    Fundamental Main Group Chemistry:

    Fundamental Main Group Chemistry

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    Anti Icing Surfaces

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    Winter 2024: Ragogna Group Photo

What we do.

At the root of all of our work lies fundamental main group chemistry.  This means we think about new structure and bonding for the p-block elements, unprecedented reaction chemistry and ways to bring these ideas to the broader chemical and scientific community.  We currently have several areas of active research:  

Designing and deposition of n-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) on metal surfaces

130 JLo
J.T. Lomax, E. Goodwin, M.D. Aloisio, A.J. Veinot, I. Singh, W-T. Shiu, M. Bakiro, J.N. Bentley, J.F. DeJesus, P.G. Gordon, L. Liu, S.T. Barry*, C.M. Crudden*, P.J. Ragogna* Chem. Mater., 2024, 36, 5500-5507.

Surface restructuring of metals at the atomic scale using n-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs)

 

139 MD
 E. Goodwin, M. Davies, M. Bakiro, E. Desroche, F. Tumino, M. Aloisio, C.M. Crudden*, P.J. Ragogna*, M. Karttunen*, S.T. Barry* ACS Nano, 2025, 19, 15617-15626 

 Utilizing molecular layer deposition (MLD) and E-H bonds for the creation of thin films

122 JLo
J.T. Lomax, E. Goodwin, P.G. Gordon, C. McGuiness, F. DeCampo, S.T. Barry*, P.J. Ragogna* Chem. Mater, 2023, 35, 1579-1585. 

Synthesizing strange molecules featuring the group 15 and 16 elements

128 JL
J.L. Lortie, M. Davies, P. D. Boyle, M. Karttunen*, P.J. Ragogna* Inorg. Chem., 2024, 63, 6335-6345.