Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science
Research
Listed below are some of the specialized research facilities associated with the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science at NJIT.
- Environmental Laboratories
- Laboratory for Development of On-line Monitoring & Field Analytical Techniques
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Multi-Disciplinary Optical Science and Engineering (OPSE)
Research Efforts Include:
Environmental
- Anaerobic and aerobic biotreatment processes
- Kinetic and thermodynamic analysis of combustion and pyrolysis processes
- Modeling of environmental reaction systems
- Hydrogeology
- Sampling and analysis of organic and inorganic pollutants
- Supercritical extraction for environmental sample preparation
- Novel routes for solvent-less chemical synthesis
- Ultrasonic enhancement of in-situ remediation
- Wetlands studies
- Restoration ecology
Biochemical
- Chromatographic separations
- Blood chemistry
- Protein Engineering
- Catalysis
- Directed Evolution of Proteins
Chemistry
- Catalysts for asymmetric synthesis
- Laser kinetic spectroscopy
- Photochemistry
- Computer-aided drug design
- Chemical reactions in supercritical fluids
- Chemometrics
- Analytical method development
- Chemical kinetics and thermodynamics of gas phase reactions
- Plasma chemistry
- Materials Science
- Studies of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processes
- Particle flow systems
- Polymer characterization
- Nanoparticle production, characterization and modeling

