Miklos Kertesz

Miklos Kertesz

Professor of Chemistry 
Department of Chemistry 
Office: 644 Reiss Hall (240 Reiss for mail)
Georgetown University 
Washington DC 20057-1227 
Tel. office (202) 687-5761       Lab. (202) 687-5959       Fax: (202) 687-6209       e-mail: kertesz@georgetown.edu

GROUP MEMBERS (links are maintained by individual members, ⁺indicates undergraduate student)

Current members:

Yonghui Tian

Brad Slepetz

Michael Roumanos⁺

Ryan Vary⁺

Satinder Kaur⁺

Recent past members:

Prof. Istvan Laszlo

Dr. Jingsong Huang

Dr. Shujiang Yang

Prof. Takashi Yumura

Prof. Gyoosoon Park

Stephanie Kingsbury⁺

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Artificial muscles, molecular actuator design, microscopic theory of nanotube and conjugated polymer actuation.

 

 

Theory of conducting polymers: design of small bandgap conjugated polymers.

 

 

 

Application and development of methods for the calculation of the electronic structure of polymers.

 

 

 

Theory of the vibrational spectroscopy of polymers, structure-spectrum relationships.

 

        

 

 

Structure and electronic structure of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes; molecules inside nanotubes.

 

 

 

p-stacking interactions, conducting organic materials.

 

 

 

Modeling nanoporous carbons

 

 

 

TEACHING  (Link to Georgetown University courses, some information may require login. Current students should check their Blackboard web site.)

FULL PUBLICATION LIST with links.

SOME LINKS (to be added).

Link to Georgetown University Chemistry Department.