Joshua Moore, PhD
Assistant Professor, of Inorganic & Materials Chemistry
EDUCATION
- Post-Doctoral, Sandia National Lab
- Ph.D, Vanderbilt University, 2003
- B.S., University of Pittsburgh, 1998
TEACHING
At TSU, I teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in chemistry.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Inorganic & Materials Chemistry
Research activities in the Moore research lab lie in the areas of:
- Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry
- Materials Chemistry
- Materials Science
- And nanomaterials
Research in the Moore lab seeks to develop new synthesis strategies for the preparation of inorganic materials that exhibit desired chemical reactivity or interesting physical properties. There is a special focus on the preparation of nanocomposite materials in which nan-oparticles are highly dispersed throughout a solid matrix. At least one dimension of the nanoparticulate component is on the order of 10-20 nm. For most applications, single or dual source precursors are used and sol-gel chemistry is used for the preparation of the matrix materials.
- Instrumental methods routinely employed includes:
- Powder x-ray diffraction (XRD)
- Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
- Scanning electron micrioscopy (SEM)
- As well as traditional methods such as NMR
- FTIR, fluorescence and UV/Visible spectroscopy
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