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Principal Investigator

Dr. Kai Landskron
kal205@lehigh.edu
610-758-5788

Fascinated by chemistry since my childhood I began my undergraduate studies at the University of Bayreuth, Germany in 1992 where I obtained my BSc. in 1998. Following my enthusiasm for inorganic syntheses and the beauty of the structures of extended solids I devoted my PhD studies to the synthesis and crystal structure determination of phosphorus(V)-nitrides with Wolfgang Schnick at University of Munich (LMU), Germany. This ceramic class of compounds was challenging to access systematically at the time. We developed a novel synthetic pathway that allowed for its systematic access and discovered a number of interesting solid state structures. I completed my PhD work in 2001. I became attracted to the new and very rapidly evolving field of nanostructured materials and joined Geoffrey A. Ozin as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. I worked on Periodic Mesoporous Organosilicas (PMOs) that are nanoscopically ordered “soft matter” that “self-assemble” under ambient aqueous conditions and allow for the synergistic integration of inorganic and organic building units in mesoscopically ordered frameworks. We were able to considerably expand the scope of building blocks for PMOs and also found a range of intriguing materials properties that suggest applications as low dielectric constant materials in microelectronics. In 2006, I started working at Lehigh University as an assistant professor. I was tenured and promoted to associate professor in 2012, and promoted to full professor in 2018.

Graduate Students

Alysson Bermudez
alb512@lehigh.edu

Jacob Dooley
jrd419@lehigh.edu

Jiajie Li
jil417@lehigh.edu

Muhammad Bilal Zarafullah
mub220@lehigh.edu

Alumni

Mr. Wade Bailey

Dr. Swapan Das

Miss Jessica Fraser

Mr. Joshua Eric Gorsky

Mr. Noah Johnson

Mr. Sean Kelly

Berenika Kokoszka

Miss Lilian Kull

Miss Le Li

Mr. Zhili Liang

Cong Liu

Yiqun Liu

Miss Lily Liu

Manik Mandal

Mr. Ed Mitchell

Dr Paritosh Mohanty

Dr. Damian Paliwoda

Miss Alissa Sperling

Dr. Manuel Weinberger

Dr. Shan Zhu