Welcome to IZ Group

Welcome to the Zharov Group website. We are a research group in the Department of Chemistry, University of Utah.

Our research program covers several areas of modern organic and materials chemistry, including nanoscale self-assembled structures, dendrimers, and nanoporous systems. The research in our group is at the interface of organic chemistry and materials chemistry. It is focused on the understanding, the development, and application of organic materials. In particular, we design, synthesize, and study systems that can: (1) self-assemble into 2D and 3D nanoscale structures, (2) attach to inorganic surfaces to provide ion-channel mimics, (3) act as cancer treatment agents. The applications of our work are in the areas of separations, drug delivery, chemical sensors, fuel cells and other novel nanomaterials. Read about our recent results by clicking the Publications button.

George S. Hammond in his 1968 Norris Award Lecture said that "The most fundamental and lasting objective of synthesis is not production of new compounds, but production of properties." We use these words as our guideline. Our general approach can be called "molecular design". We identify properties and functions that are fundamentally interesting and useful, and design molecules that will provide such properties and functions. We use organic and inorganic synthesis to prepare those molecules, and rely on a variety of analytical techniques to characterize our molecules. In addition, computational techniques play an important role in our work. Making useful molecules and materials is hard without interacting with researchers from other fields of chemistry, and from engineering and medical fields. Therefore, our work is collaborative in nature.

If you are interested in our group, click the Research button, become acquanted with the people who do it by clicking the IZ and the People buttons. Learn more about what we do outside the lab by going to the Events, and see the beautiful outdoors (and other pictures) by clicking the Gallery button. I hope that you will find this web site both interesting and useful.

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Contact Information:

Professor Ilya Zharov
Department of Chemistry
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
phone: 801-587-9335
fax: 801-581-8433
e-mail: i.zharov@utah.edu

Assistant: Margaret Beebe
phone: 801-581-6009
e-mail: mbeebe@chem.utah.edu

Department of Chemistry
University of Utah