We develop new strategies for long-term stabilization, long-distance transport and delivery of physiologically and biologically active molecules. We leverage the properties of the crystal packing, the disordered glassy state, and deep eutectic environments as storage, transport and delivery media.

We develop models for putative molecular minerals that are expected to naturally occur on Titan, Saturn’s icy moon. We study their thermodynamic and structural properties. Similarly, we perform structural analyses on molecular minerals on Earth that occur in petroleum, the crust and the permafrost.

We perform detailed studies of the crystal (neutron, X-ray) vibrational (Raman), local (PDF), and dynamic (QENS) structure. We use coordination and hydrogen bonding, as well as weak interactions of molecules to design new materials. We leverage the crystal packing to synthesize extended solids.