This is a collaborative research with the group of Professor Junfhuei Chen (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware).
   The ultimate goal of this project is to be able to covalently bind large biological molecules of confined geometry to semiconductor surfaces. A combination of spectroscopic techniques and computational methods is used to define the desired binding sites on a surface of silicon single crystals precovered with a specifically designed self-assembled monolayer (SAM). Buckminster fullerenes C₆₀ are used as spectroscopic probes to understand the binding chemistry and also as a microscopic models for investigation with the atomic force microscopy (AFM).
    Currently, DNA molecules are the main subject of this investigation.