Joseph T. Hupp, Professor
Department of Chemistry
Northwestern University

E-mail: jthupp@chem.northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-491-3504

BS, Houghton College
PhD, Michigan State University

Morrison Professor of Chemistry (2000-)
Dow Professor of Chemistry (1998-2000)
National Fresenius Award of Phi Lamda Epsilon (1993)
Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (1991-1996)
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1990-1992)
Atlantic Richfield Junior Faculty Fellow (1986)
NSF Presidential Young Investigator (1986-1991)
Sohio Graduate Fellow (1982)

Research Areas
Much of the sensing work relies upon a photonic lattice approach developed in the Hupp labs at Northwestern. A major component of the research effort on catalysis is a joint program with Prof. SonBinh Nguyen centering on the design and evaluation of quasi-immortal artificial enzymes, cofactors, and arrays of enzymes via the principles underlying molecular self-assembly and supramolecular inorganic chemistry.

This group also designs and characterizes nanostructured metallic and semiconducting materials for electrochemical energy storage, photochemical energy conversion (light to electrical energy conversion), and photonic energy interconversion. Much of the effort here is necessarily based on developing appropriate techniques and tools for interrogating these interesting materials and their chemical and physical responses. Recent examples include reactive optical imaging of electrochemically driven ion-intercalation reactions, hyper-Rayleigh spectroscopic characterization of nanoscale metal particles and aggregates used for ultratrace detection of heavy metal ions, and transient interfacial photoacoustic spectroscopic mapping of trap-state energies at nanoscale semiconductor/inorganic-dye interfaces.

Related Publications
"Large-Scale Resonance Amplification of Optical Sensing of Volatile Compounds with Chemoresponsive Visible-Region Diffraction Gratings," R.C. Bailey, J.T. Hupp, J. Am. Chem. Soc., submitted (2002).

"Shape-Selective Transport Through Rectangle Based Molecular Materials: Thin-Film Scanning Electrchemical Microscopy Studies," M.E. Williams, K.D.Benkstein, C.Abel, P.H. Dinolfo, J.T. Hupp, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., in press (2002).

"Molecular Sieving and Thin-film Transport by Molecular Materials Featuring Large (>20 Angstrom Diameter) Component Cavities," J. Zhang, M.E. Williams, M.H. Keefe, G.A. Morris, S.T. Nguyen, J.T. Hupp, Electrochemical and Solid State Letters, in press (2002).

"Microporous Supramolecular Coordination Compounds as Chemosensory Photonic Lattices," G. A. Mines, B. Tzeng, K. J. Stevenson, J. Li, J. T. Hupp, Angew. Chem., 41, 154-157 (2002). Highlighted in Analytical Chemistry.

"Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry and Functional Microporous Molecular Materials,", P.H.Dinolfo, J.T. Hupp, Chem. Mater., 13, 3113-3125 (2001).

"Artificial Enzymes Formed Via Directed Assembly of Molecular Square-Encapsulated Epoxidation Catalysts," M.L. Merlau, M. del Pilar Mejia, S.T. Nguyen, J. T. Hupp, Angew. Chem., 40, 4369-4372 (2001). Highlighted by Chemical and Engineering News and Industrial Physics. Featured as an NSF "News Tip" (online press release).