• Porous Organic Coordination Solids: Developing stronger porous solids in which all the host porous bonds are covalent in character
• Introduce cross-linkable guests (such as di-isocyanides or disilyltriflates) which will react with these nucleophilic groups leading to a fully covalent organic porous solid

• Long range order in intermetallic phases: Examine noble metal alloys where unit cell dimensions range from just a few, to almost 104 Å

Gardner, G.; Kiang, Y. H.; Lee, S.; Asgaonkar, A.; Venkataraman, D. Exchange properties of a 3-D coordination compound. J. Am. Chem. Soc., in press.

Gardner, G.; Venkataraman, D.; Moore, J. S.; Lee, S. Spontaneous assembly of hinged coordination network. Nature 1995, 374, 792.

Venkataraman, D.; Gardner, G. B.; Lee, S.; Moore, J. S. Zeolite-like behavior of a coordination compound. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 11600.

DiMasi, E.; Aronson, M. C.; Mansfield, J. F.; Foran, B.; Lee, S. Chemical pressure and charge density waves in rare earth polytellurides. Phys. Rev. 1995, B52, 404.

Venkataraman, D.; Lee, S.; Zhang, J.; Moore, J. S. An organic solid with wide channels based on hydrogen bonding between macrocycles. Nature 1994, 371, 591.

• PhD, University of Chicago, 1985

• BA, Yale University, 1978