The Peters Group is a multidisciplinary, electrochemistry research group engaged in a variety of individual and collaborative efforts which can be classified into the broad areas of mechanistic organic, environmental, and biological electrochemistry.

Our research goals include

1. practical electrosynthesis
2. remediation of environmental pollutants
3. discovery of new transition-metal catalysts
4. development of new electrode systems such as polymer-coated electrodes, semiconductor electrodes, and modified platinum, palladium, and silver cathodes
5. development of new media for electrochemistry such as room-temperature ionic liquids

Due to the diversity of on-going projects in our laboratory, group members develop skills in a wide range of synthetic and analytical techniques. Included among these are methods of organic and inorganic synthesis; electroanalytical techniques such as cyclic voltammetry and controlled-potential electrolysis; and analytical techniques such as HPLC, UV-Vis, NMR, GC-MS, ESR, ESI-MS, and HPLC-MS. Additionally, we employ a variety of specialized instrumentation, cells, and electrodes to perform more sophisticated electrochemical experiments.