Welcome to the Olson Research Group Website. We are located in the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. We seek to develop and manipulate switchable self-assembling molecular architectures by way of subtle synthetic transformations. We are interested in understanding the role of accumulating long range non-covalent interactions and electrostatics in macromolecules and how these forces and interactions affect the thermodynamic equilibrium and kinetics of self-assembly in solution, on surfaces, and at the solvent-nanoparticle interface. The website is geared towards prospective graduate and undergraduate students interested in materials chemistry and molecular nanotechnology. If you are interested in learning more about our research, publications, current group members and more, feel free to browse the various sections of this site. 

LATEST NEWS

Congratulations to Chris Hernandez for being selected to represent TAMUCC at the "Texas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol where Dr. Olson and Chris met with Texas legislators Abel Herrero, Todd Hunter, and Senator Solomon Ortiz to discuss funding of undergraduate research!

NSF-LSAMP Scholar and Corpus Christi Native Marco Messina ships off to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a Summer Research Assistantship in the Laboratories of Jeremiah A. Johnson in the Department of Chemistry!!!

UPDATE: JONATHAN JOINS CALTECH'S MATERIAL SCIENCE PHD PROGRAM (FALL 2013)!!!

JONATHAN GETS ACCEPTED INTO MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PHD PROGRAMS AT NORTHWESTERN, UC SANTA BARBARA, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, U OF I URBANA-CHAMPAIGN AND IS INTERVIEWING AT CALTECH!!!

Corpus Christi native and King High School graduate, Jonathan Thompson, writes his own ticket getting into the top 5 materials science and engineering programs in the nation! Do us proud Jonathan!

UPDATE: CHRIS IS AWARDED THE PRESTIGOUS DOLPHUS E. MILLIGAN FELLOSHIP WHICH CARRIES WITH IT AN AUGMENTED STIPEND AND AN INTERNSHIP AT NIST!!!

CHRIS GETS ACCEPTED INTO THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND'S CHEMISTRY PHD PROGRAM!!!

NSF-LSAMP scholars Marco Messina and Chris Hernandez are off to present their research at the 9th annual LSAMP symposium at TAMU College Station

Chris Hernandez will be presenting a poster entitled: Thermodynamic Contributions to the Free Energy of Template-Directed Micellization

Marco Messina will be presenting a poster entitled:   Reversible Docking at the Micellar-Solvent Interface

EDWARD GETS ACCEPTED INTO CALTECH!!! Corpus Christi native and King High School graduate, Edward Garza will begin his undergraduate career at the prestigious California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) beginning Fall 2012. Way to go Edward!

Trenton goes to UMass Amherst for the summer!!!

Trenton Dawson has accepted an offer to work as a summer research assistant at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the labs of Dr. Ryan Hayword in the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering. Trenton will be working in the area of self-assembly of conjugated polymers. Do us proud Trenton!