Professor Petr Král

Petr Král, Ph.D. is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
 
His research focuses on molecular dynamics studies and electronic structure and transport studies.
 
Molecular dynamics studies:

• recognition of chiral surfaces & control of catalysis
• design of nesting sites for peptides
• self-assembly of nanoparticles
• molecular drag phenomena
• nanoscale machines

Electronic structure and transport studies:

• science in metal-doped carbon nanostructures
• electron transport in nanoscale devices
• image states above nanotubes
• coherent control of molecules

Petr authored Species Orthogonalization and Control of catalytic activity of proteins in vivo by nanotube ropes excited with infrared light, and coauthored Electric Polarization of Heteropolar Nanotubes as a Geometric Phase, Photogalvanic Effects in Heteropolar Nanotubes, Laser-Driven Atomic Pump, Colloquium: Coherently controlled adiabatic passage, Highly Extended Image States around Nanotubes, Two-Step Enantio-Selective Optical Switch, Laser spinning of nanotubes: A path to fast-rotating microdevices, Shaping of detached image states above suspended nanowires, and Coherent control of photocurrents in graphene and carbon nanotubes.
 
Petr earned his BSc. and MSc. at Czech Technical University, Czech Republic in 1986 and his Ph.D. at the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic in 1995. He completed his postdoctoral work at the University of Toronto, Canada and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
 
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