Cathleen Crudden

Cathleen Crudden is Canada Research Chair in Metal Organic Chemistry at Queen's University.

She is investigating how organic compounds interact with metals in the synthesis of novel materials and development of highly active catalysts: this research will help to develop new catalysts that will be useful in producing pharmaceuticals and state-of-the-art biosensing applications.

Crudden and her research group are exploring the implications of carbon-to-metal bonds linkages in the preparation of novel biosensors, microelectronics, and catalysts. In particular, they will focus on films that are 100,000 times thinner than human hair and on nanoscopically ordered particles that feature bonds between metal clusters and organic ligands.