[citation needed] Her research looks to enhance semiconductor and metal surfaces through photo-active and redox-active molecules.
They typically involve dyes that are bound to the surface through anchoring groups, creating donor-acceptor systems.
Not only do they attach the photoactive part, but they also possess intrinsic properties that influence electronic reactions at the interface.
Galoppini showed it was possible to hold the dyes at fixed distances from the semiconductor surface through careful linker design.
[4] Chromophores within molecular hosts fosters interfacial host-guest chemistry that can demonstrate novel functional properties, including modified electron recombination dynamics.