Stephanie Lee Brock is an American chemist who is professor of inorganic chemistry at Wayne State University.
She was a graduate student at the University of California, Davis, where she investigated structure-property relationships in pnictide oxide compounds under the supervision of Susan M.
[1] Brock was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Connecticut where she worked with Steven Suib on the use of manganese oxide nanocrystalline materials.
The gel-like cadmium selenide (CdSe) and zinc sulfide (ZnS) nanoparticles are akin to a cross-linked polymer network, and can be supercritically dried to form porous aerogels.
The aerogels have high surface areas and form a conductive network with the optical properties of the nanoparticles themselves.