"Do what you can, with what you have,  where you are"
                                                        Theodore Roosevelt

MatChem Lab is an is a Chemistry research laboratory focused on Materials Chemistry located in the beautiful green area of The Bronx, NY. The PI of the laboratory is Dr. Andrei Jitianu who is Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at Lehman College, CUNY and Chair of the Inorganic Subdiscipline in the Department of Chemistry at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.

The research of MatChem Lab is oriented to obtain new materials via sol-gel process / soft chemistry.
We are working on:

In the MatChem Lab there was developed a new class of materials called melting gels which are precursors for low temperature hybrid glasses which are successfully used as: