John E. McGrady Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
John E. McGrady studies how electronic structure controls the chemical bonds and magnetism of inorganic metal clusters. In an endohedral metal cluster, a metal atom sits inside a cage; calculating the interaction between that atom and the cage can distinguish a nearly independent enclosed metal from a structure with strongly shared electron density. His group uses density functional theory and multiconfigurational methods to examine these possibilities.[ref]