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News

  • Sergey Nizkorodov Receives Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Fostering of Undergraduate Research
  • Liran Zhu selected for the 2025 USNCO Study Camp!
  • Professor Kenneth J. Shea to receive the Tolman Medal
  • Paper co-authored by Professor Burke in 1996 is one of the top four cited in 2023
  • Professor Arguilla named a fellow for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Young Observers program by the US National Committee through the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ph.D. student Diana Lopez receives LEAD graduate student excellence award
  • Professor James Nowick selected as the recipient of the 2024 Biopolymers Murray Goodman Memorial Prize
  • Professor Finkeldei makes the American Nuclear Society's list of 40 under 40!
  • Professor Arguilla named named a runner-up for the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship Award!
  • Professors Maxx Arguilla and Digs Ardoña featured in Matter "35 PIs under 35(ish) in materials science"
  • Undergraduate Chemistry Student Makayla Luevano receives Honorable Mention for ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award for Undergraduate Research
  • UCI Chemistry Welcomes Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Kimberly Daas
  • Professor Arguilla selected as a finalist in the Dream Chemistry Award
  • Professor Ann Marie Carlton Awarded AGU Fellow
  • Professor Manabu Shiraiwa Awarded the AGU Ascent Award
  • Professor Jarvo awarded the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
  • Griffin Lab awarded a UC Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) Faculty Seed Grant
  • Chemistry faculty members well represented among Beall Applied Innovation Proof of Product awardees
  • Congratulations to the Safety Students/Researchers of the Year
  • Professor Griffin awarded Beckman Young Investigator Award
  • Three Chemistry Faculty Members featured in OC Business Journal
  • Professor Scott Rychnovsky to be recognized as Chancellor's Award Winner at UCI Celebration of Teaching Awards Ceremony
  • A book about Professor Larry Overman in the series “lives in Chemistry" was recently published by the German Chemical Society and GNT Publishers.
  • Nehal Idris selected as ACS Leader Scholar for the 2024 cohort
  • Professors Furche and Yang Honored as AAAS Fellows
  • Congratulations to Chemistry NSF GRFP 2024 Awardees!
  • Natalie Falco (Griffin Lab) awarded the F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship from NIH
  • Professor Jenny Yang wins Beall Innovation Award in the Physical Sciences
  • Rachel Martin awarded EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Magnetic Resonance
  • Elizabeth Bess awarded NSF CAREER award!
  • Maxx Arguilla awarded NSF CAREER award!
  • Matt Griffin named 2023 Abeloff V Scholar
  • Professor Ann Marie Carlton awarded the Susanne V. Hering Award
  • Professor Barbara Finlayson-Pitts awarded the 2023 David Sinclair Award
  • Professor Jim Smith named Fellow of the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR)
  • Professor Barbara Finlayson-Pitts to be honored with 2023 Lauds and Laurels Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement
  • Professor Maxx Arguilla selected as one of C&E News's Talented 12
  • Jessica Kelz receives UC Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar Award
  • Professor Shaka discusses nuclear power on KUCI podcast
  • Professor Vy Dong has been appointed as Chancellor's Professor!
  • Prof. Finlayson-Pitts will receive an honorary doctoral degree from McGill University!
  • Grant Lai receives Goldwater Scholarship
  • Suhwan Song's Publication Featured in Nature Communications
  • Joe Patterson is the recipient of the 2023 Burton Medal from the MSA
  • Publications come in 3's for graduate student Liz Diessner
  • Joe Patterson awarded a CAREER Award from the NSF
  • Seu Sim is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award!
  • Shaul Mukamel appointed as Deputy Editor for Science Advances
  • Jessica Kelz awarded Fletcher Jones Fellowship
  • Professors Blum and Prescher are recipients of 2023 Cope Scholar Awards from the ACS
  • Three major DOE awards to Chemistry faculty
  • ACS Recognizes three UCI Chemistry Graduate Students
  • Professor Ann Marie Carlton is the recipient of a prestigious award from Iota Sigma Pi!
  • Congratulations to MolSSI Fellows!
  • Megan Rocha received an F31 fellowship from the NEI
  • Congratulations to Chemistry 2023 Academic Senate award recipients!
  • Dr. Ana Garcia interviewed for Forbes Magazine
  • Jenny Yang named JACS Senior Editor
  • Professor Donald R. Blake ranked as 20th Top Ranked Scientist in Environmental Science by Research.com
  • Chemistry Grad Program ranked top 10 by U.S. News
  • Professor Don Blake to receive the Tolman Medal
  • Dr. Phil Dennison - Instructor of the Month
  • Jarvo research group awarded the 2021 SYNLETT Best Paper Award
  • John Kozlowski awarded Brython Davis Fellowship
  • Professor Burke explains "one of the most important things in science"
  • Professor Rachel Martin - Guest on PBS NOVA
  • Meet Melanie Nguyen, Senior Stockroom Manager for the Department of Chemistry
  • Professor Maxx Arguilla receives Inclusive Excellence Teaching Award
  • Professor Rachel Martin elected Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR)
  • Paul Joshua Hurst selected to present at the Spring 2022 ACS
  • Listen to recent interview of Professor David MacMillan, UCI Alum and 2021 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
  • Professor Don Blake speaks on the HISTORY This Week Podcast
  • UCI alumnus wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • Shaul Mukamel has been elected a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy
  • Potma, Fishman research to be featured on cover of APL Photonics
  • UCI Chemistry selected to join the ACS Bridge Program as an ACS Bridge Partner
  • Knowledge Acquisition Center (KnAC) provides help for undergrads
  • Chemistry Faculty Receive Three Academic Senate Distinguished Awards
  • UCI team receives $1 million Keck Foundation grant to develop tools for RNA observation
  • In Memoriam: Jorg Meyer
  • Professor Liz Jarvo receives the Journal of Organic Chemistry’s 2021 Outstanding Article of the Year Award!
  • Professor Prescher is the newest Associate Editor at ACS Chemical Biology
  • Congratulations to Chemistry NSF GRFP Awardees!
  • Chemistry Major Lucy Yang has been awarded a Barry Goldwater Scholarship!
  • Professor Jenny Yang is the Recipient of the 2021 Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship Award!
  • Professor Barbara Finlayson-Pitts has been selected as the 74th Assembly District's Woman of the Year!
  • Professor Ann Marie Carlton named AAAS Roger Revelle Fellow
  • Professor Ardo leads Cottrell Scholars Collaborative award
  • Shane Ardo named Beall Applied Innovation Faculty Innovation Fellow
  • Professor Prescher named a Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group Distinguished Investigator
  • PhD Student Barry Rich receives prestigious ARCS Scholar Award
  • Professor Don Blake to receive the UCI Academic Senate Better World Award
  • Professor Chris Vanderwal named AAAS fellow!
  • Professor Emeritus Benny Gerber awarded the Gold Medal of the Israel Chemical Society (ICS)
  • Department of Chemistry Virtual Student and Staff Award Ceremony
  • Professor Don Blake Wins Better World Award from Academic Senate
  • UCI Scientists Get ‘Initial Hit’ in Developing Drug to Treat COVID-19
  • The 10 New Physical Sciences Faculty
  • Krista Fruehauf - Medium Article - Delivering Drugs to Cancer Patients
  • Professor Rachel Martin featured in ASBMB Today
  • Manabu Shiraiwa - Recipient of Kenneth T. Whitby Award
  • Professor Elizabeth Bess awarded 2020-2021 Hellman Fellowship
  • Professor Vy Dong honored by Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Honoring Black Voices: The 2%: Navigating UCI as a Black Student
  • Pivoting from carnivorous plants to COVID-19
  • Professor Finlayson-Pitts and Chemistry alumnus Dr. Jason Low discuss Climate Change and COVID-19
  • Ph.D. student Kirsten Hewitt presents at the virtual ACS Spring National Meeting
  • Update on the UCI Research Enterprise Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic from VC for Research Pramod Khargonekar
  • Professor Don Blake named UCI Distinguished Alumnus
  • Professor Andy Borovik receives the 2019 Tolman Award
  • Welcome Professor Seunghyun Sim!
  • Professor Andrej Lupták named Guggenheim fellow
  • UCI team working on recommendations for effective do-it-yourself face masks
  • Essential research continues in several Chemistry labs
  • Professor Steve Mang chosen as 2020 Celebration of Teaching Dean's Honoree
  • Renee Link awarded 2020 Tom Angell Fellowship
  • Congratulations to NSF GRFP award winners and honorable mentions!
  • Chemistry faculty launch antiviral research project
  • Professor Martin lectures on COVID-19 3/13/20
  • Message to the Department of Chemistry 3/18/20
  • Message from the Chair 3/14/20
  • Chemistry update on COVID-19 response 3/7/20
  • Joe Gonzalez - 2020 AAAS Student E-Poster Competition Winner
  • Chris Vanderwal selected as the winner of the Springer Heterocyclic Chemistry Award 2020.
  • UCI chemists find fungal shrapnel in the air
  • Professor Bess named Scialog Fellow by Research Corporation (RCSA)
  • Dr. Shaul Mukamel awarded 2020 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science
  • Professor Jenny Yang to lead Sloan Foundation Study
  • Prescher Group publishes on new Bioorthogonal Chemistries
  • Prescher Research Group published in ACS for New Discovery
  • Graduate student Marc Sprague-Piercy receives Gilliam Fellowship
  • Brenna Biggs has been selected as a Carbon Neutrality Initiative (CNI) Fellow for the 2019-20 academic year
  • Congratulations to the Department of Chemistry Undergraduate and TA Award Recipients
  • Congratulations to Awardees Recognized at Annual Lee Dinner
  • Steve Mang receives award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education
  • Weiss-Allergan collaboration wins ICTS award
  • Professor Finlayson-Pitts awarded the 2019 Environment Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Rowland and Molina's planet saving research featured in PBS documentary
  • UCI News features PhD student Jessica Kelz
  • Sergey Pronin Receives NSF CAREER Award!
  • Manabu Shiraiwa selected as an ES&T letters Early Career Scientist
  • Manabu Shiraiwa featured in Chemistry World Magazine
  • Dong research group published in JACS for exciting discovery
  • Tobias and Shiraiwa group collaboration highlighted in Chemical Science
  • Professor Fleischer honored in important review article
  • Kellen's Kartub's Instagram featured by C&E News
  • Guan Group Research Highlighted in C&EN's "Research of the Year"
  • Dong research group makes exciting new discovery
  • Congratulations to Professors Freeman and Chaput on being named AAAS fellows!
  • UCI research on supercharging directed evolution published in Cell Journal
  • Professor Manabu Shiraiwa receives the Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award
  • Shea Lab research in New York Times
  • Annmarie Carlton is a rising star
  • Three Graduate Students Awarded Prestigious Energy Research Opportunities
  • Professor Vy Dong to receive the 2019 ACS E.J. Corey Award
  • Professor Prescher named Scialog Fellow by Research Corporation (RCSA)
  • Mukamel Q&A with PNAS
  • Ardo wins DOE Early Career Award
  • Manabu makes planet great again
  • Growing graduates
  • Undergrad in UCI news
  • Grand opening of IMRI
  • Senate recognizes faculty
  • Undergrad is ACS scholar
  • New Chem Professor
  • Grad papers are finalists
  • Innovative Profs
  • Grad wows RSC
  • Blum is outstanding
  • Alum does good
  • Grads win teaching awards
  • Dong and Evans lauded
  • Chems win NSF Fellowships
  • Opportunity for HS Teachers
  • Grads win at UC symposium
  • Grad wins ACS travel award
  • Grad leadership coach
  • Grads win travel award
  • Grad wins Genentech award
  • Ogata wins UCI Grad Slam
  • Jenny wins Sloan
  • Happy Fellow
  • Garg is top teacher
  • Borovik lauded
  • Machine learned DFT very notable
  • Making molecular monsters
  • Ho, ho, ho, happy holidays
  • Chem 216 class photo
  • Grad wins prize from GWIS
  • Grad alum is Reddit leader
  • Finlayson-Pitts and Ge memorialize Marie Curie
  • Hemminger named FHI scientific member
  • Three faculty named AAAS fellows
  • Honor for Rob Corn
  • Grad Woen wins DOE fellowship
  • Evans interviewed by C & EN
  • Borovik wins Cotton award
  • Grad Windroff Pu research
  • Bannan wins ACS/Merck award
  • Jim Smith wins Liu Award
  • Finlayson-Pitts wins Polanyi medal
  • Kieron elected to IAQMS
  • Rising star
  • Spitale named Pew Scholar
  • SoCal Undergraduate Research Symposium
  • Manabu awarded NSF Career grant
  • Shaul gets hon doc from Chicago
  • Furche is Excellent Undergrad Mentor
  • UCI hat-trick
  • Shea makes a POP
  • UCI scores British hat-trick
  • Dreyfus for Aron
  • Newcomb wins grad slam
  • ACS dedication 4pm RH
  • Renee Link Prof of the Year
  • Fabian fellowship
  • Kim wins poster competition
  • Gianmarc shreds science
  • Vanderwal wins Katritsky award
  • 4 outstanding students
  • Hinks wins UCI Fellowship
  • Shea lab into voodoo?
  • Burke becomes FRSC
  • Hemminger honored by DOE
  • Double-header for Ardo
  • Shaul wins OSA award
  • Mass spectrometry job at UCI
  • Rob wins analytic award
  • UCI chemistry double header
  • Dong group mannequin video
  • Matt Law wins large UC grant
  • Sheryl Tsai elected AAAS fellow
  • Thirsty?
  • Suryn featured as pedagogical fellow
  • Undergrad wins poster competition
  • Ardo awarded Beall and Moore
  • 20th anniversary of PBE
  • Don Blake in OC Register
  • Undergrad named ACS scholar
  • Hinks wins ACS Competition
  • Honor for Jeff O'Brien
  • Olshansky an ACS Sigal Fellow
  • Prescher schools LA Rams
  • Cope award for Vanderwal
  • Finlayson-Pitts wins Olin Medal
  • Honor for Jenn Prescher
  • Another NSF Fellowship!
  • Our chair becomes an ACS fellow
  • Another NSF-JSPS fellowship!
  • Konev wins fellowship
  • Honor for Shane Parker
  • Honor for Aaron Esser-Kahn
  • Three Profs Recognized
  • Kim selected for Grad symposium
  • Amanda is UCI lecturer of the year
  • UC-wide Grad slam silver medal
  • Benny elected to Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Yang wins NSF Career Award
  • Dong honored by Iota Sigma Pi
  • Finlayson-Pitts recognized by Iota Sigma Pi
  • UCI batting above average
  • 5 lucky winners
  • Huge award to Esser-Kahn to develop new vaccine for Q-fever
  • ACS Reception - March 15
  • Gorodetsky wins a PECASE
  • Award for Reg Penner
  • Fulbright for Sergey
  • Honor for Zhibin Guan
  • Honor for Reg Penner
  • Sandra wins fellowship
  • Grad Laura Rios wins presentation award
  • Sergey elected fellow of AAAS
  • Honor for Jennifer Prescher
  • Honor for Tran Nguyen
  • Overman wins Ryoji Noyori Prize
  • Ig Nobel for Greg Weiss
  • New job for Rob Corn
  • Honor for Jennifer Prescher
  • Kamber rocks!
  • Award for Cory Windorff
  • Ho, ho, ho, he, he, he!
  • Chang Liu named Beckman Young Investigator
  • UCI grad named The Oxidation Agent
  • Honor for Bill Evans
  • Shaul wins Bomem-Michelson award
  • Honor for Aaron Esser-Kahn
  • Honor for Chang Liu
  • Honor for Aurora Pribram-Jones
  • Department celebrates with Lee dinner
  • Jenn wins a Dreyfus
  • Shaul elected to National academy
  • Matt becomes Chancellor's Fellow
  • lauds
  • NSF GRFP awards
  • Graduating recruiting, 2015
  • Honor for Liz Jarvo
  • Honor for Chris Vanderwal
  • Honor for Ken Shea
  • Esser-Kahn becomes Cottrell scholar
  • Two Sloans for Chemistry
  • Honor for Bill Evans
  • Honor for Don Blake
  • Egg-stravaganza
  • Hemminger Festschrift published
  • New Graduate Student Success Program
  • Burke paper is 16th most cited science paper ever
  • Grad student Gianmarc Grazioli goes viral with "Chemist's Know"
  • Castl renewed
  • Honor for Bill Evans
  • Honor for Larry Overman
  • Honor for Shaul Mukamel
  • CHAMP 2014
  • The very influential Matt Law
  • Honor for Susan King
  • Honor for Megan Fieser
  • Nanocone Arrays Essay
  • Honor for Jenny Yang
  • NSF GRFP awards
  • NSF GRFP awards
  • NSF GRFP awads
  • Ford Foundation Fellowship Recipients
  • Pedagogical Fellow
  • Honor for Larry Overman
  • Teaching Award for Jennifer Prescher
  • Honor for Shaul Mukamel
  • Honor for Tom Poulos
  • Hat Trick for UCI Physical Chemists
  • Honor for Doug Tobias
  • AFOSR Young Investigators
  • Honor for Barbara Finlayson-Pitts
  • News for Rachel Martin
  • Honor for Sergey Nizkorodov
  • Humboldt for Snyder
  • Award for Liz Jarvo
  • Eminent Organic Chemists
  • Award for Aaron Esser-Kahn
  • Honor for Suzanne Blum
  • Honor for Vy Dong
  • Matt Law dazzles
  • Esser-Kahn a big hit down under
  • Suzanne Blum named JSPS fellow
  • New ACS Fellow
  • RSC interviews Vy Dong
  • Honor for Natasha Kozlyuk
  • Honor for Renee Link
  • In Memorium
  • Undergrad Accomplishments
  • Honor for Wilson Ho
  • OpenChem News
  • Honor for Benny Gerber
  • Honor for Shaul Mukamel
  • Cover for Don Blake
  • Fellowship Honor
  • New Faculty Member
  • Graduate Student Symposium
  • NSF fellows
  • Congratulations to Eric Potma
  • Pedagogical Fellows
  • New Faculty Member
  • Honor for Avinash Khanna
  • OpenChem Launch
  • Honor for Matt Law
  • Honor for Ken Shea
  • Honor for Raphael Ribeiro
  • Honor for Matt Dawson
  • Honor for Kieron Burke
  • Honor for Filipp Furche
  • Presentation of award
  • New AAAS Fellows
  • Honor for Wilson Ho
  • Honor for Chris Vanderwal
  • New Faculty Member Profiled
  • Honor for Ken Shea
  • Lectureship for Chris Vanderwal
  • OpenCourseWare Honor for James Nowick
  • Honor for Chem Grad Students
  • Vertex Scholar Award
  • New Job for Reg Penner
  • Two Honors for Shaul Mukamel
  • Honor for Don Blake
  • PNAS Tribute to F. Sherwood Rowland
  • ACS award for creative advances in Env. Sci. and Tech.
  • Honor for Salman Jabri
  • Honor for Sergey Nizkorodov
  • Graduate Student Finalist
  • Award for Scott Rychnovsky
  • Students Honored
  • Honor for Rob Corn
  • Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee
  • UCI Loses the Legendary F. Sherwood Rowland
  • Another Award
  • AirUCI Research Profiled
  • Don Blake Profiled
  • Honor for John Hemminger
  • Award for Steve Hanessian
  • Award for Aaron Esser-Kahn
  • Award News
  • Dedication to Teaching
  • Rowland Collection
  • Chem Safety Training
  • New Faculty Member
  • Overman Honored
  • Chemistry Alumnus Killed in Action
  • Honor for Scott Rychnovsky
  • Award for Steve Hanessian
  • Department of Chemistry wins 2011 Green Commute Award
  • Rowland Library Exhibit
  • Dr. Megan Sassin and Professor Annaliese Franz to receive Rising Star award
  • Congratulations to our outstanding graduate students!
  • Professor Wilson Ho is the recipient of the 2011 Medard W. Welch award
  • Professor Reg Penner named UCI Chancellor's Professor
  • Congratulations to 2011 Lauds and Laurels Alumni recipient David Mac Millan
  • Larry Overman receives UCI Medal
  • UCI Chemistry teachers Honored
  • Leah Cleary chosen to participate in 2011 Abbott Scholars Symposium
  • Congratulations to Aurora Pribram-Jones
  • Congratulations NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipients
  • Congratulations to grad Nicole Richards
  • Victor Mak receives ACS Research Fellowship.
  • Professor Chris Vanderwal named Chancellor's Fellow
  • Karl Bedke wins the Hal Moore Award for Achievement in Organic Chemistry.
  • Jeff Cannon receives Bristol-Myers Squibb Minority Fellowship Award
  • Jessica Arter selected to attend prestigious Lindau meeting of Nobel Laureates and young researchers
  • Fool's gold catches eye of solar energy researchers
  • Matthew Beaver first recipient of the Award for Outstanding Thesis Defense in Organic Chemistry
  • Can artificial antibodies fight real diseases?
  • The annual UCI-Pfizer Symposium on Organic Synthesis will be held at the Beckman Center.
  • Irwin (Ernie) Rose receives Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation

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Understanding degradation in two state-of-the-art metal chalcogenide battery electrodes
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Research Highlights

Sophia Xu from the Dong Lab is first author of JACS publication "Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Hydroacylation: Racemization by Soft Enolization"
Recent Graduate Liz Diessner, has released their first-authored paper "Production of Distinct Fibrillar, Oligomeric, and Other Aggregation States from Network Models of Multibody Interaction"
Professor Ann Marie Carlton's article was selected to be featured as an ACS Editors' Choice in addition to being published in Environmental Science & Technology
PhD Student Dorothy Huang's article selected as editor's choice in the Journal of Chemical Physics
Design of an Anti-HMGB1 Synthetic Antibody for In Vivo Ischemic/Reperfusion Injury Therapy
Professor Finkeldei and Serva Energy team up to produce cancer-fighting Ac-225
Mechanism of Native American ataxia plant extract medicines revealed by a joint experimental and computational study
A year in the life of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease
Going Big on Protein Aggregation with Networks
Shiraiwa group Science publication on indoor air chemistry highlighted in C&E News
Martin Group publishes Deamidation of the human eye lens protein γS-crystallin accelerates oxidative aging
Shea group's research in HNP for sepsis therapy featured in Nature Communications
Journal of Chemical Physics features work of Prof. Mukamel and postdoc Shahaf Asban
Martin Lab produces Sequence Characterization and Molecular Modeling of Clinically Relevant Variants of the SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease
UCI-led research on health effects of indoor air quality takes on new urgency
Tobias Group Publishes in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
Structural evidence for a dynamic metallocofactor during N2 reduction by Mo-nitrogenase
Shea group publishes paper on "An Abiotic Mimic of Endogenous Tissue Inhibitors of Metalloproteinases" in JACS
Martin Lab Publishes Paper on Divalent Cations and the Divergence of βγ-Crystallin Function
Connecting the Dots: Law Group shows how quantum dots fuse to form 3D single-crystalline superlattices.
Law Group breaks it down with ozone, repeats.
Nano-Confinement Affects Molecules’ Acidity - Ardo Group
Jarvo lab publishes paper on mechanism of stereospecific nickel-catalyzed reactions
Martin Group publishes paper on Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS)
The Prescher research group recently published a paper in Organic Letters on a new bioorthogonal reaction
The Blake group conducts an air sampling project in Shreveport, Louisiana
Shea Lab reports polymer nanoparticle for protein capture
Guan Lab discovers how to reshape and recycle thermosets
Dima Fishman and friends see exciton transition in atoms
Collaboration (Burke lab) puts right spin on Fe(II) complexes
Tsai and Vanderwal labs insight into polyketide synthase
Gorodesky Group creates material invisible to infared
Lauren Fleming (Blake/Nizkorodov) shows Indian stoves emit N-organics
DOE highlights Guan lab's bioinspired materials design
Martin lab makes discoveries about the Heliconius Butterfly
Two papers from Murray Group are PCCP HOT Articles
Martin lab designed and constructed first quadruple-resonance probe
Ardo lab closer to understanding and mimicking natural photosynthesis
Grad Collin Rathbun (Prescher lab) identifies bioluminescent tools
Grad William White (Ardo Group) converts light into ionic power
Halogen bond windmill from Ho lab
Burke alumni get excited
Ardo group drive proton pump with vis light
Bent bonds of cubane from Doedens and Fleischer
Efficient energy transfer in molecular-nanocrystal hybrid
Organic particles more often beads than liquids in air (Shiraiwa grp)
Shea group engineers polymer nanoparticle with affinity for VEGF 165
Martin and Butts labs investigate Cape sundew
Reducing CO2 with Sc(II) in Evans - Furche collaboration
Martin lab characterizes Ca2+ binding protein from Ciona intestinalis.
Mechanically controlled radical polymerization initiated by ultrasound
Yang group's studies of stable molecular catalyst on cover of JACS
Mukamel lab extends nonlinear spectroscopy to ultrafast X-rays
Shiraiwa group quantifies chemistry of air pollutants on oxidative lung stress
Murray Group finds new sink for Criegee intermediates in polluted air
Martin & Butts labs sequence Drosera capensis genome!
Amtawong (Janda lab) measures clathrate hydrate formation
Smith group find new pathways for atmospheric aerosol growth
Mukamel group propose photochemistry in optical cavity
Gel electrolyte from Penner lab confers immortality for nanowires
Resistance of eye lens proteins explained by Martin's lab in JACS
Criegee intermediate between Murray's measurements and Gerber's theory
New velocity-map ion imaging study from Murray group
Evan's group see largest ever mag moments in monometallic complex
Nizkorodov and friends study effects of viscosity on organic aerosols
Solar hydrogen production research requires standard protocols
Ardo Group review solar-driven water splitting (x3)
Don Blake and friends study CH4 from Aliso Canyon
Martens' quantum hops generalize classical probability
Synthesis of (+)-fastigiatine by Rychnovsky group
Mukamel grp has new method to detect nuclear/electronic motion
Does Strong Guest-Host H-bonding Exist in Clathrate Hydrates?
New dendritic bolaamphiphiles from...
Surface enzyme chemistries for ...
New method from Jarvo lab...
A good month for the Prescher lab...
Chiral Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity: Selective Membrane Permeation of Enantiomers.
Prescher group builds caged Luciferin
New bioorthogonal reagents
Self-healing helped by Neighboring Groups
Water mobility and protein dynamics
Grad student solves 50-year old problem
Brown Carbon 101
Visualizing Cell Proximity
Carbon bond scrambler
Cataracts in Antarctic fish?
Photodegradation of environmental toxins
Direct Correlation of Single Molecules and Bulk Properties
Electrodeposited Nanophotonics
Efficient Chiral Amine Synthesis
Seeing single molecule vibrations with Raman spectroscopy
Nanocone Arrays
Density corrected DFT
Hanessian Organic Synthesis Book
Medicinal Chemistry Book
Orthogonal DNA Replication
New Mass Spec Book
Binding of Human αB-Crystallin to a Cataract-Related Variant of γS-Crystallin
How Ca regulates water conduction in membranes
Isomeric Cyclopropenes with Unique Reactivity
Lanthanide Oxidation States
Green Strategy for Construction of Tertiary Stereocenters
Detecting cancer in urine
Clathrate Prediction
Parasites beware
Using Kidney Bean Leaves to Learn How to Trap Bed Bugs
Dendronized polypeptide carrier for safe and effective siRNA delivery
Cover for Craig Martens
Cover article for Sergey Nizkorodov
New Total Synthesis
On-Chip Biosynthesis of Protein Microarrays
Cyclopropenes As Chemical Reporters
Quantitation without calibration
DFT tutorial on cover of IJQC
Quantitative measurements in environmental mixtures with Nano-DESI
Protein Folding and Granular Jamming
Human Aptamers
JOC celebrates Prof Hanessian's receipt of ACS Guenther Award with special cover and perspective article.
Effective polymer healing by olefin metathesis
Ultrafast Time-Resolved X-ray Diffraction Work
Core-Shell Gold-MnO2 Nanowires
Most accurate density functional ever created
RNA Aptamer Microarrays
Stiff & autonomous self-healing polymers
Understanding time-dependent quantum mechanics
Nanocircuits for Single Molecule Enzymology
Single Hydrophobic Nanopores
Terbium Based Single Molecule Magnet
Up-Armored Nanocrystals
Found in Translation
Clouds as Photochemical Reactors
Palladium-catalyzed method for heterocycle synthesis
Lights... Camera... Chemistry!
New method for calculating electronic structure
Total Synthesis of Pactamycin
Improved electron affinities from DFT
High Resolution Mass Spectrometry for Chemical Analysis
A synthesis of strychnine by a longest linear sequence of six steps
Gymnastics in DNA
Pyrite Nanocrystal Inks for Solar Cells
Stereospecific Alkyl-Alkyl Cross-Coupling Reactions
Chemistry Caught on Camera
Expanding the useful temperature range of NMR alignment media
Cascade Chain Walking to Synthesize Large Molecular Nanoparticles
Plastic Antibodies
Atmospheric toaster: reactions between organics and ammonia create climate-changing brown aerosol
Fungal Claisen Cyclase Visualized
Poly(Protein) with Exceptional Mechanical Stability
Membrane Protein Structure, Including the Membrane
Two Metals Are Better Than One
Ribozymes everywhere
Molecular Origami of a Moldy Toxin
New Oxidation State of Dinitrogen
Umpolung Amination
Sheding Light on Organometallic Reactions
2D IR Spectroscopy and MD Simulation Sensitively Reveals Subtle Differences between Helical Structures
How Short is Too Short?
Characterization of Electrodeposited Gold and Palladium Nanowire Gratings with Optical Diffraction Measurements
A Biomimetic Modular Polymer with Tough and Adaptive Properties
Spatial Distribution of Nitrate and Nitrite Anions at the Liquid/Vapor Interface of Aqueous Solutions
Proteins and proteomics: life on the surface
Two Metals Are Better Than One
A New Strategy for Probing Single Helical Turn Formation
Pulling ions to the edge: Enhanced surface chemistry in chloride-nitrate ion mixtures
Cheating the Diffraction Limit: Electrodeposited Nanowires Patterned by Photolithography
Microarray methods for protein biomarker detection
Dynamics of proton recombination with NO3- anion in water clusters
Critical Size for Intra-Cluster Proton-Transfer from Water to an Anion
The onset of 310-helical secondary structure
The Active Ingredient: Oxidative Formation of Aryl Diazenes
The Promise of Phage Display: Customized Affinity and Specificity
Seeing is Believing: Single Palladium Complexes
Polyketide ring mystery solved
Coupled protein and water dynamics: what a coincidence!
Chemistry professors discuss ion effects in Science paper
Phosphatase Activation by an Inhibitor Analog
Nanoprecipitation-induced current oscillations in a single nanopore
Tubular self-embracing tripeptide superstructures with the same sense of chirality as the folded arms of Foyatier's Spartacus
Chemistry and Biology of the Aeruginosin Family of Serine Protease Inhibitors
Polymorphism in Br2 Clathrate Hydrates
Bimetallic Catalysis in the Synthesis of Highly Substituted Olefins
Spherical, Monodisperse, Functional Bridged Polysilsesquioxane Nanoparticles
Umpolung Allylation Reactions
Novel Cyclophane Catalyst for Valuable Materials
Interfacial Velocity-Dependent Plasmon Damping in Colloidal Metallic Nanoparticles
A New Class of Macrocyclic Receptors
Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Photoactive Yellow Protein (PYP): Theory and Experiment of Intermediates of the Photocycle
Single Molecule Circuits for Chemical Biology
Structure-Based Organic Synthesis of Drug Prototypes
Structure and Chemistry of Aqueous Interfaces
Organic Aerosol Particles Chewed up by Sunlight
Surface Enzyme Chemistry and SPR Imaging
Virus Electrodes for Universal Biodection
Proteins, Pronto
Protein Recognition
Shotgun Scanning
New Annulation Reaction
ACS 40th Western Regional Meeting
Saccharide-peptide hybrid copolymers as highly functional biomaterials
Theoretical and spectroscopic studies of the structure of the surfaces of aqueous electrolyte solutions
Surfaces of Ionic Solutions Differ from the Bulk

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