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Participants complete 4th Cyclic Voltammetry Boot Camp

Group of people in lab coats standing in the middle of a lab featuring glove boxes and other laboratory equipment. The photo angle implies that the photographer was standing on a chair above the participants.

Thank you to all who helped make the 4th Cyclic Voltammetry Boot Camp such a success!

Appointment of James Cahoon as New Department of Chemistry Chair

UNC Chemistry appoints James Cahoon as New Department of Chemistry Chair and thanks outgoing Chair Wei You for his service.

Pieri Lab Seeking to Perfect a Light-Emitting Protein for Peering Inside Live Tissues

Utilizing advanced computer simulations, the Pieri Lab is making significant strides in designing better biosensors and understanding new light-based reactions.

Potential solar cell material can be both hard and insulating - Article featured on C&EN

Pyramid-shaped inorganic layers of a hybrid perovskite thin film are joined by organic ligands, some with carbon chains and some with benzene rings.

2D hybrid perovskite breaks the usual correlation between properties

Novel Method for Modifying Polymers Holds Promise for Innovation in Materials Design

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The new technique holds significant promise for enhancing the properties of polymers, which are essential in numerous industrial applications.

Research at its core

UNC Research Core Facilities are shared services that enhance and expand the collaborative capabilities of Carolina’s research enterprise.

A UNC-CH Course Recently Received the UNC System’s Prestigious Undergraduate Research Program Award

In an effort to redesign the Chemistry Department’s Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE), Dr. Jade Fostvedt, in collaboration with the Chemistry Department’s Dr. Michel Gagné, Dr. Jillian Dempsey, and Dr. Kathleen Nevins, set out to create a new project for CHEM 550L, a capstone synthetic chemistry laboratory course, and the proposed course was one of the recipients of the UNC Systems Research Program Award.

Department of Chemistry Announces 2024 Faculty Promotions

The Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce the promotion of...

Research

Fluorescence shadow imaging of Hypsibius exemplaris reveals morphological differences between sucrose- and CaCl2-induced osmobiotes

Herein, an approach for discriminating between tardigrade morphological states is developed and utilized to compare sucrose- and CaCl2-induced tuns, using the model species Hypsibius exemplaris.

Architectural Editing of Polyesters and Polyurethanes via Palladium(II)-Catalyzed [3,3]-Sigmatropic Oxo-Rearrangements

Herein, we disclose a backbone rearrangement approach to tune the short-chain branching of polymers.

Reductive Dynamic and Static Excited State Quenching of a Homoleptic Ruthenium Complex Bearing Aldehyde Groups

A new homoleptic Ru polypyridyl complex bearing two aldehyde groups on each bipyridine ligand, [Ru(dab)3](PF6)2, where dab is 4,4′-dicarbaldehyde-2,2′-bipyridine, was synthesized, characterized, and utilized for iodide photo-oxidation studies.

Valence can control the nonexponential viscoelastic relaxation of multivalent reversible gels

Here, we propose a model where the relaxation of polymer gels in the dilute regime originates from elementary events in which the bonds connecting two neighboring cross-linkers all disconnect.