Department News
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Thank you to all who helped make the 4th Cyclic Voltammetry Boot Camp such a success!
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UNC Chemistry appoints James Cahoon as New Department of Chemistry Chair and thanks outgoing Chair Wei You for his service.
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The new technique holds significant promise for enhancing the properties of polymers, which are essential in numerous industrial applications.
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UNC Research Core Facilities are shared services that enhance and expand the collaborative capabilities of Carolina’s research enterprise.
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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.
Research
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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.
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Herein, we disclose a backbone rearrangement approach to tune the short-chain branching of polymers.
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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.