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Department News

We're hiring: Teaching Assistant Professor

The Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a Teaching Assistant Professor.

On a Personal Mission, Chemistry Student Aims to Transform Dialysis Treatment

While in Dresden, Germany, Ph.D. student Maria Furukawa, center, took a break from her research with the Uhlmann Group to explore a historical fortress.

Maria Furukawa, a Ph.D. candidate in the department of chemistry at the UNC-Chapel Hill, is developing liquid-crystal polymers that could transform the membranes used in hemodialysis, a life-saving treatment for patients with late-stage renal failure.

Last Chance to Register for the Sustainable Energy Research Conference: Future Fuels and Breakthrough Batteries

The Future Fuels and Breakthrough Batteries conference, hosted by UNC Chapel Hill’s Sustainable Energy Research Consortium (SERC), will take place on November 11-12, 2024, at the Friday Conference Center in Chapel Hill, NC. Session topics include Solar to Fuels, Electricity to Fuels, Ammonia and Bio-based Fuels, and Batteries.

Get Ready for the 2024 Pariser-Parr Colloquium

The Pariser and Parr families established the annual Pariser-Parr Lecture to bring some of the most influential scientists in theoretical chemistry to UNC to give students and other early-career researchers an opportunity to learn about cuttingedge research in the field.

New Approach Boosting Polymer Conductivity 100,000 Times Holds Immense Potential for Organic Electronics

Researchers in the Department of Chemistry have introduced a new conjugated polymer, called POET-T2-COOH, that achieves electrical conductivities 100,000 times greater than comparable polymers, marking a leap forward in materials for electronics.

Study: Robotic Automation, AI Will Accelerate Progress in Science Laboratories

Left to right, Dr. Jim Cahoon, chair of the Department of Chemistry; Dr. Ron Alterovitz, Lawrence Grossberg Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science; and Angelos Angelopoulos, a fourth-year graduate student in Dr. Alterovitz’s lab, stand beside their AI-driven mobile robot for automating chemistry lab tasks. (Johnny Andrews/UNC-Chapel Hill)

Science laboratories across disciplines are on the verge of a sweeping transformation as robotic automation and AI lead to faster and more precise experiments that unlock breakthroughs in fields like health, energy and electronics, according to UNC-Chapel Hill researchers

Yosuke Kanai Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Fellowship is a distinct honor signifying recognition by one’s professional peers.

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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.