The UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Chemistry is pleased to share that Megan Jackson, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, has been selected as a 2026 Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA).

Chemistry Ph.D. graduate Lindsey James is developing chemical tools to study how cells decide which genes to use, when to use them and when to keep them silent.

A paper in the journal Chemical Science shows how researchers have found a powerful new way to rearrange chemical bonds using light.

The UNC team asked whether salicylaldehydes could be used to set a molecule’s shape early on and then carry that information through later steps.

Saba Mahmoodpour is the lead author of a recent Journal of Physical Chemistry paper, which focuses on a powerful new technique called nonlinear photocurrent spectroscopy, or NLPC, which uses pairs of short laser pulses to measure how quickly electrical charges move inside thin-film solar cells.

Ph.D. student Kelvin Idanwekhai is using machine learning to transform how viruses—the microscopic couriers of genetic medicine—are purified, making the process faster, cheaper and more precise.

A team of researchers led by Netz Arroyoa asked themselves whether they could turn antibody testing into something as easy and affordable as checking a person's blood sugar.

The research revealed a strong, direct relationship between the amount of brown carbon in the smoke and how much light the particles absorb, especially at ultraviolet wavelengths.

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.

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

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.

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.