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Study Finds Protein Stability in Cells a Complex Balance of Repulsion and Attraction

In their study, the UNC team focused on just one kind of protein called GB1, a small, well-studied globular protein often used as a model.

NSF Honoree Blends Chemistry, Environmental Passion in Bid to Find Nanoplastics

Haley Jostes' proposal is setting the stage for future studies on how these plastics might affect human health.

Kara Joseph Wins NSF Fellowship for Research on PFAS in Marine Mammal Milk

Ph.D. chemistry candidate Kara Joseph has won the 2025 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Toxic Shine: Floor Waxing Releases Dangerous Chemicals into the Air, Study Finds

A UNC study revealed that each application of floor wax brought a new burst of toxic emissions.

The Hidden Afterlife of Antidepressants: How UNC’s Emily Crawford Tracks Drugs in North Carolina’s Waterways

Emily Crawford is pioneering a multidimensional approach to quantify antidepressants in North Carolina’s waterways.

UNC Scientists Transform Chemicals from Oil Refinery Waste into Compounds for Anesthetics, Antidepressants

Chemists in the Johnson Lab convert chemicals from petroleum waste into compounds for study as anesthetics and antidepressants.

UNC Chemists Develop Light-Powered Method to Build Key Drug Molecules Faster

UNC chemists have developed a faster, more flexible way to build an important class of molecules used in many prescription drugs.

Chemistry Student Honored at ACS Symposium for Pioneering Plastic Recycling Research

Ph.D. student Eliza Neidhart's research offers a new, chemical solution that could change how we reuse plastic.

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.

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