Department News

After earning her Ph.D. in analytical chemistry, Jennifer McCafferty launched a career that would span nearly three decades at Merck and GlaxoSmithKline.

Frank Leibfarth’s trailblazing work on PFAS and upcycling plastics has earned him the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists in the chemical sciences category.

When perovskites are hit with light, they can form “polar states” that last an unusually long time—up to microseconds, or millionths of a second.

Researchers, including Charles Reece Teeples, have discovered a new way to make two rare molecular shapes more easily and with more design flexibility.
Research

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.
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