The Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is delighted to announce the promotion of two outstanding faculty members to the rank of Professor, effective January 1, 2026.

The UNC Department of Chemistry is pleased to share that Professor Shubin Liu has been appointed the next editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry (IJQC).

Researchers describe how tardigrades are able to survive in a specific condition, known as osmotic stress.

Chemist Mark Schoenfisch and physicist Otto Zhou were among 185 inductees this year to receive one of the most prestigious distinctions awarded to inventors worldwide.

Happy Holidays! We are pleased to present our Winter 2025 Alumni Magazine.  

Two scientists at UNC-Chapel Hill, Gary Pielak and Brian Kuhlman, have received a $1 million Science and Engineering Research Award from the W.M. Keck Foundation to study AI-designed proteins.

When James Custer arrived at UNC-Chapel Hill to begin his Ph.D. in chemistry, he didn’t know he was about to launch a career that would take him from high-stakes scientific discovery to global clean energy negotiations.

Will Hemmingson, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemistry, presented his team’s latest work: a particle suspension reactor that uses sunlight, silicon nanowires and clever chemistry to make carbon dioxide reduction more efficient, affordable and durable than previous designs. 

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.