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Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award Fuels Breakthrough on How Proteins Behave Inside Cells

Gary Pielak has received a Distinguished Scholar Fellowship from the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program that will fund a four-month research residency in Israel.

When Microscopes Make Masterpieces at the 2026 Art in Science Competition

In March, stunning images hidden will move out of the lab and into the spotlight during the 2026 Art in Science Competition.

Scientists Develop Implant to Treat Eye Disease Threatening Military Marine Mammals

An unusual collaboration including veterinarians, marine mammal specialists and chemists is treating PCK, a group of eye diseases that affects the surface of the eye, with ocular implants..

Older Forever Chemicals Plunge in Blood Tests as New Replacements Quietly Emerge

In the study, “Evaluating Legacy and Emerging PFAS in Human Blood Collected from 2003 to 2021,” the UNC-led research team wanted to see whether PFAS exposure might be linked to autoimmunediseases.

UNC Chemistry’s Megan Jackson Named a 2026 Cottrell Scholar

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).

Hettleman Prize Winner Lindsey James and the Chemistry That Decides Who We Are

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.

Researchers Use Light to Reshape Molecules in Powerful New Ways

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

UNC Chemists Turn Flat Molecules into Precise 3D Building Blocks for Medicines

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.

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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