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Chemist receives prestigious prize for early-career researchers
Frank Leibfarth in a suit, in front of a Carolina Blue background that is reminiscent of water.

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.

Professors Help Flip the Script on Chemistry Education with Atoms-First Textbook

Carribeth Bliem and Anna Curtis contributed important insights to the fourth edition of Chemistry: An Atoms-Focused Approach.

Chemists Can Discover New Materials More Quickly With AI

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a new approach to create better rubber-like materials more quickly by combining artificial intelligence with human expertise.

Researchers Uncover Unusually Long-lived 'Polar States' in Promising Solar Materials

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.

Chemists Unlock Route to Tiny Molecular Shapes That Could Power Next-Gen Medicines

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

Next Time You Crack Open a Cold One, Forever Chemicals Could Be Lurking, Researcher Warns

Ashlee Falls presented her work at the ASMS conference, focusing on how to accurately measure PFAS in beer brewed around the world.

UNC Chemistry Alum Turns Molecular Insights into Benefits for P&G Consumers

As as a senior scientist in P&G’s Baby, Feminine and Family Care Analytical division, Lauren McRae uses a problem-solving mindset to transform everyday products.

UNC Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Study How Algal Blooms Cause Air Pollution

UNC researchers will study tiny airborne particles smaller than the width of a human hair and linked to asthma, heart disease and other serious health problems.

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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