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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.

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.

Netz Arroyo is an expert in creating electrochemical biosensors—tiny, highly sensitive devices that can continuously monitor molecules in the body.