A multi-institutional team of researchers will explore how to manipulate an energetically inexpensive electrostatic charge transfer mechanism to capture and release carbon dioxide.
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A research team, including chemistry professors Emad Tajkhorshid and Paul Hergenrother and PhD student Emily Geddes, invented and tested a new method for determining how chemical compounds interact with proteins in cells. Their approach offers atomic-level insight into the chemical properties that allow some antibiotics to pass through pores in the cell membranes of Gram-negative bacteria.
A research chemist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and President of the American Chemical Society, Cheng (PhD, '74) continues to "see future possibilities" in his research developing green chemistry methodologies related to agro-based materials and using them to produce eco-friendly and sustainable products.
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- Working last summer as a research and development intern with Mediomics, a small biotech start-up company in St. Louis, graduate student Subhendu Pandit discovered how much he enjoys research, design and development as a chemist in the industrial sector.
- Organized by the Department of Chemistry's ACS Women Chemist Committee, this year's annual event will be virtual and feature a poster session, two seminar speakers and a reception for networking opportunities with all seven researchers.
- Professor Jefferson Chan and graduate student Melissa Lucero developed the finely-tuned molecular agent that can seek out elusive lung cancer cells for imaging and treatment — an approach that could be used to target other cancers.
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Herbert Sander Gutowsky's pioneering work made nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy one of the most effective tools in chemical and medical research. Born November 8, 1919, on a produce farm in Bridgman, Michigan, Gutowsky was the son of Otto and Hattie Meyer Gutowsky. He claimed that his childhood experiences taught him the importance of hard work, which carried over to his scientific life. An avid bicyclist and bird-watcher who later became very interested in growing roses, he was a quiet man who focused on science. Gutowsky received a bachelor's degree from Indiana University in 1940,...
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- Inorganic Chemistry
- Materials Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry
- Physical Chemistry
