Professor Landes is being recognized with this Biophysical Society award for "exciting developments of single molecule measurement techniques, and their application to chemical and biological systems such as polymers and ion channels."
BTN Documentary: "The New Normal"A Big Ten Network documentary details the 2020 journey of researchers from various disciplines across the University of Illinois campus, including the Department of Chemistry, to create a fast and inexpensive COVID-19 test to ensure that students, faculty and staff could remain safe and healthy during the pandemic.
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Latest ResearchChemistry researchers conduct cutting-edge research in a variety of areas
Anisotropic ArtThis false colored transmission electron microscopy image of gold nanorods was selected a finalist in the SCS Science Image Challenge and was submitted by chemistry graduate student Nathan Forney in the Murphy Lab.
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Discovering natural products with speedGraduate students and postdoctoral researcher explain their interdisciplinary, collaborative project that integrates AI and machine learning with automation.
The National Science Foundation grant will support a research team that includes Illinois chemistry Prof. Prashant Jain. They will develop new materials to separate and recover rare-earth elements and platinum group metals from waste streams of U.S. mines.
The pair are recipients of the 2024 Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry, which recognizes outstanding graduate students and their preceptors in the field of chemistry.
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- A group of undergraduate and graduate students joined Tepora Su'a, assistant director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Chemical Sciences, to represent the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biomolecular Engineering at UIUC during the National Organization for the Professional...
- A fourth-year chemistry PhD student in Prof. Paul Braun's group, Carlos Juarez-Yescas is focusing his scientific curiosity on improving solid state batteries and becoming an experienced mentor by volunteering in three undergraduate mentoring programs in the Department of Chemistry.
- A $30 million NSF grant supports the new center at the Beckman Institute, where Zaida Luthey-Schulten and Martin Gruebele will lead team members, who also include chemistry professors Angad Mehta and Mikael Backlund, in creating whole-cell models to transform our understanding of how cells function.
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Professor Yankwich was internationally recognized for his contributions to three fields of scientific research: the chemical effects of nuclear transformations, the application of radiocarbon tracers to the elucidation of chemical reaction mechanisms, and isotope mass effects on chemical reaction rates. His principal contribution was a long series of experimental and theoretical studies of isotope rate effects.
Research Areas in Chemistry
- Analytical Chemistry
- Chemical Biology
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Materials Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry
- Physical Chemistry
