2022-11-30 - In this study led by Professor Jonathan Sweedler, researchers used pancreatic islets from healthy human donors, prediabetic patients, and patients who had Type 2 diabetes to learn more about how pancreatic cells communicate with each other.

2022-11-18 - A new study led by Qian Chen, an Illinois professor of materials science and engineering and chemistry, applies a new electron microscopy technique, called four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy, that allows a highly focused probe to collect images of the inner workings of batteries. The research team includes Paul Braun, an affiliate professor of chemistry, and Andrew Gewirth...

2022-11-17 - A group of Illinois researchers including chemistry professor Martin Burke, affiliate professor Charles Schroeder, chemistry postdoctoral researcher Vandana Rathore, and chemistry graduate student Nicholas Angello led an international team that combined powerful artificial intelligence and a molecule-making machine to find the best conditions for automated complex chemistry.

2022-11-07 - The annual fall conference features oral and poster presentations highlighting the research of undergraduate students in the chemical sciences at UIUC and other institutions and also features keynote speaker Jennifer Tasneem, career services coordinator for the School of Chemical Sciences at UIUC.

2022-11-07 - Illinois chemistry researchers developed an NIR light-activated nanogel that delivered a powerful chemotherapy drug to breast cancer tumors in mice with a high degree of accuracy and significantly shrunk the tumor without damaging surrounding healthy tissue.

2022-11-01 - Michael Pence, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry working under Professor Joaquín Rodríguez-López, uses microfabricated devices to measure electrochemical dynamics, both at the electrode surface and in solution. He presented his research at the Beckman Institute Graduate Student Seminar.

2022-10-25 - A gift from Dr. T.M. (Terry) Balthazor (PhD, '75) ensures the future of the Balthazor-Senter Symposium on Frontiers in Organic Chemistry will continue and a separate gift ensures that early career professors in chemistry have funding to launch their initial research projects.

2022-10-20 - Jain was elected by the APS Division of Chemical Physics (DCP) “for the development of plasmonic semiconductors and the use of plasmons to drive simultaneous multielectron reduction reactions with chemical specificity.” Jain is one of three at UIUC elected a Fellow of APS.

2022-10-17 - Dr. Martin D. Burke, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of chemistry and of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Election to NAM “is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine," according to the academy announcement.

2022-10-06 - Professor Nick Jackson leads the initiative that includes a summer research experience for undergraduate students and a new class for undergraduate and graduate students to learn how to "do" machine learning and data science in the context of chemistry, chemical engineering, and materials science applications.

2022-10-06 - Those on the Top 40 Under 40 Power List for 2022 were nominated by Analytical Scientist readers and shortlisted by an independent panel of judges.

2022-10-03 - Damien Guironnet, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and chemistry at Illinois, and Susannah Scott, a professor of sustainable catalytic processing at UC Santa Barbara, are co-lead authors on a new study detailing a process to turn polyethylene into propylene, which can then be used to make a new polymer.

2022-10-04 - ​​​​​​​The UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Georgia, Gregory H. Robinson and his research teams have made groundbreaking discoveries studying problems related to structure and bonding in organometallic compounds, specifically the synthesis, stabilization and structure of compounds with multiple bonds between heavier main group elements.

2022-09-26 - In a study led by Xing Wang, research associate professor of chemistry, tiny nets woven from DNA strands cover the spike proteins of the virus that causes COVID-19 and give off a glowing signal enabling a fast-yet-sensitive diagnostic test and opening up new possibilities that could lead to antiviral treatment.

2022-06-14 - As the 2021-22 academic year comes to a close, the School of Chemical Sciences and the Department of Chemistry have recognized a group of faculty members, faculty instructors and graduate students for their commitment to excellence in the classroom this past year. And another group of faculty and graduate students were ranked excellent on evaluations by the students in their classroom. 2021-2022...