2021-05-21 - A study led by Paul Braun, Ivan Racheff Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Professor of Chemistry, and postdoctoral research associate Beniamin Zahiri, and John Cook with Xerion Advanced Battery Corp. demonstrates how control over the atomic alignment of solid materials can improve the cathode-solid electrolyte interface and stability in solid-state batteries.

2021-05-21 - A research team, led by Huimin Zhao, a faculty member in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and a professor of chemistry, has developed a new coronavirus test that can get accurate results from a saliva sample in less than 30 minutes using a hand-held device.

2021-05-20 - The St. Elmo Brady's Postdoctoral Inclusive Excellence Symposium begins June 4 with postdoctoral researcher Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez from the University of California, Berkeley, and continues June 11 with Melanie R. McReynolds, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna H. Gray postdoctoral fellow and Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Enrichment Program awardee at Princeton University.

2021-05-19 - Alum Hugo Ong works in the San Francisco area as a healthcare VP Analyst and Associate Portfolio Manager at Allianz Global Investors, a long-only investment firm, with a focus on biotechnology and genomics. He develops and maintains investment ideas within his sector and communicates them to the various portfolio managers across the firm.

2021-05-19 - A total of 62 students comprise this graduate student class (61 PhD candidates and one Master of Science in Teaching Chemistry). That total also includes two student deferrals from Fall 2020. That breaks down to 46 domestic students and 16 international students. This latest class of 62 graduate students includes for the first time ever more women than men and also includes the department's...

2021-05-14 - A team of Beckman researchers that was led by Nancy Sottos and Mayank Garg and included chemistry professor Jeffrey Moore has shortened the manufacturing process of making vascular networks in structural materials by harnessing frontal polymerization of readily available resins.

2021-05-13 - Jefferson Chan and Joaquín Rodríguez-López have received named scholar positions from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences for their contributions in education and research at the University of Illinois.

2021-05-12 - The Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) award is granted to faculty early in their career based on scholarly productivity and contributions to the educational mission of their departments and the College of LAS.

2021-05-06 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign senior Sriyankari Chitti, a chemistry major and undergraduate researcher is one of 76 students to be offered this award from more than 8,000 applicants around the world.

2021-05-05 - The funding will enable researchers to begin screening and designing electron and ion transporting properties of polymers across the chemical genome, which will seed broader efforts in Nick Jackson's research group that are focused on data-driven design across soft materials chemistry.

2021-05-04 - Professor Wilfred van der Donk and other researchers have solved a decades-long mystery of an ‘orphan’ family of proteins called LanCLs that are found in all living organisms but whose function was previously unknown.

2021-05-03 - The annual Illini Success survey again shows that most students graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering secure their first destination after graduation.

2021-04-30 - In a trio of studies, including the most recent by UIUC professor Huimin Zhao, researchers follow up on a 40-year-old finding that certain bacteriophages replace adenine with so-called diaminopurine, perhaps to avoid host degradation.

2021-04-27 - Researchers in Professor Steve Zimmerman's lab are expanding their technique of developing polymeric materials that look and behave like commercial materials, but at the end of their life cycle can quickly be broken down with specific chemicals and repurposed into other useful materials.

2021-04-27 - Ralph Nuzzo and Wilfred van der Donk are among 120 newly elected U.S. members of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest professional honors a scientist can receive.