News

2009-12-31 - Imagine a polka-dotted postage stamp that can sniff out poisonous gases or deadly toxins simply by changing colors. As reported in the Sept. 13 issue of the journal Nature Chemistry, Ken Suslick and his team at the University of Illinois have developed an artificial nose for the general detection of toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) that is simple, fast and inexpensive — and works by...

2009-12-31 - Ken Suslick has received the 2009 Student Council Mentoring Award from the Acoustical Society of America. The ASA Student Council presents this award every 18 months to recognize individuals who have served as exemplary mentors. The Mentoring Award is designed to honor exceptional ability in guiding the academic and/or professional growth of students and junior colleagues. The ASA Student...

2009-12-31 - Rogers, Founder Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, was recognized for his contributions to the science and engineering of unusual materials, patterning techniques and metrology methods for electronic and photonic systems.

2009-12-31 - The Kenneth Suslick research group has created a dispsable colorimetric sensor device that can identify 14 different sugar and artificial sweetener products. A paper describing their work was published in the journal Analytical Chemistry and highlighted in a...

2009-12-31 - Dr. John Rogers' research into the artificial 'bionic' eyes has been reviewed by ABC news. See the report at WJBF News Online.

2009-12-31 - Wilfred van der Donk was selected as the RSC 2009 Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Lecture Award winner in recognition of his contribution to the field of bioorganic chemistry, particularly related to lantibiotics and molecular processes associated with resistance to antibiotics and bacterial infections.

2009-12-31 - The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has recently informed Dr. Alexander Scheeline, a faculty member in the UIUC Department of Chemistry, that he has been selected to receive a 2009 Special Grant in the Chemical Sciences.

2009-12-31 - Scott Silverman, a chemistry professor at Illinois who has done pioneering work with DNA enzymes, hopes that "by capturing Darwinian evolution in new molecules, we might be able to better understand the basic principles of biological evolution," much of which is still somewhat mysterious at the molecular level. To read more...

2009-12-31 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Better tools for manipulating DNA in the laboratory may soon be possible with newly discovered deoxyribozymes (catalytic DNA) capable of cleaving single-stranded DNA, researchers at the University of Illinois say. The deoxyribozymes accomplish the DNA cleavage with the sequence-selectivity and site-selectivity required for a practical catalyst, the researchers say. "Our work...

2009-12-31 - A new process for creating ultrathin, ultrasmall inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and assembling them into large arrays offers new classes of lighting and display systems with interesting properties, such as see-through construction and mechanical flexibility, that would be impossible to achieve with existing technologies. Applications for the arrays, which can be printed onto flat or...

2009-12-31 - Scott Silverman has received the 2009 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry given by the American Chemical Society's Division of Biological Chemistry. Scott will be presented the award (consisting of a bronze medal and honorarium) at the 238th National ACS Meeting in August in Washington D.C. during an awards symposium in his honor. The award was created in 1934 and is intended to stimulate...

2009-12-31 - A new ink developed by researchers at the University of Illinois allows them to write their own silver linings. The ink, composed of silver nanoparticles, can be used in electronic and optoelectronic applications to create flexible, stretchable and spanning microelectrodes that carry signals from one circuit element to another. The printed microelectrodes can withstand repeated bending and...

2009-12-31 - Eric Oldfield, professor of chemistry, was selected for his contributions to biological magnetic resonance, including chemical shift analysis and development of anti-malarial drugs. Read more in the News Bureau article, or see the AAAS website.

2009-12-31 - A team of 24 researchers from the U.S., Europe, Taiwan and Japan and led by University of Illinois scientists has engineered a new anti-cancer agent that is about 200 times more active in killing tumor cells than similar drugs used in recent clinical trials.

2009-12-31 - A team of 24 researchers from the U.S., Europe, Taiwan, and Japan, and led by University of Illinois scientists, has engineered a new anti-cancer agent that is about 200 times more active in killing tumor cells than similar drugs used in recent clinical trials.