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2008-12-31 - Steve Granick, Founder Professor of Engineering , and professor of materials science and engineering , of chemistry , of chemical and biomolecular engineering , and of physics , was awarded the Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society.

2008-12-31 - When Pat Jeffries goes to the movies, he can drive people crazy, whispering comments about the film as it plays out on the big screen. However, he's usually not commenting on the plot or the characters. Jeffries is whispering about the color tones. This habit should come as no surprise, for Jeffries was one of the key people who developed the latest line of the world's most popular motion...

2008-12-31 - Ryan C. Bailey was recently awarded a grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust to study changes in cell adhesion that underlie cancer metastasis.

2008-12-31 - Ted Brown is the recipient of the 2008 Harry and Carol Mosher Award from the Santa Clara Valley Section of the American Chemical Society. The Moser award was established in 1980 to recognize and encourage outstanding work in chemistry, to advance chemistry as a profession, and to recognize service to ACS. Previous award winners include Peter Beak and Ernie Eliel.

2008-12-31 - Researchers at the University of Illinois are the first to achieve optical waveguiding of near-infrared light through features embedded in self-assembled, three-dimensional photonic crystals.

2008-12-31 - A simple iron complex made by Roman Boulatov's research team could pave the way for new oxygen reduction catalysts with potential uses in low-temperature fuel cells and may offer an alternative to expensive platinum catalysts currently used.

2008-12-31 - Imagine tiny cracks in your patio table healing by themselves, or the first small scratch on your new car disappearing by itself. This and more may be possible with self-healing coatings being developed at the University of Illinois. The new coatings are designed to better protect materials from the effects of environmental exposure. Applications range from automotive paints and marine varnishes...

2008-12-31 - It takes years of training, experience and chemical ingenuity to be able to make a small complex molecule. A typical natural product might contain a handful of aromatic rings, a stretch of multiple double bonds, and the odd heterocycle, all sprinkled with several chiral centres. Stitching these together in the laboratory is no easy task. In comparison, however, peptides are routinely made by...

2008-12-31 - Two researchers at the University of Illinois – Martin D. Burke and Nicholas X. Fang – have been chosen as two of the world’s 35 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, the world’s oldest technology magazine.

2008-12-31 - Dr. Martin Burke of Chemistry at Illinois has recently been profiled and interviewed by The Scientist Magazine. Read the whole article here.

2008-12-31 - Adding a food additive to damaged polymers can help restore them to full strength, say scientists at the University of Illinois who cooked up the novel, self-healing system.

2008-12-31 - John Katzenellenbogen has received the RSC Centenary Lectureship. "Financed by the Centenary Fund which was founded to celebrate the Centenary of the Chemical Society, for the purpose of promoting interchange of chemists between Britain and overseas countries and of financing the annual appointment of three Centenary Lecturers, who would normally visit a number of centres in the British Isles."...

2008-09-26 - Scientists at the University of Illinois have developed a new class of disposable, microplate-based optical biosensors capable of detecting protein-DNA interactions. Based on the properties of photonic crystals, the biosensors are suitable for the rapid identification of inhibitors of protein-nucleic acid and protein-protein interactions.

2008-08-28 - Paul Hergenrother and Brian Cummings research has recently been reviewed in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemistry World magazine. Read the article here.

2008-08-18 - The White Group's article 'A General and Highly Selective Chelate-Controlled Intermolecular Oxidative Heck Reaction' was in the July 31, 2008 edition of C&E News.