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2007-12-31 - The inventors of self-healing plastic have come up with another invention: a new way of doing chemistry.

2007-12-31 - The next generation of self-healing materials, invented by researchers at the University of Illinois, mimics human skin by healing itself time after time.

2007-12-31 - Dr. Jeffrey Moore and coworkers have developed a fundamentally different way of initiating or accelerating a reaction. In the March 22 issue of Nature (Volume 446 Number 7134 page 423) they report the use of force to deform reacting molecules along a specific direction of the reaction coordinate. You may watch on-line videos of the investigators describing their ground breaking work, download a...

2007-12-31 - Paul C. Lauterbur, University of Illinois professor of chemistry who was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2003 for his pioneering work in the development of magnetic resonance imaging, died March 27, 2007 at his home in Urbana, Ill. Lauterbur was 77 years old.

2007-12-31 - Professor Paul J. Hergenrother of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently chosen to receive the 2008 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry. This award is granted: "For outstanding research in biological chemistry of unusual merit and independence of thought and originality. This award recognizes Professor Hergenrother's application of chemical principles to the...

2007-12-31 - The National Institutes of Health has awarded $7 million to a team of researchers from the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin to discover, engineer and produce a promising – yet little explored – class of antibiotic agents.

2007-12-31 - Like navigating spacecraft through the solar system by means of gravity and small propulsive bursts, researchers can guide atoms, molecules and chemical reactions by utilizing the forces that bind nuclei and electrons into molecules (analogous to gravity) and by using light for propulsion.

2007-12-31 - Professor John Hartwig of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently chosen to receive the 2008 Paul N. Rylander Award from the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society. Hartwig was recognized for developing a series of catalytic reactions for organic syn-thesis, including palladium-catalyzed aminations of haloarenes, palladium-catalyzed α-arylation of...

2007-12-31 - Professor John Hartwig of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently awarded the 2007 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences - Chemistry.

2007-12-31 - Professor M. Christina White of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois was recently awarded the 2007 Eli Lilly Grantee Award. The award comes with a two-year unrestricted research grant in the amount of $100,000. As part of the award, White will give a lecture at the 14th biennial Lilly Grantee Symposium to be held in Indianapolis in early March of 2010.

2007-12-31 - One of the fundamental challenges facing organic synthesis in the 21st century is the need to significantly increase the efficiency with which carbon frameworks can be constructed and functionalized.

2007-12-31 - Dr. M. Christina White and Mark Chen's recent research paper regarding aliphatic C-H oxidation has been selected as a top ten breakthrough of the year in science by Science Magazine.

2007-12-31 - Christina White and grad student Kenneth J. Fraunhoffer have discovered a way to catalytically convert C-H directly to C-N. Their discoveries are highlighted in a news article in C&E News.

2007-12-31 - In a paper published online this month in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, researchers report that they have developed a way to determine the function of some of the hundreds of thousands of proteins for which amino acid sequence data are available, but whose structure and function remain unknown.

2007-12-31 - Global warming isn’t the only heat scientists are feeling. Another area in which heat flow is becoming crucial is the field of molecular electronics, where long-chain molecules attached to tiny electrodes are used to transport and switch electrons.