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2005-02-28 - Photo by Kwame Ross"A lot of work in nanotechnology has been directed toward the bottom-up imposition of patterns onto materials," said Steve Granick, a professor of materials science, chemistry and physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "We found that beautiful patterns...

2005-02-22 - Professor Huimin Zhao will be one of the recipients of the Xerox Award for Faculty Research, UIUC College of Engineering for 2005. He is also a Beckman Fellow, in the Center for Advanced Study for 2005-2006

2005-02-22 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -Using high-intensity ultrasound, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created hollow nanospheres and the first hollow nanocrystals. The nanospheres could be used in microelectronics, drug delivery and as catalysts for making environmentally friendly fuels."We use high-intensity ultrasound to generate nanoparticles of molybdenum disulfide or...

2005-02-11 - Professor Chad Rienstra and his research group, working in collaboration with scientists from Varian, Inc., have developed a new and revolutionary design for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probes used to determine the molecular structures of proteins and other biomolecules in the solid state. Many protein samples are best isolated in the presence of salts, but the presence of these salts leads...

2005-01-21 - Professor of materials science and engineering and chemistry John Rogers and collaborators published significant work on polymer nanoimprint lithography in the December issue of Nano Letters. (UIUC News Bureau article)

2004-12-31 - The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign is to be the home of a new National Institute of Drug Abuse Neuroproteomics Center on Cell-Cell Signaling run by Jonathan V. Sweedler (Director of the Biotechnology Center, Bioengineering, Chemistry) as Director and Principle Investigator, with Neil Kelleher (Chemistry, Bioengineering) and Sandra Rodriguez-Za (Animal Science, Bioengineering) as co-...

2004-12-31 - Professor Paul Kelter will officially become a Fellow of the AAAS on February 19, 2005 in Washington, D.C. during the AAAS Fellows Forum. He is being honored for "energetic and effective leadership in chemical education, both at the college and high school levels, for excellence in teaching, and for daring to believe that all students can learn."Election as a Fellow of the AAAS, a distinction...

2004-12-06 - Emad Tajkhorshid and Professor Klaus Schulten won the 2004 Visualization Challenge, Illustration category, awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their image of the complex machinery a cell uses to exchange...

2004-11-15 - Professor Paul Hergenrother's research group is developing a new method for combating antibiotic resistance in bacteria. (UIUC News Bureau article) The News Gazette,...

2004-11-12 - Photo by Kwame RossChemistry professor Paul Hergenrother, second from right, and graduate students, from left, Jason R. Thomas, Johna C.B. DeNap and Dinty J. Musk have discovered a new approach to outwit resistance to antibiotics. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —A new approach to outwit resistance to antibiotics has been discovered by a team of researchers at the University of Illinois at...

2004-10-28 - The microfluidic fuel cell research of Professor Ralph Nuzzo's group was highlighted in the October issue of Today's Chemist at Work. The article summarized their work which was recently published in Langmuir, 2004, 20(17), 6974-6976. Update, Today's Chemist at Work (pdf)

2004-10-14 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Thom H. Dunning Jr. today was named director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, pending approval of the university's board of trustees.Dunning officially will assume his new position shortly after Jan. 1, 2005. He also has been recommended for an endowed position as Distinguished Chair for Research Excellence...

2004-09-24 - Professor Dana Dlott and colleagues had an article published in Science Express Web describing their research monitoring the energy flow through molecules. "At Molecular Scale, Vibrational Couplings Define Heat Conduction," UIUC News Bureau, 9/23/2004....

2004-09-23 - Photo by Kwame RossFrom left, graduate student Yoonsoo Pang, chemistry professor Dana Dlott and postdoctoral research associate Zhaohui Wang worked with colleagues at the University of Scranton to time the flow of vibrational heat energy through a water-surfactant-organic solvent system. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -Too much heat can destroy a sturdy automobile engine or a miniature...

2004-09-16 - Faculty member featured in LASNews - Kenneth Suslick - "Molecules Are His Medium"