Study: Light-driven reaction leads to advanced hybrid nanomaterial

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 Scientists are exploring many ways to use light rather than heat to drive chemical reactions more efficiently, which could significantly reduce waste, energy consumption, and reliance on non-renewable resources.A team of chemistry researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-...

Alumnus Omar Yaghi (PhD, '90) awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry

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  When Nobel laureate Omar M. Yaghi (PhD, '90) was recently asked how he made the choice as a young scientist to pursue the idea of creating porous materials, he talked about two people in his life — his father and Walter Klemperer, his PhD advisor at the University of Illinois Urbana-...

Younger Chemists Committee at Illinois receives 2025 ChemLuminary Award

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 The Younger Chemists Committee (YCC) has received the 2025 ChemLuminary Award for Outstanding Local Section Younger Chemists Committee. This distinction recognizes local section YCCs that demonstrate organizational stability, strong membership and participation, meaningful involvement with...

New lab dedicated in memory of Prof. Peter A. Beak

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 A fully renovated chemistry instructional facility in Noyes Laboratory has officially been dedicated the “Peter Beak Advanced Synthesis Laboratory” in memory of long-time chemistry Professor Peter A. Beak. Family, friends, and former colleagues of Prof. Beak joined university officials,...

Chemistry researchers derive useful polymer material from waste

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 The superior strength and light weight of high-performance carbon and plastic composite materials have reduced the fuel consumption and harmful emissions of automobiles and airplanes and improved the efficiency of electric cars and wind turbine blades. But those same superior qualities make...

Chemistry, ChBE students recognized for Inclusive Leadership

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Two graduate students in the School of Chemical Sciences are recipients of Gender Equity in the Chemical Sciences Inclusive Leadership Awards.This award was created to recognize graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Chemical and...
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