Transformative. Iconic. Chemistry. Opening in 1999, the Chemistry Building was the first UConn building to be built as part of the 10-year UConn 2000 initiative, a series of 85 capital projects across UConn’s campuses. This iconic campus landmark marked the beginning of an amazing transformation of the Storrs campus. In these years, the Department has […]
Faculty News
UConn Chemist Receives NIH Grant to Synthesize Molecule for UTI Research
The process of developing a treatment for any infection or disease is long and arduous, and it often involves finicky samples and a lot of unknowns. But sometimes that process can be helped along with a little chemistry between different scientific fields of study. Researchers working on developing a more effective treatment for infections would […]
Pinkhassik Group on cover of Chemical Communications
A paper from the Pinkhassik Group was featured on the cover of Chemical Communications. Drs. Sergey Dergunov and Eugene Pinkhassik — working with collaborators from Saint Louis University — uncovered evidence for freely diffusing ground-state atomic oxygen, an elusive species whose existence in solution was proposed by never proven. This study used hollow porous nanocapsules […]
Remembering Professor Ulrich T. Mueller-Westerhoff Ph.D.
Dear Colleagues and Students, With sadness I must report news about one of our colleagues. Emeritus Professor Ulrich T. Mueller-Westerhoff, Ph.D., passed away after a brief illness on January 30, 2019 in Storrs, CT. He was born in Wuppertal, Germany, and grew up in Austria and Germany. After studies in chemistry at the Universities in […]
A Better Way to Make Acrylics
Acrylics are an incredibly diverse and useful family of chemicals used in all kinds of products, from diapers to nail polish. Now, a team of researchers from UConn and ExxonMobil describe a new process for making them. The new method would increase energy efficiency and reduce toxic byproducts, they report in the Feb. 8 issue […]
Artificial Skin Could Give Superhuman Perception
A new type of sensor could lead to artificial skin that someday helps burn victims ‘feel’ and safeguards the rest of us, University of Connecticut researchers suggest in a forthcoming paper in Advanced Materials. Our skin’s ability to perceive pressure, heat, cold and vibration is a critical safety function that most people take for granted. But […]
Art at the Mall
On December 18, 2018, The Chronicle featured Kumar Group’s NanoArt display at the Windham Regional Art Gallery. The front-page article, “Art at the Mall,” highlighted the Jumar Group’s display, as well as the work of other local artists. The NanoArt collection showcases colored electron microscope images that capture proteins in a new light. “The art […]
International Space Station Research Aims to Treat Blindness
On Tuesday, December 4th, a product of a UConn Chemistry start-up will be launching into space on the SpaceX CRS-16! With the support of a 2016 MassChallenge CASIS/Boeing Award, a retinal implant developed by LambdaVision will be the subject of research conducted by the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory. As the ISS orbits […]
A Copper Bullet for Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is a sneaky disease. The bacteria hide from antibiotics inside the very immune cells that are supposed to kill them, making treatment long and difficult. But in the November issue of ACS Infectious Diseases, UConn chemists report a new antibiotic that can find and kill tuberculosis bacteria where they hide. Tuberculosis is the number one cause […]
Polymorphism in Benzene-1,3,5- Tricarboxamide Supramolecular Assemblies in Water
Dr. Yao Lin, Associate Professor of Chemistry/Polymer Program, and fellow collaborators were recently published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Below is a description of the research: The control of reaching a specifically designed morphology in supramolecular assembly is one of the key aspects for future success in the area of supramolecular materials, […]