A research team led by Professor Flavio Maran of the University of Padova (Italy), who is also a Research Professor with the Chemistry Department at UConn, reported a breakthrough in the creation of very high quality crystals formed of gold nanoparticles via electrocrytalization. This work was done in collaboration with Professor Kari Rissanen of the University of […]
Superconductivity at 93 K
Adjunct Professor Frank Galasso contributed to the article First-Hand:Discovery of Superconductivity at 93 K in YBCO: The View from Ground Zero, which attempts to unravel the complicated history of superconductors. Read more here >>>
ACS Honors its 50-Year Members
The American Chemical Society and its local sections are honoring those who have reached 50 years of membership in 2017. Lecturer Emerita Jane Knox has been recognized for her ACS membership.
Dr. Kumar Developing Opensource Textbook
Dr. Challa Kumar has received additional funding from CLAS and the Department of Chemistry to supplement the Provost’s Open Education Resources Award which he received for the development of an open source text book in Physical Chemistry. Dr. Kumar will be developing the open source text book from scratch as there are none currently available […]
2017 Connecticut Middle School Science Bowl
On Saturday, February 25, 2017, the Connecticut Regional Middle School Science Bowl event welcomed approximately 200 students and coaches—and their family members—to UConn for a day of learning and friendly competition. The Middle School Science Bowl is a fast-paced, question-and-answer-style event that emphasizes the importance of STEM education. This year, 32 teams from 19 different middle schools […]
2017 University Scholars Selected
The 2017 cohort of University Scholars has been selected. Among them, are Chemistry undergraduates Maneesh Koneru and Vincent Pistritto. Details about the students, their projects, and their advisory committees can be found on the University Scholar website. Read more about University Scholars here >>>
Paper Published in Nature Chemistry
Ryan Baumgartner, Hailin Fu, Ziyuan Song, Yao Lin and Jianjun Cheng “Cooperative polymerization of α-helices induced by macromolecular architecture” Nature Chemistry, DOI: 10.1038/NCHEM.2712 (2017). This work is a collaboration between Prof. Jianjun Cheng at UIUC and the Lin Group at UConn. This research demonstrates the use of macromolecular architecture to facilitate an unusual auto-catalytic polymerization […]
Sabbatical at Eindhoven University of Technology
In 2015, Dr. Yao Lin spent a five-month sabbatical at the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS) at Eindhover University. In an interview with ICMS, Dr. Lin reflects on his experiences | (Eindhoven University of Technology) Read more >>>
Paper Published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
Guberman-Pfeffer, M.; Greco, J. A.; Samankumara, L.; Zeller, M.; Gascón, J.; Birge, R.R.; Brückner, C. ‘Bacteriochlorins with a Twist: Discovery of a Unique Mechanism to Red-shift the Optical Spectra of Bacteriochlorins’ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139 (1), 548–560. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b12419 A collaborative effort within the chemistry department brought experiment and theory together to explain the unique optical […]
Paper Published in the Nature Journal’s Scientific Reports
Spundana Malla, Karteek Kadimisetty, You-Jun Fu, Dharamainder Choudhary, John B. Schenkman & James F. Rusling Methyl-Cytosine-Driven Structural Changes Enhance Adduction Kinetics of an Exon 7 fragment of the p53 Gene. Sci. Rep. 7, 40890; doi: 10.1038/srep40890 (2017). In a collaborative effort with UConn Health (Profs. Schenkman and Choudhary), Spundana Malla, Karteek Kadimisetty, Dr. Fu and […]