A paper by the Suib Group, Mesoporous MoO3–x Material as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reactions, was published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials and is among the top 5 downloaded paper in the month of June. The research is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy […]
Dr. José Gascón Receives Research Excellence Program Award
Dr. José Gascón is the recipient of a 2016 Research Excellence Program Storrs (REP-Storrs) award. The primary goal of the REP is to provide seed funding to promote, support, and enhance the research, scholarship, and creative endeavors of faculty at UConn, including (but not limited to) the strategic and emerging areas delineated in the Academic […]
Dr. Brückner To Become New Department Head
On July 1, Christian Brückner will become the next Department Head. He will be assisted by Associate Department Head Mark Peczuh and Undergraduate Program Director Nick Leadbeater.
Brückner Group Featured on Cover of Accounts of Chemical Research
A review of the Brückner Group’s “Porphyrin Breaking and Mending” work has appeared in the June 2016 edition of Accounts of Chemical Research. A representation of the concept is also featured on the publication’s cover. Brückner, C. ‘The Breaking and Mending of meso-Tetraarylporphyrins: Transmuting the Pyrrolic Building Blocks’ Acc. Chem. Res. 2016, 49, 1080−1092. About […]
Dr. Challa V. Kumar Receives Supplement To NSF Grant
Dr. Challa V. Kumar received an NSF AGEP supplement to his project, “DNA Floor Boards.” This amendment brings Dr. Kumar’s total award to approximately $200,000.
Student John Ovian Receives Portz Fellowship
John Ovian was awarded the National Collegiate Honors Council Portz Fellowship. The Portz Fellowships support original and extended interdisciplinary projects for up to 18 months. Only four fellowships are awarded nationally each year. John will use his fellowship funds to support his work on photo-mediated organocatalysis in the Leadbeater Group.
Dr. Mark Peczuh Receives Research Excellence Program Award
Dr. Mark Peczuh is the recipient of a 2016 Research Excellence Program Storrs (REP-Storrs) award. The primary goal of the REP is to provide seed funding to promote, support, and enhance the research, scholarship, and creative endeavors of faculty at UConn, including (but not limited to) the strategic and emerging areas delineated in the Academic […]
Ligand-Free Noble Metal Nanocluster Catalysts On Carbon Supports Via “Soft” Nitriding
The Journal of the American Chemical Society recently published “Ligand-Free Noble Metal Nanocluster Catalysts on Carbon Supports via ‘Soft’ Nitriding.” Within the publication, collaborators from the Suib, Rusling, and He Groups report “a robust, universal ‘soft’ nitriding method to grow in situ ligand-free ultrasmall noble metal nanocatalysts (UNMN; e.g., Au, Pd, and Pt) onto carbon.” […]
New Catalyst Found For Clean Energy Fuel
UConn Today A team of UConn chemists led by professors Steven Suib and James Rusling has developed a new material that could make hydrogen capture more commercially viable and provide a key element for a new generation of cheaper, light-weight hydrogen fuel cells. The new metal-free catalyst uses carbon graphene nanotubes infused with sulfur. Hydrogen […]
JACS Full Article: “Fullerene-Assisted Photoinduced Charge Transfer Of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Through A Flavin Helix”
The Journal of the American Chemical Society recently published “Fullerene-Assisted Photoinduced Charge Transfer of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes through a Flavin Helix,” a full article that describes an innovating 3-way pi-pi arrangement using a nanotube/helix/C60 arrangement. This article is the result of a research collaboration between the Papadimitrakopoulos Group (Chemistry/IMS), Gascon Group (Chemistry), and Gibson Group […]