The Department of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University is made up of internationally recognized faculty involved in all areas of contemporary chemical science, including many interdisciplinary areas that combine chemistry with biology, medicine, physics, and materials.

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The Fried Group

The Fried Group discovered that roughly one half of the proteins in E. coli are non-refoldable, meaning that once they are denatured, they cannot navigate back to their native states. This calls into question Anfinsen’s hypothesis that thermodynamics is the sole determinant of proteins’ native structures.

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The Goldberg Group

The Goldberg Group shows the first structural evidence of a nonheme FeIII(OH)(Cl) complex, relevant to the intermediate of nonheme halogenases. They also investigated the hydroxylation versus halogenation reactivity of this complex with tertiary carbon radicals.

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The Thoi Group

The Thoi Group‘s new work reveals novel post-synthetic modification strategy leads to improved electrochemical performance in Li-S batteries.

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McQueen Group

The McQueen lab explored the universal pairwise twisting in layered materials by applying chemical concepts of interlayer bonding. The work investigated temperature dependent local structural relaxation in the kagomé lattice of MgCo6Ge6 and its avoidance of a moiré superlattice.

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Hernandez Research Lab

The Hernandez Group has joined a cross-disciplinary team in response to NSF’s “Harvesting the Data Revolution” Initiative to propose and develop autonomous computing materials capable of keeping pace with Moore’s law as conventional silicon is outpaced. This perspective is now available on ACS Nano.

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Townsend Research Lab

Pulmonary disease caused by Mycobacteriodes abscessus has outpaced tuberculosis in the U.S., with cure rates below 50 percent. This sparked collaboration between the Townsend Research Lab and two School of Medicine research groups to design and synthesize a promising new antibiotic for treatment.

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The Bowen Group

The Bowen Group realized highly selective C-H bond activation in methane by single platinum atomic anions.

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New delocalization pathways in conjugated materials

In a collaboration with chemists at Georgetown University and University of Oregon, the The Tovar Group engineered radial conjugation pathways into pi-conjugated systems that are traditionally made up of linear pathways.

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News & Announcements

October 15, 2021

Prof. Huang Wins Prestigious Packard Fellowship

Congratulations to Prof. Xiongyi Huang for receiving a prestigious Packard Fellowship for his pioneering research that bridges the worlds of biology and synthetic chemistry to discover new, affordable, and sustainable […]

September 22, 2021

Rebekka Klausen explores longer-lasting, sustainable materials with NSF-funded team

Second Decade Society Associate Professor Rebekka Klausen joins Center for the Chemistry of Molecularly Optimized Networks with focus on increasing the lifetime of synthetic rubbers and designing plastics that can decompose upon a chemical trigger.

September 17, 2021

The Greenberg lab publishes in JACS on radical mediated DNA damage.

The manuscript describes the reactivity of a 2′-deoxycytidine nucleobase radical produced as a result of oxidative stress. The radical initiates DNA electron transfer and abstracts hydrogen atoms in DNA to […]

September 7, 2021

The Lectka lab publishes in Nature Communications on the structural proof of an organic fluoronium cation.

This manuscript reports the first X-ray crystal structure of an organic fluoronium cation, thus providing an ultimate proof of its debated existence. In addition to the crystal structure as the […]

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Faculty Research Highlights
Explore the department’s most current findings

The Fried Group

The Goldberg Group

The Thoi Group

McQueen Group

Hernandez Research Lab

Townsend Research Lab

The Bowen Group

New delocalization pathways in conjugated materials

News & Announcements

Prof. Huang Wins Prestigious Packard Fellowship

Rebekka Klausen explores longer-lasting, sustainable materials with NSF-funded team

The Greenberg lab publishes in JACS on radical mediated DNA damage.

The Lectka lab publishes in Nature Communications on the structural proof of an organic fluoronium cation.

Faculty Research Highlights Explore the department’s most current findings

The Fried Group

The Goldberg Group

The Thoi Group

McQueen Group

Hernandez Research Lab

Townsend Research Lab

The Bowen Group

New delocalization pathways in conjugated materials

Faculty Research Highlights
Explore the department’s most current findings