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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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Tools and Tricks for Single Crystal Growth

Tools and Tricks for Single Crystal Growth , May 16, 2024

The last few decades have seen significant improvements in the techniques used to synthesize single crystals, such as the silicon that underpins all microelectronics. What is often missing from these resources are perspectives on how to use these techniques in unusual ways, frequently combining aspects from different fields of chemistry....

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Metal Ion-Induced Large Fragment Deactivation

Angewandte Chemie, 2024

Complex natural product functionalizations generally involve the use of highly engineered reagents, catalysts, or enzymes to achieve site-selectivity by lowering a selected transition state energy. We invert this strategy by raising the energy of transition states representing undesirable sites through metal ion chelation, leaving desirable ones accessible to functionalization by...

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Spinning nanofiber from the bacteria

Angewandte Chemie, 2023

Spiders spin strong silk fiber to produce webs. Can bacteria do the similar thing? The Fried lab has demonstrated that Bacillus subtilis can be programmed to autonomously assemble recombinant silk peptides on its own membrane, and then release them as fibers into the extracellular milieu. The process, called secretion-catalyzed assembly,...

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Zinc‐Imidazolate Films as an All‐Dry Resist Technology

Advanced Functional Materials, 2023

The Fairbrother Group in collaboration with the Tsapatsis group in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering have introduced a new direction for solvent-free lithography, offering the prospect of scalable high-resolution patterning techniques for advanced semiconductor fabrication.

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Chemistry faculty train students interested in pursuing Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees in the classroom and in the laboratory.

Undergraduate

Undergraduate research is strongly encouraged for chemistry majors. Most students graduate with several semesters of experience with a research group.

Graduate

Graduate students make up the heart of the chemistry department, and the department strives to support students’ individual needs. Each student is carefully advised and classes are traditionally quite small.

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