Em Ambrosius, a current undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University double majoring in Applied Mathematics & Statistics and Chemistry, is apart of the AY22 PURA cohort! Their project is “Ring-Opening Metathesis […]
Em Ambrosius Receives AY22 PURA!
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New center will use power of AI to optimize low-cost materials for solar energy
SPIRAL Center at Johns Hopkins is one of 10 projects to receive support from Department of Energy initiative focused on the development of low-cost energy technologies With a three-year grant […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Prof. Klausen and Prof. Karlin Recognized at the ACS National Award Ceremony
Prof. Rebekka Klausen and Prof. Ken Karlin were recognized at the August 22, 2021 hybrid in-person and virtual ACS National Award Ceremony held as part of the Atlanta, GA Fall […]
Former graduate student winner of an ‘Emerging Investigator’ Award from the American Society of Mass Spectrometry
Xinxing (Colin) Zhang, a former graduate student in Kit Bowen’s research group and presently a Professor at Nankai University in China, is among several young investigators to win this special […]
The McQueen lab publishes in ACS Central Science on temperature dependent structural relaxation of layered kagomé lattices
The manuscript reports the discovery of spontaneous bidirectional, bilayer twisting of the Co kagomé lattice in MgCo6Ge6 and explores the interlayer bonding interactions to identify the driving force behind this […]
Rigoberto Hernandez’s story published in three journals of physical chemistry
Rigoberto Hernandez, Gompf Family Professor, published an article that was featured in three different journals about his path as a Cuban American chemist. “A Cuban Campesino in Chemistry’s Academic Court” […]