Department of Chemistry

Associate Professor Mark Wilson, University of Toronto “Advancing nanocrystal-sensitized, triplet-fusion upconversion (photochemistry)” The ability to efficiently up-convert broadband, low-intensity light would be an enabling technology for volumetric 3D printing, background-free biomedical imaging, and sensitizing silicon-based cameras to the short-wave infrared. Our approach uses colloidal quantum dots to absorb low-energy photons and sensitize the spin-triplet excitonic […]

Professor Matthias Heyden, Arizona State University “Making Sense of the “Jiggling and Wiggling of Atoms” in Molecular Simulations” Vibrational spectroscopies at mid-infrared frequencies provide excellent probes to characterize functional groups and their immediate chemical environment. However, from a thermodynamic and dynamic point of view, only the ground state of these vibrations is significantly populated at […]

Associate Professor Sarah Slavoff, Yale University "Dark Matter of the Human Proteome" Advanced methods in next-generation sequencing and proteogenomics have revealed thousands of previously invisible human protein-coding genes, increasing the known size of the human proteome by as much as 40%. This previously unannotated proteomic “dark matter” includes small open reading frames (smORFs) encoding polypeptides […]