chemistry
Chemistry research funded by NIH
Dr. Pericles Stavropoulos, associate professor of chemistry, has been awarded over $450,000 from the National Institutes of Health for a research program titled “Development of First-Row Transition-Metal Catalysts for Selective Nitrene/Carbene-Transfer Chemistry.”
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Chemists publish in ACS journals
Missouri S&T researchers have discovered the importance of the cysteine molecule, an amino acid, in directing the growth of crystalline structures. The research team includes the following electrochemical materials science researchers:
Read More »New chemistry online labs show teaching, learning success
Dr. Klaus Woelk, associate professor of chemistry, and Dr. Philip Whitefield, Chancellor’s Professor and professor emeritus of chemistry, embraced the task of putting their labs online due to the COVID-19 pandemic and have written a paper outlining best practices for other educators.
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Grad student wins ‘science as art’ contest
Shuohan Huang, a Ph.D. student in chemistry, won first place in the Science as Art competition organized by the Materials Research Society. Her advisor is Dr. Vadym Mochalin, associate professor of chemistry.
Read More »Nano diamonds are forever – and the battery life is pretty long, too
The nano diamond expertise of Dr. Vadym Mochalin, associate professor of chemistry, was featured in an Aug. 25 mass media release from NBD Inc. The company is the creator of the first self-charging nano diamond battery that provides up to thousands of years of charge.
Read More »S&T wins $1.5 million NSF award to create spectrometer
Missouri S&T has received a $1.5 million award from the National Science Foundation to develop a new rotational microwave spectrometer. The instrument will be used by several universities to collect some of the most detailed information available about the structure of gas phase molecules.
Read More »CAFE announces grant recipients
The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) announces faculty grant recipients for its two main grant programs: the educational research mini-grant program and the Provost’s eFellows grant program.
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Color research published in chemistry journal
Research on the use of a new video-based colorimetry (the quantitative determination of color) method has been published in Talanta, an international journal of pure and applied analytical chemistry.
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