chemistry
Chem-E-Car cruises to third-place finish
The Missouri S&T Chem-E-Car Design Team’s entry into the recent American Institute of Chemical Engineers Chem-E-Car Competition earned third place while competing against schools from around the United States.
Read More »Patent granted for chemistry research team’s work
A U.S. patent for “Salt-Assisted Ultrasonic Disaggregation of Nanodiamond” has been assigned to the Curators of the University of Missouri from Missouri S&T inventors:
Read More »See all the cites in PLOS database
Over 60 current and past Missouri S&T faculty members are represented in the database “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators,” published in the open access journal PLOS (The Public Library of Science) Biology.
Read More »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.”
Read More »
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.
Read More »
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 »