The University of Utah has received a four-year, $10.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to create an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC). The Center will be called Multi-Scale Fluid-Solid Interactions in Architected and Natural Materials (MUSE) and will be a multidisciplinary effort involving researchers from several U’s departments, including Profs Zharov and Bartl […]
Read MoreJul. 10, 2018 – How do insects survive harsh northern winters? Unlike mammals, they don’t have thick coats of fur to keep warm. But they do have antifreeze. Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) prevent ice from forming and spreading inside their bodies. The existence of these AFPs has been known for decades, but the mechanisms governing this […]
Read MoreIn the April 30th edition of C&EN, an article on cooling jet fuels showcased Scott Anderson and his team and their research using ethylene dehydrogenation to minimize coke buildup during the heat distribution process. “The bulk of research in endothermic fuels focuses on cracking chemistry typically mediated by zeolites. But there are other promising options. Dehydrogenations, […]
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Energy announced that Luisa Whittaker-Brooks of the Department of Chemistry is one of 84 recipients of the U. S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program award. The award will assist Whittaker-Brooks in investigating the properties of two-dimensional hybrid organic-inorganic materials for their use as detectors of low-energy infrared photons. Understanding […]
Read MoreIn April 2018, the U’s Career & Professional Development Center awarded five chemistry students with professional attire through the Suit Up Competition in an effort to provide outstanding students with the tools and skill set they need to navigate their professional careers. Please join us in congratulating Brisa Zavala, Mitchell Wilson, Trevor Peterson, Shaylyn Wilson, and KJ Alvarez!
Read MoreProfessor Peter Armentrout has been awarded the 2018 Ron Hites Award, given by the American Society of Mass Spectrometry, for his contribution “How Hot Are Your Ions Really? A Threshold Collision-Induced Dissociation Study of Substituted Benzylpyridinium “Thermometer” Ions.” Carpenter, J. E.; McNary, C. P.; Furin, A.; Sweeney, A. F.; Armentrout, P. B. J. Am. Soc. Mass […]
Read MoreSomething almost magical happens when you put a tray full of sloshing, liquid water into a freezer and it comes out later as a rigid, solid crystal of ice. Chemists at the University of Utah have pulled back the curtain a little more on the freezing process, particularly in clouds. Their research shows that when […]
Read MoreProfessor Luisa Whittaker-Brooks has been awarded the Ovshinsky Sustainable Energy Fellowship, given by the American Physical Society, for her research on synthesizing and elucidating the functional properties of well-defined and high-quality organic and inorganic materials for applications in photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, batteries, spintronics, and electronics. The Ovshinsky Fellowship consists of $15,000, which is given to the awardee’s […]
Read MoreJoel Miller Publishes in Chemistry: A European Journal Professor Joel Miller recently published his paper “Cation Dependence of the Dimerization Enthalpy for A2[tetracyanoethylene]2 (A=NMe4, Mepy, NEt4) Possessing a Long, Multicenter Bond” in Chemistry: A European Journal. It was written in collaboration with Adora G. Graham and Matvey V. Fedin and “Dedicated to Edel Wasserman on the […]
Read MoreProfessor Michael Morse recently contributed his research “Bond dissociation energies of TiSi, ZrSi, HfSi, VSi, NbSi, and TaSi” to The Journal of Chemical Physics, developing a method of determining bond dissociation energies for transition metal silicides in order to both advance computation efforts and our understanding of chemical bonding in general. A press release distributed […]
Read More