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FSU student awarded prestigious fellowship from U.S. Department of Energy
Judith Roth, a doctoral student in the Department of Chemistry, was one of 62 graduate students from across the nation selected for the DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program.
Undergraduate Researcher Brooke Sabin Wins Grinter Fellowship
Brooke Sabin, a spring 2020 biochemistry graduate, has been awarded the University of Florida Graduate School Grinter Fellowship.
FSU researchers discover new structure for promising class of materials
Ma’s group has published a new study in Science Advances that explains how his team created a hollow nanostructure for metal halide perovskites that would allow the material to emit a highly efficient blue light.
The art of science (FSU Spectrum)
The images shared by the Hanson Research Group on Twitter look more like installments in a neon art exhibit than snapshots from a chemistry laboratory.
FSU researchers look to natural products to shed light on protein interactions in cancer, neurological diseases
A team of FSU researchers have found that a natural product from the fungus Fusicoccum amygdali stabilizes proteins that mediate important signaling pathways involved in the pathology of cancer and neurological diseases.
Zhicheng Jin wins Best Presentation Award at SPIE
Zhicheng Jin won the first prize of Young Investigator Award for the presentation and paper presented at SPIE conference San Francisco.
FSU Chemistry Professors Contribute to the Plutonium Handbook, 2nd Edition
Professors, Dr. Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt and Dr. David E. Hobart. contibuted two chapters to the new Plutonium Handbook.
FSU dedicates Chemical Sciences Laboratory auditorium in honor of Nobel Prize winner Kroto
In addition to naming the auditorium after Kroto, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry installed an art installation in the building’s lobby — a sculpture of a buckyball.
Researcher develops method to change fundamental architecture of polymers
The Kennemur research group has developed methods to manipulate polymers in a way that changes their fundamental structure, paving the way for potential applications in cargo delivery and release, recyclable materials, shape-shifting soft robots, antimicrobials and more.
A Break at Californium
Despite being synthesized nearly 70 years ago by Seaborg and co-workers,1,2 the chemistry of californium (Z = 98) was recently revealed to be quite different from what we thought it would be.