My RSS Feedhttps://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/index.htmlHot News!enen2025-11-07T13:10:31-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Fri, 7 Nov 2025 13:13:27 -0500NMR Course: Spring 2026 - CHM5718News2025-11-07T13:10:31-05:00https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/9cdcd5e1247a6b4da18370bc32052179-57.html#unique-entry-id-57https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/9cdcd5e1247a6b4da18370bc32052179-57.html#unique-entry-id-57
CHM 5718-0001
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TOPICS in MATERIALS CHEM II (Class Lecture)

Jan 7, 2026-
May 1, 2026

Class hours will be decided upon after our first class, to be flexible around everyone's schedules.

A class syllabus can be downloaded by clicking here. Let me know if you have any questions!

rschurko@fsu.edu


]]>I haven't posted in awhile...News2025-11-07T11:30:17-05:00https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/9733b8b1be34e031f44ae6c97f707856-56.html#unique-entry-id-56https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/9733b8b1be34e031f44ae6c97f707856-56.html#unique-entry-id-56
I haven't been all that faithful posting on this site, as the software driving it is somewhat outdated, and I need to switch over to DreamWeaver I think.

In any case, here are some publications from the last little while from the group, posted originally by Sean Holmes on twitter.













]]>News2024-10-31T12:23:46-04:00https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/42d8b3058e98c81959ddd55873a8b1cc-55.html#unique-entry-id-55https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/42d8b3058e98c81959ddd55873a8b1cc-55.html#unique-entry-id-55
In any case, here is a recent paper that we are all proud of!

]]>New publication: 35Cl SSNMR of xylazine HCl and its various solid formsNews2023-04-24T17:02:45-04:00https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/1bf5a53f2d49bf146a160cea8a457673-53.html#unique-entry-id-53https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/1bf5a53f2d49bf146a160cea8a457673-53.html#unique-entry-id-53New publication: 35Cl SSNMR of xylazine HCl and its various solid forms

]]>2023 ENC and postdoc opportunity at the MagLabNews2023-04-24T17:02:13-04:00https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/1d629ab1909c520962d0ea445491c6bd-52.html#unique-entry-id-52https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/1d629ab1909c520962d0ea445491c6bd-52.html#unique-entry-id-522023 ENC and postdoc opportunity at the MagLab

]]>Adam Altenhof receives the 2022 Russel H. Johnson Dissertation Award News2022-05-10T13:51:47-04:00https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/033af9e56f5618aaa7fa57300c8bb8b8-49.html#unique-entry-id-49https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/033af9e56f5618aaa7fa57300c8bb8b8-49.html#unique-entry-id-49Congratulations to Adam Altenhof!

]]>Congrats to Adam Altenhof on his latest work in J. Magn. Reson: "Reducing the Effects of Weak Homonuclear Dipolar Coupling with CPMG Pulse Sequences for Static and Spinning Solids."News2022-03-18T13:18:57-04:00https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/49a405d3433491e8c8c39a5dd6f326f8-48.html#unique-entry-id-48https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/49a405d3433491e8c8c39a5dd6f326f8-48.html#unique-entry-id-48

Congrats to @alty_adam on his latest work in J. Magn. Reson: "Reducing the Effects of Weak Homonuclear Dipolar Coupling with CPMG Pulse Sequences for Static and Spinning Solids." https://t.co/umrLrujhi0

— SchurkoFSU (@SchurkoFSU) March 9, 2022 ]]>Employment opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Associate - Platinum Group ElementsNews2021-12-14T15:03:08-05:00https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/7a264e36729129f3f7d82c3f751b56d9-47.html#unique-entry-id-47https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/7a264e36729129f3f7d82c3f751b56d9-47.html#unique-entry-id-47Employment opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Associate - National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Florida State University: Platinum Group Elements

We are searching for a postdoctoral research associate to lead efforts on a DOE-sponsored project, “Unraveling the Mysteries of the Platinum Group Elements (DE-SC0022310)”, which is to be conducted at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) and Florida State University (FSU) in Tallahassee, FL. This project focuses upon the exploration of structure and bonding in complexes involving the platinum group elements (PGEs), in an effort to ultimately find alternatives to PGEs (due to their relative scarcity and great expense) for use in a variety of applications in chemistry and materials science. Up to three years of funding is available for this position. This work is being done in collaboration with the research group of Prof. Jochen Austchbach (U. Buffalo).

Potential candidates must have extensive experience in solid-state NMR spectroscopy and/or quantum computational chemistry as related to NMR interactions. The successful candidate will perform solid-state NMR experiments on a series of compounds involving NMR-active isotopes from the platinum group elements, including 195Pt, 103Rh, 99Ru, and 105Pd, as well as numerous other multinuclear SSNMR experiments on other nuclides in PGE-bound ligands. The candidate will also conduct first-principles computations of chemical shift tensors and electric field gradient tensors, in order to explore relationships between structure, bonding, and NMR interaction tensors.

The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory is a world-leading facility focusing on the use of high magnetic fields for research in physics, chemistry, and biology. The NMR division is Tallahassee is equipped with the highest magnetic field NMR spectrometer in the world, the Series Connected Hybrid, which operates at 35.2 T (1.5 GHz), along with an ultra-wide bore 900 MHz NMR/MRI spectrometer, a 600 MHz DNP NMR spectrometer, one 830 MHz and two 800 MHz spectrometers, several mid-field instruments, and a collection of custom, home-built probes that have an assortment of capabilities and are tuneable to a wide range of frequencies. Florida State University is one of the elite research universities in the United States, and designated as a preeminent university in the State of Florida.

Interested candidates should contact Prof. Robert Schurko at rschurko@fsu.edu, and provide a full CV with a list of publications.

]]>Indirectly 1H-detected ultra-wideline NMR spectra (PROPSR)News2021-11-22T14:42:39-05:00https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/10dbc79bbd370d5a08c2b0c84b7a6763-46.html#unique-entry-id-46https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/10dbc79bbd370d5a08c2b0c84b7a6763-46.html#unique-entry-id-46https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.1c08277

]]>New work on nutraceuticals is now online in Mol. PharmNews2021-11-22T14:39:38-05:00https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/5220b0e99c42d5469bc7525d8f37855d-45.html#unique-entry-id-45https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/5220b0e99c42d5469bc7525d8f37855d-45.html#unique-entry-id-45https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.1c00708

]]>DOE grant: “Unraveling the Mysteries of the Platinum Group Elements"News2021-10-17T16:58:11-04:00https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/e8ddc7802b14b0208332376cfb85833d-43.html#unique-entry-id-43https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/e8ddc7802b14b0208332376cfb85833d-43.html#unique-entry-id-43 ]]>New work on MOFs in JACS!News2021-10-17T16:54:00-04:00https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/4b7437ab8259f316ea4891540da4b440-42.html#unique-entry-id-42https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/4b7437ab8259f316ea4891540da4b440-42.html#unique-entry-id-42
A. Gonzalez-Nelson, S. Mula, M. Šimėnas, S. Balciunas, A.R. Altenhof, C.S. Vojvodin, S. Canossa, J. Banys, R.W. Schurko, F.-X. Coudert, and M. van der Veen, 2021. Emergence of coupled rotor dynamics in metal–organic frameworks via tuned steric interactions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 12053–12062. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c03630

ja1c03630_0007]]>MAS CPMG for ultra-wideline NMRNews2020-06-24T10:25:26-04:00https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/8da54c789c355fa932ea132cc6d933de-41.html#unique-entry-id-41https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/8da54c789c355fa932ea132cc6d933de-41.html#unique-entry-id-41J. Phys. Chem. C:
Practical Aspects of Recording Ultra-Wideline NMR Patterns under Magic-Angle Spinning Conditions
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c04510

]]>NMR-enhanced crystallography for characterization of MOF structureNews2020-05-14T12:50:44-04:00https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/783ba059aa47dd179ef6aa9e3bc4d2cf-40.html#unique-entry-id-40https://www.chem.fsu.edu/~schurko/blog/files/783ba059aa47dd179ef6aa9e3bc4d2cf-40.html#unique-entry-id-40Chem. Mater. on accelerated aging of MOFs, and their characterization with multinuclear SSNMR. This was a great collaboration with Tomislav Friscic's group at McGill University… more to come we hope!

C.A. O’Keefe, C. Mottillo, L. Fábián, T. Friščić* and R.W. Schurko*, 2020. NMR-Enhanced Crystallography Aids Open Metal-Organic Framework Discovery Using Solvent-Free Accelerated Aging. Chem. Mater., Accepted April 2020. Published online May 2020. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c00894


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