Meet the Chair
Chair, Professor Janice Reutt-Robey
Her research focuses on physical and chemical properties of surfaces (single crystals and supported crystallites) under controlled ultrahigh vacuum conditions. She was a founding investigator in the University of Maryland MRSEC.Professor Chris Jarzynski is the incoming Director of the Institute for Physical Science and Technology…
Professor Chris Jarzynski will become the Director of the Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST) on July 1, 2014. (more…)
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2014 Beckman Scholar Program Application Information
The program is open to freshmen and sophomore majors to do research in chemistry and biochemistry. (more…)
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Sintim and Dayie labs’ research on bacterial riboswitches featured as cover for Molecular BioSystems
Research from Sintim and Dayie labs on bacterial riboswitches that sense cyclic dinucleotides has been featured as cover for Molecular BioSystems. (more…)
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2013 Hillebrand Award to Professor Michael P. Doyle
The Chemical Society of Washington has announced that our own Mike Doyle is this year’s recipient of the Hillebrand Prize. The Hillebrand Prize is awarded by the ACS Chemical Society of Washington for original contributions to the science of chemistry and is named for William F. Hillebrand
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Sintim and Dayie labs’ research on bacterial riboswitches featured as cover for Molecular BioSystems
Research from Sintim and Dayie labs on bacterial riboswitches that sense cyclic dinucleotides has been featured as cover for Molecular BioSystems. (more…)
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Professor Isaacs group’s recent article cited as a “very important paper” by Angewandte Chemie
The featured paper titled, "Cucurbit[7]uril⋅Guest Pair with an Attomolar Dissociation Constant" is described as a "very important paper" and will also appear as a "frontispiece" in Angewandte. Research in Professor Isaacs' laboratory is focused on basic and applied problems in the area of self-assembly.
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Zachariah and Team Formulate New Explosives Based on Nanoaluminum
Whether they are rocket propellants or fireworks, all explosives contain a fuel and an oxidizing agent. Sometimes both are in the same molecule, like in TNT; sometimes the explosive is a mixture, like Thermite. In mixtures, the smaller the particles, the higher the explosive force. (more…)
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Major volcanic eruptions may have considerably smaller effect on global climate than commonly thought
Ross Salawitch’s group in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry has published an article in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics that suggests major volcanic eruptions have considerably smaller effect on global climate than commonly thought. (more…)
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