Sabine Neal, born and raised in western Montana, graduated with her PhD working with the Musfeldt Lab in May 2021. “The Musfeldt lab provided me with a lot of opportunity. Musfeldt knew I was a single parent and looked past that, believing in me, and giving me so many invaluable experiences,” Neal said. “I had a […]

Phillip Halstenberg is a chemistry graduate student currently conducting research in the Dai Group. Halstenberg is originally from Kannapolis, North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for his BS in chemistry where he began working in the chemistry laboratories under the guidance of Dr. S. Bart Jones and Dr. Robert Hancock. […]

The Xue Group published their research “Applying Unconventional Spectroscopies to the Single-Molecule Magnets, Co(PPh3)2X2 (X=Cl, Br, I): Unveiling Magnetic Transitions and Spin-Phonon Coupling” in Chemistry—A European Journal. Alex Bone is a graduate student in the Xue and first author of this paper.  Large separation of magnetic levels and slow relaxation in metal complexes are desirable […]

Oil companies are going all-in on petrochemicals – and green chemistry needs help to compete A Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, California. AP Photo/Paul Sakuma Constance B. Bailey, University of Tennessee Global oil consumption declined by roughly 9% in 2020 as the pandemic reduced business and pleasure travel, factory production and transportation of goods. This abrupt drop […]

The Musfeldt group published their work “Exploring few and single layer CrPS4 with near-field infrared spectroscopy” in 2D Materials. First author is Sabine Neal, UT chemistry alum. “We combine synchrotron-based near-field infrared spectroscopy and first principles lattice dynamics calculations to explore the vibrational response of CrPS4 in bulk, few-, and single-layer form,” Neal said. “Analysis […]