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  • Dai Group Published in Nano Energy and Chem. Commun.
  • The Dai Group published their work “Room temperature synthesis of high-entropy Prussian blue analogues” in Nano Energy. High-entropy Prussian blue analogues (HEPBAs) integrating the highly dispersed active sites of high-entropy materials with intrinsic 3D diffusion channels and the redox-active sites of Prussian blue analogues have great potential in electrochemical applications but have not been realized. […]
  • Dadmun Published in Chemical Reviews
  • Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are an emerging class of mixtures characterized by significant depressions in melting points compared to those of the neat constituent components. These materials are promising for applications as inexpensive “designer” solvents exhibiting a host of tunable physicochemical properties. Mark Dadmun, professor and ORNL-UT joint faculty member, contributed to this collaborative piece […]
  • Vogiatzis Wins OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
  • Kostas Vogiatzis, assistant professor with the Department of Chemistry, is one of the recipients of the American Chemical Society, Computers in Chemistry Division (ACS COMP) OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for Spring 2021. This competitive and prestigious award identifies junior faculty of promise in the area of computational chemistry and modeling. Vogiatzis will present his […]
  • Graduate Student Research Aids in Search for Extraterrestrial Life
  • In 1996, NASA administrators made a historic announcement: proof that life had existed on Mars at some point in its history. Their proof was a Martian rock that they claimed contained the same combination of minerals and carbon compounds as those created by microbes on Earth. Searching for chemicals that indicate the presence of life […]
  • Musfeldt Group Published in Nano Letters
  • The Musfeldt Group published their work “Excitations of Intercalated Metal Monolayers in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides” in Nano Letters. They combine Raman scattering spectroscopy and lattice dynamics calculations to reveal the fundamental excitations of the intercalated metal monolayers in the FexTaS2 (x = 1/4, 1/3) family of materials. Both in- and out-of-plane modes are identified, each of which […]
  • Computational Chemistry and Machine Learning in the Vogiatzis Group
  • Research in the Vogiatzis Group centers on the development of computational methods based on electronic structure theory and machine learning algorithms for describing chemical systems relevant to clean, green technologies. “We are particularly interested in new methods for non-covalent interactions and bond-breaking reactions of small molecules with transition metals,” Vogiatzis said. “Our overall objectives are […]
  • Larese Group Featured Cover on J. Chem. Phys. C
  • The Larese Group’s research Adsorption of Pentane and Hexane Thin Films on the Surface of Graphite(0001) was featured on the cover of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Surface adsorption plays an important role in a variety of industrial and technological processes, especially in energy conversion, storage, and transformation. As a result, there is a […]
  • Dai Group Published in ACS Energy Letters
  • The Dai group published their research “Surpassing the Organic Cathode Performance for Lithium-Ion Batteries with Robust Fluorinated Covalent Quinazoline Networks” in  ACS Energy Letters. Organic electrode materials have promising application prospects in energy storage, but issues including rapid capacity fading and poor power capacity restrict their practical applications. Herein, nanoporous fluorinated covalent quinazoline networks (F-CQNs) […]
  • Dai Published in Chem
  • In a collaborative piece, UT Chemistry’s Sheng Dai and Pasquale Fulvio from Texas A&M’s Department of Nuclear Engineering published their work “Porous Liquids: The Next Frontier” in Chem. Porous liquids are a new class of molecular- and colloidal-size porous materials that combine permanent porosity of solid sorbents and fluid properties of liquids. Different from transient […]
  • Darko Lab Published in Dalton Transactions
  • The Darko Lab published their work “Tuning Rh(ii)-catalysed cyclopropanation with tethered thioether ligands” in Dalton Transactions.  Dirhodium(II) paddlewheel complexes have high utility in diazo-mediated cyclopropanation reactions and ethyl diazoacetate is one of the most commonly used diazo compounds in this reaction. In this study, the lab reports efforts to use tethered thioether ligands to tune […]
  • Vogiatzis Group Published in JCTC
  • Electronic structure theory describes the motions of electrons in atoms or molecules, and provides a versatile framework for the calculation of molecular geometries, chemical bonding, electronic and spectroscopic properties, reaction barriers, intermolecular interactions, and more. Wave function theory-based methods such as coupled-cluster methods, provide accurate results in a systematic manner, but they typically carry a […]
  • Musfeldt Group Published in Nature Communications
  • The Musfeldt group published their work “Site-specific spectroscopic measurement of spin and charge in (LuFeO3)m/(LuFe2O4)1 multiferroic superlattices” in a collaborative piece in Nature Communications. Interface materials offer a means to achieve electrical control of ferrimagnetism at room temperature as was recently demonstrated in (LuFeO3)m/(LuFe2O4)1 superlattices. A challenge to understanding the inner workings of these complex magnetoelectric […]
  • Dai Group Published in I&EC
  • The Dai Group published their work “Mechanochemical Synthesis of High-Purity Anhydrous Binary Alkali and Alkaline Earth Chloride Mixtures” in the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (I&EC). A direct synthesis route for high-purity, anhydrous binary salt mixtures has been developed. This atom efficient, solvent-free process is easily scalable, with the potential to produce salt mixtures […]
  • Campagna Lab Published in JNP
  • The Campagna Lab published their work “Isoflurane anesthesia disrupts the cortical metabolome” in a collaborative piece in the Journal of Neurophysiology (JNP).  Identifying similarities and differences in the brain metabolome during different states of consciousness has broad relevance for neuroscience and state-dependent autonomic function. This study focused on prefrontal cortex (PFC) as a brain region […]
  • Barnes Wins FYCA Faculty Lead Award
  • The First Year Course Academy (FYCA) provides resources, tools, and information to help UT-Knoxville instructors make a difference for students enrolled in their first-year courses. FYCA is a new initiative to equip instructors of these courses with best practices for teaching and engaging with first-year students in online, hybrid, and hyflex courses. The Office of […]
  • Brantley Group Published in ACS Macro Letters
  • The Brantley Group published their work “General Access to Allene-Containing Polymers Using the Skattebøl Rearrangement” in ACS Macro Letters. Primary author is Nick Galan, graduate student in the Brantley Group. Postsynthetic modification is a powerful strategy for tuning soft materials. While methods for side-chain functionalization abound, modifications of backbone structural elements can be difficult to […]
  • ACGS Halloween Costume Contest
  • Social events and social distancing don’t necessarily mesh very well! Due to COVID-19, ACGS has decided to do a socially distant Halloween Costume Contest to bring some very spooky cheer to the department in lieu of a fall social. All faculty, staff, lecturers, post-docs, and graduate students are invited to participate and show off their […]
  • Brantley Group Published in Macromolecules
  • The Brantley Group published their work “Exploring Combinatorial Approaches to Polymer Diversification” in Macromolecules.  Diversity-oriented strategies can facilitate the rapid exploration of chemical space during small-molecule synthesis, but similar approaches are underutilized for macromolecular substrates. Expanding the repertoire of soft material manipulations to accommodate iterative diversifications could enable the design of bespoke polymers with a […]
  • Kilbey’s Research Leadership with ORE
  • Mike Kilbey wraps up a year of research leadership at the UT, Knoxville, serving as chair of the Research Council of Faculty Senate and as a Faculty Fellow for Strategic Research Initiatives in the Office of Research and Engagement. The Research Council works to promote excellence in research, scholarship, and creative activity, and provides counsel […]
  • Hazari Celebrates NCW With His 30th Annual “Magic of Chemistry Show”
  • National Chemistry Week (NCW) is a community-based program of the American Chemical Society (ACS). This annual program unites ACS local sections, student chapters, technical divisions, businesses, schools, and individuals in communicating the importance of chemistry to our quality of life. NCW occurs annually during the third week of October. The mission of NCW is to reach […]
  • Heberle Lab’s Latest Achievements
  • Research in the Heberle Lab is aimed at elucidating the structure and function of biological membranes, with a focus on the plasma membrane. Fred A. Heberle is coauthor of the recently published book Characterization of Biological Membranes. This book explores the high importance  of membranes in the fields of biology, pharmaceutical chemistry and medicine, since […]
  • Xue Group’s Recent Research
  • The Xue group has published multiple papers this year. This group’s research focuses on three areas: spectroscopic studies of molecular magnetism, synthesis and characterization of transition metal complexes, and the development of new chemical analyses.  Inorganic Chemistry published their work “Inter-Kramers Transitions and Spin–Phonon Couplings in a Lanthanide-Based Single-Molecule Magnet.” Spin–phonon coupling plays a critical […]
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