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  • Bone Selected to Attend NX School
  • Alex Bone, graduate student in the Xue Group, has been selected to attend the Twenty-Third National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering to be held virtually from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering (NX School) will be held virtually from […]
  • Tin Awarded Shull Wollan Center Graduate Research Fellowship
  • Pagnareach (Reach) Tin, graduate student in the Xue Group, has been awarded the Shull Wollan Center Graduate Research Fellowship for Spring 2021. The Shull Wollan Center Graduate Research Fellowship Program has been designed to recognize and support outstanding graduate students in neutron science disciplines who are pursuing research-based doctoral degrees at the University of Tennessee, […]
  • Sharma Announced Winner of 2021 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy
  • Bhavya Sharma, assistant professor, has been named the winner of the 2021 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award. The award will be presented to Sharma at the SciX 2021 conference this fall, where she will give a plenary lecture and be honored in an award symposium. “We would like to extend congratulations to Professor Sharma […]
  • Doerr Selected for Prestigious Symposium
  • Alicia Doerr, graduate student in the Long Group, has been selected to take part in the ACS national meeting’s symposium entitled “Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research.” This annual symposium is organized by the POLY division and held at Spring national meetings of the ACS to recognize outstanding graduate students in polymer science and engineering, foster […]
  • Do Lab Published in Chemical Science
  • The Do Lab recently published their work “α-CGRP disrupts amylin fibrillization and regulates insulin secretion: implications on diabetes and migraine” in Chemical Science. Amber Gray and Aleksandra Antevska, graduate students, share first authorship on this piece. Despite being relatively benign and not an indicative signature of toxicity, fibril formation and fibrillar structures continue to be […]
  • Hix in Bailey Lab Named Goldwater Scholar
  • As the result of a partnership with the Department of Defense National Defense Education Programs (NDEP), Mrs. Peggy Goldwater Clay, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, announced that the Trustees of the Goldwater Board have increased the number of Goldwater scholarships it has awarded for […]
  • Sokolov Group Published in Energy Storage Mater. and ACS Macro Lett.
  • The Sokolov Group recently published their work “Anomalously high elastic modulus of a poly(ethylene oxide)-based composite electrolyte” in Energy Storage Materials. The practical use of lithium metal anodes in solid-state batteries requires a polymer membrane with high lithium-ion conductivity, thermal/electrochemical stability, and mechanical strength. The primary challenge is to effectively decouple the ionic conductivity and […]
  • Vogiatzis Group’s Recent Publications
  • 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. They are particularly interested in new methods for non-covalent interactions and bond-breaking reactions of small molecules with transition metals. Their overall objectives are to elucidate […]
  • 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 […]
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