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  • 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 […]
  • Calhoun Lab Featured Cover in J. Phys. Chem. C
  • The Calhoun Lab was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C for their research “Leaving the Limits of Linearity for Light Microscopy” and it is a perspective on the recent advances in the field of nonlinear microscopy. This article is also the featured cover for the November 12, 2020 issue. Graduate student authors include […]
  • Best Group’s Recent Work
  • >Recent work in the Best Group has culminated in the development of stimuli-responsive liposomes for drug delivery designed to release therapeutic cargo when they come into contact with diseased cells, specifically based on overexpressed enzymes and reactive oxygen species. “These smart liposomes show strong prospects for advancing drug delivery by targeting therapeutics directly to the […]
  • ORI Names Campagna Interim Director of Strategic Programs
  • ORNL Director Thomas Zacharia and Randy Boyd, in consultation with UT Knoxville Chancellor Donde Plowman and UT Health Science Center Chancellor Steve Schwab, have named Michelle Buchanan, ORNL deputy for science and technology, and Stacey Patterson, UT System vice president for research, as interim co-directors of ORI at UT until a director is named. Suresh […]
  • Collier at Kennesaw State University
  • Graham Collier, originally from Fayetteville, North Carolina, received his BS in chemistry in 2011 from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Upon graduation, Collier enrolled in the graduate program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and studied porphyrin chromophores under the direction of Michael Walter. After graduating in 2013, Collier enrolled in the […]
  • Vogiatzis Lab Published in Physical Chemistry Letters
  • The Vogiatzis Lab published their work “Direct Identification of Mixed-Metal Centers in Metal−Organic Frameworks: Cu3(BTC)2 Transmetalated with Rh2+ Ions” in a collaborative piece in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Raman spectroscopy was used to establish direct evidence of heterometallic metal centers in a metal–organic framework (MOF). The Cu3(BTC)2 MOF HKUST-1 (BTC3– = benzenetricarboxylate) was transmetalated by […]
  • Brantley & Long’s Collaborative Research
  • The Brantley Lab and the Long Group published collaborative research “Vinyl-addition polymerizations of cycloallenes: synthetic access to congeners of cyclic-olefin polymers” in Polymer Chemistry. Co-first authors include Nick Galan with the Brantley Lab and Justin Burroughs with the Long Group.  Their research demonstrates that vinyl-addition polymerization of cycloallenes is a potentially valuable strategy for preparing tunable analogues […]
  • Do Lab Published in Analytical Chemistry
  • The Do Lab published their research “Cytotoxicity of α-Helical, Staphylococcus aureus PSMα3 Investigated by Post-Ion-Mobility Dissociation Mass Spectrometry” in Analytical Chemistry. Staphylococcus aureus, a major bacterial human pathogen, secretes phenol-soluble modulin (PSM) peptides to stimulate inflammatory responses and kill human cells. PSMα3 is the prominent member of the PSM family and exerts its toxic function via […]
  • Musfeldt Group’s Recent Achievements
  • The Musfeldt Group’s research area focuses on experimental materials chemistry and physics. They employ a variety of spectroscopic methods to reveal and control the properties of quantum materials. External stimuli are used to tune these properties in order to explore new physical phenomena and uncover properties of technological relevance. The Musfeldt Group provides a very […]
  • Welcome New Department Members
  • Viktor Nemykin, Department Head Nemykin received his BS and MS in chemistry from the Kyiv State University and a PhD from the National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine working on transition-metal and lanthanide phthalocyanines. He received a highly competitive postdoctoral fellowship, supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, which he completed at Tohoku […]
  • Dai Group Published in Nature Communications for Entropy-stabilized Single-atom Pd Catalysts Research
  • The Dai Lab’s research “Entropy-stabilized single-atom Pd catalysts via high-entropy fluorite oxide supports” was published in Nature Communications. First Author Haidi Xu conducted research in the Dai Lab as a visiting scholar from Sichuan University, China.  This work explores single-atom catalysts (SACs) as they have demonstrated superior catalytic performance in the catalysis community. Fabricating intrinsically […]
  • Jenkins Group Published in ACS Nano
  • Research from the Jenkins Group was recently published in ACS Nano for their work “In Situ Monitoring of the Seeding and Growth of Silver MetalOrganic Nanotubes by Liquid-Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy“. Kristina Vailonis was one of the primary authors of this piece. Vailonis recently graduated with her PhD from the University of Tennessee’s Department of Chemistry. […]
  • Scientists Catch a Glimpse of Elusive Cell Membrane Nanodomains
  • A collaborative team including University of Tennessee researchers has captured the first direct images of tiny cell membrane domains known as lipid rafts. The images were published in a research article in this week’s edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. First hypothesized over thirty years ago, rafts are specialized […]
  • Larese Named ACS Fellow
  • John Larese, professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been named an 2020 ACS Fellow. The primary purpose of the ACS Fellows Program is to recognize and honor members of the American Chemical Society for their outstanding achievements in and contributions to the science and the profession and for their equally exemplary service to the […]
  • Mourning the Passing of Ffrancon Williams
  • Thomas Ffrancon Williams was born on January 30, 1928, and passed away on July 18, 2020. Williams received his BSc degree from University College London in 1949, and an external Ph.D. degree from the University of London in 1960. He was employed at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, United Kingdom from 1949 to 1961 […]
  • Honors Day 2020
  • Department of Chemistry recognized the achievements among students, faculty and staff members of the department. Below, you will find a complete list of recipients for the Honors Day 2020. UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS ACS-Hach Land Grant Scholarship Natalie Parsons CRC Press General Chemistry Award Kara Holt C.W. Keenan Outstanding General Chemistry Student Award Marissa Knofczynski Department of […]
  • Vogiatzis Lab Published in Nature Communications
  • Machine learning applications for chemical problems have been rapidly increasing. Their popularity is justified since they have led to the discovery of new molecules and materials with enhanced properties, new reactions, or have contributed to the reduction of computational effort needed of complex calculations and simulations. The Vogiatzis Lab seeks to address how a computational […]
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