Research – Department of Chemistry

Shape-shifting Hybrid Materials Offer Bright Future for Solar and LED Innovation

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New research by Bischak Lab shows how wafer-thin perovskites’ optical properties shift with temperature changes. In today’s energy-intensive environment, designing new devices for more efficient and renewable energy sources is at the forefront of scientific research. A particularly interesting approach utilizes Ruddlesden-Popper perovskites—a type of layered material made from alternating sheets of inorganic and organic […]

June 13, 2025

Instruments of the U: Center for High Performance Computing

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CHPC is the University of Utah’s premier computing institute and resource hub. It was founded on the principle of providing high-performance, large-scale, and cost-effective computing power for researchers across Utah. Over the years, it has grown into a vital infrastructure supporting interdisciplinary research across physics, engineering, chemistry, the humanities and other academic fields. Services that CHPC […]

May 22, 2025

Is It Art or Science – or both?

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The work of recent chemistry graduate Uziel Gonzalez (BS ‘24) was featured in the September 24 publication of C & E News feature “Chemistry in Pictures.” Tom Richmond said for the C & E News “While purifying tert-butylmalononitrile, a useful starting material for the synthesis of organic electronic materials, University of Utah chemistry undergraduate Uziel Gonzalez discovered […]

March 26, 2025

New Strides in Peptide Chemistry

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The research efforts of Mina Done, with Cindy Burrows and Max Austin, with Andrew Roberts, the U Chemistry’s Beckman Scholars are highlighted in highlighted in the 2023 Innovation Report from the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, David Eccles School of Business. Special tanks to Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Photo: Max Austin, curtesy of the Lassonde Entrepreneur […]

October 28, 2024

BioFire Defense’s Ebola Test Kits Approved by FDA

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Test Kit Developed by Alumnus Kirk Ririe’s Company BioFire Defense By KRISTEN MOULTON|Reprinted from The Salt Lake Tribune BioFire Defense’s Ebola test kits, used with its FilmArray machine, has been OK’d by the FDA to test patients for the Ebola Zaire virus. BioFire Defense of Salt Lake City says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration […]

October 24, 2024

Valérie Pierre, Director of NSF Center for Aqueous Supramolecular Chemistry (CASC)

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Professor Valérie Pierre, who joined the University of Utah Department of Chemistry this past summer, is the Director of the NSF Center for Aqueous Supramolecular Chemistry. The NSF Center for Aqueous Supramolecular Chemistry (CASC) is supported by the Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI) Program of the Division of Chemistry. The ability of custom-designed molecules to 1) […]

October 3, 2024

Luisa Whittaker Brooks on KPCW Cool Science Radio

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On September 5, 2024, Professor Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, University of Utah Department of Chemistry discussed nanomaterials at KPCW Cool Science Radio. Listen here Professor’s Luisa Whittaker-Brooks interview: The Whittaker Group aims to address important challenges related to the understanding of the relationships among the composition, structure, electronic structure, and properties of inorganic and organic nanomaterials, as […]

September 5, 2024

Hammond and Noriega Labs Collaboration

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In search of new microscopy tools to observe how cells function @TheU published a research story titled “In search of new microscopy tools to observe how cells function, U chemists discover how key contrast agent works, paving the way to create markers needed for correlative microscopy” on September 4, 2024. The article by Brian […]

September 4, 2024

Alzheimers Research – Roberts Lab

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Roberts group, in collaboration with the Mastren laboratory @MastrenLabUtah, graduate students, Dr. Aidan Bender (Nuclear Engineering, Mastren group) and Dr. Emily Kirkeby @_EmilyKirkeby_ (Chemistry, Roberts group) developed a 213Bi-labeled pyridyl benzofuran for the targeted α-therapy of amyloid-β aggregates. The Roberts team @agr_chemistry worked together with Dr. Tara Mastren (Nuclear Engineering), Dr. Donna Cross (U of U Health, Radiology), and Dr. […]

August 28, 2024

Robert W. Parry Featured in Science History Institute Article

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Our former faculty, Robert W. Parry, was recently featured in a Science History Institute article, written by Judith Kaplan and Dennis Sauer. Dr. Sauer completed his postdoctoral studies with Bob Parry at the University of Utah. Distinguished Professor Robert W. Parry was a giant in his profession. He was the founding editor of Inorganic Chemistry in […]

May 21, 2024