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Insights into the oligomeric structure of the HIV-1 Vpu protein Colossal Anisotropic Thermal Expansion in a Diazo-Functionalized 
Compound with Switchable Solid-State Behavior
On the Cooperative Origin of Solvent-Enhanced Symmetry-Breaking Charge Transfer in a Covalently Bound Tetracene Dimer Leading to Singlet-Fission Highly Rotationally Excited N2 Reveals Transition-State Character in the Thermal Decomposition of N2O on Pd(110)
Impact of Torsional and Conformational Flexibility on Pedal Motion and Thermal Expansion in Pyridyl Bisimine Cocrystals 
Early History of the Department

Departmental News

  • D. Prof. Elka Georgieva served as a Reviewer of a Collaborative Grant Proposal to the Royal Society of Chemistry.
  • Prof. Tropp did an oral presentation at the Materials Research Society 2023 Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Boston MA. “Symposium: SB04: Conducting and Functional Hydrogels—From Materials to Devices Title: Acid-Crystallized PEDOT Nanoparticles: Scalable and Biocompatible Fillers for Highly Conductive Hydrogels”
  • Dr. Hans Lischka did a presentation “Solvent-Enhanced Symmetry-breaking and Singlet-Fission in the Covalently-Bound Tetracene Dimer” on October 25, 2023, Virtual International Seminar on Theoretical Advancements (VISTA)
  • Prof. Anne Gorden gave an invited talk “Pyrrophens: Comparing Steric Tailored Architectures of Schiff Base Pyrrole Ligands with Uranyl and Transition Metals,” at the 21st Symposium on Separation Science and Technology for Energy Applications sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Knoxville, Tennessee October 24th.
  • Rhea Karkera, an undergraduate student in the Gorden group, gave a poster “Development of a Homogenous Base Metal Catalyst in Amide Hydrosilylation”, with Adineh Rezaei, Anne E.V. Gorden Michael Findlater as co-authors at the Women in Catalysis and Synthetic Chemistry Symposium held at the University of Texas at Austin November 4th.
  • Prof. Mechref gave an invited Lecture, “Proteomics, glycoproteomics, and glycomics of RLS: Hints for possible novel targeted therapeutic interventions,” at the IRLSSG 2023 Annual Meeting on October 22, 2023, part of the World Sleep 2023, October 20-25, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Prof. Mechref gave an invited Lecture, “Targeted Quantitative Analysis of Glycoproteins by Parallel Reaction Monitoring (PRM) LC-MS/MS,” at the 42nd International Symposium on the Separation of Proteins, Peptides and Polynucleotides (ISPPP 2023), Vienna, 5-8 November 2023.
  • Prof. Mechref's article published in Biomolecules, 13 (2023) 1467, https://doi.org/10.3390/biom13101467, is promoted by the journal as a “Title Story” banner.
  • Prof. Mechref served as a member of the award committee at the 29th International Symposium on Electro- and Liquid Phase-Separation Techniques, September 13-17, 2023, San Felice Circeo, Rome, Italy.

Departmental News

  • D. Prof. Elka Georgieva served as a Reviewer of a Collaborative Grant Proposal to the Royal Society of Chemistry.
  • Prof. Tropp did an oral presentation at the Materials Research Society 2023 Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Boston MA. “Symposium: SB04: Conducting and Functional Hydrogels—From Materials to Devices Title: Acid-Crystallized PEDOT Nanoparticles: Scalable and Biocompatible Fillers for Highly Conductive Hydrogels”
  • Dr. Hans Lischka did a presentation “Solvent-Enhanced Symmetry-breaking and Singlet-Fission in the Covalently-Bound Tetracene Dimer” on October 25, 2023, Virtual International Seminar on Theoretical Advancements (VISTA)
  • Prof. Anne Gorden gave an invited talk “Pyrrophens: Comparing Steric Tailored Architectures of Schiff Base Pyrrole Ligands with Uranyl and Transition Metals,” at the 21st Symposium on Separation Science and Technology for Energy Applications sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Knoxville, Tennessee October 24th.
  • Rhea Karkera, an undergraduate student in the Gorden group, gave a poster “Development of a Homogenous Base Metal Catalyst in Amide Hydrosilylation”, with Adineh Rezaei, Anne E.V. Gorden Michael Findlater as co-authors at the Women in Catalysis and Synthetic Chemistry Symposium held at the University of Texas at Austin November 4th.
  • Prof. Mechref gave an invited Lecture, “Proteomics, glycoproteomics, and glycomics of RLS: Hints for possible novel targeted therapeutic interventions,” at the IRLSSG 2023 Annual Meeting on October 22, 2023, part of the World Sleep 2023, October 20-25, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Prof. Mechref gave an invited Lecture, “Targeted Quantitative Analysis of Glycoproteins by Parallel Reaction Monitoring (PRM) LC-MS/MS,” at the 42nd International Symposium on the Separation of Proteins, Peptides and Polynucleotides (ISPPP 2023), Vienna, 5-8 November 2023.
  • Prof. Mechref's article published in Biomolecules, 13 (2023) 1467, https://doi.org/10.3390/biom13101467, is promoted by the journal as a “Title Story” banner.
  • Prof. Mechref served as a member of the award committee at the 29th International Symposium on Electro- and Liquid Phase-Separation Techniques, September 13-17, 2023, San Felice Circeo, Rome, Italy.

Departmental News

  • D. Prof. Elka Georgieva served as a Reviewer of a Collaborative Grant Proposal to the Royal Society of Chemistry.
  • Prof. Tropp did an oral presentation at the Materials Research Society 2023 Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Boston MA. “Symposium: SB04: Conducting and Functional Hydrogels—From Materials to Devices Title: Acid-Crystallized PEDOT Nanoparticles: Scalable and Biocompatible Fillers for Highly Conductive Hydrogels”
  • Dr. Hans Lischka did a presentation “Solvent-Enhanced Symmetry-breaking and Singlet-Fission in the Covalently-Bound Tetracene Dimer” on October 25, 2023, Virtual International Seminar on Theoretical Advancements (VISTA)
  • Prof. Anne Gorden gave an invited talk “Pyrrophens: Comparing Steric Tailored Architectures of Schiff Base Pyrrole Ligands with Uranyl and Transition Metals,” at the 21st Symposium on Separation Science and Technology for Energy Applications sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Knoxville, Tennessee October 24th.
  • Rhea Karkera, an undergraduate student in the Gorden group, gave a poster “Development of a Homogenous Base Metal Catalyst in Amide Hydrosilylation”, with Adineh Rezaei, Anne E.V. Gorden Michael Findlater as co-authors at the Women in Catalysis and Synthetic Chemistry Symposium held at the University of Texas at Austin November 4th.
  • Prof. Mechref gave an invited Lecture, “Proteomics, glycoproteomics, and glycomics of RLS: Hints for possible novel targeted therapeutic interventions,” at the IRLSSG 2023 Annual Meeting on October 22, 2023, part of the World Sleep 2023, October 20-25, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Prof. Mechref gave an invited Lecture, “Targeted Quantitative Analysis of Glycoproteins by Parallel Reaction Monitoring (PRM) LC-MS/MS,” at the 42nd International Symposium on the Separation of Proteins, Peptides and Polynucleotides (ISPPP 2023), Vienna, 5-8 November 2023.
  • Prof. Mechref's article published in Biomolecules, 13 (2023) 1467, https://doi.org/10.3390/biom13101467, is promoted by the journal as a “Title Story” banner.
  • Prof. Mechref served as a member of the award committee at the 29th International Symposium on Electro- and Liquid Phase-Separation Techniques, September 13-17, 2023, San Felice Circeo, Rome, Italy.

Departmental News

  • D. Prof. Elka Georgieva served as a Reviewer of a Collaborative Grant Proposal to the Royal Society of Chemistry.
  • Prof. Tropp did an oral presentation at the Materials Research Society 2023 Fall Meeting and Exhibit, Boston MA. “Symposium: SB04: Conducting and Functional Hydrogels—From Materials to Devices Title: Acid-Crystallized PEDOT Nanoparticles: Scalable and Biocompatible Fillers for Highly Conductive Hydrogels”
  • Dr. Hans Lischka did a presentation “Solvent-Enhanced Symmetry-breaking and Singlet-Fission in the Covalently-Bound Tetracene Dimer” on October 25, 2023, Virtual International Seminar on Theoretical Advancements (VISTA)
  • Prof. Anne Gorden gave an invited talk “Pyrrophens: Comparing Steric Tailored Architectures of Schiff Base Pyrrole Ligands with Uranyl and Transition Metals,” at the 21st Symposium on Separation Science and Technology for Energy Applications sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Knoxville, Tennessee October 24th.
  • Rhea Karkera, an undergraduate student in the Gorden group, gave a poster “Development of a Homogenous Base Metal Catalyst in Amide Hydrosilylation”, with Adineh Rezaei, Anne E.V. Gorden Michael Findlater as co-authors at the Women in Catalysis and Synthetic Chemistry Symposium held at the University of Texas at Austin November 4th.
  • Prof. Mechref gave an invited Lecture, “Proteomics, glycoproteomics, and glycomics of RLS: Hints for possible novel targeted therapeutic interventions,” at the IRLSSG 2023 Annual Meeting on October 22, 2023, part of the World Sleep 2023, October 20-25, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Prof. Mechref gave an invited Lecture, “Targeted Quantitative Analysis of Glycoproteins by Parallel Reaction Monitoring (PRM) LC-MS/MS,” at the 42nd International Symposium on the Separation of Proteins, Peptides and Polynucleotides (ISPPP 2023), Vienna, 5-8 November 2023.
  • Prof. Mechref's article published in Biomolecules, 13 (2023) 1467, https://doi.org/10.3390/biom13101467, is promoted by the journal as a “Title Story” banner.
  • Prof. Mechref served as a member of the award committee at the 29th International Symposium on Electro- and Liquid Phase-Separation Techniques, September 13-17, 2023, San Felice Circeo, Rome, Italy.



Awards and Accolades

Dr. MechrefProf. Mechref is elected as the spokesperson for the Horn Distinguished Professors starting January 2024.

Dr. LischkaHans Lischka was awarded the European Chemical Society, Division of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry: Lifetime Achievement Award for advancing Computational and Theoretical Chemistry to new frontiers and contributing to the impact of the discipline on chemical research on August 28, 2023

Dr. LiangThe Liang Group has been honored with the distinguished Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA, R35) from the National Institutes of Health, under Grant No. 1R35GM150780. The Liang group is awarded a total funding of $1,788,834 for the period spanning from 2023 to 2028.+ More

Dr. PappasDimitri Pappas has received an NIH SBIR grant entitled “Development of A Novel Nanoparticle Biosensor for Rapid, Point-of-Care Sepsis Diagnosis and Risk Assessment” alongside NaMi Diagnostics, LLC, a start-up company led by his former student, Dr. Ke Liu. Dr. Pappas's share of the 1-year Phase 1 grant is $65,306.

Dr. HutchinsProf. Kristin Hutchins received the Margaret C. Etter Early Career Award from the American Crystallographic Association (ACA) on July 9, 2023 at the 73rd Annual ACA Meeting.+ More

Additional Departmental News


Student Highlights

TrophiesTan Nguyen, a student of Prof. Kristufek, placed 3rd in the 3-minute thesis competition out of a pool of competitors. He was awarded $100 as a prize. His thesis was about modifying current plastic bottles with an additional monomer to increase in the efficiency of the recycling process. If this modification works, it'll increase the prices of plastic bottles but it will ensure that most of those bottles don't end up in the ocean or landfilled

TrophiesTwo articles from Prof. Gamez' group were selected as top finalists for the 2022 Edward Steers Memorial Award for the Best Paper in Glow Discharge Spectroscopy, + More

TrophiesJudith Nawaiwu, a Ph.D. Student in Prof. Mechref's Laboratory was awarded a James D. and Mary Hazlewood Memorial Graduate Fellowship

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