Your body keeps its neurons firing, immune system working and serotonin flowing with a clever bit of engineering: tiny capsules that deliver signaling molecules from place to place in the...Read more

Tiny frameworks to enter clinical testing for cancer treatment

Joining different kinds of materials can lead to all kinds of breakthroughs. It’s an essential skill that allowed humans to make everything from skyscrapers (by reinforcing concrete with steel) to...Read more

University of Chicago chemist Timothy Berkelbach and neurobiologist Mark Sheffield have been awarded Sloan research fellowships. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation gives the awards annually to early-career scholars identified as...Read more

Molecular technique holds potential to make chemistry greener and more precise

The human brain largely remains a black box: How the network of fast-moving electrical signals turns into thought, movement and disease remains poorly understood. But it is electrical, so it...Read more

Prof. Emeritus Jack Halpern, widely recognized for his pioneering and influential contributions to the field of inorganic chemistry, died Jan. 31. He was 93. The Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor...Read more

There’s a particular set of chemical reactions that governs many of the processes around us—everything from bridges corroding in water to your breakfast breaking down in your gut. One crucial...Read more

Scales are the material of choice for animals from pangolins to fish: They’re customizable, water-friendly, strong but flexible, and easy to fix when damaged. Scientists would like to recreate this...Read more

Separating different versions of elements—isotopes—is an excruciatingly difficult task: They differ by just one or two extra neutrons, an infinitesimal difference in mass. But University of Chicago researchers announced Oct...Read more

Over the past half-century, scientists have shaved silicon films down to just a wisp of atoms in pursuit of smaller, faster electronics. For the next set of breakthroughs, though, they’ll...Read more

New research provides scientists looking at single molecules or into deep space a more accurate way to analyze imaging data captured by microscopes, telescopes and other devices. The improved method...Read more

Chemistry professor Jiwoong Park has won a $120,000 award over two years from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation to support a postdoctoral fellow who will help develop advanced photovoltaic...Read more

Prof. Chuan He to lead Chicago’s first Center of Excellence in Genomic Science

Members of the University of Chicago chemistry faculty have collected a variety of local, national and international distinctions in recent weeks. Prof. Yamuna Krishnan download Yamuna Krishnan , professor in...Read more

Unique process creates knotted chemical structures

Silicon-based invention is tiny, soft, wirelessly functional

Asst. Prof. Jared Lewis download Jared Lewis has been selected for a 2016 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. Lewis, an assistant professor in chemistry...Read more

New light has been shed on solar power generation using devices made with polymers, thanks to collaboration between scientists in the University of Chicago’s chemistry department, the Institute for Molecular...Read more

Picture slide show memorial service reception for Professor Gregory L. Hillhouse, Department of Chemistry, the University of Chicago. Held Thursday, June 5, 2014 at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. To download the...Read more