Department of Chemistry, SCS, UIUC
Featured News Stories
 | Can a computer have a sense of smell? Dr. Ken Suslick's sensors are paving the way for computers to be able to detect smells. 3/10/2008 |
 | Mechanism of blood clot elasticity revealed in high definition Blood clots can save lives, staunching blood loss after injury, but they can also kill. Let loose in the bloodstream, a clot can cause a heart attack, stroke or pulmonary embolism. A new study reveals in atomic detail how a blood protein that is a fundamental building block of blood clots gives them their life-enhancing, or life-endangering, properties. 2/25/2008 |
 | New approach may render disease-causing staph harmless Researchers at the University of Illinois helped lead a collaborative effort to uncover a completely new treatment strategy for serious Staphylococcus aureus ("Staph") infections. 2/14/2008 |
 | The Fifty Finest Dr. Jeff Moore of the Department of Chemistry was recently named as one of the Scientific American top 50 science leaders of the year. 1/17/2008 |
 | New buffer resists pH change, even as temperature drops Dr. Yi Lu and students have developed the first buffer system that maintains pH independent of temperature. Click the title above for the News Bureau release, or click here for the RSC Article. 1/14/2008 |
 | Dr. Burke's students' research was recently highlighted in Nature Chemical Biology Dan Palacios and Tom Anderson's recent discovery challenging the current model for the mechanism of action of the widely utilized antifungal agent amphotericin B was recently covered in an article in Nature Chemical Biology. Read the article by Sergey A. Kozmin here. 1/3/2008 |
 | Dr. White and Mark Chen's Research Article Selected as Top Ten Science Breakthrough of the Year Dr. M. Christina White and Mark Chen's recent research paper regarding aliphatic C-H oxidation has been selected as a top ten breakthrough of the year in science by Science Magazine. 12/21/2007 |
 | Off-the-peg organic synthesis goes commercial Dr. Martin Burke and students have discovered a more efficient way to produce new small molecules using only one coupling reaction. 12/20/2007 |
 | Catalyst-free chemistry makes self-healing materials more practical A new catalyst-free, self-healing material system developed by researchers at the University of Illinois offers a far less expensive and far more practical way to repair composite materials used in structural applications ranging from airplane fuselages to wind-farm propeller blades 11/27/2007 |
 | The key to unlocking the secret of highly specific DNAzyme catalysis Dr. Yi Lu and Dr. Taekjip Ha have discovered the key to unlocking the secret of highly specific DNAzyme catalysis. 11/12/2007 |
