Department of Chemistry News


March 22, 2011

CPAC Gets New Home

CPAC has a new administrative home and a new name – The Center for Process Analysis and Control.


Jen et al. describe nanoscale molecular control in Science

Professor Alex Jen and his co-workers have reported in Science the ability to foster an extremely unlikely chemical reaction between two molecules by tethering them into the correct orientation on a gold surface.


March 9, 2011

Spinning Quantum Dots reported in Nature Nanotechnology

Prof. Daniel Gamelin and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Stefan Ochsenbein report the first successful coherent impurity spin manipulation within colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (also known as quantum dots) in Nature Nanotechnology.