Dow Recruiting Event - Info Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Dow Recruiting Event hosted by the Department of Chemistry By Invitation
Franz Geiger along with an international team of researchers have discovered that metallic minerals on the deep-ocean floor produce oxygen — 13,000 feet below the surface. The surprising discovery challenges long-held assumptions that only photosynthetic organisms, such as plants and algae, generate Earth’s oxygen. Based on this study, it now appears oxygen also can be produced at the seafloor — where no light can penetrate — to support the oxygen-breathing (aerobic) sea life living in complete darkness.
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) show great potential as a source of renewable power, but their stability needs improvement. Researchers, including Mercouri Kanatzidis and Ted Sargent, are addressing this issue by developing new materials and structures to eliminate commercialization bottlenecks. By using perovskitoids, a stable material structurally similar to perovskites, they enhanced the stability of PSCs under high-temperature conditions and achieved high efficiency in large-area devices.
Xiaoyu Zhang and members of his lab made an important discovery that sheds light on the intricate mechanisms of targeted protein degradation (TPD), an emerging path to drug discovery. Recently published in Nature Chemical Biology, this study adds to the toolkit for drug development by enabling more precise targeting of specific proteins that drive cancer and other diseases.
Roel Tempelaar is a Fall 2024 Cadence/OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award Winner
Pam Beck received the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences 2024 Community Excellence Award
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Dow Recruiting Event hosted by the Department of Chemistry By Invitation
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Evanston
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