PhD Degree In Chemistry Research Articles

Studying chemistry in cyberspace

Jun-Hyeong earned his BS degree in physics and chemistry from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). He later moved to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) to obtain a PhD degree in chemistry under the guidance of Prof. Mu-Hyun (Mookie) Baik. During his PhD studies, he focused on gaining a quantitative understanding of the electronic structure of redox non-innocent ligands using multiconfigurational methods. He is now expanding his research area to developing density functional methods for the electro-inductive effect, namely fractional charge density functional theory (DFT). Jun-Hyeong earned his BS degree in physics and chemistry from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). He later moved to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) to obtain a PhD degree in chemistry under the guidance of Prof. Mu-Hyun (Mookie) Baik. During his PhD studies, he focused on gaining a quantitative understanding of the electronic structure of redox non-innocent ligands using multiconfigurational methods. He is now expanding his research area to developing density functional methods for the electro-inductive effect, namely fractional charge density functional theory (DFT). Photodynamic treatment of acute vascular occlusion by using an iron–nitrosyl complexChoe et al.ChemMarch 15, 2023In BriefSpatiotemporally controllable nitric oxide transporter, iron–nitrosyl complex, was synthesized and precisely characterized by various physicochemical methods, including X-ray crystallography, together with quantum chemical calculations. Normal retinal blood vessels were expanded by the photoreactive iron–nitrosyl complex. Occluded retinal vessels were effectively reperfused by nitric oxide released from the iron–nitrosyl complex via photoreaction in animal disease models. Our strategy demonstrates potential in the treatment option for acute vascular occlusive diseases. Full-Text PDF Open Access

Reaction: Process changes of PVC manufacture driven by ethane chlorination

Renyang Zheng received his PhD degree in chemistry (2012) from Peking University and now is a professor in the Science and Technology Department of Sinopec Corporation. His research interests include industrial catalysis and metal catalysis. Zhicheng Liu received his PhD degree in chemistry (2003) from Fudan University and now is a professor and senior expert at the Sinopec Shanghai Research Institute of Petrochemical Technology. His research interests include catalysis of C1 chemistry and CO₂ utilization. Zaiku Xie received his PhD degree in chemical engineering (2000) from the East China University of Science and Technology and now is a professor and deputy chief engineer at Sinopec Corporation. His research interests include industrial catalysis and zeolite catalysis. He was elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017.

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Catalyst: Qubits from the Bottom Up

Yi Liu obtained his PhD degree in chemistry in 2004 from the University of California, Los Angeles, under the direction of Sir J. Fraser Stoddart. After his postdoctoral research with Prof. Barry Sharpless at the Scripps Research Institute, he joined the Molecular Foundry in 2006 as a staff scientist and has been directing the Organic and Macromolecular Synthesis Facility since 2016. Francesca M. Toma obtained a PhD in physics from Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati with Profs. Scoles and Prato, was a Marie Curie researcher with Profs. Wudl and Stucky at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was a postdoctoral scholar with Prof. Fischer at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been a staff scientist in the Chemical Sciences Division since 2013 and the Materials Integration Thrust Coordinator at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis since 2017.

Reaction: Industrial Perspective on Single-Atom Catalysis

Chuan-Ming Wang received his PhD degree in chemistry (2008) from Fudan University and now is a professor at Sinopec Shanghai Research Institute of Petrochemical Technology (SRIPT). His research interests include computational catalysis. Yang-Dong Wang received his PhD degree in chemistry (2000) from Nanjing University and now is a professor and director of the R&D management department at SRIPT. His research interests include industrial catalysis and olefin technology. Jun-Wei Ge received his PhD degree in chemistry (2013) from Wuhan University and now is a senior engineer at SRIPT. His research interests include heterogeneous catalysis for fine chemicals. Zai-Ku Xie received his PhD degree in chemical engineering (2000) from East China University of Science and Technology and now is a professor and director of the Science and Technology Department at Sinopec Corporation. His research interests include industrial catalysis and zeolite catalysis. He was elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017.

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Reaction: A New Option for Producing Amino Acids from Renewable Biomass?

Junwei Ge received his PhD degree in chemistry from Wuhan University in 2013 and now is a senior engineer at the SINOPEC Shanghai Research Institute of Petrochemical Technology (SRIPT). Qi Song received his PhD degree in chemistry from the Dalian Institute of Chemical and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013 and now is a senior engineer at SRIPT. Yuqing Jia received her PhD degree in chemistry from Peking University in 2015 and now is a senior engineer at SRIPT. Prof. Weimin Yang received his PhD degree in physical chemistry from Nanjing University in 1994 and now is the president of SRIPT and director of the State Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Engineering and Industrial Catalysis. His research interests mainly focus on the study and development of novel technologies in energy-saving and pollution-reducing chemical engineering for petrochemicals.

Catalyst: Is the Amino Acid a New Frontier for Biorefineries?

Prof. Ning Yan obtained his BS and PhD degrees from Peking University in 2004 and 2009, respectively. Thereafter, he worked as a Marie-Curie research fellow at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. He joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) as an assistant professor, established the Lab of Green Catalysis in 2012, and was promoted to the position of associate professor in 2018. Yunzhu Wang received her BE degree from NUS in 2014. She joined Prof. Yan’s group in the same year and is currently pursuing her PhD. Her research interests include nanoscale metal catalysts and their applications in producing renewable nitrogen-containing chemicals.

In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy for Energy Applications

Jing Li obtained her BSc from Shandong University, China in 2012 and her PhD from Stony Brook University in 2018, both in Material Science. She was awarded the Presidential Scholar Award twice (2014 and 2015) from the Microscopy Society of America. Her PhD research is on probing reaction dynamics of battery electrode materials in real time using in situ transmission electron microscopy. She is currently working in the semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley, USA. Grayson Johnson obtained his BSc in Chemistry with a specialization in chemical physics at the University of Virginia (2016). Currently, he is a PhD candidate at the University of Virginia with Prof. Sen Zhang. His research interests are primarily in both theoretical and experimental surface chemistry of nanomaterials for oxygen electrocatalysis and CO2-to-fuel conversion. Sen Zhang is an assistant professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia. He obtained his BSc in polymer chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China (2008) and his PhD degree in Chemistry from Brown University (2014). He was a NatureNet Postdoc Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania from 2014 to 2016. His current research interests include controlled synthesis, assembly, and characterization of nanosized electrocatalysis for energy or environmental applications. Dong Su is a staff scientist at Center for Functional Nanomaterials in Brookhaven National Laboratory and an adjunct professor in the Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Department of Stony Brook University. He obtained his BSc (1998) and PhD (2003) in condensed matter physics from Nanjing University, China. Before joining Brookhaven Lab in 2008, he performed postdoctoral work at EPFL in Switzerland, at University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign, and at Arizona State University. His current research focuses on developing advanced electron micrscopy techniques for in situ characterization of energy-related materials.

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Organic Photovoltaics: Focus on Its Strengths

Darren J. Lipomi is an associate professor in the Department of NanoEngineering at the University of California, San Diego. He earned his PhD degree in chemistry from Harvard University in 2010 under George M. Whitesides, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University from 2010 to 2012 under Zhenan Bao. He is a recipient of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award and the NIH Director's New Innovator Award. His current research focuses on the mechanical properties of electronic materials for applications in energy and health care.

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Interview with Irving W Wainer

Irving W Wainer, Senior Investigator in the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute on Aging/NIH received his PhD degree in chemistry from Cornell University and did postdoctoral doctoral studies in molecular biology (University of Oregon) and clinical pharmacology (Thomas Jefferson Medical School). He worked for the US FDA and held positions at St Jude's Children's Research Hospital, at McGill University as Professor in the Department of Oncology, and as a Professor of Pharmacology at Georgetown University. Wainer has published over 350 scientific papers, 10 books, 25 book chapters and holds 11 patents. His awards include: 'A.J.P. Martin Medal' presented by the Chromatographic Society; Doctor HonorisCausa awarded by the Medical University of Gdansk (Gdansk, Poland, 2006), Doctor HonorisCausa awarded by the Department of Medicine, University of Liege (Liege, Belgium, 2012), and the 2013 Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Fields of Analytical Chemistry. Wainer's research includes the development of new therapeutic agents for the treatment of congestive heart failure, cancer, pain and depression, many of which are in the later stages of drug development. His laboratory has also continued the development of cellular membrane affinity chromatography technology, and recent work includes the development of columns containing immobilized forms of the breast cancer resistance protein found in cellular and nuclear membranes and mitochondrial membrane columns. Wainer's laboratory has also continued its study of the effect of disease progression and aging on drug metabolism in critically ill and terminal patients. Interview was conducted by Lisa Parks, Assistant Commissioning Editor of Bioanalysis.

Phillip Sharp—Nobel Prize for Discovery of “Split Genes”

American molecular biologist Phillip Allen Sharp received the 1993 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery of “split genes.” He found that these genes are the most common type of gene structure in higher organisms, including humans. He shared the prize with Richard John Roberts (1943-), who discovered split genes independently of Sharp. The discovery of split genes has been of fundamental importance to basic research in biology as well as medical research on the development of cancer and other diseases. The discovery of split genes led to the prediction of the genetic process of splicing. Sharp was born on June 6, 1944, in Falmouth, Ky, on a small farm where his parents grew tobacco and corn. He attended Union College in Barbourville in southeastern Kentucky and received his BA degree in 1966. He subsequently enrolled at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and earned a PhD degree in chemistry in 1969. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena from 1969 to 1971. In 1971, Sharp became a member of the faculty of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in southeastern New York State, where he worked (from 1971 to 1972) with 1962 Nobel laureate James Watson (1928-). From 1972 to 1974, Sharp was a senior research investigator at the laboratory. Sharp left Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1974 to join the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, where his prize-winning research was performed. In the 1980s and the early 1990s, he was associate director and then director of the MIT Center for Cancer Research. In 1991, he was appointed head of the Department of Biology at MIT, and in 1992, he became the first Salvador E. Luria (1912-1991) Professor, a chair established at MIT to honor the 1969 Nobel laureate. In 1977, Sharp and his colleagues discovered that a single molecule of messenger RNA (mRNA) from an adenovirus corresponds to 4 separate discontinuous segments of DNA. (The segments of DNA that code for proteins [exons] are separated by long stretches of DNA [introns] that do not contain genetic information; the terms exon and intron were coined by Walter Gilbert [1932-], the 1980 Nobel laureate in chemistry.) Working independently of Sharp, Richard Roberts and his research team made the same discovery. Previously, biologists had believed that genes were continuous stretches of DNA that served as direct templates for mRNA in the assembly of proteins. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Sharp has received many honors and awards, including the Eli Lilly Award (1980), the Ricketts Award (1985), the Sloan Prize (1986), the Gairdner Foundation Award (1986), the Horwitz Prize (1988), the Lasker Award (1988), and the Dickson Prize (1990). He was honored on a stamp issued by the Palau Islands in 2000.

Hartmut Michel—Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

The 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to 3 German biochemists, Hartmut Michel (1948-), Johann Deisenhofer (1943-), and Robert Huber (1937-), for their determination of the structure of certain proteins that are essential to photosynthesis. Michel performed the work that was the basis for the 3 scientists’ joint research. They wanted to determine the 3-dimensional structure of the photosynthetic reaction center, a 4-protein complex, that is crucial to the process of photosynthesis in certain bacteria. The bacterial species that Michel selected to investigate was Rhodopseudomonas viridis. After 4 years (1978 to 1982) of experimentation, he was able to reduce the protein complex to a pure crystalline form, thus making it possible to determine the protein structure atom-by-atom with x-ray diffraction technique. For 2 years (1982 to 1984), the 3 scientists mapped the protein complex structure using x-ray crystallography. Deisenhofer received the Nobel Prize “for his part in work that revealed the 3-dimensional structure of closely linked proteins that are essential to photosynthesis,” and Huber received his share for using x-ray crystallography to elucidate the positions of the approximately 10,000 atoms in the protein complex. This work was significant not only to the understanding of photosynthesis but also for its applications; membrane-bound proteins are important in many disease states. Michel was born on July 18, 1948, in Ludwigsburg in southwestern Germany, near Stuttgart. He studied biochemistry at the University of Tübingen and received a PhD degree in chemistry from the University of Würzburg in 1977. After receiving his doctorate, Michel remained at the University of Würzburg for 2 years (1977 to 1979) as a researcher. He left Würzburg in 1979 to become a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry at Martinsried (Germany), where he did his Nobel Prize–winning work. He worked at Martinsried until 1987, when he became director of the staff of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Michel has received the Biophysics Prize of the American Physics Society (1986), the Otto Klung Prize for Chemistry (1986), and the Otto Bayer Prize (1988). He was honored on 2 stamps issued in 1995, one by Grenada and the other by Guyana.

What mitochondria have told me.

What mitochondria have told me.

Tissue Reactions to Plastic and Metallic Wear Products of Joint Endoprostheses

Professor Willert is chief of the orthopaedic clinic at the Georg-August University of Gottingen, Germany. He was born in 1934 in Greiz, Thuringen, where he received his primary education. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Leipzig in 1958. After 2 years of internship in local hospitals, he was able to go to West Germany and Switzerland. For the next 9 years he received intensive training in pathology, especially bone pathology, at the Universities of Heidelberg and Zurich. His orthopaedic training began in 1969 at the University of Frankfurt/Main. He became head of the department of bone diseases in the orthopaedic hospital in Frankfurt in 1974. He was appointed to his present position in 1979. Professor Willert is widely known for his work on tissue reactions to biomaterials and their use in total joint replacement. Dr. Semlitsch was born in 1933 in Graz, Austria. He was educated in Graz and obtained his PhD degree in chemistry from the University of Graz. He worked as an industrial chemist in Graz, and later in Sweden. From 1966 until his retirement in 1986, he was a member of the Department of Research and Development of the Gebruder Sulzer Aktiengesellschaft in Winterthur, Switzerland. Dr. Semlitsch's work has concentrated on the chemical properties of total joint implants and the tissue reactions associated with these implants. Like Professor Willert, Dr. Semlitsch is a well recognized authority in his field.

An Adequate Soviet Review

"An Adequate Soviet Review." Nuclear Applications, 3(7), pp. 452–453 Additional informationNotes on contributorsH. A. DrollH. A. Droll is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He obtained the PhD degree in chemistry at the Pennsylvania State University in 1956. His current specialty is coordination chemistry and chemical equilibrium problems, although his research interests have included fused-salt electrochemical cells, the chemistry of the rare-earth elements, and chemical problems in nuclear reactor technology.