Cornhusker Chemistry:
Driving Innovation, Changing Lives
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Checco earns Rising Star award
James Checco, professor in the Department of Chemistry, has earned a COBRE Rising Star Award from the National Association of IDeA Principal Investigators (NAIPI).
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Guo looking for answers behind semiconducting material properties
Yinsheng Guo, assistant professor of chemistry, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award for his research into metal halide perovskites.
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Husker team wins prize in contest to treat disease through gene editing
Jiantao Guo (chemistry) and Janos Zempleni (molecular nutrition) were named first-round winners in a National Institutes of Health competition aimed at generating solutions for delivering genome-editing technology to the cells of people with rare and common diseases.
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Lai Lab developing biosensors to bolster national defense
Rebecca Lai is leading a research team that hopes to transform the concept of a glucose strip to a next-generation detection device that will expand national defense.
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Husker chemists, engineers craft adjustable arrays of microscopic lenses
Stephen Morin and colleagues have crafted smaller lenses whose size and optical properties can be modified in seconds when subjected to certain stimuli.
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NSRI, NU awarded $24.5M contract to develop acute radiation syndrome prophylactic
David Berkowitz, Rick Evans, and Ken Bayles are advancing development of a first-of-its-kind prophylactic to help protect U.S. troops from the effects of acute radiation syndrome.
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