UW–Madison Department of Chemistry researchers design a more durable tin-based material to replace toxic lead while achieving high solar-cell efficiency One drawback of most solar cells made with efficiency-boosting perovskite is the presence …
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UW chemists find a new way around a long-established limitation to electron transfer selectivity
By Kimberly Hazen Chemists use complex compounds to create life-saving medicines, build advanced high-tech materials, and mimic natural biological systems. To make more complex compounds, synthetic chemists have relied on single-electron transfer as one of …
Exploring the interplay of molecular shape and drug activity
When many of us think of how drugs work in the body, we may first think of how a drug gets into the body, such as a pill versus an injection. In the Gellman Group …
Weix Lab to participate in $1.3 million W.M. Keck Foundation grant
Professor Dan Weix and his lab of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Department of Chemistry will join a team of researchers led by Todd Krauss, the Jay Last Professor in Arts, Sciences & Engineering in the …
NASA awards allow graduate students to dig deeper into the origins of life questions
Marcos Jusino-Maldonado and Eliyagu (Eli) Sofovich, graduate students in Professor Zoe Todd’s research group, have been awarded F.5 Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) funding. Six research areas at NASA …
New deep learning method identifies transition states in protein conformational changes
Read this story on Phys.org. In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison introduced a deep learning method capable of automatically identifying transition states in protein conformational changes, a …
Department of Chemistry recognizes more than 150 students and grants over $420,000 in scholarships at the 2025 Awards Ceremony.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Department of Chemistry held its annual Student Awards Ceremony on Thursday, April 24, 2025, celebrating more than 150 undergraduate and graduate students. Because of generous donations from many benefactors, the Department …
2024 WARF Innovation Award Winners: Professor Song Jin and Graduate Student Katelyn Michael
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) announced today that Professor Song Jin and graduate student Katelyn Michael have won the 2024 WARF Innovation Award for their work, Inventive Electrochemical Process Breaks Down ‘Forever Chemicals. Six …
Scientists use oxygen to pull valuable chemicals from organic waste
A New Approach to Building 3-D Molecules for Better Drugs
A new report in the journal Science from researchers in the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry represents a significant advancement in making the types of molecules needed in drug development. Molecules with a more 3D shape …