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October 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Join us for our mixer in Washington, DC, on Aug. 17. All members, friends, and @ncstate.bsky.social alumni are invited for drinks and snacks in a relaxed atmosphere. Register by Aug. 11.
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July 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🥳In the latest issue of the Journal of Chemical Education, @pubs.acs.org, our own Professor Emerita Maria Oliver-Hoyo was honored for her retirement, celebrating decades of service to her students @ncstate.bsky.social and the wider chem education community.
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A Trailblazer: Introduction to the Festschrift for Maria Oliver-Hoyo
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June 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Our warmest congratulations to Dr. Audrey Fikes
@ncstatechem.bsky.social and Dr. Melissa Srougi (Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences), who recently received the 2025 Warwick A. Arden Interdisciplinary Teaching Excellence Award.
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June 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Exciting news! @fncastellano.bsky.social has received the university’s top honor for research and mentorship and has been inducted into the Research Leadership Academy. Congratulations, Prof. Castellano! 🌟
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Four Faculty Members Win the 2025 Outstanding Research Award
Felix N. Castellano was one of the four faculty who won the 2025 Outstanding Research Award. The four award winners will be inducted into the Research Leadership Academy.
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May 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Congratulations, Julia Linville, for your role as speaker at our department's celebration of the class of Spring 25! You have achieved remarkable things during your time in the department, serving as a role model inside and outside the classroom.
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May 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
🎓 💡 Huge kudos and congratulations to our students, both graduate and undergraduate, whose graduation was celebrated last Friday by the department during a wonderful ceremony. 🎓 💡 Check it out: chemistry.sciences.ncsu.edu/2025/05/09/a...
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A Celebration of the Class of Spring 2025
The Department of Chemistry at NC State celebrated the Class of Spring 2025 in a wonderful graduation ceremony on Friday, May 2, 2025.
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May 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Congrats to Cade Brady, selected as a Goldwater Scholar for the 2025-26 academic year! Cade is an undergrad majoring in chemistry. Cade also received the 2025 Matthew Boudreau Undergraduate Summer Research Award.
We are proud of you!
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NC State Student Cade Brady Honored with Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
Cade Brady, a third-year student studying chemistry, is one of this year’s 441 national awardees for the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
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April 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🥳 Congratulations to Catherine Odhiambo from the Williams group, who won first place in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences category at the 2025 Graduate Student Research Symposium! 🥳
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April 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🥳 Excited to share that @wolfpackbark.bsky.social was recently awarded the 2025 Research and Development Division Award and the William H. Aiken Prize by TAPPI, a not-for-profit organization involved in areas of pulp and paper.
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Lucian Lucia Recognized by TAPPI
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April 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
We're thrilled to announce that Postdoc Alexandra Barth from the Castellano Research Group has been selected for the prestigious Chemical Abstracts Service Future Leaders program! 🤩
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Barth, 2025 CAS Future Leaders Program Awardee
Dr. Alexandra Barth, postdoctoral scholar, has been selected for the CAS Future Leaders program.
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April 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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March 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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March 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Charles Drew, "father of blood banks," revolutionized blood storage. Despite racism, he excelled, pioneering techniques and protesting segregation. His work saves lives.
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February 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Welcome to our newest faculty member, Dr. Chris Stanisky
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February 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
In 1916, St. Elmo Brady, born in Louisville, Kentucky, became the first African American to earn a PhD in chemistry. His groundbreaking work at the University of Illinois focused on carboxylic acids. #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #chempack
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February 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
🔥 As global concerns about water scarcity and escalating greenhouse gas emissions grow, the design and understanding of sorbents for gas capture are more critical than ever. 💧
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An Ultramicroporous Physisorbent Sustained by a Trifecta of Directional Supramolecular Interactions
2D and 3D porous coordination networks (PCNs) as exemplified by metal–organic frameworks, MOFs, have garnered interest for their potential utility as sorbents for molecular separations and storage. The inherent modularity of PCNs has enabled the development of crystal engineering strategies for systematic fine-tuning of pore size and chemistry in families of related PCNs. The same cannot be said about one-dimensional (1D) coordination polymers, CPs, which are understudied with respect to porosity. Here, we report that permanent porosity is exhibited by the previously reported family of linear (L) 1D porous CPs, PCPs, of formula [M(bipy)(NO3)2(H2O)2]n (L-chn-1-M-NO3: M = Co, Ni; bipy = 4,4′-bipyridine). Their pore structure comprises 1D channels sustained by three types of directional interaction: coordination bonds; hydrogen bonds; offset π–π interactions. Heating L-chn-1-M-NO3 in vacuo or above 383 K resulted in removal of the aqua ligands and concomitant transformation to nonporous anhydrate phases ZZ-chn-1-Co-NO3 (ZZ = zigzag) and HT-Ni. Exposure of these anhydrate phases to ambient humidity resulted in regeneration of L-chn-1-M-NO3. That L-chn-1-M-NO3 exhibits permanent porosity was supported by CO2 and water sorption measurements, which afforded reversible type I and stepped (S-shaped) isotherm profiles, respectively, making this work the first demonstration of reversible water sorption in a 1D PCP. The water sorption properties are pertinent to atmospheric water harvesting: onset of uptake at ca. 12% relative humidity; activation required only mild heat or vacuum; relatively fast adsorption/desorption kinetics; performance retained over >100 adsorption/desorption cycles. We project water harvesting productivity of L-chn-1-M-NO3 of 3.3 L kg–1 d–1, on par with some leading MOF desiccants. DFT and Monte Carlo simulations provide insights into the structure of water molecules in the channels, provide their influence on the host framework, and provide a plausible argument for the experimental water vapor isotherms. This work demonstrates that easily scalable 1D PCPs, a potentially vast class of materials, can exhibit porous structures sustained by three types of directional supramolecular synthons and offer desirable water sorption properties.
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January 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM