The UCI Department of Chemistry has an established reputation for excellence in education and research, in all areas of chemistry. We are the second largest producer of chemistry majors in the U.S. and are currently ranked 18th by US News & World Report. In the graduate school, beyond the traditional fields of Analytical, Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry, we have set the trend in interdisciplinary graduate training, with programs in Chemical & Materials Physics, Atmospheric & Environmental Chemistry , and Chemical Biology, the field in which the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Ernie Rose, a UCI researcher in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics. The 1995 Nobel Prize in Atmospheric Chemistry was awarded to our founding Chair, Prof. F. S. Rowland. We are similarly proud that Prof. Barbara Finlayson-Pitts was elected into the National Academy in 2006, joining several other faculty who hold this prestigious honor. Indeed, our awards attest to the leadership in research, and dedication to teaching, of our faculty. Explore our department: I know that you will be inspired by what you find.

Many of the research and development projects in the division span several groups and divisions, and a number of them involve partnerships with academia, industry, or both. Our annual budget of approximately $95 million comes from a diverse set of program offices within the Laboratory. These offices focus on nuclear weapons, threat reduction, homeland security, science, applied energy, and environment. They serve as the interfaces with program elements of the Department of Energy and other federal agencies such as the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Agriculture.

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Chemistry has been offered by the University of California since its founding in 1868, and the College of Chemistry was created as a unit within the University in 1872.

Since its founding in 1977, the CNF (Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility) has been a national user facility, where researchers from universities and companies across the country can access state-of-the-art fabrication and characterization tools, and learn to use them with the help of a knowledgeable technical staff. CNFs ~700 active research users represented a very diverse range of disciplines, including materials, chemistry, electronics, magnetics, MEMS, optics, biology, electro-mechanics, and bio-systems. Within these broad field, CNF particularly makes its mark with high resolution, high precision patterning, to features smaller than 20 nm.

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin offers unsurpassed opportunities for world-class research across a broad range of chemical and biochemical fields. With nearly fifty faculty, we have a reputation for excellence in teaching in addition to research. Recent rankings position us as one of the top chemistry departments in the country for both our graduate programs and our funding for research and development.

Environmental Molecular Science Institute (EMSI) at The Ohio State University conducts research to increase the understanding of the chemistry and reactivity of pollutants on environmental surfaces at the molecular level of detail. EMSI is one of only five such institutes in the United States.

The Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials (LAM) is an independent laboratory at Stanford University that supports research programs on advanced materials and fosters interdisciplinary education for undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students.

The community of faculty, post-docs, graduate students, undergraduates, and staff make Harvard a terrific place to learn, teach, and perform research in the chemical sciences. We have active research programs in organic, physical, inorganic, theoretical chemistry, and in chemical biology and chemical physics, with particularly exciting work being done at the interfaces between research areas. This site will introduce you to our faculty and staff, our facilities, courses, and our programs, with glimpses of some of our most exciting new developments, including interdepartmental resources such as the Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology-Initiative for Chemical Genetics (ICCB-ICG), the Bauer Center for Genomics Research (CGR) and the Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS).

ISIS, the Institute For Surface and Interface Science, is the home of nanoscience on the University of California, Irvine (UCI) campus. More specifically, ISIS is one of 16 Organized Research Units (ORUs) on the UCI campus. Biologists, chemists, physicists, and engineers who engage nanometer-scale structures in their research also rely on many of the same tools: Scanning probe microscopes, electron microscopes, and spectroscopies including solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) to mention just a few. The main point is that in nanoscience, intellectual and physical economies of scale are present. The Institute For Surface and Interface Science (ISIS) is a consortium of physicists, chemists, engineers, and biologists with common research interests in nanoscience. ISIS exists to do excellent research in nanoscience.

C-INC provides vital radiochemical and radioanalytical capabilities to a range of programs, including maintenance and stewardship of the nuclear stockpile, nuclear non-proliferation, environmental management, repository validation, and civilian nuclear energy programs.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) conducts unclassified research across a wide range of scientific disciplines with key efforts in fundamental studies of the universe; quantitative biology; nanoscience; new energy systems and environmental solutions; and the use of integrated computing as a tool for discovery. It is organized into 17 scientific divisions and hosts four DOE national user facilities. The Lab was founded in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cyclotron, a circular particle accelerator that opened the door to high-energy physics. It was Lawrences belief that scientific research is best done through teams of individuals with different fields of expertise, working together. His teamwork concept is a Berkeley Lab legacy that has yielded rich dividends in basic knowledge and applied technology, and a profusion of awards, including nine Nobel Prizes -- five in physics and four in chemistry.

Materials scientists at JILA use advanced ultrashort-pulsed lasers to study semiconductors and optical fibers and extreme ultraviolet and x-ray probes to investigate chemical surfaces, polymers, nanoporous materials, and patterned thin-film structures. They also study the plasma chemistry and physics of selected atoms and molecules. Materials physics research is informing the development of more efficient solar cells and semiconductor devices; unique, nanoscale lithographic patterning; and the development of new nanotechnologies. Materials research is also extending our fundamental understanding of femtosecond lasers, ultrahigh-resolution microscopy, atomic-force microscopy, surface-based chemical reactions, and many-body physics, including the dynamics of excitons, phonons, and solitons.

The Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was established in September 1992 with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), and became an NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center (MRSEC) in 1996. Research is divided into four main groups: Programable bonding; Oxides as semiconductors; Soft cellular materials; and Nanostructured materials.

The Materials Science and Component Technology Directorate carries out a multidisciplinary research program to discover and exploit new improved materials, generate new concepts associated with materials behavior, and develop advanced components based on these new and improved materials and concepts. Scientists perform theoretical and experimental research to determine the scientific origins of materials behavior and to develop procedures for modifying these materials to meet naval needs for advanced platforms, electronics, sensors, and photonics.