Chemistry
Nanotechnology, Molecular Dynamics, Biochemistry, etc.
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Submitted Jun 18, 2006 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry The Department of Chemistry at MIT is recognized as one of the top chemistry departments in the world. The Department has an illustrious history in sharing the MIT tradition of excellence, and has provided national leadership in chemical education and research. The Department's strong record of achievement is based on its pioneering advances in chemical research, its success in incorporating these advances into teaching and research programs, and its close relationship to government and industry. Many fundamental discoveries made in our Department have found their way into practical applications ranging from polymer synthesis to medical imaging. The Department's program of teaching and research spans the breadth of chemistry. General areas covered include biological chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, and physical chemistry. Specialized areas such as environmental chemistry, materials chemistry and nanoscience are also covered.
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Submitted Jun 18, 2006 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry Chemistry and biology are typically viewed as discrete academic disciplines, yet the two are highly integrated. Today, scientists increasingly use chemical tools to study dynamic biological processes at the gene, cellular, and organismal level. The Broad Institute's Chemical Biology program applies this approach to biomedical research and the pursuit of new methods to ameliorate disease. Its activities aim to diminish existing and future gaps between biology and medicine.
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Submitted Jun 18, 2006 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry 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.
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Submitted Jun 18, 2006 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry 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.
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Submitted Mar 06, 2006 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy, is a recognized leader in nanomaterials and nanobiology. Together with our colleagues at other Battelle managed labs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, we represent a diverse collaborative team in nanoscience, nanoengineering and nanotechnology. We are significant contributors to the nanorevolution of this Century. At PNNL we are committed to the discovery of fundamental phenomena and the application of this knowledge to develop commercial products. Our mission is to make revolutionary strides in putting nanotechnology to work for the benefit of humanity.
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Submitted Feb 19, 2006 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry The Chemical Bonding Center at Massachusetts General Hospital is part of the new National Science Foundation . Chemical Bonding Centers Program and is funded by NSFs division of chemistry . The Center represents a unique, multi-faceted, collaboration among the laboratories of Jack W. Szostak (MGH), Steven A. Benner (University of Florida) and Gerald F. Joyce (The Scripps Research Institute), bringing together different approaches to a major chemical problem. The long-term goal of the Chemical Bonding Center is the synthesis of artificial chemical systems that can undergo Darwinian evolution. Darwinian chemistry requires chemical structures that can support self-replication. The chemical system must then be able to suffer variation in structure while retaining the capacity to replicate. Variations in the structure must themselves be heritable. Darwinian behavior is the natural consequence of a molecular system that displays this combination of properties.
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Submitted Feb 12, 2006 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry C-SIC is an inorganic chemistry research group that integrates actinide/radioisotope chemistry, inorganic and organometallic synthesis, structural analysis, catalysis, spectroscopy, and surface science capabilities. We focus on scientific innovation and technical solutions to problems in defense, threat reduction, energy, and the environment.
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Submitted Feb 12, 2006 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry Our current research focuses on the electronic and optical properties of semiconductor, quantum-confined nanoparticles and nanoscale assemblies built from them. Using colloidal chemical syntheses, such nanoparticles, or nanocrystal quantum dots (NQDs), can be prepared with sub-nanometer precision having sizes from 10 to 100 ?. NQDs can be viewed as ?quantum boxes? with precisely controlled dimensions and boundary conditions. They can be chemically manipulated like large molecules and can be coupled to each other or can be incorporated into different types of inorganic or organic matrices. The ease of manipulating both the dimensions of the individual particles as well as their arrangement in a complex interacting structure makes colloidal NQDs well-suited for studies of size/structure-dependent quantum-mechanical interactions and as ideal building blocks for nanoscale engineering.
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Submitted Feb 11, 2006 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry The scientific mission of the Institute is to determine the effects of nano- and micro-particles (e.g., bacteria, natural organic matter, and mineral aggregates) on contaminant transport in geologic systems. The Institute blends the environmental science and engineering expertise and facilities of the university with those at Argonne, Sandia, and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, as well as at DuPont Engineering Technology. The Institute integrates traditional macroscopic and microscopic techniques with state-of-the-art molecular-scale approaches such as x-ray absorption spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, and molecular dynamics modeling.
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Submitted Feb 05, 2006 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry The scientific mission of the Institute is to determine the effects of nano- and micro-particles (e.g., bacteria, natural organic matter, and mineral aggregates) on contaminant transport in geologic systems. The Institute blends the environmental science and engineering expertise and facilities of the university with those at Argonne, Sandia, and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, as well as at DuPont Engineering Technology. The Institute integrates traditional macroscopic and microscopic techniques with state-of-the-art molecular-scale approaches such as x-ray absorption spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, and molecular dynamics modeling.
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Submitted Dec 29, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry 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.
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Submitted Dec 29, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry The nanophotonics theme is dedicated
to the understanding of nanoscale interactions in structures that offer the ability to control the propagation of photons below the diffraction limit and the use of nanostructured building blocks to create new photonic materials. Our research encompasses the generation, characterization, and theory of nanophotonic structures. |
Submitted Dec 03, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry The mission of the Center is to stimulate research at Stanford in the area of magnetic nanotechnology, magnetic sensing, and information storage materials, to facilitate collaboration between Stanford scientists and their industrial colleagues, to train well-rounded and highly skilled graduate students, and to develop curricular offerings in the relevant subjects. The center also operate the Magnetics Forum, which provides annual reviews, workshops, short courses, and conferences on magnetics-based technologies including nanotechnology and information storage, and the Nanomagnetics Facility, which provides processing and characterization capabilities for magnetic and other novel materials.
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Submitted Dec 03, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry 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.
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Submitted Dec 03, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry The mission of National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) is to enable rapid advancements in science, engineering and technology at the nano-scale by efficient access to nanotechnology infrastructure.
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Submitted Nov 13, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry Brown has vigorous programs in organic, inorganic, physical, and bio-chemistry as well as in related areas. Within the broad field of organic chemistry, there are research groups pursuing the total synthesis and the biosynthesis of natural products, the development of new synthetic methodology, the application and mechanisms of organometallic reactions, the intricacies of biochemical reaction mechanisms, and the dynamics of photochemical and free radical reactions. The research in inorganic and physical-inorganic chemistry spans the gamut from inorganic glasses, bioinorganic polymers and metalloenzyme models to work with multimetallic molecules, electrochemistry, and models for hydrodesulfurization. Research in biochemistry includes studies of enzyme mechanisms; the relationship between DNA sequence, conformation, and biological properties; the insertion of non-natural amino acids into proteins; and the in vivo NMR of biological tissues, organs, and organisms. Finally, physical chemistry and chemical physics are represented by theoretical and experimental programs focusing on surfaces, clusters, and liquids as well as on the development of state-of-the-art spectroscopic and ultrafast-electron-diffraction techniques.
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Submitted Apr 28, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry Both science and the economy in the 21st century will require technological breakthroughs in the control of nanometer scale structure and functions, where the top-down approach of electronics manufacture converges with the bottom-up assembly of biology. At this moment, the scientific questions are being formulated, the required tools are being developed, and the possible applications of nanotechnologies and applications will be revolutionary. The University of California, Los Angeles and University of California, Santa Barbara have joined to build the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), which will facilitate a multidisciplinary approach to develop the information, biomedical, and manufacturing technologies that will dominate science and the economy in the 21st century.
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Submitted Apr 25, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry 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.
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Submitted Jan 05, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry The Radiotracer Chemistry and Neuroimaging Program is a core element of the Brookhaven Center for Imaging and Neurosciences. It is dedicated to the development of radiotracers labeled with the short lived positron emitters as scientific tools for Positron Emission Tomography (PET). PET is a tracer method which uses compounds labeled with the short lived positron emitters to visualize and quantitate biochemical processes as well as the distribution and movement of drugs in the living human and animal body. PET research centers on the use of four short lived positron emitters.
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Submitted Jan 01, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry The National Center for Electron Microscopy is a U.S. Department of Energy user facility providing scientific researchers with essential resources for electron beam microcharacterization of materials. Located in Berkeley, California, east of the University of California, Berkeley campus, NCEM operates as part of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Established in 1983, NCEM houses several of the world's most advanced microscopes and tools for microcharacterization. Since its inception, the Center has played a key role in supporting vital research efforts carried out by hundreds of visiting national and international scientists. {keywords: nanotechnology, carbon nanotubes, thin films}
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