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CHEMISTRY CONNECTION Spring 2013 Northwestern University Department of Chemistry CHEMISTRY CONNECTION Spring 2013 In this Issue Faculty News 2&3 Student News 4 Honor Roll 5&6 Omar Farha (left) with NuMat Technologies founders and outgoing Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu (right) NuMat Technologies Capitalizes on Success In Memoriam 6 Innovative technology and diverse group their business idea before entering the PLU News 7 members turned out to be a winning combi- competitions, Farha says the group felt nation for NuMat Technologies. The team, validated after receiving such positive representing four departments and schools feedback from venture capitalists. Letter from the 8 at Northwestern (Chemistry, Kellogg/ Business, Law and McCormick/Engineering), Just this month, NuMat received firm Chair developed a new class of nanomaterials that commitments of approximately $1.8 M from can transform how natural gas is stored in an investor group based in Houston and has motor vehicle gas tanks. a target close date in mid-April. NuMat is negotiating a lease at the Illinois Omar Farha, Chemistry Research Associate Professor, along with Chris Wilmer, Tabrez Science and Technology Park, where several Ebrahim and Ben Hernandez found success other Northwestern spin-off companies are located. NuMat has already hired three at numerous national business plan employees and hopes to grow its team size to competitions. Follow Chemistry Online nine by July 2013. NuMat won the inaugural 2012 Department “The real work starts now,” Farha said. “We of Energy National Clean Energy Business are very much looking forward to the next Plan Competition held at the White House steps in the process of creating and and the 2012 Rice Business Plan commercializing materials for NuMat’s Competition where they were awarded more applications.” than $850,000 in prize money. The Rice win sent the NuMat team to New York City to ring the closing bell at NASDAQ. NuMat was also the top prize winner at the Venture Labs Investment Competition and the Chicago Clean Energy Student Challenge. While the team was confident in Faculty Chemistry Connection Page 2 News Chemistry Faculty Lead New Research Initiatives Wasielewski Co Geiger Poeppelmeier SOFI Process to Mimic Center for Sustainable JCESR to Focus on Photosynthesis Nanotechnology to Study Impact of Batteries and Energy Nanoparticles The new Solar Fuels Institute (SOFI) is The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnolo- The Joint Center for Energy Storage leading the way in solving the world’s gy was established to develop a deeper Research (JCESR) will develop and energy crisis. Led by Michael understanding of nanotechnology’s commercialize technologies that will Wasielewski and Dick Co, SOFI will use environmental footprint and potential provide five times the energy storage at artificial photosynthesis to fuel the planet toxicity. Franz Geiger, who leads the one-fifth the cost in five years. Advancing sustainably with sunlight. Unlike current Northwestern team, and researchers from battery and energy storage technologies solar power technologies, the solar fuels six other institutions will attempt to under- for electric and hybrid cars is a critical part produced by SOFI are liquid hydrocarbon stand how the surfaces of new and aged of President Obama’s strategy to reduce fuels similar to petroleum and can be nanoparticles interact at the molecular America’s reliance on foreign oil and processed, stored, transported and level with cell membranes and what kind of reduce energy costs for U.S. consumers. consumed using existing infrastructure. biochemical pathways are triggered with “It is exciting to be part of this large effort these interactions occur. They will study to push the boundaries of battery and two freshwater organisms, feeding them energy storage technologies—areas in nanoparticles and tracking the particles to which Northwestern has a long history,” determine if they have any toxic effects on says Ken Poppelmeier, who leads the the organisms. project for Northwestern. Three Junior Faculty Join Chemistry Department Freedman Harris Shiozaki The department welcomed three new faculty members in Fall 2012. Danna Freedman completed her graduate work at Berkeley and was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT before joining Northwestern. Freedman’s research applies the approaches and tools of synthetic inorganic chemistry to understand and overcome fundamental obstacles in physics and energy research. David Harris received his Ph.D. from Berkeley and did his postdoctoral work at Harvard. Harris’ research program is dedicated to utilizing synthetic inorganic chemistry for the construction of functional inorganic molecules and materials, with an emphasis on compounds that exhibit interesting magnetic properties. Toru Shiozaki joins us from the University of Stuttgart in Germany, where he completed his postdoctoral work. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. Shiozaki’s research focuses on developing novel electronic structure theories to realize quantitative modeling of materials and biological systems. Faculty Chemistry Connection Page 3 News Faculty Awards & Honors Lin Chen Mirkin, cont. Scheidt, cont. 2013 AAAS Fellow 2012 Award for Creative Invention from the 2012 Fellow, American Association for the American Chemical Society Advancement of Science (AAAS) Franz Geiger 2012 Irving M. Klotz Professorship 2012 Featured in special issue of National Richard Silverman 2012 AAAS Fellow Geographic titled “100 Scientific Discoveries 2013 Bristol-Myers Squibb-Edward E. That Changed the World” Smissman Award of the American Chemical Brian Hoffman Society 2012 Joseph Chatt Medal from Royal Society 2012 Honorary professorship from Hunan of Chemistry University in Changsha, China 2013 Roland T. Lakey Award from Wayne 2012 Alfred Baker Award in Bioinorganic State University Chemistry from ACS 2012 Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor to Singapore 2012 Sato Memorial International Award of Joseph Hupp the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan 2012 Division of Analytical Chemistry Award 2012 Honorary degree from Nanyang in Electrochemistry from the ACS Technological University, Singapore Sir Fraser Stoddart 2012 AAAS Fellow 2012 Elected Fellow of the American 2012 Erik B. Young Lecturer, University of Academy of Arts and Sciences Mercouri Kanatzidis Maryland, College Park 2013 Cheetham Lecture Award 2012 Named Honorary Fellow of the Royal 2012 UCLA Hawthorne Lectureship, 2012 AAAS Fellow Society of Chemistry University of California Los Angeles Tobin Marks 2012 Distinguished Citizen Award from the 2013 Alan G. MacDiarmid Medal, University 2012 ACS Fall Plenary Symposium, Illinois St Andrews Society of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Samuel Stupp 2012 Theodore W. Richards Medal, American 2012 Case Western Reserve University Allen 2013 Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement Chemical Society and Constance Ford Distinguished Lecture in Biomimetic Chemistry 2012 U.S. National Academy of Sciences Series Award in the Chemical Sciences 2013 Centre for Nanomedicine Visiting 2012 Georgia Institute of Technology Professorship, University of New South 2012 Member, U.S. National Academy of Pritchett Lecture Wales Engineering 2012 University of Southern California Ming 2012 Member, National Academy of 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award and Hsieh Institute Symposium Engineering Election, Circle of Discovery, University of Maryland 2012 International Material Science Award 2012 International Scientific Advisory Board, 2012 American Chemical Society Somorjai from the International Centre for Materials Centre for Cooperative Research in Award for Creative Research in Catalysis Science, Bangalore Biomaterials-CIC biomaGUNE, Spain 2012 Doctor of Science Honoris Causa, The Milan Mrksich Alexander Statsuk Ohio State University 2013 Fellow, American Institute for Medical 2012 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Thomas Meade and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Sciences 2013 NIH/NHLBI SBIR Topic 80 Review Chair Mark Ratner Regan Thomson 2012 American Chemical Society Willard Illinois Division American Cancer Society 2012 World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS) Fellow Gibbs Medalist Research Scholar (2012–2016) Chad Mirkin 2012 Featured in special issue of National 2012 Excellence in Chemistry Symposium 2013 Materials Research Society (MRS) Geographic titled “100 Scientific Discoveries Speaker, University of Texas Southwest Fellow That Changed the World” Medical Center 2013 Honorary Member of Materials Re- search Society of India (MRSI) Karl Scheidt Michael Wasielewski 2012 Japanese Society for the Promotion of 2012 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the 2013 Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship American Chemical Society Walston Chubb Award for Innovation Student News Chemistry Connection Page 4 Love Triumphs Over Hate to Make New Compound Chemistry graduate student Jonathan Barnes had a hunch for creating an exotic new chemical compound, and his idea that the force of love is stronger than hate proved correct. He and his colleagues are the first to permanently interlock two identical tetracationic rings that normally are repelled by each other. Many experts had said it couldn’t be done. On the surface, the rings hate each other because each carries four positive charges making them tetracationic. But Barnes discovered by introducing radicals (unpaired electrons) onto the scene, the researchers could create a love-hate relationship in which love triumphs. Unpaired electrons want to pair up and be stable, and it turns out the attraction of one ring’s single electrons to
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