Latest USC Dornsife News in the Topic Chemistry http://dornsife.usc.edu/news/topics/66/chemistry/ During a Maymester course, 26 mostly environmental studies students in USC Dornsife who completed a Spring class teaching them how to dive are now headed to Guam and Palau.]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:00 -0500 Scientists at USC have developed a potential pathway to cheap, stable solar cells made from nanocrystals so small they can exist as a liquid ink and be painted or printed onto clear surfaces. The solar nanocrystals are about four...]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:22:00 -0500     Undergraduate researcher: Julia Lazzari-Dean Major: Chemistry Year: Sophomore Student funding sources: Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship and Women in Science and ...]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:41:00 -0500 Diamonds are forever — or, at least, the effects of this diamond on quantum computing may be. A team that includes scientists from USC has built a quantum computer in a diamond, the first of its kind to include...]]> Thu, 5 Apr 2012 09:53:00 -0500 Scientists at USC and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have discovered a new route by which a proton (a hydrogen atom that lost its electron) can move from one molecule to another — a basic component of countless ...]]> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:38:00 -0500 Trustee Ray R. Irani Ph.D. ’57, executive chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp. and namesake of the university’s Ray R. Irani Hall, was appointed the Judge Widney Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry by...]]> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:06:00 -0500 Ada Yonath, one of just four women ever to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, told USC students last month what it takes to be a successful scientist: curiosity, passion and perseverance. Yonath, professor of structural biology at...]]> Fri, 2 Mar 2012 08:22:00 -0500 USC Dornsife's Kevin Le and USC School of Cinematic Arts' Edward Saavedra, both sophomores, took the top prize in the inaugural science-themed filmmaking competition for their short movie Time. USC Dornsife students also won an honorable mention.]]> Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:03:00 -0500 Researchers at USC have built a theoretical working model of the cellular engine that powers all life. The model will allow scientists to better understand the forces of life at the molecular level and potentially replicate them,...]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:30:00 -0500 Richard Brutchey is named a 2012 Emerging Investigator by ChemComm, a publication of the Royal Society of Chemistry.]]> Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:27:00 -0500 A team of USC scientists has developed an easy-to-make material that can scrub large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air. One day in the future, large artificial trees made from the material could be used to lower the...]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:22:00 -0500 The chemist and USC Distinguished Professor Emeritus was among the first at USC elected to the National Academy of Sciences.]]> Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:59:00 -0500 USC recently opened the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center, which houses the world’s first commercial operational quantum processor. USC Dornsife researchers will play a key role in advancing the center’s groundbreaking research.]]> Tue, 3 Jan 2012 09:50:00 -0500 USC Dornsife scientist pioneers high-throughput prediction of DNA shape]]> Thu, 8 Dec 2011 13:46:00 -0500 Nobel Prize winner George Olah and Surya Prakash of USC Dornsife have found new traction in their methanol economy concept with their latest publication, the Open Fuel Standard Act of 2011 and the new discoveries of shale gas.]]> Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:50:00 -0500 Physicist Clifford Johnson and chemist Anna Krylov of USC Dornsife launch USC’s first filmmaking competition focusing on science themes.]]> Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:13:00 -0500 The USC Dornsife chemist and Nobel laureate received the highest prize in Hungary for academic achievement affecting all of humanity.]]> Fri, 9 Sep 2011 15:42:00 -0500 A team of USC Dornsife scientists has developed a robust, efficient method of using hydrogen as a fuel source. Hydrogen makes a great fuel because it can be converted easily to electricity in a fuel cell and because it is carbon...]]> Thu, 1 Sep 2011 08:54:00 -0500 Scientists have taken the next major step toward quantum computing, which will use quantum mechanics to revolutionize the way information is processed. Quantum computers will capitalize on the mind-bending properties of quantum...]]> Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:10:00 -0500 USC Dornsife researchers uncover how the inefficiency of activation-induced deoxycytidine deaminase is good for your immune system.]]> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:54:00 -0500 Some water molecules split the difference between gas and liquid, a study in Nature shows.]]> Wed, 8 Jun 2011 11:08:00 -0500 The piano in Ray R. Irani Hall provides molecular and computational biology students and faculty a welcome break from lab work.]]> Mon, 23 May 2011 16:24:00 -0500 Through their two companies, Alisa Rogers and her husband Philip have forever changed the wind energy industry.]]> Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:47:00 -0500 USC College's Mark Thompson recognized on Thomson Reuters' Top 100 Chemists, 2000–2010 list.]]> Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:34:00 -0500 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:33:00 -0500