Researchers team up to search for novel therapeutics that may eventually help astronauts better cope with the adverse effects of space travel.
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Researchers create a system that can scale-up production of the smallest — but among the most useful — materials of this century.
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Chemical & Engineering News highlighted work by USC chemists Richard Brutchey and Noah Malmstadt in which they designed a microfluidic reactor that produces uniform droplets across a parallel device network. They used the device to make platinum nanoparticles in ionic liquid solvent droplets, whose size were invariant to changes in pressure, flow rate, and channel surface chemistry across the parallel network.
The research could one day create a sustainable fuel source from greenhouse gas emissions.
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Globally renowned scientists gather for three-day symposium on “Multiscale Modeling of Complex Molecules and Life Processes.”
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Moh El-Naggar, assistant professor of physics, biological sciences and chemistry, has been installed as the Robert D. Beyer (’81) Early Career Chair in Natural Sciences.
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With six high-profile papers published in the past seven months, biochemists in The Bridge@USC are poised to disrupt the future of pharmaceutical development and enable the advancement of personalized medicine.
Chemistry alumnus Dave Chapman has practiced veterinary medicine in countries such as Nepal, Costa Rica and Indonesia.
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The researchers arrive as part of a new collaboration between USC and Mexico’s Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología.
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