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New video footage captured by Berkeley Lab scientists reveals for the first time that nanoparticle growth is directed not by difference in size, but by defects. (Credit: Haimei Zheng/Berkeley Lab. Courtesy of Nature Communications.)

For decades, a textbook process known...Read more about How do nanoparticles grow? Atomic-scale movie upends 100-year-old theory

Phillip Lewis Geissler (Ph.D. '00, Chem), the Aldo De Benedictis Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley and a renowned physical chemist, passed away on July 17, 2022. He was 48 years old. He was preceded in...Read more about In memoriam: Phillip Geissler (1974-2022)

Left: a liquid dodecane flat jet produced by a microfluidic chip nozzle. Right: an incident molecular beam (red line) striking the jet surface. Researchers can analyze the velocity and angular distributions of molecules in the scattered beam (blue line).
Image courtesy...Read more about Novel method examines the gas-liquid interface in new detail

Phillip Geissler (1974-2022)

Our community has been jolted by the news that Professor Phillip Geissler, 48, has died. Phill was hiking in Utah at the time of his death.

Phill was the Aldo De Benedictis Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and a...Read more about The College is deeply saddened to announce that Professor Phillip Geissler has died

Assistant Professor Karthik Shekhar will participate in the Catalyst for a Cure sponsored by Glaucoma Research Foundation.Read more about Groundbreaking collaborative research program will explore common characteristics of Glaucoma, Alzheimer’s

(image: Robert Harris in his office circa 1980s. Photo: Dennis Galloway)

Douglas Clark announced today that Robert (Bob) A. Harris, cherished colleague and professor emeritus of chemistry, passed away on Sunday, July 10, 2022 at the age of 85.

Bob was born August...Read more about Theoretical chemist Robert Harris has passed away

The Board of Directors of The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has announced the selection six neuroscientists to receive the 2022 McKnight...Read more about Markita Landry awarded a 2022 McKnight Scholarship

Robert Curl in 2009 at the Science History Institute, Philadelphia. Photo Science History Institute/Douglas Lockard

The College of Chemistry is sad to announce that internationally acclaimed scientist and nanotechnology pioneer Robert Curl who was a Berkeley...Read more about In Memoriam: Robert Curl (1933-2022)

Joel Hildebrand, a legendary chemistry professor from 1913 to 1952 and expert skier. Photo 1935, courtesy of the Hildebrand family.

There’s something transcendent about skiing — not just in the freedom of gliding through the air, but in the pursuit of courage and beauty...Read more about Backlit: 150 Years of High Jumps

Scientists have found that cancers in the pancreas (left) readily metastasize because these tumors suppress levels of an enzyme, MSRA, that pulls oxygen atoms off amino acids called methionine. As MSRA levels decrease, methionines on proteins become more oxidized. This causes one...Read more about Scientists find trigger that sets off metastasis in pancreatic cancer