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ChatGPT accelerates chemistry discovery for climate response, study shows

August 7, 2023
UC Berkeley experts taught ChatGPT how to quickly create datasets on difficult-to-aggregate research about certain materials that can be used to fight climate change, according to a new paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.Read more about ChatGPT accelerates chemistry discovery for climate response, study shows

Michael Zuerch receives prestigious DOE Early Career Research Program Award

August 4, 2023
The College of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor of Chemistry Michael Zuerch has received a prestigious DOE Early Career Research Program Award for his research entitled "Ultrafast mechanisms of chirality control in electronic materials".Read more about Michael Zuerch receives prestigious DOE Early Career Research Program Award

Making Renewable, Infinitely Recyclable Plastics Using Bacteria

July 27, 2023
Scientists engineered microbes to make the ingredients for recyclable plastics – replacing finite, polluting petrochemicals with sustainable alternatives.Read more about Making Renewable, Infinitely Recyclable Plastics Using Bacteria

8 Teams Win Funding in Final Year of Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease

July 27, 2023

Photo courtesty of Scialog. Top row: Abhishek Shrivastava, Kai Zhang, Will Ludington, Karthik Shekhar, Mei Shen. 2nd row: Heather Bean, Yanjiao Zhou, Chun-Jun Guo, Annie Ciernia, Christopher Whidbey, Stephanie Cologna. 3rd row: Leah Pyter, Sarah MacEachern, Kendall Corbin, Dhara...Read more about 8 Teams Win Funding in Final Year of Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease

Ashok Ajoy named 2023 recipient of Ampere Prize and Anatole Abragam Prize

July 26, 2023
Prof. Ajoy was recognized for his substantial contributions to solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance in view of his creativity, intellectual brilliance, productivity and further promise in scientific research.Read more about Ashok Ajoy named 2023 recipient of Ampere Prize and Anatole Abragam Prize

CD Lounge (Celebrating Diversity Lounge) officially opens

July 18, 2023

Photo: NODE (Normalization of Diversity and Equity) members: Marisol Navarro, Julia Martin, Angel Gonzalez-Valero, Abigail Hinojosa, Andre Sanchez, Vanessa Gonzalez.

The College of Chemistry and the student group NODE (Normalization of Diversity and...Read more about CD Lounge (Celebrating Diversity Lounge) officially opens

Hand-held water harvester powered by sunlight could combat water scarcity

July 6, 2023

Omar Yaghi, the inventor of MOFs, led the study on MOF-powered water harvesters that was published July 6 in Nature Water. (Photo courtesy of Omar Yaghi)

UC Berkeley researchers have designed an extreme-weather proven, hand-held device that can extract and convert water...Read more about Hand-held water harvester powered by sunlight could combat water scarcity

Q&A: Kay Xia: Inaugural College of Chemistry Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholar

June 19, 2023

Fifth year graduate student Kay Xia (lab of Dean Toste) is the first recipient of the College of Chemistry Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Scholar Program. This scholarship covers a year of tuition and includes a stipend for a graduate student to work on a project that's related to DEI in...Read more about Q&A: Kay Xia: Inaugural College of Chemistry Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholar

Photosynthesis, Key to Life on Earth, Starts with a Single Photon

June 16, 2023

Illustration: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab

Using a complex cast of metal-studded pigments, proteins, enzymes, and co-enzymes, photosynthetic organisms can convert the energy in light into the chemical energy for life. And now, thanks to a study published in ...Read more about Photosynthesis, Key to Life on Earth, Starts with a Single Photon