College of Chemistry

A simple, cheap material for carbon capture, perhaps from tailpipes

August 10, 2022
By Robert Sanders | UC Berkeley media relations

Illustration of a new method for removing CO2.

Carbon dioxide (depicted in red and white at left) is the main greenhouse gas warming Earth and is emitted in large quantities in the flue gas from industrial and power plants. A new method for removing CO2 from these flue gases involves piping the emissions through a porous material based on the chemical melamine (center). DETA, a chemical bound inside the porous melamine...

W.M. Keck Foundation awards Ziyang Zhang, Robert Saxton grant to control how immune cells communicate

July 23, 2024
By Veronica Bartell | College of Chemistry
Ziyang Zhang and Robert Saxton were recently awarded a $1M grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation’s Research Program.

Department of Chemistry welcomes Polly Arnold to the faculty

July 17, 2019
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
Polly Arnold will be joining the Chemistry Department faculty in January of 2020.

Charge into Water Triggered by a Quick Light Pulse

May 21, 2023
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release

laser laboratory in the ZEMOS research building at Ruhr University Bochum

This study was made possible by the use of a new laser laboratory in the ZEMOS research building at Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), where all external interference signals are minimized. Image Credit: RUB, Marquard

New research from a consortium of Ruhr-Universität Bochum and UC Berkeley scientists has found that a proton can be released...

Royal Society of Chemistry marks Richard Andersen’s 75th Birthday with special publication

January 2, 2019
Professors John Arnold and Don Tilley have served as guest editors on a recent web publication of scholarly articles about the research and teaching of Professor Richard Andersen.

Yeast produce low-cost, high-quality cannabinoids

February 27, 2019
By Robert Sanders, Media relations
UC Berkeley synthetic biologists have engineered brewer’s yeast to produce marijuana’s main ingredients—mind-altering THC and non-psychoactive CBD.

Alumna Spotlight with Cheri Ackerman of Concerto Biosciences

October 12, 2021
By Alix Ventures | medium.com

Cheri Ackerman, alumna

Photo: courtesy of Concerto Biosciences.

Cheri Ackerman (Ph.D. '17, ChemBio) is a co-founder & CEO @ Concerto Biosciences, an MIT/Harvard spinout that develops microbial “ensembles” as revolutionary new disease treatments. To discover ensembles, Concerto uses a novel screening...

College of Chemistry students launch ChemUNITY club

August 24, 2018
by Marge d'Wylde
ChemUNITY club founding club members Arismel Tena and Rodrigo Miranda discuss some of the organization’s goals.

Building the Materials for Next-Gen Tech

February 13, 2023
Sarah C.P. Williams | Heising-Simons Faculty Fellows Program
Using chemistry-based approaches to creating graphene nanoribbons, Fischer’s lab group has developed ways to integrate other kinds of atoms (like nitrogen) into the nanoribbons to give them new properties.

With drop in LA’s vehicular aerosol pollution, plants emerge as major source

March 23, 2021
By Robert Sanders | UC Berkeley media relations
Restrictions on vehicle emissions have been so effective that in Los Angeles that the most concerning source of dangerous aerosol pollution may well be trees and other green plants.