College of Chemistry

UC Berkeley scientists develop new spectroscopic probe for the secrets of complex interfaces

February 4, 2019
Press Release | US Department of Energy
The DOE has announced in a news release that Professor of Chemistry Richard Saykally and colleagues have devised a spectroscopy method that probes buried graphene layers inside graphite.

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.

Berkeley awarded $20M to establish an NSF Center for Chemical Innovation

July 1, 2020
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
A team of institutions led by UC Berkeley has been awarded a $20 million research grant from the National Science Foundation to pursue breakthrough technologies towards new medicines and innovative materials.

Artificial proteins have a firm grasp on heavy metals

December 27, 2019
Theresa Duque | Berkeley Lab

Science illustration

Illustration of peptoid combinations. Each of the metal-binding monomers is represented as a red or blue “claw.” Credit: Rebecca Abergel/Berkeley Lab

A team of researchers at Berkeley Lab, led by alumna Rebecca Abergel, have developed a library of artificial proteins or “peptoids” that...

Rui Wang joins Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering faculty at UC Berkeley

October 30, 2018
The College of Chemistry is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Rui Wang as assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) commencing January 2019.

Bio-inspired material targets oceans' uranium stores for sustainable nuclear energy

May 17, 2019
by Ashley C Huff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Phys.org
Scientists have demonstrated a new bio-inspired material for an eco-friendly and cost-effective approach to recovering uranium from seawater.

David Schaffer receives Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Intercampus Research Award

October 31, 2018
Berkeley Neuroscience News
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub has awarded HWNI member, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Professor, David Schaffer with an intercampus research award.

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...

Meet alumna Dawn Shaughnessy, a real-life alchemist

November 27, 2018
Ryan F. Mandelbaum | Gizmodo UK

Alumna Dawn Shaughnessy

The periodic table is chemistry’s holy text. Not only does it list all of the tools at chemists’ disposal, but its mere shape – where these elements fall into specific rows and columns – has made profound predictions about new elements and their properties that later came true. But few chemists on Earth have a closer relationship with the document than Dawn...

Meet our faculty: Robert Bergman

December 10, 2019
Amanda Bischoff | Berkeley Science Review

Professor Bergman in front of white board.

Prof. Bob Bergman outlines a simple technique for generating parabenzynes. image: Berkeley Science Review

In the newly released fall edition of the Berkeley graduate science magazine, Robert (Bob) Bergman is featured as the faculty profile. Learn about our esteemed faculty member who has blazed trails in both organic and organometallic chemistry.

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