OUChemBiochem

Professor Shiv Halasyamani @UHouston received the distinguished Karcher Honorary Lectureship at @OUChemBiochem @UofOklahoma , invited by Dr Bayram Saparov. He gave a talk on New Nonlinear Optical Materials: Design, Synthesis, and Crystal Growth.

Professor Timothy Swager @SwagerGroup @ChemistryMIT received the distinguished Karcher Honorary Lectureship at @OUChemBiochem @UofOklahoma , invited by Dr @YuanningFeng. He gave a talk on Electronic Molecular Materials for High-Performance Chemical Sensors.

Professor Seth Cohen @UCSDChemBiochem received the distinguished Karcher Honorary Lectureship at @OUChemBiochem @UofOklahoma , invited by Dr Hyunho Noh. He gave a talk on Celebrating MOFs! From Surfaces to Self-Assembly.

8 group members went to the NOUN hotel for the Advanced Materials Workshop by the OU MSE Workshop. Jennifer Ou, Meiling Wade and Maham Saeed and Samantha Mason, @Jackson_L62 and Addie Schwabe presented their posters, respectively. The team of Jennifer won the Best Poster Award.

Professor Tristan Lambert @Cornell @CornellChem received the distinguished Karcher Honorary Lectureship at @ouchembiochem @uofoklahoma, invited by Dr Indrajeet Sharma. He gave a talk on Electrophotocatalysis: Combining LIght and Electricity to Promote Reactions.

Professor Yizhou Dong @yizhoudonglab @MountSinaiNYC received the distinguished Karcher Honorary Lectureship at @ouchembiochem @uofoklahoma, invited by Dr Idris Raji. He gave a talk on Lipid Nanoparticles Enabled mRNA Immunotherapy.

Professor Dimitri Talapin ( @UChiChemistry @UChicagoPME @argonne) received the distinguished Karcher Honorary Lectureship at @OUChemBiochem @UofOklahoma, invited by Dr Yitong Dong. He gave a talk on Exploring the Intersections of Solid-State and Molecular Chemistry.

Prof Yogesh Surendranath (@ChemistryMIT @MITChemE) received the Karcher Honorary Lectureship at @OUChemBiochem @UofOklahoma, invited by Dr @hyunhonoh_chem. He gave a talk on The Power of Polarization-Controlling Bond Activation and Catalysis Using Interfacial Charge Separation.

Departmental Fire Safety Training

Our Element Café is reopen this summer. It offers free breakfast every Friday and free coffee & tea every weekdays. Hope everyone in the department will enjoy it.

Our new paper entitled "Near-Infrared Emission in Organic Cocrystals Based on Twisted-Component Pseudoencapsulation" is published #OpenAccess in @ACSMatLett @ACSPublications. @TaoLi164543 @BT_Liu1994 @nihu_sule @YuanningFeng @OUChemBiochem @OUResearch pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Departmental Spring Luncheon for all faculty members, students and staffs.

New group photos at @OUChemBiochem Stephenson Life Sciences Research Center. We celebrate the graduation of undergrads @joseph_stude, @Jackson_L62, Jennifer Ou and @KadeLittlefield. We also welcome new postdoc @XuanfuZhu and undergraduates Meiling Wade and Maham Saeed.

We are celebrating our Faulty and Student Awards at the Elements of Success – Departmental Spring Awards Banquet at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History. Thanks for @CBR_OU for the organizing.

The Laboratory – Intro Time: April 2025 Location: @OUChemBiochem Stephenson Life Sciences Research Center / Norman / Oklahoma / United States Music: #TheOffice Theme (Written by Jay Ferguson) Director / Photographer / Editor / Producer: @YuanningFeng

Prof Mary Rodgers (@waynestatechem) received the Karcher Honorary Lectureship at @OUChemBiochem @UofOklahoma, invited by Dr Zhibo Yang. She gave a talk on Structures, Energetics and Mechanisms for Dissociation of Protonated Nucleosides and Protonated & Nucleoside Base Pairs.

The Chemistry Club first social hours. Thank you all for coming and welcome to join us if you are interested in Chemistry!

Prof Jing Li (@RutgersChem) received the distinguished Karcher Honorary Lectureship at @OUChemBiochem @UofOklahoma, invited by Dr Bayram Saparov. Her talk <Hybrid Copper Halides: Designer Materials for Solid-State Lighting Technology> showed amazing design & application in LED.

At @Materials_MRS Boston Fall Meeting 2024 we celebrated the achievements of those group alumni (PhD and PDF) who were able to travel to join us, holding a scientific meeting on #perovskites #CQDs & #electrocatalysis followed by dinner together. The individuals in the photo are now faculty at @Yale @UMich @UWaterloo @UMassLowell @UMassAmherst @MemorialU @Virginia_Tech @UofOklahoma; research faculty @NorthwesternU; and post-docs at @NorthwesternU @UniofOxford. Big thanks to special guests @CHADNANO @mvkovalenko and Prof. Steve Forrest. Stay tuned for individual group-alumni profiles throughout #F24MRS week!

Prof Peter Stang (@UtahChemistry) received the distinguished Karcher Honorary Lectureship at @OUChemBiochem @UofOklahoma. His talk entitled Abiological Self-Assembly: Predesigned Metallacycles and Metallacages via Coordination shows beautiful chemistry and is truly inspirational.