by anicolellis | Apr 2, 2019 | Science Highlight
Reproduced from Soft Matter, 2019, 15, 4068 with permission from The Royal Society of Chemistry. The intrinsic overexpression of secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) in various pro-inflammatory diseases and cancers has the potential to be exploited as a therapeutic...
by anicolellis | Feb 8, 2019 | Science Highlight
Solvent extraction technique has been widely used in mining and refinement of rare earths. Although all rare earths are chemically similar, the extraction efficiency increases as a function of atomic number. Combining MC simulation and X-ray fluorescence measurements...
by anicolellis | Jan 16, 2019 | Science Highlight
Hydrophobic interactions govern specificity for natural antimicrobial peptides. No such relationship has been established for synthetic peptoids that mimic antimicrobial peptides. Peptoid macrocycles synthesized with five different aromatic groups are investigated...
by anicolellis | Nov 7, 2018 | Science Highlight
Chemical oxidation and reduction of the all-ferrous (HL)2Fe6 in THF affords isostructural, coordinatively unsaturated clusters of the type [(HL)2Fe6]n: [(HL)2Fe6][BArF24] (1, n = +1; where [BArF24]− = tetrakis[(3,5-trifluoromethyl)phenyl]borate), [Bu4N][(HL)2Fe6]...
by anicolellis | Jul 2, 2018 | Outreach
In July 2018, NSF’s ChemMatCARS hosted two graduate students under our Graduate Student Research Award at ChemMatCARS (GSRAC) program. Both took away a better sense of the opportunities and realities of x-ray science—and confirmation that they’re on the right path....
