UC Santa Cruz - Chemistry Department

Chemist Alexander Ayzner wins NSF CAREER Award

Clean Energy - environmentally friendly fuel

Novel ruthenium-based catalyst developed by researchers led by chemistry Professor Shaowei Chen has potential applications in sustainable hydrogen production for clean energy, industrial processes

Novel electrocatalyst outperforms platinum in alkaline hydrogen production

Impact on the Research Community

Three Chemistry Faculty Among Highly Cited Researchers in 2018

Better Plastics

UCSC chemists develop safe alternatives to phthalates used in plastics

On the verge of a technological revolution

Theorist Yuan Ping is developing computational methods to guide the design of new materials for quantum computing

Center for High Content Functional Annotation (HiFAN) will be established

Program is designed to develop new tools to push the frontier of natural products with the support of a $2.4M/3 year NIH grant

State program funds lung cancer research

Biomedical researchers at UC Santa Cruz have won major funding to investigate lung cancer

Chemistry Research

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Bunnett Symposium

19th Annual Jospeh F Bunnett Symposium: Friday, May 3

Dr. William Gerwick

"Adventures in the Chemistry and Biochemistry of Marine Cyanobacterial Natural Products"

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Department News

May 8, 2019Chemist Alexander Ayzner wins NSF CAREER Award
May 7, 2019NIH grant funds research on role of prion proteins in neurodegenerative diseases
May 1, 2019Researcher and Lecturer Peter Weiss receives Clean Air Leader Award

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