Xiaoli successfully completed her initial research review today, presenting the significant body of work she carried out in the last nine months on the binding of carbohydrates to covalently modified PAMAM dendrimers. Congratulations Xiaoli!
Michael H. Ihde joined our group as a new graduate student. He will start out on both synthetic and instrumental projects, on the one hand attempting a large-scale synthesis of covalently modifiable low-generation PAMAM dendrons, and on the other by continuing studies on the properties that enable PAMAM dendrimers to act as solubilizers of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in neutral water solution. Welcome Michael!
Dr. Bonizzoni delivered an invited talk on the group's recent research on the interaction of hydrophobics with cationic polyelectrolytes at the 2015 Physical Organic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference held at Holderness School, Holderness, NH.
Ashley defended her dissertation today, the first student to obtain her Ph.D. from our group at UA! Ashley also recently accepted a position as a lecturer in organic chemistry at the University of Kentucky. Congratulations Dr. Jolly, and best wishes for your future career!
Nick White, a graduate student in our group, was awarded the first prize in the poster competition for his poster presentation titled "Small-Molecule Models of Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimers" at the 5th Annual Lester Andrews Graduate Research Symposium held at Mississippi State University. Congratulations Nick!
Kyle Glisson, an undergraduate researcher in our group, was awarded the Randall Outstanding Research Award by our Honors College for his calorimetric studies on the interactions of PAMAM dendrimers with anions in water. Congratulations Kyle! Katheryn Adam's research talk at the Southern Undergraduate Research Conference organized on our campus this year was selected for a presentation award. Congratulations Katheryn!
Madison Beck, who joined our group last fall as an undergraduate researcher, was awarded a grant from the UA Student Government Association. The funds will support her research on immobilizing cationic polyelectrolytes on plastic surfaces to develop portable and rugged chemosensors for anions. Congratulations Mady!
Xiaoli Liang joined our group as a new graduate student. She will start out on both synthetic and instrumental projects, on the one hand taking over the synthesis of a small dendrimer simulant, and on the other by testing new cationic dyes we received from the Wilson group at the University of Miami. Welcome Xiaoli!
Alie successfully defended her original research proposal today and is officially a Ph.D. candidate. Congratulations Alie!
Here we are, out on the town, celebrating recent accomplishments in the group! Congratulations to Yuanli for his JACS publication, to Ashley for her Macromolecules. and for being selected to present at the ACS Organic Graduate Research Symposium in Irvine, CA. Welcome also to Kyle and Nick, recent additions to the group!
Yuanli's full paper on the design of a dendrimer-based sensor array to detect organophosphate herbicides and nerve gas analogues was accepted in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The manuscript is available at this link. Congratulations Yuanli!
Ashley's full paper on the intermolecular interactions involved small molecules binding to PAMAM dendrimers was accepted in Macromolecules, the leading journal in the field of macromolecular and polymer science. The manuscript is available at this link. Congratulations Ashley!
James "J.T." Vegrzyn, an undergraduate chemistry major, started work in our group today on the characterization of the interactions of a recently synthesized perylene diimide dye with linear anionic polyelectrolytes in water. Welcome JT!
2014-07-24 Ashley is attending the prestigious Graduate Research Symposium organized by the Division of Organic Chemistry of the ACS, taking place this weekend at the University of California - Irvine. Ashley's selection for the symposium was highlighted in a recent UA News bulletin as well. Congratulations Ashley!
2014-07-17 OriginLab, the publishers of the Origin graphing and data analysis software, have recently published a case study on our use of some advanced features in the non-linear fitting engine included in Origin to fit fluorescence emission decay curves.
Ashley successfully defended her original research proposal today and is officially a Ph.D. candidate. Congratulations Ashley!
Dr. Bonizzoni hosted a professional development workshop for high school teachers. The workshop, titled Playing with our food, focused on using concepts and experiments from modernist and avant-garde cuisine to integrate intermolecular interactions in the high school chemistry curriculum in a way that is fun and relevant to the students' everyday lives. Nicholas White joined our group as a new graduate student. His first project will focus on the synthesis of small molecules that simulate some of the behavior of the large polyelectrolytes our group has been studying. Welcome Nick!
2014-04-08 Ashley's full paper on the nature of fundamental interactions involved in the encapsulation of small molecules into PAMAM dendrimers was accepted in Supramolecular Chemistry. The manuscript is available online from the publisher at this link. Congratulations Ashley!
Kyle Glisson, a senior majoring in biology, will be joining the group in the summer to work on an ITC project. Welcome Kyle!
Our communication on the detection of phosphates using an off-the-shelf chemical sensor was accepted in Chemical Communications. The manuscript is available online at this link. Congratulations Alie and Yuanli!
Ashley won a poster prize at the Mardi Gras Supramolecular Symposium organized by Bruce Gibb and Janan Jayawickramarajah at Tulane University. Ashley was one of six winners, together with students from the Anslyn (UTexas), Gibb (Tulane), Smith (Notre Dame), Stoddart (Northwestern) and Wiley (UNO) groups. Congratulations Ashley!
Our time-dependent fluorescence work on the protein-templated formation of gold nanoparticles in collaboration with Prof. Yuping Bao (UA - Chemical Engineering) has been accepted by Nanoscale. You can read the article by following this link.
Dr. Bonizzoni delivered an invited talk at the Supramolecular Chemistry symposium organized by Prof. Ken Shimizu and Prof. John Lavigne within the Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS) in Atlanta, GA. All graduate students and postdocs in the group made the trip to Atlanta to present their results as well.
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