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Priya Vadarevu wins Thomas L. Reynolds Graduate Research Award. This Reynolds Fellowship assists with the costs that are overlooked in other funding sources and to help students stay focused on their research goals. More information about the award can be found here. Priya currently works with Dr. Vivero-Escoto.

Justin Halman was the 1st place overall category winner with his poster “Structure and Composition Determine Immunorecognition of Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles” at the Charlotte Biomedical Engineering and Science (CBES) 11th Annual Graduate Student Poster Competition. Morgan Chandler with her poster “Molecular Engineering & Design Focus Area” was a CBES associated winner. Both Justin and Morgan […]

Beth Scarbrough received an Honorable Mention in the 2019 National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). This prestigious, highly competitive program supports exceptional graduate students pursing research in STEM. Beth is a second year PhD student at UNC-Charlotte and focuses on life at the nanoscale. Her graduate studies address key questions regarding the […]

UNC Charlotte held the annual Colors of Chemistry day-long program where children from a variety of schools were able to participate in hands-on activities, including colorful slime, colorful lather printing, and the M&M color wheel. A demonstration show and t-shirt tie dying ended the exciting day. Thank you to Morgan Chandler, Margaret Kocherga, Nickolas Sayresmith, […]

Congratulations to Nanoscale Science students Margaret Kocherga and Morgan Chandler for winning 1st and 2nd at the 19th Annual Graduate Research Symposium. To see all the award winners, click here. Margaret Kocherga’s oral presentation on “New Materials for Organic Electronics” won 1st place in the Liberal Arts & Sciences division of the conference. Margaret works […]

Ms. Margaret Kocherga, a Ph.D candidate in the Nanoscale Science program at UNC Charlotte, is the recipient of the Younger Chemist Committee (YCC) of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Leadership Development Award. This award supported her participation in the YCC Leadership Development Workshop held in Atlanta, Georgia in January of this year. Her contributions, volunteer […]

Why should you join the Nanoscale Science Ph.D. program? Ask our students! “For me, the Nanoscale Science PhD program provided as diverse a PhD as you are willing to try. In this program I was able to get outside of my comfort zone and learn how physicists, engineers, chemists, and biologists solve problems and utilize […]

Zachary Lyles and Katelyn Erickson both have successfully defended their theses to their committees and have graduated the Nanoscale Science Ph.D. program! We wish them well on their new lives as Dr.’s of Nanoscale Science. To learn more about Zach’s research, please click here. To learn more about Kate’s research, please click here.

Metal sulfide clusters are attractive components for flow batteries owing to the abundance of their constituent atoms and their tunable size, solubility, and redox properties. Here, we demonstrate that we can prepare an atomically precise cobalt sulfide cluster in a single step using low-cost precursors and water solubilizing phosphine ligands. The resulting cluster undergoes two […]

The overall goal of this project is to develop novel biodegradable multifunctional hybrid polysilsesquioxane nanoparticles to carry photosensitizing agents. By fine tuning the chemical features of polysilsesquioxane nanoparticles, the degradability of these materials under specific conditions and their interaction with mammalian cells can be controlled. The success of the proposed work will open new synthetic […]