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Chemistry
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McCrory Lab: Carbon capture method mines cement ingredients from the air
As part of a DOE-funded Center for Closing the Carbon Cycle. 4C, the McCrory group, by controlling the microenvironment, can reduce the amount of a lead catalyst needed to convert carbon dioxide into an metal oxalate solid that can be used to make cement.
Honors for Michigan Chemistry Community
A round up of recent awards and recognition received by our undergraduates, graduate students, staff, faculty and alumni
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Events
Featured
Nov
08
Saturday Morning Physics | How Old is the Universe — That is, What Time is It?
Scott Watson, Professor of Physics (Syracuse University)
10:30 AM
170 & 182
Weiser Hall
Upcoming
Oct
22
Gomberg Lecture with Andy Borovik "Biological C–H Bond Cleavage"
Andy Borovik (UC Irvine)
4:00 PM
1640
Chemistry Dow Lab
Oct
23
Quantum Research Institute | Cavity QED with molecular defects coupled to a photonic crystal cavity
Jonathan Hood (Purdue University)
11:00 AM
Henderson (3rd Floor)
Virtual
Oct
23
Revealing what’s hidden: optical microscopy of plasmonic nanostructures
Katherine (Kallie) Willets (Temple University)
4:00 PM
1640
Chemistry Dow Lab