Mar 5, 2024
Chemist Yi Xiao and a team of researchers developed high-performance DNA aptamer sensors that can detect trace amounts of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine — even in mixtures.
Oct 18, 2023
NC State researchers developed a nontoxic process for making cellulose gels using a small bird’s nest-making process as a model.
Jul 20, 2023
Felix Castellano, Goodnight Distinguished Innovation Chair of Chemistry at NC State, was part of a team that recently released groundbreaking results concerning the relationship between the spin-vibronic effect and intersystem crossing in molecules.
May 4, 2023
NC State chemists found that water can change its solubility characteristics depending upon what it interacts with.
May 2, 2022
Ryan Chiechi, associate professor of chemistry, co-authored a paper on self-assembled, protein-based circuits that can perform simple logic functions.
Feb 21, 2022
Ph.D. candidate Kaylie Kirkwood, along with faculty members Erin Baker and Scott Belcher, used pine needles to trace the history of PFAS in central and eastern North Carolina.
Apr 13, 2021
Researchers have fine-tuned the molecular assembly line that creates antibiotics.
Sep 16, 2020
Researchers have demonstrated a way to use low-energy, visible light to produce polymer gel objects from pure monomer solutions.
Apr 21, 2020
A new, free-to-use database of macrolactones fills a knowledge gap and could aid drug development.
Jan 16, 2019
NC State chemists have created a better enzymatic pathway for producing terpenes — molecules useful in everything from cancer drugs to biofuels — in E. coli.