Boulatov group @ the University of Illinois

Force Spectroscopy without Macromolecules

  • March 2010: Our invited review, entitled 'Chemomechanics with molecular force probes.' is published. Pure App. Chem. 2010, 82, in press.

  • October 2009: Xinxin Feng, Matt Hermes and Sizhu You have joined the group as new graduate students. Welcome, Xinxin, Matt and Sizhu!

  • October 2009: Qing-Zheng Yang is now a faculty member at Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Good luck with your independent career, Qing-Zheng!

  • September 2009: John Nash has joined the group as a visiting scholar from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Welcome, John!

  • August 2009: Sergey Akbulatov has joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome, Sergey!

  • August 2009: Zhen Huang has been awarded the 2009 T. S. Piper award for graduate research from the Department of Chemistry. This award is named after T. Standish Piper, a former Illinois chemistry faculty member during 1956-1965, and honors every year one or two graduate students for outstanding contributions to chemistry here at the University of Illinois. Congratulations, Zhen!

  • June 2009: Timothy Kucharski has been selected as a Member of the US delegation to the 59th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany. Congratulations, Tim!

  • June 2009: Timothy Kucharski has been selected to co-chair the 2010 Gordon Research Seminar in Inorganic Chemistry, at the University of New England, Biddeford, Maine. Congratulations, Tim!

  • June 2009: Our cover & VIP article, entitled 'Kinetics of thiol/disulfide exchange correlates weakly with the restoring force of the disulfide moiety.' is published. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2009, 48, 7040-7043.

  • June 2009: Xinxin Feng has joined the group as a summer visiting graduate student. Welcome, Xinxin!

  • April 2009: Our article, entitled 'Macrocyclic disulfides for studies of sensitized photolysis of the S-S bond.' is published. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 5212-5214.

  • March 2009: Our cover article, entitled 'A molecular force probe.' is published. Nature Nanotech. 2009, 4, 302-306.

  • March 2009: Zhen Huang has been awarded the 2009 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry travel award for the 237th ACS National Meeting in Salt Lake City. Congratulations, and best wishes for a successful trip to Salt Lake City, Zhen!

  • January 2009: Our article, entitled 'Method to derive restoring forces of strained molecules from kinetic measurements.' is published. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 1407-1409.

  • September 2008: Chuang Li, Yancong Tian, and Binglin Wang have joined the group as postdoctoral researchers. Welcome!

  • August 2008: Zhen Huang has been awarded the Bailar fellowship from the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, Zhen!

  • 2007: Timothy Kucharski has been awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, which are highly competitive and prestigious national awards. Congratulations, Tim!

  • August 2006: Timothy Kucharski has been awarded the Roger Adams Fellowship from the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, Tim!

  • August 2006: Zhen Huang has been awarded the Graduate college fellowship from the University of Illinois. Congratulations, Zhen!

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