Discovery thrives when we come together. 🧪💜 In 2025, the connections we built across the department showcased the strength and collaborative spirit of our community. From all of us at #NUChemistry, we wish you a joyful and restorative holiday season. #HappyHolidays #Chemistry #Collaboration

What if Alzheimer’s could be stopped before symptoms appear? Northwestern’s NU-9, invented by Rick Silverman, targets early toxic amyloid beta. Study shows it may prevent brain damage. #Alzheimers #NU9 #Neuroscience Discover More: bit.ly/495Xxgd

#NUChemistry is proud to share that Omar K. Farha is a 2025 National Academy of Inventors Fellow. With 17 patents and as founder & CSO of Numat Technologies, his innovations are shaping real-world solutions. Congratulations, @omarfarha.bsky.social 🎉💜! 👉 bit.ly/4rQqF3v

There’s real energy when Northwestern scientists come together! Faculty connected and celebrated at the Biochemistry–Chemistry Holiday Party—a reminder that collaboration starts with relationships. #Collaboration #Chemistry #Biochemistry @omarfarha.bsky.social

Happy Thanksgiving from @nuchemistry.bsky.social ! Our innovative and collaborative research is made possible by our amazing community. Today we’re thankful for the colleagues, students, alumni, and partners who make NU Chemistry what it is. #NUChemImpact #Grateful

🍁 The #NUChemistry Fall Newsletter is out! 🍁 Catch up on recent press, research highlights, event recaps, faculty & student awards, and photos from recent department events. 🔗 bit.ly/3XbFUFW #NUChemImpact #ResearchImpact

🍁 The #NUChemistry Fall Newsletter is out! 🍁 Catch up on recent press, research highlights, event recaps, faculty & student awards, and photos from recent department events. 🔗 bit.ly/3XbFUFW #NUChemImpact #ResearchImpact

Each Tuesday, faculty come together over lunch to share research, spark ideas, and build cross-disciplinary collaborations. It looks like our #NUChemistry 1/4 zips are becoming part of the tradition. 💜 Who is wearing their 1/4 zip to tomorrow's faculty lunch? 🙋 #Collaboration #FacultyExcellence

🎉 Congratulations to the 15 #NUChemistry faculty named 2025 Highly Cited Researchers by @clarivate.com! Their work in medicine, water purification, energy & cancer research continues to shape discoveries that impact lives worldwide. #FacultyExcellence #HighlyCited2025 #Chemistry

🚨 New clue in the fight against #LymeDisease! Research by #NUChemistry’s Brian Hoffman and Uniformed Services University uncovers a surprising weakness in the Lyme-causing bacterium — its dependence on manganese. 🔗 news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

Congrats to Chair @omarfarha.bsky.social, named one of @crainschicago.bsky.social 2025 Notable Leaders in Sustainability! 🌿 His leadership across #NorthwesternChemistry and Numat Technologies is driving innovation in carbon capture and clean energy. 🔗 www.chicagobusiness.com/awards/omar-...

Purple pride goes global! 💜 Chair @omarfarha.bsky.social is taking #NUChemistry energy beyond campus — building collaborations, celebrating innovation, and inspiring connections. 📸 Tag @nuchemistry.bsky.social to join the fun!

Tomorrow! 🎉 Prof. Richard Kaner (UCLA) joins #NorthwesternChemistry to receive the 2025 Fred Basolo Medal hosted by @omarfarha.bsky.social Don’t miss his talk: “Energy Storage and Other Applications of Graphene.” - 4:30 p.m. | Tech LR3 #InorganicChemistry #EnergyStorage

Peter Carlson is a PhD student in the Dept of Chemistry @ Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, investigating how a molecule’s electrons interact w/ its atomic structure during a chemical reaction using ultrafast laser spectroscopy: www.tgs.northwestern.edu/about/our-pe...

🚨New research from @kalowlab.bsky.social: “Donor–Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts as Intrinsically Photoswitchable Dynamic Covalent Bonds” Read more in @jacs.acspublications.org: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to James Gaynor, named a 2025 Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering! 🚨

Molecular precision meets quantum light. 🔦 Mark Hersam's team improved the spectral purity of quantum light by 87% — a key step toward more reliable #quantum communication and computing. #NUChemistry #QuantumComputing @nuinquire.bsky.social news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

🎃 The #NUChemistry Halloween Demo Show is back! A tradition dating to the 1940s, revived by our amazing grad students—for the 2nd year in a row! 👩‍🔬🧪 📅 Oct. 30 | 🕕 6–7 PM | 📍 Tech LR3 👻 Costumes encouraged + prizes! 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4nrwYIa Great historical photos in comments! #HalloweenShow

Show your NU Chemistry pride! 💜🧪 The Fall Merch Shop is open through Oct 24—with fan favorites and new fall styles. 🎁 Perfect holiday gifts for Wildcats everywhere! 👉 bit.ly/NUChemMerch

🚀 Tomorrow’s technology starts at #NUChemistry Prof. Teri Odom is exploring #polaritons — hybrid carriers made of light and matter — that could transform secure, energy-efficient #communication. #NUChemImpact #ResearchImpact magazine.northwestern.edu/features/res...

Thrilled to see Farha Group member Duaa Ansari’s stunning science imagery featured in 'Nautilus' for her submission to the NUANCE “Art of Science” contest! 🧪🎨 #Chemistry #Art @omarfarha.bsky.social 🔗 nautil.us/a-nano-sized...

Congrats Courtney Smoljan on being named 'Distinguished Graduate Researcher; by NU Chemical and Biological Engineering! Her work shows how the collaborative spirit at #Northwestern — between omarfarha.bsky.social and randallsnurr.bsky.social — drives innovation. #GradExcellence #NUChemistry

Truly honored to have Phil Baran visit us for the Bender Lecture Series at Northwestern. Two inspiring talks and many fun stories. ⚡️ @nuchemistry.bsky.social

🚨 Medical imaging just got a #perovskite upgrade. Mercouri Kanatzidis + team built the first perovskite detector for SPECT scans. “Perovskites revolutionized solar energy—now they could do the same for nuclear medicine.” – Kanatzidis #MedicalImaging #NUChemistry #ResearchImpact bit.ly/4641qBX

Congratulations to Guanyu Lu, inaugural Fraser Stoddart Fellow in the Dayne Swearer Group, on his first lead-author paper in ACS Nano. A milestone for both Guanyu and the fellowship. Read the full paper: bit.ly/4gfgtvS @dayneswearer.bsky.social @nuchemistry.bsky.social

✨ New from Roel Tempelaar's team in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters: exploring how circularly polarized molecular vibrations could one day store and control info at the nanoscale. #Theory #Chemistry (@pubs.acs.org) pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Today we honor the staff whose dedication powers every experiment, every collaboration, and every breakthrough at #NUChemistry. Your hard work makes innovation possible. #LaborDay #TeamScience

New research from @tempelaarteam.bsky.social!

🎉 Congrats to Songi Han named the Mrs. Urmila Agrawal IISc Distinguished Visiting Chair Professor! This professorship honors women leading frontier research in science & engineering. #WomeninSTEM #FacultyExcellence 🔗 odaa.iisc.ac.in/urmila-agraw...

Thanks to all who celebrated our department chair, Omar Farha, at the Inorganic Nanoscience Award Symposium yesterday. A fantastic showcase of chemistry! #ACSFall2025 #NUChemistry

Tuesday at #ACSFall2025! 🔬 Don’t miss the Inorganic Nanoscience Award Symposium honoring @omarfarha.bsky.social + sessions on: ✨ Plasmonic alloys (@dayneswearer.bsky.social‬) ✨ Covalent organic frameworks (@dichtel.bsky.social‬) ✨ DNA nanostructures (@iinanonu.bsky.social‬) Details below 💜👇

✨ Curious what’s ahead at #ACSFall2025? ✨ #NUChem brings big ideas to the stage—from #megamolecules that push design limits, to breakthroughs on #PFAS, to advances in #plasmonics (and more!).

#ACSFall2025 is starts tomorrow🔬 Day 1 goes digital featuring research from the Chen Group. Tag @nuchemistry.bsky.social in your highlights—we’re ready to reshare the fun! 🎉

What if the most powerful technology in your life was invisible? Ted Sargent joins Nanoscape to break down how nanoscience became the backbone of innovation. Listen at iinano.org/podcast or your favorite podcast platform. @trienensinst.bsky.social @nuchemistry.bsky.social

The 2025 #BeckmanSymposium featured strong representation from Northwestern. Chad Mirkin delivered the keynote on structural #nanomedicine, and James Gaynor was named a 2025 Beckman Young Investigator for work on #electron spin, motion, and molecular shape. #NUChemImpact #FacultyExcellence #chemsky

🚨 New Research Alert From the @kalowlab.bsky.social - "Rheological Isotope Effects for Molecular Insight in Covalent Adaptable Networks" #Polymers #WomeninSTEM #NUChemImpact 🔗 Now in @MacroJrnls_ACS pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Congrats to @nuchemistry.bsky.social Owen Bailey, Haomiao Xie, Jinlei Cui, Courtney Smoljan, Kent Kirlikovali, Songi Han, & Omar Farha for their paper in @pubs.acs.org! Their work on metal–organic frameworks advances atmospheric water harvesting by utilizing tunable crystalline porous materials.

NU-9, a drug invented by Richard Silverman, is entering #ALS clinical trials—and may also help treat #Alzheimer’s, per a new PNAS study. Learn more on @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social's Breakthroughs podcast. #NUChemImpact #ResearchMatters 🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Q6...

Congrats Mercouri Kanatzidis on winning the 2025 Albert Einstein World Award of Science from the World Cultural Council! 🎉 He is recognized for breakthroughs in solar PVs, halide perovskites & sustainable energy materials. #FacultyExcellence #MaterialsScience #NUChemistry

Congrats Mercouri Kanatzidis on winning the 2025 Albert Einstein World Award of Science from the World Cultural Council! 🎉 He is recognized for breakthroughs in solar PVs, halide perovskites & sustainable energy materials. #FacultyExcellence #MaterialsScience #NUChemistry

Last week #NUChemistry hosted Jill Millstone (University of Pittsburgh) for the James A. Ibers Summer Lectures in Inorganic Chemistry! An alum of Mirkin Group, Jill shared her latest work on #nanoparticle synthesis and connected with students and colleagues over her two day visit.

“We just scratched the surface.” After a year as chair of Northwestern Chemistry, Omar Farha returns to Nanoscape to discuss MOFs, sustainability, and the future of nanotechnology. 🎧 New episode is LIVE. Listen at iinano.org/podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. @nuchemistry.bsky.social

Cancer. Diagnostics. Programmable materials. One #Northwestern breakthrough is shaping it all. #SNAs power cancer drugs and diagnostics at over half the world’s top hospitals—and launched structural #nanomedicine. 🧪💜 #NUChemImpact 🔗 bit.ly/Mirkin-Impact @iinanonu.bsky.social

Congratulations to Mercouri Kanatzidis on receiving the American Association for Crystal Growth Award! 🎉 This honor recognizes his outstanding contributions to crystal growth and epitaxy. #FacultyExcellence #CrystalGrowth #AACG

Nathan Gianneschi is recognized with the Kabiller Young Investigator Award. His research at @nuchemistry.bsky.social explores proteomimetic materials and nanoscale imaging, redefining how new drugs are designed and visualized.

The Gianneschi Group at Northwestern uses smart materials chemistry to heal hearts—reversing scar tissue with breakthrough Protein-Like Polymer tech. Science at #NUChemistry brings hope to those facing incurable diseases. #HeartHealth #PrecisionMedicine #NUChemImpact 🔗 bit.ly/Gianneschi-I...

🎓 It’s Graduation Weekend at #NUChemistry! Our PhDs are being hooded. Our undergraduates are crossing the stage. Together, they make up the newest class of brilliant #chemists—ready to change the world and make an #NUChemImpact! 🌎⚗️💜 Congrats to all the #NU2025 grads!

From idea 💡 to execution 🧪— our Chem 350 capstone takes student skills to the next level by having them design and carry out independent research projects in pairs. Here’s a look at last week’s poster session, where juniors & seniors shared their final projects. #STEMEducation

Congratulations Mercouri Kanatzidis, named the 2026 William H. Nichols Medal Award Winner by New York chapter of @acs.org! The #NicholsMedal honors original, impactful chemistry research. #FacultyExcellence #NUChemImpact #ACS

Turning plastic waste into something new—again and again. ♻️ The Marks Group at Northwestern pioneers chemical recycling that breaks plastics down to monomers—enabling true reuse. No solvents. Big impact. #NUChemImpact #ScienceThatMatters 👉 bit.ly/MarksImpact