The danger of hydrogen sulfide has been highlighted in the recent accident at the Sture terminal in Øygarden.
Yesterday, postdoc Christian Totland assisted the public with information about the chemical properties and biological hazards associated with this invisible gas, at local radio and TV. (Photo: Ingvild Fluge / NRK)
It is a great pleasure to congratulate Bjørn Grung with highly deserved recognition for the great teaching that he consistently and unfailingly delivers, generously laced with unsolicited but useful and much appreciated advice on life as a freshman student, everything with a generous pinch of humor! A nice profile interview with Bjørn, in Norwegian, is be found on our faculty news page. All hands at the Chemistry department are hereby invited to take part in the award ceremony on Tuesday Oct 18, at 12:00, probably at the 1st floor by the stair case to the cantina in the Science bldg, to cheer for the new awardee!
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A tiny lift, artificial muscles and minuscule motors. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 is awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa for their design and production of molecular machines. They have developed molecules with controllable movements, which can perform a task when energy is added.
The development of computing demonstrates how the miniaturisation of technology can lead to a revolution. The 2016 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry have miniaturised machines and taken chemistry to a new dimension.
«The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Press Release«. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 7 Oct 2016.
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Starting in the middle of August, Ivan Flores Linares is a Research fellow (PhD) in computational catalysis and molecular design. His background is a Master degree from the chemistry school in UNAM, Mexico City, where he majored in computational organometallic chemistry. He is working on computational design of transition metal catalysts for hydrodeoxygenation of lignin model compounds, which is part of the ENERGI-X project Renewable aromatics for fuel blending from lignin by novel homogeneous catalysis, led by Vidar R. Jensen. Welcome, and all the best for your project, Ivan!
MSc. Franziska Ihlefeldt is a Phd student from Prof. Mats Tilset’s group (UiO) and she will join us as guest researcher. Her work is focusing on the development of N-heterocyclic carbenes of group 8 as catalysts for the copolymerization of epoxides with CO2. Her project is directly connected to the GreenCAT project “Design of Green Catalysts for the Conversion of Renewable Resources into Polymers”, led by Erwan Le Roux and funded by NFR.
In the past 20 years, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have become one of the most active areas of research within inorganic chemistry. EurJIC is acknowledging the rapid development with a Cluster Issue on «MOFs Heading Towards Application». Our own Pascal Dietzel and Hiroshi Kitagawa from the University of Kyoto are guest-editing this issue, which contains more than thirty papers spanning the breadth of current activities in the leading research groups in the field.
Most of our lunch hour went into interesting discussions about Scenario2030, and here are some keywords on subjects that only got to the outline:
Kjersti made a marvelous performance at the Bergen final in Forsker Grand Prix last night, demonstrating outdoor sampling gear, her sea weed collection, chemical structures and contagious enthusiasm. A worthy representative for chemistry – we are impressed! This event is part of Forskningsdagene – a yearly week devoted to science – and next year You will have opportunity to compete in FGP. Challenge accepted?
Ved Kjemisk institutt er det etablert et nytt laboratorium for automatisert peptidsyntese. Laboratoriet ledes av Professor Bengt Erik Haug, og etableringen har vært mulig takket være finansiering fra Bergens Forskningsstiftelse. Haug og gruppen hans er svært fornøyde med å få på plass moderne instrumentering for automatisert syntese og effektiv opprensing av peptider. Den nye lab´en vil gi et løft for forskningsaktiviteter rettet mot studier av biologisk aktive peptider ved UiB.
Laboratoriet har allerede vært benyttet av ansatte og studenter ved Kjemisk institutt, Molekylærbiologisk institutt, Senter for farmasi og Institutt for biomedisin. Tilgang til effektiv peptidsyntese og ikke minst muligheten for fremstilling av modifiserte peptider er aktuelt for en rekke forskningsprosjekter ved UiB. Laboratoriet vil blant annet bli benyttet for fremstilling av peptider for anvendelse innen positron emisjons tomografi (PET) i samarbeid med PET-senteret ved Haukeland Universitetssykehus. Mer informasjon om laboratoriet finnes her.