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SCS 2012 Science Image Challenge

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March 9, 2012

Training Program at the Chemistry Biology Interface

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Illinois chemists discovered that a powerful treatment for fungal infections doesn’t work the way doctors have assumed, setting a new course for drug development. The researchers, led by chemistry professor Martin Burke, right, are, from left, graduate students Ian Dailey, Matthew Endo, Brandon Wilcock, Brice Uno and, not pictured, Kaitlyn Gray and Daniel Palacios.

The Martin Burke research group has determined the antifungal mechanism of amphotericin B. Amphotericin is fairly toxic to humans and this finding will help scientists to synthesize less toxic antibiotics. UIUC News Bureau article.

Alumna, Dr. Marinda P. Wu (Ph.D. '76, Drago) has been chosen to be president of the the American Chemical Society. The founder and president of Science is Fun! in Orinda, Calif., Dr. Wu will serve as ACS president-elect for 2012. C&EN article.

Reactive silver ink is airbrushed onto a thin, stretchy plastic film to make a flexible silver electrode.

Jennifer Lewis and S. Brett Walker have developed a new reactive silver ink for printing high-performance electronics on low-cost materials such as flexible plastic, paper or fabric substrates. They published their research online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. UIUC News Bureau article.

John Rogers was named one of Nature magazine's "10 who mattered this year" for taking innovative ideas to engineering prototypes. College of Engineering article, Nature feature, PNAS interview.

A research team including John Rogers developed a method to chemically etch patterned arrays in the semiconductor gallium arsenide. The journal Nano Letters published this research. UIUC News Bureau article.

Nancy Sottos, Scott White and Jeffrey Moore

Jeffrey Moore and collaborators have expanded their research in self healing materials to include electronics. This system restores electrical conductivity to cracked circuits in less than a second. Their research results are published in Advanced Materials. UIUC News Bureau article.

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