News: Chemistry

Vanden Bout has served in top College of Natural Sciences leadership posts since 2014, both as associate dean for undergraduate education and, since 2018, as...

A new sodium-based battery material is highly stable, capable of recharging as quickly as a lithium-ion battery and might deliver more energy than current battery...

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The first theoretical model of condensin, a molecular machine involved in packing and unpacking chromosomes, accurately reproduces all known experiments with just two parameters.

Allen Bard chemist and founder of modern electrochemistry retires from The University of Texas at Austin.

UT Austin assistant professors in the Department of Computer Science and Department of Chemistry have been selected for NSF CAREER awards.

In the perpetual arms races between bacteria and human-made antibiotics, there is a new tool to give human medicine the edge.

Marye Anne Fox’s work has had applications in materials science, solar energy and environmental chemistry.

Chemist Jonathan L. Sessler of The University of Texas at Austin has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the country’s most prestigious scientific...

The technique, which relies on short polymers called oligourethanes, encodes information with greater density than DNA-based approaches