As we shift towards a green economy, how can we track hydrogen leakages? What techniques can be developed to synthesize metastable quantum materials? How can we harness the interaction of light and matter to control chemical reactivity?  

The CCB winners of this year’s Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research are pursuing the answers to these questions. The CCB researchers selected for awards were Frank Keutsch, Richard Liu, Joonho Lee, and Jarad Mason. On Thursday, May 11, winners of the Star-Friedman Challenge gave short, accessible...

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Richard Liu will be joining our department this summer as an Assistant Professor. Liu's group will explore redox-active organic moieties as novel catalytic platforms, new methodology to generate nano-structured carbon platforms, and applying myriad physical techniques to elucidate complex reaction mechanisms. Liu completed his graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he worked with Stephen L. Buchwald on the development of copper-hydride catalysts for olefin hydrofunctionalization...