College of Arts and Sciences

Please join us in congratulating our very own Prof. Blanton Tolbert on being selected as the Inaugural Vice President of Science Leadership and Culture at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Prof. Tolbert is a world-renowned biophysical chemist, and his research expertise includes understanding the molecular mechanisms of RNA...

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Graduate student JJ Mihaly and undergraduate Stephanie Collins have published organogold(I) complexes that are long-lived triplet-state phosphors with promising nonlinear optical properties.  This work is part of an ongoing collaboration among the Gray lab at CWRU, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the United States Air Force Academy, with...

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Gray group graduate students Tadeas Liska and Mengdi Li, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Houston, published a family of phosphorescent platinum(II) alkynyls where excited-state charge transfer is enhanced by remote boron substitution. Luminescence persists for milliseconds at 298 K in polymer films, with radiative yields reaching...

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