News & Highlights
Research Highlight
Rare Earth Element (REE) Extraction with Ionic Liquid (IL)
Research Highlight
Discovery of stable nanodomains in an ionic liquid between 20 and 50˚C could enhance separations
Research Highlight
Extreme Confinement Stabilizes Undercoordinated Sites
Research Highlight
Theoretical framework for modeling of intermixing in core-shell nanocrystals (NCs) with realistic kinetics
News Release
New understanding of a common plant enzyme could lead to better crop management
Research teams in the Division of Chemical and Biological Sciences conduct fundamental and applied studies of how to control and manipulate chemicals and biological materials. We work to develop new catalysts that enable more efficient chemical reactions, discover new ways to convert plants to biofuels, understand how solvents affect chemical reactions, and how molecules diffuse on surfaces and through tiny pores.
Developing new instruments is also at the heart of our research. Understanding Nature's fundamental building blocks requires us to be able to see things at tiny length scales and fast time scales. We are at the cutting edge of developing tools and methods for understanding what drives biological and chemical processes; we are leaders in the fields of mass spectrometric imaging, solid state NMR, Raman spectroscopy, and single particle analysis.
Basic research conducted within the CBS is performed primarily through funding provided by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences.