So Lab

What better way to celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science than feature the women in our lab in "How to Be a Battery Researcher" with Chico State's President Steve Perez? Thanks to California State University, Chico for this fun collaboration! 👏 https://shorturl.at/Zc7P6

Check out our lab’s latest work on guest-host interactions in MOFs, featured on the front cover at
Journal of Materials Chemistry! Thanks again to National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Energy, Dreyfus Foundation, Berkeley Lab, Sandia National Labs, & California State University, Chico for supporting this work! Article is free to read for the next 6 weeks, so feel free to review and re-share if you're interested!

Issue 8 of JMC C is now out! This front cover is from Monica C. So et al.

"From insulator to semiconductor: effect of host–guest interactions on charge transport in M-MOF-74 metal–organic frameworks"

Read more here: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/tc/d3tc04155g

Congrats to So Lab alum (Celia Todd) and current member (Carlos Melchor), for their hard work during the pandemic! This work in J. Chem. Educ. highlights how we can program nanosponges, called metal-organic frameworks, to remove persistent organic pollutants in the upper division undergraduate physical/inorganic/materials chemistry laboratory! Please read and share with interested instructors! https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00115

Synthesis, Characterization, and Evaluation of Metal–Organic Frameworks for Water Decontamination: An Integrated Experiment An integrated laboratory experience using metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), a nanoporous and crystalline extended solid material composed of metal cations and organic linkers, was developed and adopted for upper-division, major-level chemistry and biochemistry students. In this laboratory, students...

To new beginnings for these Chico State wildcats! Celia is off to a PhD program in chemistry at UC Santa Cruz in September 2021! Susie is the first in her family to graduate from college and will be applying for med school! 🥳 Congrats! PC: Jason Halley