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Dr. Hematian in the lab.

$1.5M UNCG-led collaborative will focus on clean energy innovations using natural products

With a $1.5 million state grant, UNCG faculty are leading a unique research effort to explore how complex molecules found in living organisms, such as fungi, could be used to engineer more environmentally friendly energy systems.

“People have been looking at natural products for centuries for medicinal applications,” said Dr. Shabnam Hematian, Bernard-Glickman Dean’s Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. “We believe that can be done for energy, too.”

Dr. Hematian in the lab

GREENER ENERGY:Harnessing light and air for cleaner processes

From photosynthesis in plants, to every breath we take and every thought we think, life is animated by complex chemical reactions that pass electrons back and forth between molecules. Dr. Shabnam Hematian, Bernard-Glickman Dean’s Professor in the UNCG Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has focused her research on the metals — iron, copper, and others — that are foundational to these processes. “The cool chemistry that happens in your body – metabolism of drugs or hormone biosynthesis – all of them are governed by a series of iron proteins,” she says.

Dr. Shabnam Hematian

UNCG chemist receives competitive NSF LEAPS grant

Dr. Shabnam Hematian’s new NSF grant will catalyze both science and student research opportunities. This spring, Hematian was awarded a two-year, $250,000 grant to fund new research on photocatalysts through an NSF program known as LEAPS – Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

Dr. Shabnam Hematian is Named a Bernard-Glickman Dean’s Professor!

Congratulations to Dr. Shabnam Hematian on being named the Bernard-Glickman Dean’s Professor for 2022-2023! This professorship is in recognition of her outstanding accomplishments as a member of the College of Arts & Sciences’ faculty and the great potentials that the college sees in her future. Read more here.

Shabnam Hematian

Dr. Shabnam Hematian is Awarded an NSF LEAPS-MPS Grant!

Congratulations to Dr. Shabnam Hematian and her team for winning a Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAPS-MPS) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance their efforts to develop aerobic photocatalysts for green oxidation processes! The grant also enables Dr. Hematian, who joined UNCG in… Continue reading…

The lounge chairs are ready!

The lounge chairs are ready! Our team and the rest of the chemistry club got crafty for a cause. You can read about it here.  

Hadi gave a seminar on Gadolinium-Based MRI Contrast Agents!

Hadi gave a seminar on Gadolinium-Based MRI Contrast Agents! Gadolinium contrast agents have been used in millions of patients over the past three decades. Hadi discussed how these contrast agents work and the efforts for developing new generation and more targeted agents.