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7.22.2005

Columbia Researchers Bring Nanotech's Promise a Step Closer to Reality

Professor Colin Nuckolls's research team at the Columbia University Nanoscience Center has made a significant discovery relevant to the interfaces between molecules and nano-sized metals.   

Columbia University press release: Columbia Researchers Bring Nanotech's Promise a Step Closer to Reality

Report: Formation of Catalytic Metal-Molecule Contacts in Science, Vol 309, Issue 5734, 591-594, 22 July 2005

>  4.24.2012 The 2012 Graduate and Undergraduate Student Awards

>  4.26.2012 CU Chem Major is 2012 College Valedictorian

>  4.6.2012 Chemistry Grad Students Receive NSF Fellowships

>  4.4.2012 Goldwater Scholarship to CU Biochemistry Major

>  .2006 test announcement

>  4.26.2012 The Gilbert Stork Lecture

>  4.19.2012 Chemistry Colloquium

>  4.12.2012 Chemistry Colloquium

>  4.6.2012 Grandpierre Memorial Lecture

>  4.5.2012 Chemistry Colloquium

>  3.15.2012 Chemistry Colloquium

>  3.8.2012 Chemistry Colloquium

>  3.1.2012 Chemistry Colloquium

>  3.1.2012 2012 Lenfest Award to Professor Laura Kaufman

>  3.2012 Chemistry Major Receives UNCF/Merck Award

>  3.2012 Upcoming Events for Prospective Graduate Students

>  2.16.2012 The Padwa Lecture

>  2.9.2012 Chemistry Colloquium

>  2.2.2012 Chemistry Colloquium

>  1.26.2012 Chemistry Colloquium

>  1.19.2012 Chemistry Colloquium

>  1.10.2012 The Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture

>  12.20.2011 Four Ugrads Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

>  12.19.2011 Professor Louis Brus Receives Bower Award

>  12.12.2011 Eli Lilly Award to Professor Lambert

>  12.8.2011 Chemistry Colloquium

>  12.5.2011 Chemistry Poster Award for CU Undergrad

>  12.1.2011 Chemistry Colloquium

>  11.17.2011 Chemistry Colloquium

>  11.10.2011 Chemistry Colloquium

>  11.3.2011 Chemistry Colloquium

>  10.27.2011 Chemistry Colloquium

>  10.20.2011 The Brian Bent Memorial Lecture

>  10.18.2011 The Chandler Medal Award Lecture

>  10.13.2011 Chemistry Colloquium

>  9.29.2011 The Arun Guthikonda Memorial Lecture

>  9.22.2011 Chemistry Colloquium

>  9.22.2011 "The Quest for the Cure": How Will Scientists Develop Medicines of the Future?

>  9.15.2011 Chemistry Colloquium

>  9.12.2011 Cope Scholar award to Professor Scott Snyder

>  9.9.2011 9201 Symposium for Entering Chemistry Graduate Students

>  9.8.2011 Chemistry Colloquium

>  9.8.2011 Special Seminar - John C. Williams Molecular Medicine, City of Hope

>  9.6.2011 Professor James Valentini Named Interim Dean

>  7.20.2011 Fellowship Awarded to CU Chemistry Grad Stucent

>  7.5.2011 CU Chemistry Graduate Student Receives 2011 BMS Award

>  6.9.2011 Professors Owen and Snyder Receive DuPont Awards

>  6.9.2011 DOE Award to Professor Jon Owen

>  5.17.2011 Katz and Bersohn Prizes Announced

>  4.28.2011 The Gilbert Stork Lecture

>  4.21.2011 Chemistry Colloquium

>  4.18.2011 Awards go to CU Chemistry Undergrads

>  4.14.2011 Chemistry Colloquium

>  4.7.2011 Chemistry Colloquium

>  3.24.2011 Chemistry Colloquium

>  3.10.2011 Chemistry Colloquium

>  3.3.2011 BMS Grant Awarded to Professor Scott Snyder

>  2.28.2011 Chemistry Colloquium

>  2.24.2011 The Padwa Lecture

>  2.17.2011 The Brian Bent Memorial Lecture

>  2.7.2011 The Falk-Plaut Lectures

>  2.2.2011 The Novartis Lecture

>  1.27.2011 Chemistry Colloquium - CANCELED

>  1.21.2011 Excellence in Mentoring Award to Professor Gerard Parkin

>  1.20.2011 Chemistry Colloquium

>  12.9.2010 Chemistry Colloquium

>  12.2.2010 The Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture

>  11.18.2010 Chemistry Colloquium

>  11.14.2010 Chemistry Victorious in Epic Soccer Matchup

>  11.11.2010 Chemistry Colloquium

>  11.4.2010 The Arun Guthikonda Memorial Lecture

>  10.28.2010 Chemistry Colloquium

>  10.21.2010 Chemistry Colloquium

>  10.14.2010 Chemistry Colloquium

>  10.7.2010 Chemistry Colloquium

>  9.30.2010 Chemistry Colloquium

>  9.23.2010 Chemistry Colloquium

>  9.16.2010 Chemistry Colloquium

>  9.9.2010 The Novartis Lecture

>  9.8.2010 ACS Awards to Professors Brus and Turro

>  7.13.2010 Chemistry Grad Student is the Recipient of Two Awards

>  6.18.2010 Conference on Computer-Aided Drug Design

>  5.12.2010 George K. Fraenkel Fund Established to Support Junior Faculty

>  5.6.2010 The Novartis Lecture - CANCELLED

>  4.29.2010 Chemistry Colloquium

>  4.22.2010 The Gilbert Stork Lecture

>  4.17.2010 Professors Min and Campos Join the Chemistry Department

>  4.16.2010 Chem Soc Rev Award to Professor Gerard Parkin

>  4.15.2010 Chemistry Colloquium

>  4.8.2010 The Grand Pierre Lecture

>  3.30.2010 The Brian Bent Lecture

>  3.25.2010 Chemistry Colloquium

>  3.16.2010 Chemistry Undergrad Receives ACS Fellowship

>  3.11.2010 The Padwa Lecture

>  3.5.2010 Professors Lambert and Snyder Awarded Sloan Research Fellowships

>  3.4.2010 This week's colloquium cancelled...

>  3.3.2010 2010 Lenfest Award to Professor Ruben Gonzalez

>  3.3.2010 The Ramabrahman and Balamani Guthikonda Memorial Lecture

>  2.25.2010 Chemistry Colloquium

>  2.4.2010 Chemistry Colloquium

>  2.1.2010 ACS Award to Professor George W. Flynn

>  2.1.2010 NSF CAREER Award for Professor Tristan Lambert

>  1.28.2010 The Arun Guthikonda Memorial Lecture

>  1.21.2010 Chemistry Colloquium

>  12.10.2009 Chemistry Colloquium

>  11.19.2009 Chemistry Colloquium

>  11.17.2009 Eli Lilly Award to Professor Scott Snyder

>  11.16.2009 CU Students Excel at UT Science Competition

>  11.12.2009 Chemistry Colloquium

>  10.29.2009 Chemistry Colloquium

>  10.26.2009 2009 Baekeland Award to Professor Colin Nuckolls

>  10.22.2009 Chemistry Colloquium

>  10.15.2009 Chemistry Colloquium

>  10.8.2009 Mulliken Medal Awarded to Professor Bruce Berne

>  10.8.2009 Chemistry Colloquium

>  10.1.2009 The Boehringer-Ingelheim Lecture

>  9.24.2009 Chemistry Colloquium

>  9.17.2009 The Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture

>  9.8.2009 The Falk-Plaut Lectures

>  9.2.2009 Five Chemistry Faculty Honored as ACS Fellows

>  8.26.2009 ACS Fellowship awarded to Turro Research Student

>  8.21.2009 JSPS Award to Prof. Scott Snyder

>  7.7.2009 Professor Jonathan Owen Joins the Chemistry Faculty

>  7.2.2009 Fellowship Award goes to CU Chemistry Grad Student

>  6.29.2009 George K. Fraenkel, 87, Columbia Chemist and Dean

>  6.9.2009 Research Award Goes to Chemistry Grad Student

>  5.11.2009 Professor Snyder Receives Cottrell Scholar Award

>  5.7.2009 Mark Van Doren Award to Professor Leighton

>  5.5.2009 CU Professors to Lead Energy Frontier Research Center

>  4.30.2009 The Gilbert Stork Lecture

>  4.23.2009 Teaching Award goes to Professor Snyder

>  4.2.2009 Chemistry Colloquium

>  3.26.2009 The Grand Pierre Memorial Lecture

>  3.12.2009 THE BRIAN BENT MEMORIAL LECTURE

>  3.5.2009 Chemistry Colloquium - John Montgomery

>  2.26.2009 Chemistry Colloquium - Thomas Mallouk

>  2.20.2009 Professor Valentini Named AAAS Fellow

>  2.19.2009 Chemistry Colloquium - Klaus Lackner

>  2.12.2009 The Novartis Lecture

>  2.5.2009 Chemistry Colloquium

>  1.22.2009 The Padwa Lecture

>  1.2009 Columbia Graduate Places First in DOE Challenge

>  12.11.2008 Chemistry Colloquium - Martin Gruebele

>  12.4.2008 The Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture

>  12.2008 2009 Willard Gibbs Medal to Professor Louis Brus

>  12.2008 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Martin Chalfie

>  12.2008 Two Awards to Professor Cornish

>  11.20.2008 Chemistry Colloquium - Cynthia Friend

>  11.13.2008 Chemistry Colloquium - Tom Rauchfuss

>  11.6.2008 The Chandler Medal Award Lecture

>  10.30.2008 The Arun Guthikonda Memorial Lecture

>  10.23.2008 Chemistry Colloquium - Garnet Chan

>  10.16.2008 Chemistry Colloquium - Christopher Bielawski

>  10.9.2008 Chemistry Colloquium - Clark Landis

>  10.2.2008 Chemistry Colloquium - Dana Dlott

>  9.25.2008 Chemistry Colloquium - Malcolm Chisholm

>  9.18.2008 Colloquium - Frieder Jäkle

>  9.11.2008 Colloquium - TJ Ha

>  8.11.2008 Professors Sames and Sulzer Share McKnight Award

>  6.2.2008 Teaching Award goes to Professor Parkin

>  5.29.2008 Professor Brus Receives Kavli Prize

>  5.22.2008 The Ramabrahman and Balamani Guthikonda Award Lecture

>  5.8.2008 Chemistry Colloquium - Dan Tawfik

>  5.6.2008 Wyeth/Columbia Workshop

>  4.30.2008 The Gilbert Stork Lecture

>  4.28.2008 Professor Friesner Elected to AAAS

>  4.17.2008 Chemistry Colloquium - Justine Roth

>  4.12.2008 2008 Reunion

>  3.27.2008 The Novartis Lecture

>  3.13.2008 Chemistry Colloquium - Dina Merrer

>  3.6.2008 Colloquium Seminar - Rob Tycko

>  3.2008 Nina Berova Honored with Chirality Special Issue

>  2.14.2008 Chemistry Colloquium - Jon Widom

>  1.30.2008 Prof. Nuckolls Receives Lenfest Award

>  12.11.2007 Summer 2008 Undergraduate NSF Research Program

>  12.6.2007 Chemistry Colloquium - Colin Nuckolls

>  11.29.2007 Chemistry Colloquium - Rich Jordan

>  11.29.2007 Thursday Night Organic Problem Session

>  11.28.2007 Chemistry Seminar - Doug Neckers

>  11.27.2007 BioChem Seminar - Arun P. Wiita

>  11.26.2007 Chemistry Seminar - Eli Pollak

>  11.15.2007 Chemistry Colloquium

>  11.15.2007 Thursday Night Organic Problem Session

>  11.8.2007 Thursday Night Organic Problem Session

>  11.8.2007 Chemistry Colloquium

>  11.3.2007 Order of Culture Award to Prof. Koji Nakanishi

>  11.1.2007 The Bristol-Myers Squibb Mini-Symposium in Organic Synthesis

>  10.26.2007 The Wyeth Lecture

>  10.25.2007 Thursday Night Organic Problem Session

>  10.25.2007 Chemistry Colloquium - Andrei Tokmakoff

>  10.18.2007 Chemistry Colloquium - Phillip Geissler

>  10.15.2007 The Boehringer Ingelheim Lecture in Organic Synthesis

>  10.11.2007 Thursday Night Organic Problem Session

>  10.11.2007 Chemistry Colloquium - Martin Zanni

>  10.4.2007 Chemistry Colloquium - Daniel Gamelin

>  10.4.2007 Thursday Night Organic Problem Session

>  9.27.2007 The Arun Guthikonda Memorial Lecture

>  9.20.2007 Thursday Night Organic Problem Session

>  9.20.2007 Chemistry Colloquium - James Franz

>  9.18.2007 Chemistry Colloquium - Melanie Sanford

>  9.17.2007 Chemistry Seminar

>  9.13.2007 Chemistry Colloquium

>  9.2007 More Awards for Chemistry Faculty

>  8.24.2007 Chemistry Seminar - Oliver Reiser

>  8.13.2007 Chemistry Seminar - Majed Chergui

>  8.3.2007 2007 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium in Chemistry

>  7.30.2007 Professor Colin Nuckolls is Selected as a Blavatnik Award Finalist

>  7.1.2007 Professor Angelo Cacciuto Joins the Department of Chemistry

>  5.31.2007 Wyeth Workshop

>  5.17.2007 Chemistry Seminar - Richard Pagni

>  5.10.2007 The Gilbert Stork Lecture

>  5.3.2007 Chemistry Colloquium - Matt Jacobson

>  4.26.2007 Chemistry Colloquium - Larry Que

>  4.26.2007 Thursday Night Organic Problem Session

>  4.19.2007 Thursday Night Organic Problem Session

>  4.19.2007 Chemistry Seminar - Jay Trautman

>  4.12.2007 Chemistry Colloquium - Tarun Kapoor

>  4.5.2007 Thursday Night Organic Problem Session

>  4.5.2007 Chemistry Colloquium - Mark Thompson

>  3.29.2007 Thursday Night Organic Problem Session

>  3.22.2007 Chemistry Colloquium - Linda Hsieh-Wilson

>  3.8.2007 Chemistry Colloquium - Dan Nocera

>  3.8.2007 Thursday Night Organic Problem Session

>  3.6.2007 Organic Chemistry Seminar

>  3.1.2007 Chemistry Colloquium - Cancelled

>  3.1.2007 Chemistry Colloquium

>  3.1.2007 Chemistry Seminar - Koichi Komatsu

>  2.22.2007 Chemistry Colloquium

>  2.19.2007 "Scientific Publishing at a Non-Profit Organization: or How to Get Your Name in Every Issue of JACS"

>  2.15.2007 The Brian Bent Memorial Lecture

>  2.15.2007 Thursday Night Organic Problem Session

>  2.12.2007 C4 Organizational Meeting

>  2.8.2007 The Arun Guthikonda Memorial Lecture

>  2.5.2007 C4 Seminar

>  2.2.2007 Chemistry Seminar

>  2.1.2007 Dr. Nina Berova Receives Chirality Medal

>  2.1.2007 Applications are now being accepted for REU 2007

>  2.1.2007 Chemistry Colloquium

>  1.31.2007 PChem Student Seminar

>  1.29.2007 The Novartis Lecture

>  1.25.2007 Chemistry Colloquium

>  1.25.2007 Thursday Night Organic Problem Session

>  1.18.2007 Chemistry Colloquium

>  1.12.2007 Design of Materials for Organic Light Emitting Diodes

>  1.9.2007 Fluorescence of thienyl-substituted BF2-dipyrrins and catalysis sensing capabilities of related metallocorrole complexes

>  1.2007 Professor Cornish Discusses Chemistry at Local Bistro

>  1.2007 Awards for Prof.'s Cornish and Gonzalez

>  12.15.2006 Career Perspectives: Teaching Science

>  12.14.2006 Chemistry Colloquium

>  12.14.2006 Development of New One-Pot Carbohydrate Synthesis Methodologies

>  12.7.2006 The Bristol-Myers Squibb Mini-Symposium in Organic Synthesis

>  12.6.2006 PChem Seminar

>  11.30.2006 Chemistry Colloquium

>  11.26.2006 Chemistry Seminar - Teri Odom

>  11.18.2006 Girls' Science Day

>  11.16.2006 "Spatial organization and the mechanics of cellular signal transduction"

>  11.16.2006 "Thursday Night Organic Problem Session"

>  11.15.2006 “Plasmon induced photoelectronchemistry on silver nanoparticles”

>  11.13.2006 "What You Don’t Know and Your Boss Won’t Tell You"

>  11.9.2006 “There and Back Again: Homogeneous Catalytic Approaches for Converting Methane to Methanol, and Methanol to a More Interesting Hydrocarbon”

>  11.8.2006 "Career Planning for PhD Students"

>  11.3.2006 "Life as an Analyst: Perspectives from a Chemistry Ph.D."

>  11.3.2006 "Interaction of Metal Acetylides and Ferrocenylacetylene with Metal Carbonyls"

>  11.2.2006 “From Targets to Strategies and Back Again: Some Examples from

>  11.2.2006 Thursday Night Organic Problem Session

>  11.1.2006 "Scanning Tunneling Miscoscopy and Local Force Spectroscopy studies of ultrathin graphitic (graphene) films"

>  10.30.2006 Boehringer Ingelheim Lecture in Organic Synthesis

>  10.27.2006 "Characterizing and improving how you present your scientific research"

>  10.26.2006 Thursday Night Organic Problem Session

>  10.23.2006 “Conformation Design: Flexible Molecules with Defined Shape”

>  10.19.2006 Colloquium - “Metal Catalyzed One Step Synthesis: Developing New Routes to Heterocycle and Amino Acid Formation”

>  10.19.2006 Thursday Night Entertainment

>  10.16.2006 Chemistry Seminar

>  10.12.2006 “High-resolution single-molecule spectroscopy and 3D single-nanoparticle tracking”

>  10.6.2006 Wyeth Workshop

>  9.28.2006 “Molecules Under Stress: Mechanisms and Mechanics From Single Molecules"

>  9.12.2006 PChem Student Seminar

>  9.2006 More Awards for Columbia’s Chemistry Faculty

>  8.14.2006 Kurt Hostettman

>  8.2006 Synthesis Literacy Group Formed

>  7.6.2006 4th Annual Brookhaven/Columbia Research Symposium

>  7.2006 Professor Scott A. Snyder Receives Dreyfus Award

>  6.2006 GK-12 Science and Math Professional Development Workshops for NYC

>  5.25.2006 Wyeth Workshop

>  5.11.2006 Brian Bent Memorial Lecture - CANCELLED

>  5.2.2006 Colloquium - The Falk-Plaut Lectures, May 2nd, 3rd & 4th

>  4.26.2006 Awards Dinner 2006

>  4.20.2006 Colloquium - Professor Dean Toste

>  4.7.2006 Colloquium - The BMS Mini-Symposium

>  4.2006 Prof. Ann McDermott Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

>  3.24.2006 Colloquium - The Novartis Lecture

>  3.23.2006 Colloquium - Professor Patrick Vaccaro

>  3.21.2006 Organic Chemistry Seminar - Prof. Suguro Kawato

>  3.16.2006 Colloquium - Gilbert Stork Lecture

>  3.9.2006 Colloquium - Professor Dale Boger

>  3.2.2006 Colloquium - Professor Simpson Joseph

>  2.28.2006 Colloquium Seminar - Shannon Stahl

>  2.23.2006 Chemistry Colloquium

>  2.23.2006 Colloquium - Professor Steve Sligar

>  2.16.2006 Colloquium - Professor Joseph Fox

>  10.1.2005 Awards Go to Four Faculty Members

>  7.22.2005 Columbia Researchers Bring Nanotech's Promise a Step Closer to Reality

>  6.16.2005 Professor Samuel Danishefsky to Receive 2006 BMS Award

>  6.1.2005 Professor Ronald Breslow Awarded Kosolapoff Prize

>  5.31.2005 Professor Gibney Receives Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

>  5.27.2005 Dr. Nina Berova Receives ACS Award

>  5.23.2005 Professor Reichman Receives an International Award

>  5.13.2005 Professor Turro Receives International Awards

>  5.12.2005 Peter Park Receives Presidential Teaching Award

>  5.4.2005 Departmental Award Recipients

>  4.7.2005 Professor Cornish Receives John Jay Award

>  4.1.2005 New Faculty to Join the Department

>  12.2.2004 Girls Science Day a Success!

>  10.20.2004 Chemistry Department No Stranger to Accolades

>  9.17.2004 Five Professors Receive Awards

>  7.1.2004 Faculty Promotions

>  4.20.2004 Professor Brus Elected to National Academy of Sciences

>  4.14.2004 Koji Nakanishi Honored by Columbia 250

>  4.9.2004 New Faculty to Join the Department