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Each vial in NC State’s dye collection, a donation from Eastman Chemical, is labeled by hand. The oldest in the collection date to the 1940s.
Credit: Marc Hall/NC State
June 2
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“In all honesty, I decided to be a chemist right after I found out I couldn’t be a cowboy.”
Melissa A. Hines, director, Cornell University Center for Materials Research
January 20
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July 21
In a teeny tiny display of patriotism, researchers have made the world’s smallest Swiss national flag (5.6 nm wide) out of bromide ions (orange) on a sodium chloride surface (blue).
Credit: Nat. Commun.
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“We learn the most from those that we have the least in common with.”
Joseph M. DeSimone,
Chancellor’s Eminent Professor Of Chemistry,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
March 3
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Credit: George Korir
April 14
Prototypes like the winner of the Science, Play & Research Kit (SPARK) competition, which houses its chemicals within a microfluidic chip, might be the chemistry sets of the future.
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“Those who know nothing but chemistry don’t know that very well either.”
February 17
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, epigraph contributor, “Chemical poems: one on each element”
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July 14
“It’s remarkable how many so-called breakthroughs you read about turn out to be nonsense.” – Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla
Credit: Tesla
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“Now we see how ditching the chemistry can really bite you in the ass.”
June 9
Kim Janda
Professor of chemistry
Scripps Research Institute California
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Bryan G. Fry, of Australia’s University of Queensland, collects venom from an inland Taipan snake.
Courtesy of Bryan Fry
October 27
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“Remember to make time to think quietly and alone about science. It seems obvious, yet it’s so easy to forget.”
September 8
Matthew Sheldon, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
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Miniscientists: Lego toys crack glass ceiling.
June 23
Credit: Ellen Kooijman
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“We have dispatched your communication to the printers but I cannot help feeling that you have been at the hashish again.”
Marshall D. Gates, Assistant editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, in a 1952 communication to Robert Burns Woodward regarding the proposal of ferrocene’s then-controversial sandwich structure
August 11
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Credit: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
June 23
Dendrimersomes, which have diameters of about 100 nm or more, have concentric membranes, as shown in this cutaway image.
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“A man trying to lead and be assertive is a leader, while a woman trying to lead and be assertive is seen as bossy or, frankly, a bitch.”
February 10
Theresa Vail, chemistry undergrad and Miss Kansas
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October 6
James D. Batteas of Texas A&M University sports a packable poster.
Credit: Meagan Elinski/Texas A&M
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November 17
“The nano is invisible, and images of it should be treated with care.”
James K. Gimzewski, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
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March 17
To get the immune system to take on invaders, six immunoglobulin G antibodies assemble into a hexagon.
Credit: Joost Bakker/www.scicomvisuals.com
