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NQPI Poster Competition Video Spotlights Student Research

NQPI Poster Competition Video Spotlights Student Research

By Ryan Flynn NQPI Student Editorial Intern The Clippinger Laboratories building was abuzz recently with a poster competition sponsored by Ohio University’s Nanoscale & Quantum Phenomena Institute. The event highlighted leading-edge research by 36 graduate and undergraduate students and elevated their presentations on a platform to compete for cash prizes. […]

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January 9, 2019 at 1:21 pmNews Research

How To Be a Better Lab TA

Ramin Rabbani

By Ramin Rabbani Graduate Student in Chemistry at Ohio University If you are a graduate student in chemistry, physics or biology, you may have to teach in one of the many labs offered for undergraduates. A lab is different compared to a class in many aspects, but the main difference […]

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January 6, 2018 at 1:28 pmNews

Masson Engineering Pumpkin-Shaped Molecular Transporters

Eric Masson studies pumpkin-shaped Cucurbituril molecules

By Amanda Biederman NQPI writing intern Named after the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, a unique group of molecules are known for binding things in tight complexes. While pumpkins are said to whisk fairy tale characters off to royal balls, the Cucurbiturils transport molecules to specific targets. Ohio University Chemistry & Biochemistry […]

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December 2, 2017 at 10:03 pmResearch

At a Racetrack in Ohio, the World’s Biggest Tiny Car Takes a Prize

At a Racetrack in Ohio, the World’s Biggest Tiny Car Takes a Prize

  Just a few hours from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway—and deep in NASCAR country—one of the world’s tiniest, fastest racetracks was in Athens, Ohio, at the end of April. The Track: Wasn’t that race in France? Yep. The world watched (live on YouTube) the control room in Toulouse—with the Ohio University […]

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May 3, 2017 at 9:58 amNews

Masson Awarded Grant from American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund

Masson Awarded Grant from American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund

Dr. Eric Masson, Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, was awarded a two-year grant for $110,000 from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund in March 2016 to study the encapsulation of hydrocarbons into Cucurbiturils, a family of hollow pumpkin-shaped molecules that the Masson group has been investigating since 2008. […]

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November 30, 2016 at 10:56 amResearch

The Ohio Bobcat Nano-wagon Team Reaches a Milestone

Bobcat Nano-wagon

The Ohio Bobcat Nano-wagon team reached a milestone in June 2016 when the group of Dr. Eric Masson, Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, completed the synthesis of the nanocar that will compete in the first-ever race of molecular cars in Toulouse, France, end of April 2017. Graduate students Mersad […]

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November 30, 2016 at 10:26 amResearch

Graduate Students Are Off to the Races in Nanocar Grand Prix

Nanocar participants Karthi Perumal, Kondalarao Kotturi, Mersad Raesi and Ramin Rabbani

by Kristin M. Distel “Divide a meter one billion times, and that’s one nanometer. Our nanocar is four nanometers in length,” explained doctoral students Mersad Raeisi and Kondalarao Kotturi. They are part of an Ohio University team that is working on a “nanocar” that will represent Ohio University at the […]

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August 23, 2016 at 2:17 pmResearch