Departmental News
Chemistry Professor Mark Eberhart was tagged by NOVA to be one of David Pogue's knowledgable side kicks as Pogue sets out to understand the world of stronger, cleaner, smarter, and smaller materials for the series Stuff airing next fall. Little did Eberhart suspect that he and Pogue would be taking part in a demolition derby as a way of getting up close and personal with stronger materials. Follow the action on NOVA’s web site
Chemistry Professor David Wu has co-authored a paper &mdash“Microsecond Simulations of Spontaneous Methane Hydrate Nucleation and Growth”&mdash that will appear in an upcoming Issue of Science magazine. Professor Wu's co-athors are Colorado School of Mines doctoral graduate student Matthew Walsh, and faculty and researchers from the Center for Hydrate Research (CHR), Carolyn Koh, E. Dendy Sloan, and Amadeu Sum.
Hydrates are present as vast untapped energy reserves found in the ocean and the permafrost. Unfortunately, they also pose a challenge to the delivery of oil and gas as their growth can plug pipelines. The Mines' research reported in Science helps explain how hydrates form, and could eventually lead to ways to control their growth.
The Colorado School of Mines Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry hosted the American Chemical Society’s 2009 Summer School on Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy. For a full week at the end of July, graduate and post-doctoral students from the Americas explored scientific solutions to global challenges. The attendees heard presentations by leading researchers, collaborated on problem-solving projects and participated in laboratory experiments. Speakers discussed topics such as Greening the Supply Chain, Greener Solvents, and Green Nanoscience and included John Warner, a founder of the green chemistryfield.
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