Yunus Turkmen Re-Elected to the Steering Committee of International Chemistry Olympiads (IChO)

Yunus Turkmen Re-Elected to the Steering Committee of International Chemistry Olympiads (IChO) Yunus Emre Türkmen has been elected for the second time as one of the six elected members of the Steering Committee of the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO). IChO is an international chemistry competition for secondary (high) school level students, which has been organized annually […]

Our Graduate Students Paid a Visit to the SESAME Synchrotron Facility in Jordan

Our Graduate Students Paid a Visit to the SESAME Synchrotron Facility in Jordan On May 25-29, 2024, Ozensoy Research Group members, Ayşe Dilay Erdali, Dr.  Seda Karaboğa, Dr. Rukiye Babacan Tosun, and Dr. Yusuf Koçak carried out experiments in the SESAME International Synchrotron Research Facility in Amman, Jordan. SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications […]

Burak Ulgut Joins the Inaugural Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Electrochemistry

Burak Ulgut Joins the Inaugural Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Electrochemistry American Chemical Society(ACS) has now established a new journal specifically for electrochemistry named ACS Electrochemistry. Burak Ulgut is named as a member of the inaugural Editorial Advisory Board along with distinguished electrochemists across the globe. The journal “aspires to provide a platform for the […]

Summer ’24 Department Seminars with Dr. Didar Aşık

Summer ’24 Department Seminars with Dr. Didar Aşık Speaker: Dr. Didar Aşık Multi-Omics, BioProduction R&D, Thermo Fisher Scientific GI New York, United States Date: July 22, Monday Time: 15.30 (UTC +3) Place: Zoom Abstract: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an important, non-invasive and high-resolution biomedical imaging technique. Clinically approved T1 MRI contrast agents that are used […]

Summer ’24 Department Seminars with Prof. Michel Gravel

Summer ’24 Department Seminars with Prof. Michel Gravel Speaker: Prof. Michel Gravel Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Canada Date: July 8, Monday Time: 12:30 Place: Chemistry Department 1st Floor Meeting Room Abstract: Annulenes have been the object of great interest for chemists for a long time. Correspondingly, our understanding of the various properties of […]

Okur Research Group Publishes at The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Okur Research Group Publishes at The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters The presence and nature of ions influence the solution properties of macromolecules. Although anions have been heavily investigated, the cationic effects have been mostly considered as simple exclusion or very weak interaction with neutral surfaces. In the recent J. Phys. Chem. Lett. article, Okur […]

2024 Senior Project Award Ceremony Held

2024 Senior Project Award Ceremony Held The Chemistry Department graduation project presentations and award ceremony were held with the opening speech by the head of the Chemistry Department, Prof. Emrah Özensoy. After promising presentations of our 4th-year students, Üstünışık Prize for Undergraduate Chemistry Research was awarded to Kaan Berkay Ceyhan for his “excellence in undergraduate […]

Spring ’24 Department Seminars with Prof. Dr. Akın Akdağ

Spring ’24 Department Seminars with Dr. Denis S. Tikhonov Speaker: Dr. Denis S. Tikhonov German Electron Synchotron (DESY) Hamburg, Germany Date: March 5, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Chirality is an essential property of the molecules, in which they can exist in one of two forms, non-superimposable by only rotations, called enantiomers. Obtaining the enantioenriched […]

Spring ’24 Department Seminars with Dr. Denis S. Tikhonov

Spring ’24 Department Seminars with Dr. Denis S. Tikhonov Speaker: Dr. Denis S. Tikhonov German Electron Synchotron (DESY) Hamburg, Germany Date: March 5, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Chirality is an essential property of the molecules, in which they can exist in one of two forms, non-superimposable by only rotations, called enantiomers. Obtaining the enantioenriched […]

Spring ’24 Department Seminars with Prof. Kalina Peneva

Spring ’24 Department Seminars with Dr. Denis S. Tikhonov Speaker: Dr. Denis S. Tikhonov German Electron Synchotron (DESY) Hamburg, Germany Date: March 5, Tuesday Time: 12:30 Place: Zoom Abstract: Chirality is an essential property of the molecules, in which they can exist in one of two forms, non-superimposable by only rotations, called enantiomers. Obtaining the enantioenriched […]