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Research Grant, Texas A&M University
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Welch Postdoctoral Fellow Ziyi Zhang Is Designing Organic Ligands That Link Nanoparticles Together With Reversible Bonds Into “Superstructures"
“We are engineering bonds that reversibly form and break under controlled conditions. The final goal of this project is to show the tunability of this versatile system. But now we are in the very early steps of trying to explore those parts one by one,” Zhang says.
Welch Postdoctoral Fellow Kate Baumler Produces Large Crystals That Can Be Oriented, Measured, and Studied With Precision
Welch Postdoctoral Fellow Katelyn Baumler spends her days in the lab growing single crystals of new materials with layered atomic structures that may exhibit unusual magnetic and physical properties.
Welchx Grantees Benjamin Janesko and MD Masud Rana Are Using Computational Approaches To Tackle a Challenge at the Interface of Medicine and Materials Science
Researchers from Texas Christian University (TCU) and Lamar University are using two computational approaches to tackle a challenge at the interface of medicine and materials science: the chemistry behind near-infrared emission in biocompatible graphene quantum dots (GQD).
Welchx Grantees Ognjen Miljanić and Indrajit Srivastava Are Combining Their Very Diverse Research Expertise To Create a New Category of Imaging Tools
In their individual work, Dr. Miljanić, Moores Professor of Chemistry at University of Houston, is leveraging supramolecular and synthetic chemistry to design unique, self-assembled molecular “cages.” Dr. Srivastava, an assistant professor at Texas Tech University, is an expert in bioimaging and nanoengineering who specializes in the development of novel polymer-based imaging probes.
Welch Foundation Awards More Than $31 Million to Support Texas Researchers
Research grants, equipment grants, and postdoctoral fellowships make up 2026 funding
2026 Welch Award in Chemistry Recipient Robert S. Langer
The Welch Foundation has awarded the 2026 Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry to Robert S. Langer.
Dr. Langer, David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is honored for pioneering discoveries at the intersection of chemistry and medicine that led to understanding how to control the release of therapeutic macromolecules through materials and how to create new tissues and organs.
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