Karen Nordell Pearson

Crystal engineering, traditionally the domain of organic chemists, has been refined and extended in recent years by inorganic and materials chemists to synthesize a new class of organic-inorganic hybrid materials called coordination polymers. These materials represent an expanding research area that weds the fields of coordination chemistry, polymer synthesis and solid state chemistry by the… Continue reading Putting the pieces together: Discovering and understanding the structures of new coordination polymers

With two grants from the NSF-Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education program, Lawrence University has launched an interdisciplinary Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (N&N) program connecting chemistry, biochemistry, geology, environmental science and physics. The N&N program supports interdisciplinary undergraduate research projects and the development of instructional materials for use in classrooms, laboratories and outreach programs. Themes that are explored in… Continue reading Nanoscience: A model for making interdisciplinary connections