Kenton Hicks
@kentonehicks
Chemist. Graduate student at Northwestern University. MOFs and Heterogeneous Catalysis! Born and raised on the south side of Chicago.
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01-11-2011 05:01:17
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Used paperclips with a class today to show how a catalyst acts as a surface for reactants to come together and form a product. Based on an old magic trick, I got this idea from Paul Nugent from ScienceonStage Ireland. The ending is a nice surprise for students!
A nice piece of science communication! Could One Shot Kill the Flu? newyorker.com/science/annals… via The New Yorker
Hey George Huber Omar A. Abdelrahman TheSieversGroup Yuriy Román-Leshkov Suljo Linic @OmarFarha5 BertWeckhuysen Eranda Nikolla Aleksandra Vojvodic @pauldauenhauer Nicholas Brunelli Profess.or Profess.and Jones Group @ GaTech Ian Tonks @ANLcatalysis Javier Perez-Ramirez , Can you help spread the word? x.com/nschweitz1/sta…
"Everything is made from a chemical reaction." Laureate David MacMillan received the chemistry prize for his work on organocatalysis. In his #NobelPrize lecture today he explained exactly what catalysis is, and why it's important. Watch the full lecture: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemist…
🚨 Faculty in NJ/Philly/NYC: My talented wife, Dr. Alexandra Brumberg (Alexandra Brumberg), is on the hunt for a faculty position! The Brumberg lab will study structural/electronic dynamics of optoelectronic nanomaterials. Keep an eye out for this star! 🤩 brumberg.weebly.com