A quick interview with Philip Milner, NSF Early Career Award Recipient
 

What are your research interests?

My research group is broadly interested in the applications of porous crystalline materials, specifically metal-organic and covalent organic frameworks. We are interested in leveraging the unparalleled tunability of these materials for new applications in organic synthesis, medicinal chemistry, chemical separations, and even structural biology through a project in collaboration with CHESS.

What is the discovery?

Jonathan Clinger, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics, in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), is lead author of the study, which was published Aug. 4 in the journal of the International Union of Crystallography.

For two short days on the Cornell Campus, the students from around the country - including four students from Puerto Rico - were able to meet their mentors from CHESS and their peers from other community colleges and undergraduate institutions. Their trip to Cornell offered the opportunity to tour the CHESS facility, explore the Ithaca area, and present their summer projects to an audience of CHESS directors, graduate students, and their fellow summer research students. 

What is the new work?

What is the discovery?

What is the new discovery?

What is the discovery?

Richard Gillilan, a MacCHESS/CHEXS staff scientist, has been named a member of the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA), in recognition of his many career achievements, especially the development of a world-class BioSAXS facility at CHESS.

What did the scientists do?

The main objectives of commissioning were to enable communication between the existing control system of the beamline (SPEC) and the new control system of RAMS IV (Aerotech), and to synchronize triggering of X-ray detectors with positions of the rotation stages on RAMS IV.