UCF Department of Chemistry
We are excited to announce that Jurca Lab member Al Sattelberger is receiving the 2022 ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry. In his honor, the Continue Reading →
Lori has been awarded the National Water Research Institute (NWRI) 2020-2021 BioLargo Inc. Fellowship to pursue her research in Cl-poisoning resistant catalysts for pharmaceutical/personal care product remediation in water. Congrats Continue Reading →
Congratulations to graduate student Lori Shultz! Her latest paper in ChemPhysChem on developing an improved screening protocol for heterogeneous catalysts using a cocktail of nitrophenol-based molecules has been selected as Continue Reading →
Congratulations to graduate student Thomas Shaw, and the rest of the team, on publishing their first paper. The paper highlights the initial findings on mechanochemical synthesis of acetyl- and bis-(imino)pyridine Continue Reading →
Jurca Lab undergraduate student Lori Shultz took the 1st place undergraduate poster prize at the Florida Inorganic and Materials Symposium held at the University of Florida in September. She was Continue Reading →
Graduate student Thomas Shaw represented the Jurca Lab at the ACS Fall 2018 National Meeting in Boston this August. He presented a poster on his recent mechanosynthesis work.
Congratulations to Jurca Lab member Lori Shultz for successfully obtaining the UCF Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) Student Research Grant Award. This award will provide funding for Lori to develop Continue Reading →
Our home built Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) reactor is up and running and gives us the ability to grow thin films and nanoparticles.
The Jurca Lab’s new home is nearing completion ready for the group to move in at the beginning of February. Whilst there will be some further work needed in both Continue Reading →
Research in the Jurca Lab focuses on the use of synthetic inorganic chemistry in service of catalytic organic transformations, and thin film materials chemistry. Our catalytic research focuses on the Continue Reading →