Department of Chemistry

A new video produced by the American Chemical Society features current research from the lab of assistant professor Tina Salguero. The video, part of the ACS Publications "Breakthrough Science" series, focuses on a recently published communication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (DOI: 10.1021/ja310587c) highlighting the synthesis of nanosheets of calcium copper tetrasilicate (CaCuSi₄O₁₀), the key component of a pigment known as Egyptian blue that has been manufactured since the third millennium BC. The work has received much press from major scientific news outlets, such as Scientific American, C&EN, the Materials Research Society, and even The History Channel and Archaeology magazine.